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@basedonafeeling

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Changing the world with words. ✒️
Critiquing culture & exploring truth. 🔍
Emotional art series with every poem. 🎨
Join me in creating a new world. ⬇️

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Afroverse presents: Hide-N-Speak Vol. XXIX

🗓️ Thursday, February 12th, 2026
📍 @hidespeakeasypvd (121 Washington St. inside of The George)
👉 All tickets at afroversepvd.com

Afroverse returns for Black History Month!
To Poetry! To Providence!
Join us as we celebrate art, culture, originality, and expression. It’s time to stand yup for our beliefs and kick of the year the best way possible: with Hide-N-Speak!

🍿✨OUR FIRST FEATURES OF 2026!!!! ✨🍿

🫰🏾Kou T. Nyan 🫰🏾 @highercallingz1
(She/They) A writer, journalist, and performer exploring surrealism, the paranormal, and day-to-day oddities. A published author and RISCA Make Art Grant recipient, she founded Project Overflo and co-founded black earth collective + lab. Nyan dances, acts, and curates creative community spaces and workshops in Rhode Island.

🫰🏾BASEDONAFEELING 🫰🏾@BasedonaFeeling
A poet who explores power, identity, and perception. His work blends poetry and philosophy to critique systems like capitalism and reclaim stolen narratives. Raised between Manchester and Dorchester as Jamaican British, his mission is to return power to the people and remind us to live for the soul.

✨ 2 Rounds of Open Mic
✨ Intimate Artist Interview & Crowd Q&A
⚡ Our high-energy LIGHTNING ROUND closes the show!

Secure your tickets on sale exclusively @ www.afroversepvd.com

Tell a friend, bring a friend! This event is your chance to connect authentically with creatives from all of Providence AND New England!
Hit our site for Open Mic signups! Always a delight & surprise!
You can signup for open mic at the same time you grab your ticket!

Please Note the following:
1. Smoking or vaping of any kind is PROHIBITED at this venue.
2. The Parking Garage next to the venue closes at 11PM, please plan to move your car accordingly before closing time.

#AfroversePVD #HideNSpeak #ProvidencePoetry #PVDEvents #vladtag taken in The George by @basedonafeeling

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🌟 M O N D A Y M O N D A Y M O N D A Y🌟

Come on down to read your work, tell your jokes, bear your soul, all while accompanied by the coolest backing band since the invention of Ray-Bans. Open mic list is up at 8pm, show to kick off ~9 ; slots for first and second half, alongside a waiting list. Don't see the room on the list? Talk to Nark, and they'll see what they can do. Slots are 1-2 poems, 1 song, or approximately 6 minutes.

Let the houseband know if you need their support ✨️
HOUSEBAND: @mathdad_saxman, @tastelessjack, @isabelo.cl & @bghmatt

OUR FEATURE: BASEDONAFEELING is a poet, cultural strategist, and digital rebel—wielding words like weapons and metaphors like mirrors. With every line, he exposes what’s hidden, reclaims what’s stolen, and softens what’s been hardened by survival.

His work explores the emotional architecture of power, identity, and perception. Blending poetry, philosophy, and cultural critique, he maps the invisible systems that shape our lives—from capitalism to conditioning—and exposes the mythologies we mistake for truth.

Born in England, raised in Dorchester, and educated in elite boarding schools, he’s lived his life between split societies—caught in the quiet crossfire of class warfare.

Armed with a pen and inspired by the likes of Fred Hampton, Ram Dass, Lupe Fiasco, and those strange 2am Adult Swim sermons, his mission is simple:
To reclaim the narrative.
To return power to the people.
To remind us what it means to feel—and to fight.

BONUS RUCKUS: TBD $10 CASH PRIZE

TIP YOUR BARTENDER AND BRING YOUR EMPTIES BACK TO THE BAR ❤️ thank u. I love u

8:30PM 21+ $2-7 SUGGESTED DONATION taken in Ralph's Rock Diner by @basedonafeeling

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▪️Introducing: CTRL + SPACE 🎤
A curated segment under The Space Bulletin, CTRL + SPACE is where local artistry takes center stage| one poet, one artist, one set at a time.

🎤 Poet: @basedonafeeling
🎧 Full poem available now on SoundCloud
[LINK IN BIO]

This is more than performance.
This is presence.
This is CTRL + SPACE.

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Huge shout out to The Creatives Sanctuary @swansnestindianlake ! Thank you for welcoming us into your space to create our first segment. Book your next art event or special occasion with them.

Tag an artist or poet who should be featured next.
📧For submissions: [DM US] taken in Worcester, Massachusetts by @basedonafeeling

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@basedonafeeling You are remarkably human. Thank you so much for being a part of @thepoetscauldron in January 2025. You’re collaboration with @melogreen___ was just what we needed that night. Please come back poet! The world needs you.

@melogreen___ thank you so much for being so supportive. Every artist that steps on that stage you always manage to match their energy. You’re definitely a vital component to the whole movement. Thank you. by @basedonafeeling

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Kendrick Lamar showed up and showed out at the #SuperBowlLIX. In our opinion stealing the show with a revolutionary performance.

In Classic K-Dot fashion, it was intentionally layered with symbolism and storytelling, so much so we wanted to do a proper breakdown of it to highlight the revolutionary message, Kendrick was relaying. by @basedonafeeling

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Life unfolds in 8 billion shades. Each colour tells a story, each person lives a different diverse equally true, truth. 🌍✨

FEELING IN COLOUR: Here’s how each hue in today’s poem mirrors the feelings it evokes:
🌌 Vivid Indigo (#483D8B): Sonder - Realizing that each passerby has a life as vivid and complex as your own.
❤️ Deep Crimson (#DC143C): Sehnsucht - A deep, emotional yearning for far-off aspirations.
🔥 Burnt Orange (#CC5500): Eunoia - Beautiful thinking, a harmony of the well mind.
💫 Golden Yellow (#FFD700): Meraki - Putting your soul into everything you do, leaving a piece of yourself in your work.
🌿 Emerald Green (#046307): Natsukashii - A nostalgic yearning for the past, mingled with both joy and sorrow.
🌍 Sky Blue (#87CEEB): Fernweh - A craving for distant places, the ache for travel and exploration.

Which color speaks to your story today? Let us know, down below. 👇🏾 by @basedonafeeling

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An escape from myself helped me find myself. Ironic innit’ 🖊️ 💭📝

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How do you find yourself?

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#BasedonAFeeling #PoetryInNature #EmotionalJourney #NaturePoetry #FindingPeace #Mindfulness #SelfReflection
#SoulfulWords #PoetryCommunity #BeHereNow #Serenity #PacificCoast #Oregon taken in Oregon Coast by @basedonafeeling

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I don’t post but I have to share your love and spirit with the world. Flora Mae, aka my Grandmum was/is everything to me. Like, cmon look at that smile, it drips with care, and love radiates from it..and I mean that pure love. The unconditional, I’ll starve so you can eat love, I’ll hold my breath so you can breathe love. To be raised by a Women like you was an honour and a privilege. You embedded in me, a lust for life, an inner child that shall never die, a soul incorruptible by fear and an amazing smile! So I thank you. I’ll laugh everyday to honour you, I’ll radiate the love you given me back into the World. All this to feel your presence your energy. Love never dies. by @basedonafeeling

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Yearly Update by @basedonafeeling

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Good Times with Good People by @basedonafeeling

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Yearly Photo by @basedonafeeling

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