Join award-winning performance artist and poet Ebony Payne-English for an evening of storytelling and community celebration! In Rare Science, Ebony presents her interpretation of the human condition via anthropological perspective. In this masterful weaving of rhyme, intricate storytelling, and performance art, she reveals the rigid conflict and riveting luminance of community, shared history, and collective responsibility.
Schedule: 6 – 7 PM | Cocktail & Social Hour || 7 – 9 PM | Ebony Payne-English performance in the Bryan-Gooding Planetarium
About Ebony Payne-English: Ebony Payne-English is a poet/educator from Duuuuuval County. She is author of graphic novel, The Random Happenings, as well as award winning poetry collection, Secrets of Ma’at, and New Reads Publishing release, Bits & Pieces: After Therapy For Black Women. Ebony has taught invitational workshops for the Jamaica Department of Tourism, the University of Florida, the Tupac Amaru Shakur Center for the Arts, Morgan State University, HBO Brave New Voices, the National Afterschool Programming Conference, and the Department of Juvenile Justice. Her performance accolades include The Bob Marley Museum, The New Orleans House of Blues, Houston House of Blues, The Florida Theatre, TEDx, Broward Center for Performing Arts, and countless other venues.