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Co-host of @feelit_speakit
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Featuring live collaboration by @artbyinde @d_ruff3 and @iamdanmoreno (Dear, Rose Trio)! We’ll be back with the next HipStoric Cambridge KiOSK Nite this Thursday:
🗓️ Thursday, September 10, 6-8 pm
📍Harvard Square taken in Harvard Sq, Cambridge, Massachusetts by @d_ruff3

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Some powerful moments with @d_ruff3 and the Dear, Rose Trio at our first HipStoric Cambridge KiOSK Nite ❤️

We’ll be sharing more soon while we get ready for the next evening of music, next Thursday, September 10! taken in Harvard Sq, Cambridge, Massachusetts by @d_ruff3

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TOMORROW is our first HipStoric Cambridge KiOSK Nite! Come out for @d_ruff3 , a Roxbury-bred spoken word poet, author of “Staying on 94: Tales from a Misguided Soul”, Creative Director of Boston Pulse Poetry program, and co-host of the “if you can Feel It, you can Speak It” Open Mic movement.

🗓️ Thursday, August 27, 6-8 pm
📍Harvard Square
🎟️ Free entry! taken in Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA by @d_ruff3

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HipStoric Cambridge KiOSK Nites ‼️a new, FREE outdoor performance series, kicking off on August 27 with @d_ruff3 , @artbyinde , and @iamdanmoreno ‘s Dear Rose Trio for an evening exploring the relationship between spoken word, music, and the continual evolution of folk traditions into creative expression across disciplines.

Featuring @iamdanmoreno ’s Dear Rose Trio as our house band, providing a live musical backdrop for poetry, performance, and collaboration with D. Ruff and Indë to create new interpretations and spontaneous moments on stage.

In partnership with @weblackfolk , @cambridgekiosk , and @culturehousecc

🗓️ Thursday, August 27, 6-8 pm
📍Harvard Square
🎟️ Free entry! by @d_ruff3

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Chelsea, MA Saturday August 22nd!

Calling all Spoken Word Artists! Join us at the Summer in the Square stage for a special Verb, Flow & Vision. We are outside, free and all-ages. The incomparable D.Ruff co-host of @feelit_speakit and a Chelsea favorite hosts and Chelsea’s own Sargent Star Chung headlines. Sign-up is at 5:00pm for 3 min - 5 min spots. Bring your chairs and check out our local restaurants for your provisions. Link in bio.

Showtime: 5:30 - 7:30
Location: Chelsea Square, 2nd Street & Broadway.

Then keep the grooves going and stay for a free concert 8 - 10 PM featuring celebrated local R&B singer ToriTori, backed by a full band.

ToriTori is a Boston-born singer, songwriter, and loop artist whose sound moves like water — bending R&B and Soul into something entirely her own. A deep listener and bold improviser, ToriTori builds each performance like a sacred space — no moment the same, each one alive. She’s graced stages from Boston Calling to BAMSFest, TD Garden, and opened for Madison McFerrin, carrying presence and power wherever she sings. In 2023, she was named R&B Artist of the Year by the Boston Music Awards and Act of the Year by the New England Music Awards —a reflection of the resonance she creates, not just through sound, but through spirit.

#chelseama #bostonma #spokenword #openmic #livemusic taken in Chelsea, Massachusetts by @d_ruff3

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Chelsea, MA August 22nd! Verb, Flow & Vision is outside in Chelsea Square and free!!

Join us for an Open Mic hosted by @d_ruff3 with @starnchung as our headliner with guests Hank Pena and Greg. Spoken Word & music!

Sign-up 30 min before. 3-5 min sets. Great sound system and stage. Poets - if you want to play background music - we can do that.

Bring your chairs and your friends and your words. Family-friendly. 5:30pm - 7:30pm.

Vendors and artists. Interested in displaying at the event? Please DM!

