Love Jawns: A Mixtape
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Love Jawns: A Mixtape (LJAM) is a soundtrack of the city, by the people, for your commuting & daydreaming pleasure. Three poets share a poem. A DJ stitches them together with musical interludes. Produced by Philadelphia Contemporary, a freestanding space for contemporary & performance art.
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Dec 9, 2020
Big Wash Mini-Mix
A special collaboration with the Fabric Workshop and Museum inspired by Jonathan Lyndon Chase's "Big Wash" exhibition opening in January 2021. Featuring poetry by *JONATHAN LYNDON CHASE* & *JAMAL RASHAD*. Spun by *VINCE ANTHONY*.
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Sep 23, 2020
Fall Mini-Mix
A special collaboration with #VoteThatJawn, an initiative that aims to bring 18-year-olds and other first-time voters to the polls. Featuring Philly Youth Poet Laureates *MIA CONCEPCION*, *CYDNEY BROWN* & *WES MATTHEWS* in response to Walt Whitman’s poem “Election Day: November 1884.” Spun by *VINCE ANTHONY*.
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Jun 19, 2020
Summer Jawn
An extended Juneteenth mix featuring freedom songs by *QUINCY SCOTT JONES, HUSNAA HASHIM, NOOR IBN NAJAM, JASMINE L. COMBS, KAI DAVIS, ASHLEY DAVIS, TRAPETA B. MAYSON & YOLANDA WISHER. *Spun by *VINCE ANTHONY.*
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May 29, 2020
LJAM PSA
Special mini-mix featuring poet & comic book author *QUINCY SCOTT JONES* & current Philadelphia Poet Laureate *TRAPETA B. MAYSON*. Spun by *VINCE ANTHONY*.
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May 29, 2020
Two Stops Early
Featuring *MIA CONCEPCION*, 2019-2020 Philadelphia Youth Poet Laureate + *NOOR IBN JABAM*, a poet who teases, challenges, breaks & creates language + poet, performer & educator *DENICE FROHMAN. *Spun by Detroit-born, Philly-based *DJ A-LIST*.* *“Two Stops Early” is a phrase from Denice Frohman’s poem “A Queer Girl’s Ode to the Piragüero.” This episode concludes The Second Jawn.
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Apr 30, 2020
Some Very Important Chisme
Featuring *MERCEDEZ HOLTRY*, poet, writer, mentor, and Chicana feminist + *META SARMIENTO*, Filipino rapper and poet born and raised in Guam who now calls Denver, CO home + *TOLUWANIMI OBIWOLE*, a Nigerian multi-disciplinary artist, organizer, and healer. Spun by *MERCURII AKA TOLUWA OBIWOLE*. “Some Very Important Chisme” is a line from Mercedez Holtry’s poem “Chisme and Lavender Carmel Coffee.”
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Mar 31, 2020
How Do You Kill A Blank Page
Featuring *SHAM-E-ALI NAYEEM*, poet, artist & public interest lawyer + *WARREN LONGMIRE*, writer, software engineer & educator + *BETHLEHEM ROBERSON*, known as a vocussionist, fusing vocals with body percussion. Spun by *VINCE ANTHONY*, a singer-songwriter, producer & music educator. “How Do You Kill a Blank Page” is a phrase from Warren Longmire’s poem “Zoom Links.”
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Feb 29, 2020
That's Another Whole Story
Featuring Brooklyn-born interdisciplinary poet & sound artist *TRACIE MORRIS* + *QUINCY SCOTT JONES* whose first comic, Black Nerd with artist Ronald Nelson, will be released this year + *HETTIE JONES*, one of the most prolific Beat poets of her generation. Spun by *DR. BRUCE CAMPBELL JR. aka DJ JUNIOR*, a professor who runs his own independent record label, Record Breakin’ Music. “But that’s another whole story” is a line from Hettie Jones’ poem “All Told.”
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Dec 27, 2019
But They Still Livin' Tho
Featuring *KAI DAVIS *(she/her), a Black Queer writer, performer & teaching artist from Philadelphia who received the Leeway Transformation Award for her art for social change work + *JASMINE L. COMBS*, a writer, educator & spoken word artist who is the author of two collections of poetry, Universal Themes & This Drowning Was A Baptism + *JACOB WINTERSTEIN*,* *a lifelong Philadelphian, artist, event producer & educator & co-founder of The Philly Pigeon collective which organizes poetry slams, multi-media productions, workshops and artists retreats. Spun by *JACQUELINE CONSTANCE*, born & raised in Philadelphia & armed with just a mic, her digital sampling, foot pedal & a small mixer, turns breaths, sighs & words into funky orchestral pastures for her lyrics to frolic through. “But they still livin though” is a line from Kai Davis’ poem “Uptown Baby.” This episode concludes The First Jawn, LJAM’s inaugural season.
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Nov 20, 2019
And Church Was Everyday
Featuring *ASHLEY DAVIS*, a black queer androfemme (they/she) artist, poet, human who writes to center the inter generational black femme & build spaces for rest & inner children to play + *KIRWYN SUTHERLAND*,* *a Clinical Research Professional & poet who makes poems centering the black experience in America + *LYRISPECT, *an award-winning lyricist, author, activist, educator & voiceover artist. Spun by *VINCE ANTHONY, *a singer-songwriter & music producer who recently released his EP Black Child: A Song Cycle. "And church was everyday" is a line from Ashley Davis' poem "I learn time travel from Great Gramma Susie."
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Oct 23, 2019
We Are The Enemies
Featuring *TRAPETA B. MAYSON*, a poet, social worker & MBA, who is a native of Liberia + *CYNTHIA DEWI OKA*, author of Salvage: Poems who created a migrant poetry workshop series in Philadelphia & is originally from Bali, Indonesia + *SANAM SHERIFF, *a poet & artist from Bangalore, India who is currently an MFA candidate in Poetry at Washington University in St. Louis. Spun by *OLUWAFEMI*,* *a deejay, music producer & visual artist based in Philadelphia, by way of Central New Jersey, by way of Lagos, Nigeria. "We Are the Enemies" is a line from Trapeta B. Mayson's poem "We Are All Trees Here."
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Apr 27, 2019
This Ain't No Sunny D Sh!t
Featuring *RAQUEL SALAS RIVERA*,* *2018-19 Poet Laureate of Philadelphia & co-editor of Puerto Rico en mi corazón, a collection of bilingual broadsides of contemporary Puerto Rican poets + *YOLANDA WISHER*, 2016-17 Poet Laureate of Philadelphia, author of Monk Eats an Afro, & Curator of Spoken Word at Philadelphia Contemporary + *HUSNAA HASHIM*, 2017-18 Youth Poet Laureate of Philadelphia & author of Honey Sequence. Spun by *DR. BRUCE CAMPBELL JR. aka DJ JUNIOR*,* *an Associate Professor in the School of Education at Arcadia University who runs his own independent record label, Record Breakin’ Music. "This ain't no Sunny D sh!t" is a line from Husnaa Hashim's poem "Orange Juice."
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