# Event Details - **Event Name**: Werk! A Poetry & Performance Bootcamp - **Event Start and End Date**: Sun, 07 Dec, 2025 at 02:00 pm - **Event Description**: This is a performance workshop that helps poets bring their poems alive on stage.About this EventWerk! A Poetry Performance WorkshopBi-monthly starring in February | 2pm - 5pm | $25 per sessionFeb 23, April 27, Jun 22, Aug 24, Oct 26, Dec 7Hayti Heritage Center804 Old Fayetteville StDurham, NC 27701Spoken Word is the art of performance poetry. It can be emotional, inspirational, educational, and as creative and expressive as your imagination. It can also be a tool for healing and growth. How you bring your words to life on stage is about how prepared you are to deliver them. It combines the skill of oration with the subtle nuance of theatre and improvisation. Voice projection, tone, stance, and body movement are important. So is an understanding of oratory tools such as parsing, parallelism, and pace. Whether you are reading at an open mic, featuring at an event, or competing in a slam, the goal for the poet is the same. Deliver your message in a way that engages the listener, capturing their attention for the duration of your poem. This workshop prepares participants to do so. It discusses technique, individual voice, and presence. It also provides the participant with an understanding of the art form and a set of tools to use in sharing their words with an audience. Through various activities this workshop seeks to give its participants confidence in presenting their works.Each participant is required to come with 1-2 poems. It doesn’t matter how long or short the poem is. Having a poem that is memorized allows for the focus to be on performance elements. You can also bring work in progress poems not memorized, but the feedback will be about things to consider as you memorize it. There will be different feedback once the poem is memorized. Each poem (memorized and not) should be brought in print also (2 copies).This workshop is led by award winning poet and performance artist Dasan Ahanu. Dasan has been coaching poets in poetry performance and poetry slam since 2005. https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events8/banners/9baef290-e60a-11ef-a7b3-2f679c15d35f-rimg-w1110-h740-dc070707-gmir.jpg https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events10/banners/9be544d0-e60a-11ef-b341-23794edf951c-rimg-w1110-h740-dc090909-gmir.jpg https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events1/banners/9c1e0810-e60a-11ef-b341-23794edf951c-rimg-w739-h740-dc010101-gmir.jpg https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events5/banners/9c50fef0-e60a-11ef-b341-23794edf951c-rimg-w1110-h740-dc131313-gmir.jpg - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/durham/werk-a-poetry-and-performance-bootcamp/100001234248914729 - **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, workshops, theatre, open-mic, spoken-word - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 2 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket URL**: https://consumer.pxf.io/c/1339408/3151484/39691?partnerpropertyid=1191892&MediaPartnerPropertyId=1191892&svlink=14105511&level=1&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eventbrite.com%2Fe%2Fwerk-a-poetry-performance-bootcamp-tickets-1234248914729 - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 28.52, max: 28.52, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Durham - **state**: NC - **country**: United States - **location**: Hayti Heritage Center - **lat**: 35.9857887 - **long**: -78.8979042 - **full address**: Hayti Heritage Center, 804 Old Fayetteville Street, Durham, United States ## Event Organizer details - **affiliate_id**: 10 - **organizer**: Dasan Ahanu (https://allevents.in/org/dasan-ahanu/22527852) ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: banner - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/87bb4a17e165fd039c7a40d6dbd197cc05c11e616bee62c2fc9716a9af3dcfe2-rimg-w1200-h600-dc181104-gmir.jpg?v=1739011889 - **Alt text**: thumbnail - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/48150699ac4ce25e055164c8dd76f5470f40173b7f8af6527c02f55c34a537c7-rimg-w400-h400-dc161004-gmir.jpg?v=1739011887 ## FAQs - **Q**: When is the event happening? - **A:** Sun, 07 Dec, 2025 at 02:00 pm - **Q**: Where is the event happening? - **A:** Hayti Heritage Center, 804 Old Fayetteville Street, Durham, United States - **Q**: What is the ticket price? - **A:** starting from 28.52 up to 28.52 USD - **Q**: Who is organizing the event? - **A:** Dasan Ahanu - **Q**: What type of event is this? - **A:** art, literary-art, workshops, theatre, open-mic, spoken-word - **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Werk! 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In addition to performing across the country, Dasan has hosted or coordinated many Poetry, Jazz, Hip Hop, and Cultural Arts events. His work has been featured on National Public Radio (NPR) where he has is noted for his appearances on “News and Notes with Ed Gordon” and “State of Things with Frank Stasio.” His writing is featured online and in print publications. He has been showcased on NBC 17, featured on the third season of Lexus Verses and Flow aired on TV One, and in a documentary entitled, “Poet Son” that aired on WUNC-TV as a part of the North Carolina Visions film series. He has worked with a variety of North Carolina Hip Hop and Jazz artists and released a number of spoken word recordings. Dasan is a resident artist with the St, Joseph’s Historic Foundation/Hayti Heritage Center in Durham, NC where he has developed poetry and spoken word programming for youth and adults. He has competed regionally and nationally in poetry slam as a founding member and coach of Durham, NC’s own Bull City Slam Team. The team has won two regional championships and achieved a third-place finish nationally. Dasan is co-founder and managing director of Black Poetry Theatre, a Durham based theatre company that creates and produces original poetry and spoken word based productions. In 2004 he was awarded an Indy Arts Award by Independent Weekly Magazine for his work in arts and activism. Then in 2015, he was awarded the honor again, the first time in the award's history that has happened. He is the author of three poetry collections that includeThe Innovator(HWJW Publishing 2010),Freedom Papers(HWJW Publishing 2012), andEverything Worth Fighting For(Flowered Concrete 2016).Dasan is also an alumni Nasir Jones Fellowship with the Hip Hop Archive at Harvard University’s Hutchins Center for African & African American Research. He scholarly work is focused on art interventions, creative expression, Hip Hop and popular culture. Currently, Dasan is a visiting professor at UNC-Chapel Hill in Chapel Hill and a consultant working with organizations on art based strategies." } ] } ] ```