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About Me

CAFE NUBA "It's Hot & It's Black" Rockin tha' Mic Every LAST FRIDAY since 1999 is Colorado's "original urban mic!!" Cafe Nuba is an Award-winning spoken word, performance art, political prose, indie film space with tight beats and incorporates Open Mic w/ Featured Artists and Invited Guests!! Voted "Best Place to Raise Your Consciousness" & 2006 Mastermind Awardee in Literary Arts by Westword Newspaper. www.CAFENUBA.com
Some of our past guests have included; Oscar Brown, Jr. The Last Poets, Sonia Sanchez, Amiri Baraka, Andrea Gibson, Kevin Powell, Toni Blackman, Staceyann Chin, The Queen Sheba, Ainsley Burrows, muMs, Melvin & Mario VanPeebles, Iya Ta'Shia Asanti, Mahogany L. Browne, Christa Bell, Jamie Kilstein, Ursula Rucker, Amir Sulaiman, Oveous Maximus, M-1 of Dead Prez, Anis Mojgani, Shihan, Sunni Patterson, Liza Garza & MANY MORE!!!
LISTEN to "Live at Cafe Nuba" Every 3rd Monday (also online) at www.KGNU.org - 8pm mst.
CAFE NUBA is: Featured Poets, Invited Artists & Open Mic! (Open Mic List Sign-Up is 8:00 - 9:00 pm.)
All Backgrounds | Smoke Free | Censor Free.
Admission is $10 @ the Door | 18+ w/ ID 8PM - 130AM (or so)
The Historic ROXY THEATER 2549 Welton St. Denver 80205
Hosted by Ashara Ekundayo aka BluBlakwomyn w/ Guest Emcees!
Resident Beatmaker: DJ S.D. Stage Emperor: Maurice "El Negro" Ka
CAFE NUBA: Aimed at cultivating your poetic, intellectual and spiritual palate!

My Interests

Microcinema, Poetry, Independent Film, Social & Political Change, Activisim, Hip Hop! www.CAFENUBA.com

I'd like to meet:

Creative Individuals, Open Minds, Free Spirits, Artists, Poets, Philanthropists, Musicians, Dee Jays, Emcees, Funky People, Spitters!!!!

WE CUT HEADZ!!!! We celebrate with our 2008 SlamNUBA Team!!BigUps to: Lucifury, Bobby LeFebre, Ayinde Russell, Panama Soweto and The Original Woman!!!!!!

Music:

All that cool ISH our Deejays play!!! Big Ups to DJ K-Nee, DJ S.D., DJ Musa, DJ Aztec, DJ Uplifter, DJ Check-One, DJ Thought, DJ GypthaHip, DJ CaveM, DJ Segue, DJ Bobby Collins, DJ Ace, DJ Timbuk and all the amazing artists who bless us with music and creative vibrations!

Movies:

Slam, Spit, Love Jones, Freestyle, Slamnation, Slam Planet - you know, Poetic shit like that!!

Television:

Circa "CAFE NUBA" episodes on Denver Open Media (Cable Access) ch 58, AND DISH Network's FreeSpeech TV (channel 9415).

Books:

all books! READ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Heroes:

Staceyann Chin, Nercity, Sonia Sanchez, Amiri Baraka, Oscar Brown Jr., Scorpio Blues, Haki Madhubuti, Shihan, Jessica Care Moore, Toni Cade Bambara, Ras Baraka, Audre Lorde, Saul Williams, Lauryn Hill, Digable Planets, Dubois, Aime Cesare, Kola Boof/Naima Bint Harith, Ben Okri, Ismael Rivera, El Hajj Malik Shabazz, Maya Angelou, Octavia Butler, Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Ayi Kwei Armah, Toni Blackman, Dead Prez, The Last Poets, Jill Scott, Nicholas Guillen, Erykah Badu, Wole Soyinka, Chinua Achebe, Ethridge Danticotte, Liza Garza, Ntozake Shange, Bell Hooks, Spike Lee, the 2006 Denver Slam Team! Our own 2007 & 2008 SlamNUBA Teams! Should I go on?!

My Blog

Denver Poetry Scene ~ For Poets On Tour!

It's official, Denver is "poet Mecca," and we are thankful, BUT I am tired of having to remember who is up on what venue and when and what the number is, blah, blah. so, here's an updated list with t...
Posted by Cafe Nuba on Mon, 07 May 2007 05:58:00 PST

Cafe Nuba 08 Spoken-Word & Music SPRING/SUMMER Showcase

Check out the amazing roster of poets and spoken-word artists joining us on the mic for Spring & Summer 08!Cafe Nuba is still @ the Roxy Theatre in Five Points - Denver - 8pm doors, $10 for 18+ w/...
Posted by Cafe Nuba on Sat, 05 Apr 2008 02:21:00 PST

Cafe Nuba Hosts Les Nubians for Women’s Herstory Month!

Posted by Cafe Nuba on Fri, 21 Mar 2008 03:41:00 PST

Cafe Nuba Sponsors "Urban Poetics" $2,000 Slam w/ Podslam.org

We are really excited to see this event come together with SO MANY of our family coming in to Denver for Black History Month at the Denver Art Museum!!!+ we get to experience Les Nubians' Blue Neferti...
Posted by Cafe Nuba on Mon, 04 Feb 2008 12:24:00 PST

2008 Cafe Nuba Showcase

Here'a taste of what is in-store for Colorado's original urban mic, CAFE NUBA: it's Hot & It's Black!ya damn skippy baby!!jan 25:Guest Emcee: Jai Harris w/ DJ S.D.deadly penskhariprentice powellthe pi...
Posted by Cafe Nuba on Tue, 11 Dec 2007 09:24:00 PST

Cafe Nuba Upcoming Featured Poets 2007

Who Is On Deck as FEATURE @ the hottest showcase mic in the Rocky Mountain Region CAFE NUBA? (subject to change of course, but not likely):May 25: Supanova, Rob C, Kuku, Monica McIntyre, Christopher J...
Posted by Cafe Nuba on Mon, 07 May 2007 10:25:00 PST

Best of Westword!!!!!

This innovative New Media project is a partnership between CAFE NUBA and Just Media!!!! THIS is the Revolution of Spoken--Word!!! (Don't sleep on Denvah y'all!! Hot shit, indeed!) Best Online Poetry ...
Posted by Cafe Nuba on Thu, 29 Mar 2007 09:04:00 PST

Lyrical 3Some in Celebration of SHE! - CAFE NUBA

I am happy to host our annual celebration of Internatioanl Women's History Month at the hottest damn mic in the region, "Cafe Nuba: It's Hot & It's Black" every Last Frday of the Month in Denver with ...
Posted by Cafe Nuba on Tue, 13 Mar 2007 08:40:00 PST

Cafe Nuba Hosts Suheir Hammad for 7th Anniversary! Plus Some!

Suheir Hammad, who hails from Brooklyn, has been called "a new voice with an authentic blend of language that's her own, and music that belongs to the streets" (Elmaz Abinader, author of Children of t...
Posted by Cafe Nuba on Tue, 20 Feb 2007 09:28:00 PST

SlamNUBA Launch - Friday, NOV 17th

NEWSFLASH - www.PodSLAM Goes LIVE!!!!!Denver launches an NEW slam team set!!What do you get when you combine Colorado's hottest spoken-word open mic set [Cafe Nuba] and the top competitive poets in th...
Posted by Cafe Nuba on Fri, 10 Nov 2006 05:08:00 PST