Rise + Rhyme feat. Culture Queen 1.13.20
Date and Time
Jan 13, 2020 9:30 am
Location
Hyattsville
5331 Baltimore Ave, Hyattsville, Maryland, 20781
Jan 13, 2020 9:30 am
Hyattsville
Featuring: Culture Queen
Rise + Rhyme is a weekly morning storytelling and performance series for children ages 5 and under with the goals of teaching children to engage with their community, learn to love performing and become rising artivists!
Schedule
9:30-10:00 Community Chat & Chew
10:00-10:45 Children’s Performance
10:45-11:00 Clean Up Time
We ask that caregivers teach each child how to begin to support performing arts with a $5 admission per child. Additional donations for the performer are always appreciated.
Rise + Rhyme is held every Monday morning in Hyattsville, MD and Takoma & Brookland, 14th & V DC and the 2nd and 4th Monday at Anacostia, and every last Tuesday of the month at 9:30 AM at Busboys and Poets in Shirlington.
Jessica “Culture Queen” Hebron, a proud native of Prince George’s County, MD, is an award-winning educator, author, entertainer and consultant who holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre Education and African-American Studies from Virginia Commonwealth University. For ten years Jessica most affectionately known by her stage name “Culture Queen” has owned and operated her own company Culture Kingdom Kids, LLC, where she has performed and produced innovative children’s performances, festivals, workshops, and professional development programs for diverse audiences from primary school to Yale University, The Kennedy Center, the Atlas Performing Arts Center, museums including the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African-American History and Culture, the National Children’s Museum, the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African-American History and Culture, the Black History Museum of Virginia and of the Prince George’s African American Museum; and non-profit organizations like The National Park Service, Prince George’s Parks and Recreation,The Campagna Center, Kaiser Permanente, and Girls For A Change. In addition to her extensive work with theaters, museums, schools and nonprofits, she’s also the Children’s Program Coordinator and Children’s Cultural Literacy Ambassador-In-Residence for six Busboys and Poets restaurants across Maryland, Virginia and Washington, DC. She is the newly appointed Education Fellow-In-Residence at the Prince George’s African-American Museum.
Jessica was a featured speaker at TEDxRVA; and a lead screenwriter on TED-ED ’s animated educational film on Malian King Mansa Musa which to date has received over 4 million views. She released her first children’s music album ‘I Like the Me I See!’ in 2016; and her first picture book with the same title in 2019. She can also be seen starring in a Youtube series entitled “Black History Live with Culture Queen” which brings to life the biographies of inspiring African queens through music and poetry.
To learn more about her work, follow her on social media @ImCultureQueen on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.
