A Busboys and Poets in-house series! Rise + Rhyme is a weekly morning storytelling and performance series for children ages 5 and under, stay-at-home parents, and early rising families of all kinds. Today’s featured artist is master educator, musician, and storyteller,   Bashea ?Iya ? Imana .  “Iya & the Kuumba Kids” is  an interactive, (more…)

“LIVE! from Busboys: Open Mic & Talent Showcase” hosted by N’ea Posey. Live from Busboys takes place on the first Friday of every month and offers a platform for ALL PERFORMERS – not just poets! Whether you are a musician, comedian, dancer, actor/actress, magician, or any other type of performer – we want to see (more…)

Busboys and Poets welcomes a new program of the University of Maryland School of Music and Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center,  Common Tone.  This evenings special performers: invoke live For one night only, invoke joins forces with the expert mixologists at Busboys and Poets to elevate two common sensory experiences into a unique fusion that is (more…)

A Busboys and Poets in-house series! Rise + Rhyme is a weekly morning storytelling and performance series for children ages 5 and under, stay-at-home parents, and early rising families of all kinds.Today’s featured performer is Jessica Smith “Culture Queen”Jessica Smith a.k.a Culture Queen  is the founder and director of Culture Kingdom Kids?, a creative arts company that (more…)

A Busboys and Poets in-house series! Rise + Rhyme is a weekly morning storytelling and performance series for children ages 5 and under, stay-at-home parents, and early rising families of all kinds. Today’s featured performer: Marsha Goodman-Wood,  a D C-based singer/songwriter and music teacher. Marsha is known for getting kids singing and dancing at her shows, setting little (more…)

A Busboys and Poets in-house series! Rise + Rhyme is a weekly morning storytelling and performance series for children ages 5 and under, stay-at-home parents, and early rising families of all kinds.Today’s featured performer is Jessica Smith “Culture Queen”Jessica Smith a.k.a Culture Queen  is the founder and director of Culture Kingdom Kids?, a creative arts company that (more…)

WOMAN 2014 is a presentation by The COLOURS  Program of Prince George’s County.  The show will feature spoken word poets from LYRIKAL STORM from Parkdale High School. The presentation is a celebration of Women’s History Month. Enjoy an evening of music and poetry for all ages as we celebrate the SUPERWOMEN of today. Free and (more…)

Story League in partnership with Busboys and Poets presents Story Contest: Sticky.  $150 cash prize for funniest story.   Get tickets and submit your story pitch at StoryLeague.org Storytellers have 7 minutes and no props or notes may be used. Pre-submit your story synopsis at http://www.storyleague.org/submit-a-story. Judges will choose which stories they think will be (more…)

A Busboys and Poets in-house series! Rise + Rhyme is a weekly morning storytelling and performance series for children ages 5 and under, stay-at-home parents, and early rising families of all kinds. Today?s featured performer Liz DeRoche is “The Singing Lizard” She has been playing music all her life. Her vast musical experience includes scoring soundtracks for (more…)