Open Mic Night: The Future is Love!

Calling all poets, writers, and singers! ️ Join us for a Poetry workshop on September 28th, and a powerful evening of self-expression on September 30th at our Open Mic Night: The Future is Love!. ️

Here’s what awaits you:

• Share your truth: This is your platform to uplift and inspire with your voice.
• Connect with your community: Find a space of hope, joy, and deep connections.
• Witness a masterclass in spoken word: Be captivated by the renowned poet Gabriel Ramirez after the open mic!

About Gabriel Ramirez:

• Award-winning poet, performer, and educator.
• Explores themes of identity, mental health, family, and race.
• Featured on Broadway, United Nations, and more!

Poetry Workshop

Before Gabriel takes the stage, you’ll have the opportunity to hone your craft on Saturday September 28^th. Fundashon Orguyo Kòrsou will host Gabriel Ramirez for the “I Am Here: Affirmation as a Form of Resistance” workshop. The workshop will allow participants to speak about past experiences that impacted who they are today, while learning how affirmations can be empowering in self-discovery and growth.  This workshop encourages participants to reclaim their bodies and histories.

The event is free and open to the general public.

Join us from 1:00PM- 4PM at Wolkstraat 7d, in Punda.

 About The Poet

Gabriel Ramirez, author of the chapbook IF PIT BULLS HAD A GOD, IT’D BE A PIT BULL (The Head & The Hand Press) and the children’s book “We’re Community” is a Queer Afro-Caribbean writer, performer and educator. A 2023 Gregory Djanikian Scholar in Poetry at Adroit Journal and the 2024-2025 CantoMundo Poetry Coalition Fellow. Gabriel has received fellowships from the Palm Beach Poetry Festival, The Conversation Literary Arts Festival, CantoMundo, Miami Book Fair, a graduate fellow at The Watering Hole, and a participant in the Callaloo Writer’s Workshops. Gabriel has performed on Broadway at the New Amsterdam Theatre, United Nations, Lincoln Center, Apollo Theatre, The National Museum of Romanian Literature, and other venues & universities around the nation. Gabriel was featured in Huffington Post, VIBE Magazine, Blavity, Upworthy, The Flama, and Remezcla. You can find their work in various spaces, including YouTube, and in publications like Poetry Magazine, Muzzle Magazine, Adroit Journal, Split This Rock’s The Quarry, BOMB, and others as well as Bettering American Poetry Anthology (Bettering Books 2017) What Saves Us: Poems of Empathy and Outrage in the Age of Trump (Northwestern University Press 2019), The Breakbeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNEXT (Haymarket Press 2020), and Latino Poetry: The Library of America Anthology (Library of America 2024). Learn more about Gabriel Ramirez @RamirezPoet and RamirezPoet.com