Event Information

NOTE: This performance has replaced ‘Kofi’s African Village’ which has been canceled due to artist injury. Part of our Tiny Tots Series, this performance is recommended for PreK to Grade 2. Curriculum Connections include Relationship Skills; Self and Social Awareness; Language Arts; Literacy; Math; Music; Call and Response; Theater/Performing Arts

Baba Bomani uses rhythm and rhyme to illustrate basic reading and math concepts, such as recognizing syllables, and demonstrates how a rapper’s flow is simply a number bond math equation. Young audience members will pick up active-listening skills and have some fun learning how to rap the alphabet backwards.

For 20 years, Baba Bomani has used his experience as a producer and MC to teach arts-integrated workshops, residencies, assemblies, and professional development. Baba Bomani mixes his musical and poetic skills to paint lyrical pictures of life as he sees it and the future as he envisions it. His videos have been featured on BET and MTV2, and he has hosted and performed everywhere from the Washington National Cathedral to the Fillmore in New York City. In addition to being a Kennedy Center for the Arts Teaching Artist, Bomani is also a Roster Artist with Young Audiences of Maryland, Young Audiences of New Jersey & Eastern Pennsylvania, United Arts Council of Raleigh & Wake County (North Carolina), and Arlington County (Virginia).