Michelle Petties is a TEDx speaker, Food Story coach, and author of the award-winning, Amazon best-selling memoir, Leaving Large – The Stories of a Food Addict. For years, Michelle was a top performer for the most influential brands in media, including Radio One and Disney/ABC.
About
“There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment.”
— Robert Frank
Fine artist attended Corcoran school of art, Art institute of Pittsburgh and Prince George's Community College.
Shaawan Francis Keahna (b. 1997) is an enrolled member of the White Earth Band of Minnesota Ojibwe and a Meskwaki descendant. His visual art has been to the Miikanan Gallery at the Watermark Art Center, All My Relations, Giizhigen Artists Incubator, the Walker’s Point Center for the Arts, and the Minneapolis Institute of Art. The short film “a place on the edge of breath,” which he co-produced and was featured in, won best documentary at Bushwick Film Festival. His words are in Same Faces Collective, Tension Literary, Hoxie Gorge Review, Unstaged, and too many others to list here.
Mr. Roswell's Neighborhood (MRN) is the electronic music project of Aaron Auslander (pseud.) from Baltimore, Maryland. The project is focused on the creation/production of instrumental electronic music that incorporates creative aspects of experimental as well as contemporary music. The music features fast beats and high frequencies with alternating patterns and rhythms hosting unique sound designs and layers of warped kick drums, detuned arps, and bitcrushed melodies.
Katia D. Ulysse is a Haitian-born author, poet, and educator. Her work has been published in numerous literary journals and anthologies. Her critically acclaimed books include Drifting: A Collection of Interconnected Stories and the novel Mouths Don't Speak. She earned a Master of Arts from Notre Dame of Maryland University and an MFA in Creative Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts.
Website: www katiadulysse com
Instagram and Facebook: @katiadulysse
Resume of Artist
Cumberland Resident since 2018
Frank Asher
Landscape gardener/ garden artist/ writer. 1998- Present
Guerrilla Gardener in Washington DC and Cumberland.
Taking on public spaces that have been abandoned and adding plants and small pieces of
natural art. Items with sticks/stones/jewels/mirrors, etc.
2000-2017 Fairies Crossing
Focused on the inner city landscapes with native perennials and edibles.
2008-2013 OLD CITY green.
Inner city nursery known as “The Green Beating Heart of Shaw.”
Retail and community space built out of an abandoned lot that was once a gas station.
"Ode to DC"
Original Poem By: Sir Harvey Fitz
Music Written By: TromboneKing
Produced & Performed By : @theexperiencebandandshow
Video By: Mixiam Entertainment
Location: Bias Studios
Backstory: A partnership with Anacostia BID's Art To Go Go & The Experience Band & Show, LLC. The winner of the Art To Go Go Spoken Word contest for 2023 was Sir Harvey Fitz. Utilizing the music created by the band for the competition, the Ode to DC was born. Paying homage to the great city of Washington, DC with this original by @theexperiencebandandshow & Sir Harvey Fitz.
Music Written By: TromboneKing
Produced & Performed By : @theexperiencebandandshow
Video By: Mixiam Entertainment
Location: Bias Studios
Backstory: A partnership with Anacostia BID's Art To Go Go & The Experience Band & Show, LLC. The winner of the Art To Go Go Spoken Word contest for 2023 was Sir Harvey Fitz. Utilizing the music created by the band for the competition, the Ode to DC was born. Paying homage to the great city of Washington, DC with this original by @theexperiencebandandshow & Sir Harvey Fitz.
Poetry and Petals: Host: Lailee McNair Bakhtiar poet of "Severn Sky Sonnets & Poems" with "Empty Without You" by Tory Butterfield
Poetry can heal. Words can heal, and build "Community". I have spoken on "Mending Nations" at the United Nations at the "World Peace Prayer Conference" at the Dag Hammarskjold Auditorium in New York to further the use of literature-poetry to reach the community, the nation, and a global audience. The ethical aspect of poetry as language from the heart, yet reaching outward to the larger audience engages both poet and audience as a recipient of the audio, visual, and print message.. "Ambassador for Youth" poet, Tory Butterfield, illustrates the concept of poetry in motion. She is a high school student, a youth poet, and innovative poet.
Medium: video
Year: 2024
Details: Poetry & Petals is a 5-part series, each interview with the Ambassador for Youth Poet is under 2 minutes. The magic of poetry share the song of the heart, the realizations of the mind, and timeless value in living things. Tory Butterfield with host Lail
"Voices in the Tea Cup"-1, "Imagine"-2, 3-"Ode 07 Oh the Moment of Quiet Thought", 4-"Caspian Tea Offered to Me", 5-"Back Creek Sun Tea 6-"Marching a Path on a Field of Stones""
Lailee McNair Bakhtiar recites 6 poems at historic Willard Hotel, Washington, D.C 2024.1-“Voices in the Tea Cup” (…the samovar is hot, the scimitar is cold…); 2- “Imagine” (…I love you to the farthest far…) 3- “Ode 07 Oh the Moment of Quiet Thought” (….song of travel…);4- “Caspian Tea Offered to Me” ( kairos moment-opportune time in Abiyaneh);5-“Back Creek Sun Tea” (rhema-utterance-at the crux moment);6-“Marching a Path on a Field of Stones” (…Lift a dream, Drop a sorrow… )
Medium: video
Year: 2024
Details: Lailee McNair Bakhtiar recites 6 poems at historic Willard Hotel, Washington, D.C 2024