Put a "twist" on your National Poetry Month Activity and Events!!!
Performance poet, Geylah provides valuable information and methods to creating,promoting and marketing your "niche" as it relates to careers in performance poetry, public, motivational, or keynote speaking, and basic product development in any small business arena.
This self-help seminar (companion booklet available) is appropriate for the beginner, high-school/college/university student or the pro. Having performed at over 300 venues, hear it "from the horse's mouth". A must to promoting/ marketing literary works and securing local and national speaking or performance dates is a must-have for the self-published author or the self-represented speaker.
Ge'ylah dissects the
- getting your name out there
- perfecting your performance
Power of the Tongue Performances...
A Report to Dr. King
Ge'ylah celebrates the life and mission of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. with dramatic poetry, narrative video clips, entertaining music and an interactive skit with Dr. King, Ge'ylah and the audience. A special promo poster with event location, time and date of performance is included.. The lterary component is comprised of works by Nikki Giovanni, Sonia Sanchez, Haki Madhubuti, Anthony J. Bradford, James Weldon Johnson, Gwendolyn Brooks, Mari Evans, Coretta Scott King, Maya Angelou, and Ge'ylah.
The Power of the Tongue
A tribute to the oral tradition, Black History and Black literature rolled all in to one, " Power of the Tongue" is a 60 - 75 minute multi - media performance anchored in poems, prose pieces, soliloquies, monologues and other classic literary favorites. Music and historic video footage undergird performance. If requested, question and answer session follows the performance. Works performed include " Upon Being Brought From Africa to America" - Phyllis Wheatley, " The Prodigal Son" - James Weldon Johnson, " I, Too, Sing America " - Langston Hughes, " W.E.B. and Booker T " - Dudley Randall, " I AM A Black" - Gwendolyn Brooks, " For My People" - Margaret Walker Alexander, " What Shall I Tell My Children Who Are Black" - Margaret Taylor Burroughs , "Still I Rise" - Maya Angelou, "Improvisations" - Sonia Sanchez, " Southern Hospitality" - Nichole L. Shields, "Strange Fruit" - Billie Holiday and works by the performance poet herself. Upon request, " Power of the Tongue" classroom guide is available for instructors.
One Less Road to Travel
Women have shaped the world and women writers helped to create the mold. In this dynamic, audience interaction performance hear the works and words of famous and ordinary women. Famous poetry, maxims, monologues and soliloquies are enveloped with music and video footage. Select from Ge'ylah's Multi-cultural or Afrocentric version of this celebratory show. Performance may include, but is not limited to the works and words of Maya Angelou, Sylvia Plath, Emily Dickinson, Phyllis Wheatley, Ge'ylah, Nichole Shields, Sonia Sanchez, Emily Post, Margaret walker Alexander, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Louisa Mae Alcott, Rita Dove and more.
In Our Classic Voice
With a performance repertoire that includes works by Phyllis Wheatley, Ernest Hemingway, Dudley Randall, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Gwendolyn Brooks, Robert Frost, James Weldon Johnson, Sylvia Plath, Margaret Walker Alexander, Sonia Sanchez, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Langston Hughes and much, much, more. Ge'ylah performs the National Poetry extravaganza show at venues ranging from public schools to inaugural halls. She utilizes the art of performance poetry to help individuals become more aware of their historic presence.
National Poetry Month Workshops and Activities...
- Haiku? Sonnett? Villa? Lai? or a little bit of each.
- Teaching Poetry in the Classroom
- FORENSICS - Future Orators Reveal Exquisite Natural Skill In Clompetitive Speaking
- The Power of Perfromance- Performing & Marketing Your Own Poetry
The poetry workshops are lively, exciting, expressive and informative. Perfect for Creative Writing, English and other literary related classes.
