Performance Showcase
4:30-5:00 PM in the Grand Ballroom

• Group Spoken Word Performance
  featuring Tony Staubach, Alan Wight, Shannon Carr and Marliee Hill

  • This work is a celebration of soil, seed, sun, water, planting and harvesting. Our words pay homage to those who plant, garden, farm, and prepare and serve our food. This meditation for community health shares our love of food, love of community, love of each other, and our love for growing gardens and relationships. We call for action! Grow the good green blue Earth, cultivate the gardens, tend the food forests, rebuild the communal gathering spaces, bring back the neighborhood potluck, and re-invigorate the commons!​

• Elementz Performance
  featuring Noah Hawes, with Camille Jones and Anaya Ni'Kole 

  • The songs to be performed are about striving for greatness -- emotional, mental, physical, spiritual, financial, and creative. The songs inspire us to take action to achieve the goal of being great in those areas, while acknowledging the various obstacles that will be faced on the journey. Alongside the rap performance, there will be two dancers adding a visual component to the music.

• ​Pones Performance
  featuring Lucía Duque, Kim Popa, Ian Timothy Forsgren, and Darnell Pierre Benjamin, and spoken word by Camille Jones

  • Pones' immersive experience combines live installation, dance, videography, and spoken word to address climate justice. Dancers, adorned in unique costumes fashioned from repurposed materials, will begin as models throughout the event. Attendees will be prompted to reflect on their aspirations and plans for climate justice in their communities, and their responses will be transcribed onto tags affixed to the dancers' attire. Later, these visions will be brought to life through a dynamic performance featuring spoken word, dance, and videography.