The Office of Multicultural Initiatives (OMAI) at UW-Madison capped off its fourth annual Spoken Word & Hip-Hop Educator’s Institute with what could only be described as an interdisciplinary arts loverâ??s dream at the Wisconsin Historical Society on Friday night.
Atop a broad auditorium stage, the next generationâ??s spoken word gurus belted their beats to an appreciative and hyped up crowd of at least 100 aficionados. Featured performers were New York poets Marne Bruckner and Jasmine Mans, both incoming freshman to the UWâ??s First Wave artists program.