HANIF ABDURRAQIB, NAOMI FITTER & JON THE ROBOT, BRITTANY DAVIS, and Y LA BAMBA
HANIF ABDURRAQIB
Hanif Abdurraqib is a poet, essayist, and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio, and the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation “Genius” grant. His most recent book, A Little Devil in America, was the winner of the Carnegie Medal and the Gordon Burns Prize and a finalist for the National Book Award. His first collection of essays, They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us, was named one of the books of the year by NPR, Esquire, BuzzFeed, O: The Oprah Magazine, Pitchfork, and Chicago Tribune, among others. Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest was a New York Times bestseller and a National Book Critics Circle Award and Kirkus Prize finalist and was longlisted for the National Book Award. He is a graduate of Beechcroft High School.
NAOMI FITTER & JON THE ROBOT
Naomi Fitter escaped from Ohio at the age of 22. She has opened for Bil Dwyer, Laurie Kilmartin, and Whitney Cummings and performed in the All Jane Comedy Festival. Nerds take note - her Singu-hilarity and Naughty but Nerdy shows run regularly at the Corvallis Majestic Theater, as well as on tour all around the country. When she's not telling jokes, she spends her time studying robots as an assistant professor of robotics at Oregon State University.
Jon the Robot is Naomi's autonomous joke-telling machine. He has not learned to pass captcha challenges, but he hopes to captcha your heart.
BRITTANY DAVIS
For Brittany Davis, "Sound is the way I've always seen my world.” A Seattle native and born blind, this soulful, genre-breaking musician and producer began recording music at age thirteen while homeless. Davis was signed to Loosegroove Records in 2022, the Seattle label co-founded by Pearl Jam guitarist Stone Gossard, and received rave reviews on their debut EP I Choose To Live. Now with their new March 2024 full length release, Image Issues, Davis harnesses the energy of something quite divine and delivers it thoughtfully.
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