🗓️Fri, Jan 10 🕢7:30-10 PM (doors @ 7) 📍Boston Liberation Center, 194 Blue Hill Ave, Roxbury, MA

Come celebrate Black History Month with the PSL and the BLC for our February Liberation Open Mic, featuring Marri Gebril!

Marri was born in New York but raised in “Norf” New Jersey, by her Muslim Egyptian single mother. Writing rhymes since the age of seven, she fell in love with poetry at 14 after discovering the works of Langston Hughes and Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish. Her spoken word style blends elements of ghetto gospel and trap poetry, that paints the tapstry of Latino, Arab, and Black cultures she was immersed in Passaic County. Common themes in Marri’s work revolve around internal struggles of finding purpose amongst ones vices under oppression while warring the world to find faith and peace.

She has hosted open mics and performed at memorials, talent shows, protests, and rallies across New Jersey and New York, and currently is an student organizer at Harvard with @harvafro . As Marri describes her work,”“it’s therapeutic, it’s prayer, it’s raw,” and she just wants to share that with people who need it.

All ages - children under 12 must be accompanied by an adult. Space is limited, so arrive early!

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