Create Change Spotlight: beluvid ola-jendai
Channel: The Laundromat Project
Date: 2015-12-15

Meet beluvid ola-jendai, 2014 Create Change Artist-in-Residence! He is a Cave Canem poet and was awarded a New York Foundation of the Arts fellowship for poetry in 2001. He has evolved a style of poetry that is half-spoken, half-sung and heavily utilizes Ebonics as lexicon.

Harlem On My Mind, Too hopes to engage community members to share what they cherish most about living in Harlem thus amplifying the narratives of Harlemites. Ola intends to translate the documented responses in to a compilation CD project to be shared with the community via a listening party.

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