For more than 38 years, Nathaniel Gadsden's Writers Wordshop has provided community spaces for quality performance, writing instruction, publication opportunities, and community empowerment. We continue our 2016 season with a dynamic and diverse series of writer/performers who will inspire, enlighten and, of course, entertain!
Tonight's feature will be Baltimore's Ladi Glori! Ladi Glori is a Baltimore-based spoken word artist, emcee, actress, author and activist. Performing on stage as a poet s...
For more than 38 years, Nathaniel Gadsden's Writers Wordshop has provided community spaces for quality performance, writing instruction, publication opportunities, and community empowerment. We continue our 2016 season with a dynamic and diverse series of writer/performers who will inspire, enlighten and, of course, entertain!
Tonight's feature will be Baltimore's Ladi Glori! Ladi Glori is a Baltimore-based spoken word artist, emcee, actress, author and activist. Performing on stage as a poet since 2009, Ladi Glori combines dynamic performance and message-filled activism. Clinging to her love for musical expression, she released the hip-hop/spoken word CD, ‘Mute the Background’ and performed with the band “Funk Out the Trunk” in 2011. By 2013, she was published in the anthology ‘Below the Belt’, received an Editor's Choice Award For Outstanding Achievement in Poetry (presented by the International Library of Poetry), was named a top ten poet of Central PA by Jumpstreet (an art organization based in Central PA).She has been interviewed and mentioned in the Baltimore Sun and York Dispatch. Ladi has been featured on cultural arts radio and television shows such as Culture and Main (WRCTV), The Evolution of Perspective (Blog Talk Radio) and Baltimore Flava Radio(Radioonfire). Ladi Glori is a member of the touring production 'Becoming Human; Voices to End Rape Culture’. Ladi's anthology entitled Ms. Read the Plight of a Poet was released in August of 2014. She has toured as a featured spoken word poet at venues and universities across Central PA, Maryland, DC and Virginia. She is now at work on her one woman show. Ladi Glori's mission is to "maximize truth and minimize shame".
