Join us at Joseph Lloyd Manor to Celebrate Jupiter Hammond’s 315th Birthday
Help us honor Jupiter Hammon, America’s first published Black poet who authored many of his most significant works while enslaved at Joseph Lloyd Manor, now designated as a National Literary Landmark. Hammon’s writings grappled with the same democratic ideals debated by our nation’s Founding Fathers while enslaved by the Lloyd family. His rare perspective offers powerful insights into the experience of being enslaved in a “free” country. By voicing Hammon’s vision for the future, his writings remain a powerful call for Americans to insist that the nation fulfills its promises of liberty and justice for all.
Dates: Saturday, October 17 and Sunday October 18
Time: 11:00 AM-2:00 PM
Place: Joseph Lloyd Manor (1 Lloyd Lane, Lloyd Harbor)
Admission: Free | Suggested Donation: $10
Registration in advance is encouraged. Click on the squares below to register.
Malik Work is an actor-griot-playwright and a founding member of The Real Live Show, a groundbreaking jazz/hip hop conglomerate. As a storyteller and theater artist, he has written and performed the hip hop musical Verses @ Work, a one-man show that toured with the Public Theater, and has garnered him a nomination for Best Solo Performance at the AUDELCO Awards. His film of the same title won the International Spotlight Award at the Los Angeles Brazilian Film Festival, and received honors at the Hip Hop Film Festival and the Harlem International Film Festival. He’s also written two additional ‘hip hop theatre’ plays that have gone on tour: The Last Martyr with Imagination Stage, and Our Verse in Time to Come (co-author) with the Folger Shakespeare Library.
His most recent network television credits as an actor are Broad City and Blacklist: Redemption. Malik is also the voice of Planet Word, an immersive museum of the English language in Washington D.C. He has composed and performed poetry for Webby Award-winning project People Not Property, an educational website for Historic Hudson Valley. His work in historic spaces also includes creating a film interpretation of An Essay on Slavery, by Jupiter Hammon, the first published African-American writer. His vocal performance of the poem is on exhibit at Joseph Lloyd Manor, a National Literary Landmark. Malik’s epic poem 400, commissioned by 651 Arts in Brooklyn, connects contemporary hip hop lyricism with African-American history, the oral tradition, and classical epic poetry. He teaches acting, playwriting, theater arts, humanities, hip hop, and Shakespeare around the U.S, and abroad.
