G Yamazawa in Mass. this week!

"Dear Grandma" at the National Poetry Slam 2014 Semi-Finals

The awesome wordsmith, poet and emcee G Yamazawa, will be in Massachusetts this week with two shows!

Nisei George Masao Yamazawa, Jr. hails from Durham, North Carolina and is currently based in Washington, DC Los Angeles (11/20/15: oops, he just moved). Over the past six years he's won a slew of awards and has performed everywhere from open mic nights to local and national poetry slams to the Sundance Film Festival and the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. G has also worked as a Teaching Artist Poet with non-profit Split This Rock, facilitating writing and performance workshops for inner city youth in the DC public school system. He doesn't get to the Northeast often so this is a rare chance to see him perform here. Both shows are free and open to the public.


Date & Time
Thursday, November 19, 2015
7pm

Location
UMass Dartmouth
Woodland Commons, 285 Old Westport Rd, North Dartmouth, MA 02747

Admission
Free


Date & Time
Friday, November 20, 2015
9pm

Location Mount Ida College
Campus Center Theater, 777 Dedham Street, Newton, MA 02459
Update 11/18/15: I'm told by a Mount Ida student that there is lots of free parking on campus.

Admission
Free

The shows are listed here but there don't seem to be any details on the web. Info was provided by G on Twitter. No details on parking. Hope some folks can make it!

"Elementary" at the National Poetry Slam 2014 Finals

See also:

• G Yamazawa schooled me on spoken word
• NPR: What Buddhism taught poet G Yamazawa about using ‘gay’ as a slur