#chelseama #bostonma #spokenword #openmic #everettma taken in Chelsea, Massachusetts by @d_ruff3

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Open mic pop- up at a the Roxbury Poetry Festival! Hope to see you there! Go to www.Roxbury poetry festival.com for the complete schedule by @d_ruff3

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4 months ago

Hey Beautiful People 👋🏿,

On this episode, it is a live recording of my Trappings of Masculinity Roundtable where I had the opportunity to discuss with five Black men from various sectors of youth work and community activism about the trappings of masculinity within the patriarchy and how they redefine it for themselves and the youth they serve.

Additionally, it’s a new milestone for THE CHAIR. This is our first episode that is over an hour (an hour and 8 minutes). Take your time with it and it is the only episode released this week!

Listen everywhere including YouTube:
https://www.buzzsprout.com/2428877

Don’t forget! The Nurses Roundtable is this Friday at Just Bookish discussion begins at 630pm. It’s Free! RSVP so we have the right seat count.

https://www.wordsasworlds.org/event-details/the-chair-live-podcast-recording-nurses-edition

#thechair #blackwomeninpodcasting #blackwomeninpodcast #blackpodcasters #BlackStories #blackwomenintech #roundtables #masculinity #feminism #womanism #toxicmasculinity by @d_ruff3

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Happy National Poetry Month Fam! We hope you’re having a creative and cathartic April, and want you to come share all that you have with us as we celebrate the close of the month ✍🏾🎤

And to make the event even more special, we’re collaborating with the @wocweekend crew as they gear up for their 20th Anniversary this coming June! Rumor has it they’ll be raffling off All-Inclusive Passes to th Weekend 👀

So, mark your calendar, tag your crew and come spend a lil’ time with us on Thursday, April 30th. Doors and the List open at 7pm. No cover and light appetizers on us (there’s a full dinner menu and bar available). taken in Premiere on Broadway by @d_ruff3

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6 months ago

Hey Beautiful People,

Next Month is Women’s History Month and my next Live Roundtable! It will be Friday March 13th 6-8pm at Just Bookish!

For Women’s History Month, I wanted to have a conversation with men, specifically Black men to talk the about the trappings of masculinity. This conversation is necessary to discuss how men are taking accountability and responsibility for themselves and the education of other men about the patriarchy.

It is Free to attend! RSVP so we can arrange the proper amount of seating. Come join us as these beautiful souls decide to sit in THE CHAIR.

https://www.wordsasworlds.org/event-details/the-chair-womens-history-month-edition by @d_ruff3

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8 months ago

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This month, The Poet’s Cauldron celebrates another year of holding space for truth, culture, and community.

In honor of Black History Month, post Valentine’s Day reflections, and the many ways love lives in the body and the spirit, we’re turning up the heat with poetry that remembers, resists, heals and desires.
Yes, that includes Erotic Poetry!!!
Come celebrate the legacy, the love, and the liberation with us. 🔥🖤 The cauldron is going to be HOTT!

$20 SUGGESTED DONATION

Bio:
D.Ruff is a 2 time Boston Music Award Spoken Word Artist Of The Year nominee. D is a Roxbury-bred artist, performer, educator, and host. He co-hosted “if you can Feel It, you can Speak It” Open Mic movement for fourteen years. “Feel it, Speak it” is the only monthly Nonelitist and non-pretentious open mic dedicated to providing a platform of expression to the queer communities, and invites EVERYONE to bless the mic, regardless of their identity and talent. His work can be found in the CBS News, Museum of Science, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, The Boston Globe, GBH and much more. He has also released his first book, “Staying on 94: Tales from a Misguided Soul” in the Fall of 2012 and is setting up for re-release in 2026. Most of his poems stem from personal experiences and observations, and therefore range in topics from love and heartbreak to inequality and culture. D.Ruff performs with inspiring passion in hopes that someone of color, will also want to find a way to express themselves, find that “tribe” and do it all, with the intention of leaving all the hurt, pain, and negativity, right where it was showcased. taken in The White Room by @d_ruff3

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