SpokenHeard with INTIKANA

Join Susan Dobbe Chase as she talks with INTIKANA, a national award winning Hip-Hop/Spoken Word artist, educator, and activist from the Bronx. He has featured on VH1 and toured across the United States, Cuba, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Peru, and Colombia while sharing the stage with artists such as KRS-One, Immortal Technique, Talib Kweli Lupe Fiasco, M1 of Dead Prez, Styles P, Invincible, C-Rayz Walz, Rebel Diaz, Saul Williams, among others. His critically acclaimed one man Hip Hop musical PENUMBRA was selected by HBO to be presented as a film pitch for the 2009 NY International Latino Film Festival and has since been on tour concluding its Off-Broadway debut. As an Urban Word NYC Mentor and member of RDACBX (Rebel Diaz Arts Collective) in the South Bronx, Intikana has performed and facilitated workshops at over 100 universities/colleges,high & middle schools, community centers, and prison facilities. He is a recipient of Bronx Council on the Arts' BRIO (Bronx Recognizes Its Own) award for excellence in Performing Arts and continues to actively participate in the conscious development of Hip Hop, not only in his community, but around the world. For more info, visit: www.intikana.net