Road Trip to Lakeville
Me & S took a road trip to Lakeville, Connecticut for a show in honor of Martin Luther King Jr Day. Great crowd for the Sunday night show, then Monday morning I ran a couple of writing workshops for like a million high school students. This is my second time at the Hotchkiss School – and both time’s were simply outstanding. I can’t wait to go back there! Photo recap below. (All photos taken by S except the one she’s in.)
Isn’t this what people think of when they hear New England?
Hotchkiss School
Celebrating his life’s work. This wasn’t staged I swear…
Show time…
Workshop time…
Stopped at Sichuan Gourmet in Framingham on the way home. Wicked pissah…
Tags: life
January 20th, 2009 at 12:59 AM
That is a lot of students. Oh… that Sichuan Gourmet is yummy.
January 20th, 2009 at 10:21 AM
Yay for Sichuan Gourmet! Giles–I work at Hotchkiss and so enjoyed your performance and appreciate the time you spent with us. I hail from Framingham and lived in Boston for a number of years; fun to see you stopped in my hometown on your way back to the city!
January 20th, 2009 at 10:59 AM
Hey I’m a Hotchkiss student and I thought your slam poetry and your workshops were really great. You brought a lot to those two days.
Wicked pissah.
-JJ
PS: your blue shoes were sweeet.
January 20th, 2009 at 2:05 PM
Hey, I’m a Hotchkiss student too. I’m the Taiwanese girl who performed on-stage during the first workshop. Thank you for the amazing performance – it was so inspiring and liberating for us to see you perform spoken word. I’m one of the co-president of the slam poetry club on campus. If possible, I’m wondering if there would be ways for us to keep in touch with you through e-mail and perhaps get some suggestions/ experiences with holding smaller-scale workshops.
Thank you again for the stunning performance.
- Tricia
January 20th, 2009 at 6:34 PM
Hey Giles! I loved your poetry, my favorite was “Woman”, cause it reminded me of my own mom. I was one of the two black girls who read their poetry in your second workshop. I quoted R. W. Emerson. Thank you so much for coming and I hope to have the pleasure of seeing you again, if not at Hotchkiss then perhaps elsewhere!
P.S. I agree with JJ, the blue shoes were wicked pissah.
-Sarah
January 21st, 2009 at 9:53 PM
Hey, im the girl from Botswana who read out my poem during the first workshop. I think you are absolutely amazing. I thoroughly enjoyed all you performances over the 2nights. I have a passion for poetry especially rap, so you made my day. Thank you very much for coming and I hope you had just as much as we did…
-Tshepang
January 22nd, 2009 at 3:00 PM
Hooray for the workshop! Dinner looked good too…as did S! ;o) Jaron has the same Pumas, but in brown & orange. Make sure you cover up that head of yours…it’s coooooooold! Anyhoo…let me know when you & S pop down to DC so we can popup and visit y’all!