MOMENTUM: Soulstice Play Playe Night
June 26th @ 4:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Join us for a night of yard, board, and card games at UnCommon Corner for MOMENTUM. As always we will have music, food, and brews on tap from Harpoon Brewery and El Jefe’s Taqueria.
Hosted by Toki Wright and with sounds By:
DJ 411, MOMENTUM will feature:
All Star Karaoke with
Lisa Bello
Karim
Keli Nicole Price
Game Play with
Tori Tori vs. Notebook P
Quontay “Q” Turner (Emerald City Plant Shop) vs. Malik Williams (Reel Sync Music)
Jamilah Bradshaw (The Barr Foundation) vs. Richeline Cadet (Mass Creative)
Myriam Michel (M&M Elite Events) vs. Catherine Morris (BAMS Fest Inc.)
Artist Bios
Toki Wright
Toki Wright is a two-time Emmy Award-winning MC, poet, producer, and cultural diplomat. He has received two CLIO Award for advertising with General Mills for the number one worldwide Twitter trending project “Watch the Stove” which was also nominated for a Cannes Lion Award. Wright is currently the chair of the Professional Music Department at Berklee College of Music in Boston. Before relocating he was the Department Head of the United States’ first fully accredited Hip-Hop Studies program at McNally Smith College of Music. The program was awarded the “Best Transformative Higher Learning Model” from the Hip-Hop Education Center at NYU. Toki also facilitated seven Twin Cities Celebration of Hip-Hop Festivals and helped establish “Hip-Hop at H.E.A.L.S,” a program for former child soldiers in Gulu, Northern Uganda.
BAMS Fest
Boston Art, Music, and Soul Fest is a cultural movement led by Greater Boston Black and Brown artists, culture makers and creative entrepreneurs who are on the front lines of racial equity, spatial justice, and economic empowerment.
BAMS Fest is a nonprofit organization that breaks down racial and social barriers to arts, music, and culture across Greater Boston. Through edutainment (education + entertainment), strategic partnerships and cultural programming, we celebrate and support both artists and audiences, with an emphasis on Black and Brown voices, perspectives, and artistry.
Departure Arts
Departure Arts builds community through facilitating creative collaborations, amplifying historically underrepresented artistic voices, and supporting artistic risk-taking for Boston area artists, organizations, and audiences.
Departure Arts believes in the unifying power of the performing and visual arts to connect our community – both audiences and artists. For our audiences, we look to increase access to the arts by presenting in non-traditional venues, hosting local artists, and building collaborations across art forms and disciplines. For our artists, we provide space for artists to take artistic risks, not often afforded to creatives, that support the development and expansion of their career, network, and art.
Departure Arts is proud to participate in the Mass Cultural Council’s Card to Culture Program, where all of our events are pay-what-you-can. The Card to Culture program is a collaboration between Mass Cultural Council and the Department of Transitional Assistance, the Massachusetts Health Connector, and the Women, Infants & Children (WIC) Nutrition Program by extending free admission to our events for all cardholders.