A special night at  at Poly-Phonics
featuring…

Tem Blessed & Busted Fro
Chachi Carvahlo, Riders Against the Storm,
Durdie Furby, First Be, Peter Arteaga and more…

March 3rd, 2008
Providence Black Rep
276 Westminister Street
9 pm, $7.00

For obvious reasons. But why not hit up the Black Rep for some Neon Soul Collective? 9pm, tonight:

Cover/ID: $5-10/21+

The Neon Soul Cabaret is set as if it were a Felinni film with an afro-beat soundtrack in the midst of Trinidadian Carnival on 125th St in Harlem. The Neon Soul Collective WILL be playing every weekend henceforth.

If you didn’t catch Black Rep’s “Two Can Play,” you missed the first performance in a season of thought-provoking, heart-wrenching, sometimes even hilarious American stories. This weekend, on Friday and Saturday at 8pm for $5 and Sunday at 3pm for the people’s pay-what-you-can matinee, Donald King and Black Rep’s affiliate artist company premiere a workshop production of “Tabanca.” Tabanca is a Trinidadian expression meaning the loss or heartache you feel when you feel like an alien in your own home. The piece, still in its infancy, is a musical, multi-sensory excavation of the psychology of Black men. It features monologues, poems, jokes, and a whole slew of questions about the American condition.

Can a local comedy group change the world?
Tuesday at 6pm at the Black Rep:

Greetings RI…We have had the privilege and the pleasure of meeting a good deal of you over our last four-years as a community-based, social-change comedic troupe. Some of you have been to our shows during this time. Some of you haven’t. Some of you might not have even heard of our group at all. Regardless, we are reaching out to you via email today, and probably via phone in the next few weeks to get you more familiar with the Powerful vision and mission of In House Freestyle, New England’s only all-black sketch comedy group. Please ponder this… more »