How can venues translate brick and mortar into satellites for transformation? Dasha Kelly offers an alchemy of performance, musings and perspective to inspire creative strategies, examine our shared “”here and now”” and empower fresh steps –both big and necessarily small– from here. Dasha uses her words and art as tools for building inspiration and community. She founded a non-profit that has created training experience for young teaching artists and a community of urban art-ivists and has facilitated transformational programs and discussions throughout the U.S and in Canada, Botswana, Beirut and Mauritius. Dasha is an alum of HBO’s Def Poetry Jam, been named Milwaukee Artist of the Year and twice finalist as Poet Laureate for the state of Wisconsin, serves on the board of Jaded Ibis Press and delivers a new, one-woman show about power, class, race, privilege and truth called Making Cake.

Speakers: Dasha Kelly, Creative Change Agent, Mpact Communications