Spoken Word


Tatiana Tate Quartet

Tatiana Tate Quartet

More than ever, monstrously talented young women are rising through the ranks of jazz instrumentalists, challenging the male-dominated status quo. Tatiana Tate is at the top of the list of […]

Ky

Ky

Ky, has one mission each and every piece of art he produces. That is to create conversations between individuals who under normal circumstances wouldn’t have the motivation to speak to […]

Sharkpolansy

Sharkpolansy

I’ve worked for a whole lot of people, but that was yesterday. Bio upon request only. -Thank You.

CASKET CULT

CASKET CULT

Our mission is to consistently create using any and all mediums and to inspire others through our art and music.

Shy But Flyy

Shy But Flyy

Shy But Flyy is a poet, singer, author, and events coordinator. Shy currently hosts multiple open mics and events weekly and monthly. Along with running events Shy is the lead […]

Sea Althaea

Sea Althaea

Ciana Anita Kalokomaika’imaikalanimai Lee is based out of Long Beach California, where she expresses as an educator, visual artist, performer, and events coordinator. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Arts […]

Jireh Deng

Jireh Deng

Jireh (they/them) is a queer Taiwanese/Hong Konger American poet and journalist born and raised in the San Gabriel Valley.

Mike Sonksen

Mike Sonksen

Mike Sonksen aka Mike the PoeT was born in Long Beach and is a 3rd-generation Southern California native. Poet, professor, journalist, historian and tour-guide, his latest book Letters to My […]

Dayquan Moeller

Dayquan Moeller

Dayquan Moeller is a Long Beach based composer, playwright, poet, field recordist, and performance artist. An “artist in anthropologist drag,” Moeller’s research-based art practice involves extensive community dialogues which inform […]

Eye Will

Eye Will

I create Hip Hop music that is consciousness raising. My goal is to be effective in the community of Long Beach with the Artwalk for LB, always ready to help […]

DEZMON OMEGA FAIR

DEZMON OMEGA FAIR

DEZ’MON OMEGA FAIR is the 2019 Film and Video Poetry Symposium Poet in Residence. He is a practicing interdisciplinary artist and poet living in Long Beach, California. Fair’s work explores […]

Kenneth Goodrich

Kenneth Goodrich

To always put on a good show and connect with the community, feeding people with reason and positivity to live a fulfilled life. My main goal is to inspire people […]

Social Change Coalition

Social Change Coalition

Social Change Coalition’s mission is to facilitate GLOBAL Social Change realized through the construction of a Global Justice Movement. Believing that all citizens across the globe are Agents of Change […]

Nancy Lynée Woo

Nancy Lynée Woo

Nancy Lynée Woo was awarded the 2018-2019 Professional Artist Fellowship from the Arts Council for Long Beach, and is a 2015 PEN America Emerging Voices Fellow. She is co-founder of […]

MugshotOne of No Name Society

MugshotOne of No Name Society

my stage name’s (T.A.S.P)”MugshotOne”( it’s an acronym that breaks down in this order..the almighty sick phantom __ mentally unique grammatically spittin highly obscene termanology of origins not explained) aka Luce […]

RaneRaps

RaneRaps

Widely referred to as “Mr. Hot Jam”, Los Angeles-based RaneRaps is no stranger to the spotlight, with 2017 spawning a series of triumphs and 2018 being just as momentous! His […]

Maili Schlosser

Maili Schlosser

As a choreographer I am is interested in the creation of work that revolves around collaboration and focuses on social issues like gender and sexual identity, censorship, violence, and the […]

Vannia Ibarguen

Vannia Ibarguen

International performer, choreographer, and Artistic Director of ​​​​​VIDA Vannia Ibarguen Dance Arts, a contemporary dance troupe based in LA. Her focus is in the interaction between performance and technology, and […]

The CRayProject

The CRayProject

We are an artistic empowerment movement influenced by black and brown culture, allowing artists to create and display their unique talents through creative and limitless approaches such as dance, theater, […]

Jason Triefenbach

Jason Triefenbach

Jason prides himself on a polymathic creative output encompassing sculpture, collage, sound, live performance, self-publishing, curation, broadcast media and ministerial services Through room- sized mixed media assemblage, primal sonic compositions, […]

Stephanie Dawn Greene-Back-to-the-wall Theatre

Stephanie Dawn Greene-Back-to-the-wall Theatre

I founded Back-to-the-wall theatre in 2011 with a goal of creating a place where original plays and classics could be produced, as well as a theatre enrichment and education program […]

Clifton Snider

Clifton Snider

Writing as an openly gay man, my poetry, fiction, and scholarly work cannot help but be political. However, my poems, and to some extent my novels and stories, are not […]