BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Hugo House - ECPv6.3.3//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Hugo House X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://hugohouse.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Hugo House REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20150308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20151101T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150404T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150404T203000 DTSTAMP:20240329T005011 CREATED:20150311T012800Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150311T012800Z UID:247858-1428174000-1428179400@hugohouse.org SUMMARY:Buddy Wakefield: Riled Up and Wasted On Light DESCRIPTION:Award-winning spoken-word artist Buddy Wakefield is touring! Come see his electrifying show here at Hugo House. Tickets at the link above. \nAbout Buddy Wakefield \nBUDDY WAKEFIELD is a three-time world champion spoken word artist featured on the BBC\, ABC Radio National\, HBO’s Def Poetry Jam\, NPR and most recently signed to Ani DiFranco’s Righteous Babe Records. In 2004 he won the Individual World Poetry Slam Finals thanks to the support of anthropologist and producer Norman Lear then successfully defended that title at the International Poetry Festival in Rotterdam\, Netherlands against the national champions of seven European countries with works translated into Dutch. \nIn 2005 he won the Individual World Poetry Slam Championship again and has gone on to share the stage with nearly every notable performance poet in the world in 2000+ venues internationally from The Great Lawn of Central Park\, Zimbabwe’s Shoko Festival and Scotland’s Oran Mor to San Quentin State Penitentiary\, House of Blues New Orleans and The Basement in Sydney\, Australia. \nIn the spring of 2001 Buddy left his position as the executive assistant at a biomedical firm in Gig Harbor\, WA\, sold or gave away everything he owned\, moved to the small town of Honda Civic and set out to live for a living\, touring North American poetry venues through 2003. He still tours full time. \nBorn in Shreveport\, LA\, mostly raised in Baytown\, TX\, now claiming Seattle\, WA as home\, Buddy has been a busker in Amsterdam\, a lumberjack in Norway\, a street vendor in Spain\, a team leader in Singapore\, a re-delivery boy\, a candy maker\, a street sweeper\, a bartender\, a maid\, a construction worker\, a bull rider\, a triathlete and a facilitator at Quantum Learning Networks. He loves peanut butter\, chopping wood\, Vipassana and two specific geese\, The Colonel and Mrs. Marple. Wakefield is a writer\, the elated son of a guitar repair woman\, wingman of Giant Saint Everything\, and remembers Kirkwood\, NY. Sanborn too. \nBuddy\, an author at Write Bloody Publishing\, a queer activist and an original Board of Directors member with Youth Speaks Seattle\, is published internationally in dozens of books with work used to win multiple national collegiate debate and forensics competitions. Wakefield\, who is not concerned with what poetry is or is not\, delivers raw\, rounded\, disarming performances of humor and heart. URL:https://hugohouse.org/event/buddy-wakefield-riled-up-and-wasted-on-light/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR