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Matthew ‘Cuban’ Hernandez is a poet, emcee, speaker, and performance coach from Jacksonville, Florida. He has toured as far as Abu Dhabi and nearly every major city in the United States and Europe, performing, teaching and coaching poetry. A teaching artist for nearly ten years, Matthew has spent the last six years working in youth detention centers across Los Angeles County, currently serving as the Director of Camp Programming for Street Poets, Inc. In addition, he is a current Lead Teacher and Co-Founder of Spoken Literature Art Movement. Cuban has opened for artists such as Wu-Tang, performed for platforms such as BuzzFeed and NPR and even appeared on the award-winning television show, Better Things. Matthew is also a three time Southern Fried poetry slam champion and an award-winning poetry coach. Cuban’s favorite activity is making people feel great; sometimes he does this through hip hop and poetry.

www.matthewcuban.com

Facebook: Matthew Cuban 

Instagram & Twitter: @matthewcuban

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Christopher "The Professor" White is an educator, teacher, motivator by day and a soul stirring musician by night. He is a writer, actor, speaker, writer and truth seeker. He is a founding member of The Katz Downstairz, an electrically talented ensemble of musicians and singers who spread love with their performances. 

Contact: [email protected]

Instagram: @profwhite

Twitter: @Prof_White75 

Facebook: Christopher White 

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Christina Jones aka Stinajone is a singer/songwriter out of Florida. Follow her on all of your social media platforms and stay tuned for upcoming projects from this powerhouse! 

Instagram @Stinacansing and purchase/download her single Flexin by Stinajone’ on all music and streaming sites.

Facebook: Stina JM

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Since 2009, The Asia Project has toured over 600 colleges with an acoustic music poetry act that has amazed audiences all over the country. On the microphone is Asia Samson: writer, poet and part-time ninja. He has been seen on HBO Def Poetry Jam and has shared the stage with such artists as Janelle Monae, Jill Scott, DMX, Mos Def, Dead Prez and KRS-One.  Accompanying him on the guitar is his brother-in-law Jollan who uses music to create an atmosphere that brings poetry to emotional levels you would never expect. Together they have been featured on TEDx, Button Poetry, and was commissioned by Nokia Mobile to write a poem to help relaunch vintage mobile phones. They have broken college-booking records for the most booked poetry act garnering them the awards of APCA College Performer of the Year and thrice APCA Spoken Word Artist of the Year and most recently, was featured by NPR's Tiny Desk Contest.

Okay, so maybe Asia isn’t the ninja we said he was but we can guarantee-
you won't see them coming.

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Kevin Sandbloom has been touring nationally since 2005. Some of his credits include opening for Anthony Hamilton, Gil Scott-Heron, Saul Williams and Bilal, as well as writing the title track for Robben Ford's Supernatural release. He has been a guest teacher at Berklee College of Music, a featured performer at Brooklyn Academy of Music and a guest performer on ABC/Disney's, Lincoln Heights.

Currently promoting his climate change-themed record, Cicada, which is available for streaming and download on Bandcamp.

www.kevinsandbloom.com

Facebook: Kevin Sandbloom

Instagram & Twitter: @kevinsandbloom

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Moses West is a spoken word artist from Jacksonville, FL and is heavily involved in the arts community. Moses West is passionate about his craft and feels that poetry is his life's purpose. He is a host, performer, lyricist and curator. He has founded and host several annual events in Jacksonville, FL such as From Gods to Goddesses, Kings of Poetry, Queens of Poetry, Sex on Stage and so much more. 

Facebook: Moses West 

Instagram: @poetrynigga

Twitter: @supamoe

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*From www.standwithbre.com Breonna Taylor: Say her name - On March 13th, in the middle of the night, Breonna Taylor was killed by Louisville police as they illegally executed a drug raid at the wrong address for a person they had already arrested earlier that day. An aspiring nurse, she had dedicated her whole life to serving others. Until her death Breonna had been working as an EMT in Louisville when the coronavirus pandemic hit, working at two hospitals to save lives in her community. She survived repeated exposure to COVID-19 only to have her life cut short by senseless police violence. She and her family deserve justice—Join us in this fight and #StandWithBre!

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By day, you’ll find Damien Lamar managing operations and facilities at the Garden Club of Jacksonville. He curated, hosted and produced his first urban radio show Taste Test that led to his music news & review podcast. Check out The Taste Test Live podcast on Spotify, Facebook, Apple Podcasts and more. Damien enjoys making music, offering creative consulting and performing live music in the style of organic nu-jazz with two bands Neon Motherboard & KTG Entertainment.

www.damienlamar.com

Twitter & Instagram @DamienLamar

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Joan 'Lyric' Leslie is the epitome of what it means to be "more black girl than magic". Her work, a journey through healing and self-love, has been described as a love letter to black women. Lyric is a Harlem, NY native, performance poet, community organizer and podcast host. She has been a member of two national poetry slam teams and is featured on Button Poetry, Write About Now, All Def Poetry and Voyage ATL Magazine. She is a 2019 fellow of The Watering Hole Retreat, a Southern Fried Poetry Slam Finalist and a 2-time back to back Queen of the South Poetry Slam Champion. Lyric has been performing for audiences in academic, corporate, and social spaces throughout the country since 2009. She currently tours the college market and slam poetry venues using her stories, poems and comedy to empower youth and communities of color to share their truth, honoring the ingenious women who have come before her.

www.harlemsownlyric.com

Facebook: Harlem's Own: Lyric

Instagram & Twitter: @harlemsownlyric

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Cheryl McCain was born in Ocala, Florida. She is a retired Navy veteran who served honorably for twenty years. Two years after retirement, she enrolled at the Art Institute of Jacksonville to study photography. After two years at Al, she left her studies to care for her ailing husband.

 Just before leaving school her work was published in the Miami based magazine, Chellae and Jacksonville publication Void magazine. She has shot and directed two music videos one of which has been nominated video of the year (by DuvalHipHop.com), photographed four album covers for local artists and has been a featured artist at The Groove Suite Artist Edition two years in a row. In 2018 she was one of thirteen photographers selected to contribute to the exhibit "Jacksonville: A Tale of My City" at the Jacksonville Public Library's Jax Makerspace curated by Shawana Brooks and part of the "Let's Go" exhibit at the Jacksonville International Airport's Haskell Gallery. She also was selected and competed in the 2019 Artfields Artist Competition located in Lake City, South Carolina . She was recently selected to participate 2019 Through Our Eyes exhibit at the Ritz Theater and Museum.

Photographers like Willim Eggleston, Carrie Mae Weems, Lorna Simpson, Henri Cartier Bresson and James Van Der Zee have had great influence on her process and approach when it comes to capturing any subject. In studying these photography giants, she has developed an eye for drawing the viewer in and telling story with her photography. Her objective is to have the viewer to see the world as she sees it when she looks through her viewfinder. She believes that should be every photographers objective first and foremost.  

Links: 

https://obscuraluxfineart.shootproof.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Obscuraluxfineart

Instagram: obscuraluxfineart

Twitter: @obscuraluxxx