I am honored to announce that Brooklyn based hip-hop artist and spoken word performer LEMON ANDERSON will be at the Fifth Annual Brooklyn Blogfest.
Wow.
Lemon appeared at the Public Theater in County of Kings, his one-man show, in which his voice moved seamlessly from hard-edged drama to urban poetry, creating a vivid portrait of his difficult yet at times humorous experiences growing up in New York City during the birth of hip-hop.
Lemon is a regular on HBO’s Def Poetry presented by Russell Simmons, an original cast member and writer of Stan Lathan’s TONY award winning Def Poetry Jam on Broadway and a Drama Desk Nominee. On the screen, Lemon appeared opposite Denzel Washington in Spike Lee’s Inside Man and is featured in the upcoming Dreamworks film The Soloist, starring Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey Jr.
Trust me: you won’t want to miss his appearance at Blogfest.
And you thought SPIKE LEE, iconic Brooklyn filmmaker extraordinaire, was the only big surprise at Blogfest this year. And there are more..
So if you haven’t registered for the Fifth Annual Brooklyn Blogfest it might be a good idea. We’d love to have a sense of how many of you are coming to our fabulous free event.
Free? Yes free thanks to our fabulous sponsors: Absolut Vodka.
It all happens on June 8th at 7PM at the Brooklyn Lyceum in Park Slope.
Also featured: The Big Picture, a video tribute to the great photo bloggers of Brooklyn, Blogging Aloud: a performance of great blog writing and the panel: Create, Inspire, Blog, with award-winning radio journalist Andrea Bernstein as moderator and a table full of interesting bloggers.
How many bloggers does it take to fill the Brooklyn Lyceum? Come find out on June 8 at 7:00 PM when the borough’s most opinionated and dedicated bloggers (and surprise special guests) step away from their keyboards to sound off about how and why Brooklyn remains such a rich source of material and inspiration.
But forget about filling the room. Here’s the real question the Brooklyn Blogfest will answer: How many bloggers does it take to wrap their arms around New York’s most happening borough? So, whether you are a blogger, wannablogger, reader, or media maven, you’ll want to come see for yourself. And meet up with this year’s most tenaciously keen tribe of bloggers as they gather to celebrate all the reasons Brooklyn is such a potent source of runaway creativity.
Since it was founded in 2005, the Brooklyn Blogfest has established itself as the nexus of creativity, talent, and insight among the blogosphere’s brightest lights. This year will be no different as a panel of blogging’s best disect the unique brand of entrepreneurial creativity flourishing here. Also on tap: a video tribute to Brooklyn’s most visionary photo bloggers, special networking sessions for like-minded bloggers (i.e. Blogs of a Feather), the return of the ever-popular Shout-out, when bloggers are invited to share their blogs with the world, and a roof-raising after-party with ABSOLUT® VODKA cocktails, food and music.
“The borough of Brooklyn has always been front and center in the world of blogging,” says Louise Crawford, founder of the Brooklyn Blogfest and onlytheblogknowsbrooklyn.com. “Whether you live by a blog, blog to live, or live to blog, you’ll want to come out on June 8.”
June 8th, 2010 at 7PM
227 Fourth Avenue at President Street in Park Slope Brooklyn
THIS EVENT IS FREE