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Hear Here Poetry Presents: Our Voices
Featuring Bianca Mikahn's poem "geology"
Filmed at Cottonwood Center for the Arts
During Hear Here Monthly Poetry Slam
About Bianca:
Bianca Mikahn rocks the highest energy stages and fortifies the deepest learning spaces. Drawing from years as a celebrated facilitator of therapeutic arts and mental wellness workshops, she knows what it takes to connect to any and all populations through the joys and tribulations of the human experience. With noted lyrical dexterity as a primary tool, this daughter of the Mile High demolishes perceived boundaries of the so called “femcee”. Both alone and as part of the ground-breaking tribute badn "Lady Wu", Mikahn has shared stages with the likes of MC Lyte, Jean Grae, Dead Prez, Mystic, Raekwon and Ghostface Killa, Bahamadia, and hometown heros Flobots to name a few. Whether performing alone or with the various musician collectives in Denver, Mikahn stage presence and lyrical content that can mesmerize even the most skeptical of audience members. As the Lead facilitator of Check Your Head, a program offered through Mental Health America Of Colorado that utilizes urban arts to encourage self-awareness and expression, Bianca has had plenty of experience recognizing and fulfilling the energetic desires of her audiences. Mikahn’s innovative approach to community outreach and articulation of internal experience has garnered her audiences at such prestigious venues as Regis College, University Of Wyoming, Metropolitan State University, the Denver Art Museum as well as the Museum of Contemporary Art just to name a few. These community efforts have been recognized nationally by SAMSHA and popular media pundit Michael Eric Dyson. As a presenter and facilitator with Flobots.org, Bianca has brought her unique yet relatable style of community building to the entire populations of Manual, West and Smokey Hill High Schools, as well as intensive groups at Excelsior Youth Center, the Family Crisis Center, and Mile High Youth corps. Her debut solo project “Left Fist Evolution” created a stage upon which many are excited to watch the wonder of the spitter, thinker, ‘artivist’ that is Bianca Mikahn unfold.

Filmed and Edited by Ralph Giordano and Nate Nathaniel Shields
Music by [email protected]