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Dc flyy spitting dat fira what fukk u mean yessir HOLLA

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Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company – Spit Dat In Residence

We are super duper excited to to announce that Spit Dat DC is officially in Residency at Woolly Mammoth Theater Company!

We have been partnering with Woolly for years to provide events in response and conversation with the shows produced on the main stage for years. As mutual fans of each others work, we are now taking he step forward and being “Fully Woolly!

Click the link below to reserve your FREE tickets to the Oct 7th show (Featuring C’est Lief) and peep the themes to the upcoming months!

See you at Woolly!

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Guess who's featuring at @spitdatdc tonight? @tiyi_c , dat's who! So do the right thing and bring yo' A$$! 733 Euclid St NW DC, 9pm (at SPIT DAT) https://www.instagram.com/p/BnZ9ZgBAr7U/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=19z9h5tjm84nd

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Today, I just want to show love to Droopy, Dwayne & the whole Spit Dat family. Spit Dat is the longest running open mic in DC. It's quite amazing the amount of talent that is in that space on any given Thursday night. Special shout out to Sylvia, who runs the E.C.A.C.. She is a beacon of light and I'm sure all of us are thankful for her contributions to the community and allowing us the space. #SpitHappens #SpitDat #IamSpitDat #DroopyTheBrokeBaller #ThatPoetryHost

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I’m In The Washington Post!? (again?)

Photo Cred: R.Dione Foto

So It’s happened.

Again.

For context: I am often a background player (more about that in a post coming soon). I enjoy not being the person in the forefront – I like my side character arc in my friends title series. But every now and then, it happens; someone notices me doing my thing and I take center stage.

So here we are. The Washington Post just ran a feature online (going to print on Friday) covering “From Gumbo To Mumbo” – the two-man show I penned with my fellow Spit Dat DC host, Drew Anderson. The article also covers my perfect day in DC (spoiler alert – I needed more than one day).

Read The Washington Post Article Here!

Dwayne B and Drew Anderson Photo Cred: R.Dione Foto

From Gumbo To Mumbo is absolutely one of the highpoints in my artistic career. We have gotten great reviews from students during our Young Audiences run of the show, we’re nominated for a Helen Hayes Award for Best Production for Young Audiences, and won Best In Show at 2019’s Charm City Fringe Fest in Baltimore MD. Most important to me; during a year where plans fell apart, lives were shaken to their core, and people have suffered through isolation in hopes of preservation, I have had a chance to hang out and perform with my best friend. I’m honored that the Washington Post has acknowledged this little piece of joy.

Photo Cred: Cameron Whitman Photography

But wait…

In the title…

I mean…

Yep… This has happened before.

So 11 years ago, I happened to be crocheting on the Metro when this dude walks up and asks me about my shirt. I explain that It was for the non-profit I work for and that the scarf was for an order. This would lead to the first time I was featured in the Washington Post. That was with John Kelly for his quirky people in DC column “John Kelly’s Washington”. John and I would later meet for dinner and have a delightful conversation about classic rock, community activism, and performance. He still writes for the Post and still performs in his band.

Check Out My First Appearance In The Post!

So yeah, there are people who will tell you that lightning doesn’t strike twice, but keep doing your thing, whatever your creative, silly, fun-loving thing is, and know that someone will take notice… even when you don think they will.

PS: Thanks for reading this. Feel free to leave a comment and check out this bonus live-chat that I did with the John Kelly shortly after the post article went up.

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Strathmore – Manual Cinema Preshow Event: We Are Each Other’s Harvest

Windows Series Preshow Event We Are Each Other’s Harvest: A Gathering of Poets

6:30–7:30pm in Music Center Education Room 402

Join us as before Manual Cinema’s No Blue Memories: The Life of Gwendolyn Brooks for an exploration of DC’s grassroots poetry scene.

While Brooks was based in and wrote powerfully about her hometown of Chicago, her influence and inspiration reached to DC and lives among us now. Scholar and poet Kim Roberts opens with a brief historical lecture about three African American women who were forces for community-building among poets in DC: Gwendolyn Brooks, May Miller, and Georgia Douglas Johnson. These women created salons for poets to gather, hear one another’s work, and share ideas. This nurturing and collaborative spirit thrives today in a constellation of DC-area poetry spaces, including Busboys and Poets, the Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Spit Dat poetry slam, Words Beats and Life, and Split This Rock.

Following the lecture, Dwayne B, co-host of Spit Dat, hosts a reading with local poets Morgan Butler, Brandon Douglas, and Marjan Naderi.

Seating for this event limited, and advance registration is highly recommended. Access to the preshow event is free with a Manual Cinema show ticket.

Please be sure to have your show ticket with you when checking in. Seats will only be available to those who have registered until 6:20pm, at which point remaining seats will be released to those in the standby line.

