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Featuring Jamie Dawson 2021 Sage Soiree at Meditative Ybor: Featuring Jamie Dawson 2021 Her&ii Open Mic | Kids + Adults, