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MC Olympics Youth Rap Battle Competition

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Foreign Native Presents: Penny 4 Your Thoughts

Listen to sounds from Penny 4 Your Thoughts!

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Foreign Native Presents: Penny 4 Your Thoughts Ft. SAYS Documentary 5/4/14

The Sacramento Area Youth Speaks 2014 documentary by Natomas Charter High School senior, Samantha Justice, featuring music by Dre-T.

Screening/Fundraiser

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Foreign Native Presents: Penny 4 Your Thoughts 4/20 & 4/27/14

Are you ready to make change?! With only a $0.04 cover, this very special spoken word-based event is for all ages, on Sundays from 7:00-9:00 p.m. Located at Sol Collective, this is innovative circle shines light on personal knowledge & experience to create cultural awareness. Here is where we give Sacramento’s talent respect and appreciation for their presence. Expect to be greeted by community leaders, elders and youth, activists and artists, educators and scholars, family members and survivors! Here, we are  committed to enrich the poor and less-empowered through putting our minds together as we identify the skills we all need to save ourselves.

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Foreign Native Presents: FLOW 4 Your Thoughts 4/13/14

This Sunday, all of the young adult artists representing Foreign Native is teaming up with #ZFG at the Press club! You don't want to miss out on this exclusive event. Next Sunday's Penny 4 Your Thoughts will be back at Sol Collective.

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Founder/Coordinator Dre-T representing Foreign Native @ SXSW2014 in Austin TX!

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Foreign Native Presents: Penny 4 Your Thoughts Ft. Luke Tailor

If Langston Hughes west coast grandson went to Howard,  took a creative writing class, went to a Roots Concert, then joined the same fraternity as J Cole, Wale and Lupe Fiasco all on the same day, you’d get Luke Tailor. He is Bay Area born, Sacramento raised artist.  Already earning the attention from MCs such as Talib Kweli and MC SuperNat, and comparisons to Common and Kanye West, he is this generations rendition of a poetic MC. He is a 2012 SAYS team alumni and the 2011 and 2012 Los Rios poetry Slam Champion. He has a sneaker addiction. A really, really bad sneaker addiction… and Sallie Mae Blues.

Listen to Luke Tailor at his recent radio interview.

Special Guest: Luke Tailor by Mc Luhan on Mixcloud

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Foreign Native Presents: Penny 4 Your Thoughts Ft. S.A.Y.S.

On Sunday, March 30, Foreign Native will host the semi-finals round of the Sacramento Area Youth Speaks poetry slam season!

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Foreign Native Presents: Penny 4 Your Thoughts Ft. Light Kome

Native of Chicago, IL, Crandal is a Father and Brother, Pastor, Mentor and Community Elder, a Spoken Word Artist and Motivational Speaker.  Crandal holds a Masters of Arts Degree in Counseling and Christian Education. He has led and served in Youth Leadership, Character Development and Behavior Modification Programs for 32 years and is now serving as an Educational Consultant assisting in the development of the Men’s Leadership Academy in the Sacramento City Unified School District.

      Crandal is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of CrossOver Scholar Athletes, Power Forward Program. Through his Programs he has assisted over 2000 students to attend Colleges and Universities across the United States.  A number of the athletes have gone on to professional sports, others along with the non-athletes have received Maters Degrees and PhD’s. They are now Pastors, Community Leaders, Entrepreneurs, in Middle and Upper Corporate Management roles and most in some way are making a difference in their world. 

  Crandal teaches his students that anything is possible, to dream and dream big. He further instructs, “As your dreams are coming true, and you are reaching your goals, don’t step on or over people, reach out, help those around you all along the way.” 

  Crandal Rankins is a mentor and spiritual father to more than he can count. He says. “I am here to carry on the Legacy of Dr. King and others who have paved the way for our people and train up the next generations to do the same.”

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Foreign Native Presents: Penny 4 Your Thoughts Ft. Issa

This young MC is 16 years old his birthday is march 16th. He started poetry and rapping through a organization called the Legacy Youth Program. Since then, he has performed all around Sacramento and the Bay Area and even across the country in Boston in the Cantab Lounge. He placed 1st in the Sacramento MC Olympics in 2012 then performed at the Rock The School Bells in Sacramento... last weekend he performed at Rock The School Bells 7 in the bay area and placed 1st in the MC battle. On this night, Issa is ready to put on a show!

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Foreign Native Presents: Penny 4 Your Thoughts Ft. Bonafide Rojas

Bonafide Rojas is a poet & author of three collections of poetry: Renovatio (grand concourse press, 2014), When the City Sleeps (grand concourse press, 2012) & Pelo Bueno: a day in the life of a Nuyorican Poet (dark souls press, 2004). He currently lives in the Bronx, New York. He started Grand Concourse Press to publish books whenever he felt he should. You can find him riding the train playing air guitar. He loves pizza, has a bad diet soda habit, collects everything from comic books to guitars to blazers to old photographs of his family. He loves music so much he created a band called the Mona Passage that performs once in a while. He’s grateful to be apart of the continuum of NYC poetry. In his spare time he plays air guitar to everything.

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Foreign Native Presents: 2014 Vibrations Festival

The Vibrations Festival will feature spoken word, live music, food, and other merchandise vendors, concluding with an award ceremony of recognition for local activists, educators and more! The event will raise funds to send local artists to the 2014 South By Southwest Festival in Austin, Texas. We thank you for your support!

Sol Collective

2574 21 Street

3 - 7:00 p.m.

Free

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Foreign Native Presents: Penny 4 Your Thoughts Supanova

Supanova is a dynamic Emcee/Spokenword Artist and Musician who uses the power of Hiphop to spread a message of love & hope to all corners of the Earth. Over the past 10 years he has had the opportunity to perform at The Nuyorican Poetry Cafe (NYC), Cafe Nuba (Denver, CO), Da Poetry Lounge (Hollywood) as well as overseas in Scotland, Ireland, Whales, England, Canada, and Mexico. He has also had the honor of sharing the stage with Hiphop and Jazz Legends Milt "The Judge" Hinton, Artie Shaw, KRS-One, and Prince Raheem of the Furious 5. He is currently working on a blog http://poetic-supanova.blogspot.com where his poetry is being shared from Sacramento, CA to Tokyo, Japan.

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Penny 4 Your Thoughts, live at the Downtown Plaza!

Peace & Blessings,

On Friday January 24, we will be hosting Penny 4 Your Thoughts at Exhibit S inside of Sacramento's, Downtown Plaza! 

An extremely talented line-up of artists have been scheduled to perform for the night. DJ Mike B will be on the ones and twos, spinning classic vinyl records! And let's not forget the hand-made Foreign Native t-shirts, food, and beverages that we hope will catch your interest!

Admission: $00.4

Time: 7-11pm

7-8:25 pm (Music Playing * Food Served * T-shirts for Sale* Open Mic)

8:30-8:45 pm ( SPOKEN WORD) - Terri Grace & Takarra Johnson

8:50-9:05 pm (HIP-HOP + R&B) - Just Kristofer

9:10-9:25 pm (SPOKEN WORD + HIP-HOP) - Luke Tailor

9:30-9:45 pm (PERCUSSION + SPOKEN WORD) - Rainbow Warrior & James Damiani

9:50-10:05 pm (SPOKEN WORD + COMEDY) - CoCo Blossom

10:10 - 10:25 pm (HIP-HOP) Dre-T

10:30 - 11:00 pm (CLOSE)

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Foreign Native Presents: Penny 4 Your Thoughts 1/12/14

Born and raised in Sacramento, multi-cultural and bilingual Spanish/English, some know him as Juicy J, not the rapper, along with his Jungle Fever West-African Gabonese queen Louise, also known as Peggy. He has a Bachelor of Arts degree in spiritual leadership.  He has helped many homeless, fatherless, and orphaned young men with guidance and mentorship.  He carries roles in education, Christian spirituality, mentorship, teaching, and creative/performing arts.  He is a spiritual life coach, preacher, and leader.  He works with special needs adults as a job/skills trainer.  He’s been a musician and vocalist for 22 years, been journaling/writing for 16 years (working on his first book), and a poet for 1 year.

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Foreign Native Presents: Penny 4 Your Thoughts 12/22/13 - 1/5/14

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Foreign Native Presents: Penny 4 Your Thoughts 12/15/13