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Thursday. Pages and Jael Feature. Spit Dat DC. — view on Instagram https://ift.tt/2YjyALK

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This Thursday, @spitdatdc is proud to present the brilliantly talented Charence Higgins ( @char.is.matic ) as our feature! An acclaimed actress, singer, model, event host, and motivational speaker from Madison, MS (and former Ms. Jackson State University at that), this accomplished adventurer prides herself on turning "can'ts into cans and dreams into plans". Spit Dat's own founder and co-host Drew Anderson met Charence when the two appeared as Goneril and Edmund in Fools and Madmen, the critically-acclaimed hip hop production of William Shakespeare's King Lear. And now, this Thursday, our Spit Dat Fam can expect to enjoy an evening of artistic inspiration from Ms. Higgins herself! Emergence Community Arts Collective 733 Euclid St NE DC 8:30 pm doors, 9:00 pm showtime Door donations welcomed. (at SPIT DAT)

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#spitdatdc open mic is in full effect this evening. We welcome you to come spit hot fire like Supa Hot Fire himself or Dylan, Dylan, Dylan, Dylan, and Dylan! Every Thursday, 733 Euclid St NW DC, 8:30 signups, 9:00 showtime (at SPIT DAT)

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One of the highlights of 2017 for me was making it back to my hometown of New Orleans for Mardi Gras. I've been home for the Essence Fest many times over the years, but this was my first Mardi Gras in 22 years. On top of that, I got to see my sister @expatwhodat ride in the Zulu parade for her 40th birthday. It was a beautiful, spiritual return and I even stayed true to my exercise regimen, jogging to parades like Iris and Bacchus to meet up with my friends and family. (I ain't stay true to no diet though, bruh; I eat like a pig when I'm in NOLA, yurd me? Lol) I realize as much as I love Essence Fest, I prefer Mardi Gras, because it's more about the culture, spirit, and my memories of my city. One of my missions while I was there was to get footage of me spitting my verse for the #NeckAss song "Coming From Where I'm From". It started with my brother Dwayne B's ( @crochetkingpin ) rap about growing up and SouthEast DC. I was watching him rock it at @busboysandpoets , caught a vibe, and wrote my verse about New Orleans. Then we got our dude @basicthebassist to spit about Indianapolis. My vision is to do a music video with footage in all of our hometowns, kind of like how Talib Kweli did in that video with Kendrick and Curren$y. My scenes are shot, fam. Y'all up! I'm straight New Orleans / Crawfish etoufee and pralines / Rooting for the Saints of all teams / Marsalises and Morials / Zulu balls and Southern Belles, 5312 LaSalle / Operation Shattered Shield; crooked cops, G / I was in New Orleans when Entergy was NOPSI / Uptown; houses built above ground / Didn't count for much when Katrina come around . . / But I bleed New Orleans / My blood type is "ayyy pocky way, laissez les bontemps roulez" / I'm in the N.O. even when out it; I'm bout it, bout it / New Orleans on the globe 'cause the map is too crowded / A Hotel Dieux baby; a dog from the Aug / I floss with moss and I gargles with hot sauce / A 13th Wardy with Dat Uptown Funk / Don't boycott Beyoncé; boycott Trump! #nola #neworleans #uptown (at Napoleon at St Charles Ave)

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Be you weekly regular or long-lost fam, if there's one night at #spitdat to don't want to miss, it's this Thursday. Our very own co-host, the dramatic, floetic, beatboxing, breakdancing, crocheting sensation known to the world as Dwayne B the @crochetkingpin will be celebrating his birthday early at this week's session of Spit Dat! Dwayne's features never fail to inspire, innivate, or show new sides of him. Come celebrate our one-of-a-kind wunderkind with us! @spitdatdc takes place Thursday nights at 8:30pm at the Emergence Community Arts Collective, 733 Euclid St NW DC. (at Emergence Community Arts Collective)

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“Losing Our Chains” This Sunday at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company

Look momma, I made it! I’m on a poster with Felonious Munk!

A select squad from Spit Dat DC will share art and process as we break our chains in the spirit of Felonious’ “Nothing To Lose”. Come kick it with us, have some drinks and let the healing begin.

Free with RSVP! 

FEATURING:

Brandon Douglas

Luna The Poet

Morgan “Momo Da Mermaid” Butler

A$hy Black Thug

And Special Surprises!!!

Hosted By:

Dwayne B!

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#MeetThePressed . I like this character of Basil E. Brokeballer and I think I'll use him some more to make light of some serious issues and be serious about some light issues. But all jokes aside, I find this issue of dealing with street performers in Gallery Place particularly interesting. On one hand, I don't live there, so I don't have to deal with the noise level. I've worked in Gallery Place for years and I know and support some of the street performers. None of them were at this meeting, and for that matter the only reason I knew about it was I went to a friend's birthday party this weekend which happened to be in the apartment building where the ANC 2C chair lives and I saw a flier in the elevator. I've always been interested in the psychology around this idea of moving to the busiest areas of a city and then complaining about the noise. We dealt with it when we hosted Spit Dat on U Street years ago and residents of the Ellington Apartments would report us to the ANC (after pouring water out of the windows at us like cowards). Gallery Place is pretty much the Times Square of DC, complete with the electronic billboards. Not to mention the Capital One Arena (formerly Verizon Center, formerly MCI Center) where the Wizards, Capitals, and Rihannas play. I find it hard to believe that someone would move there expecting quiet. This meeting also discussed a "tent city" on 9th Street near the Portrait Gallery in the wake of homeless folks being displaced as MLK Library is renovated, as well as "open-air drug deals" and "aggressive panhandlers". All legitimate concerns for residents to address, to be sure, but I'm interested in the fact that no one was there to represent the interests of the buskers. With no opposition, the residents' resolution was expediently approved. We shall see what transpires from hence. (at John A. Wilson Building)

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I'm no expert, but I dare say this quick likkle clip captures a lot of the essence of #gogo . The lead talker. The neighborhood shout outs. The collaboration. The improvisation. And of course, that essential, inescapable POCKET. #Axiom holding court at @spitdatdc with an assist from SouthEast DC's own @christylezbacon . @blackroot1 #SpitDat #SpitHappens (at SPIT DAT)