Youth & Community Open Mic featuring Porsha Olayiwola

L/A Arts, Lewiston 21st Century, and Lewiston Public Library present a special Youth & Community Open Mic night featuring PORSHA OLAYIWOLA with MC Lala Drew.

Porsha Olayiwola is an individual world poetry slam champion and was named by GK100 as one of Boston’s most influential people of color. She is the artistic director at MassLEAP, a literary non-profit organization in Massachusets serving youth artists. Olayiwola is the current poet laureate for the city of Boston and has her first full collection of poetry forthcoming with Button Poetry in November 2019.

Both youth and adults are welcome to share poems, stories, songs and other original works.
For more information, contact L/A Arts at 207-782-7228
To sign up send your name, contact number, and performance medium to jcarter@lewistonpublicschools.org

This event is free and open to the public.
Friday, July 16, 6-8pm
Lewiston Public Library’s Callahan Hall

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