Bowery Poetry Club, Papa Susso, and Youth Poets from the Summer Institute of Social Justice and Applied Poetics at New Museum Block Party!

3pm Papa Susso Performs- Susso’s performance is sponsored by New York State Council on the Arts- Folk Arts

Alhaji Papa Susso (Suntu), master kora player, traditional musician, oral historian, virtuoso and director of the Koriya Musa Center for Research in Oral Tradition, was born in the village of Sotuma Sere in the Upper River Division of The Republic of Gambia, West Africa. Susso hails from a long line of Griots (traditional oral historians). His father taught him to play the kora when he was five years old.

Bowery Poetry Club poets write poems with kids and families all day long.

Youth Poets perform through out the day!

The New Museum Block Party is free and open to the public. Participants receive a complementary guest pass to visit the New Museum on the day of the event. At Sara D. Roosevelt Park- Entrance near Chrystie and Grand streets.

Please stop by the Bowery Poetry Club booth and say hello!