Rise + Rhyme Featuring Culture Queen| 20th Year Anniversary | Busboys and Poets
Date and Time
Oct 18, 2025 9:30 am
Location
Columbia
6251 Mango Tree Rd, Columbia, Maryland, 21044
Oct 18, 2025 9:30 am
Columbia
Rise + Rhyme is a morning storytelling and performance series for children with the goals of teaching children to engage with their community, learn to love performing and become rising artivists!
To celebrate our 20 year anniversary Busboys and Poets welcomes back: Culture Queen!
Schedule
9:30-10:00 Community Chat & Chew (Come in and get seated, meet your neighbors and order some breakfast)
10:00-11:00 Children’s Performance
11:00-11:30 Cool Down and Clean Up Time
$10 admissions, FREE for children 2 years and younger. The suggested ages are children 2 - 8 years old.
About Culture Queen
Culture Queen is an award-winning teaching artist, children’s musician, author and arts manager, who creates empowering entertainment for children! She is the founder of Culture Kingdom Kids, LLC, where since 2010, Culture Queen has produced innovative Black History-themed children’s performances, festivals, and professional development programs at schools, libraries, restaurants, malls, theaters and museums across the country including the Smithsonian National Museum of African-American History and Culture and the Reginald Lewis Museum of African American History and Culture.
Her children's album, I Like the Me I See!, released in 2016 along with her 2019 children’s book by the same title, hits all the right notes for families and educators bringing up confident, culturally aware, and curious children. She’s been a featured speaker on TedXRVA, and her TED-ED video entitled “Mansa Musa: One of the Wealthiest People Who Ever Lived”, has received over 6 million views. Culture Queen is also an award-winning playwright whose children's musical, Bone Soup: A Kwanzaa Story, is published by Pioneer Drama Service and produced around the country. Her work has been featured in Billboard Magazine, Parents Magazine, Martha Stewart Living, Red Tricycle, The Washington Post and many more.
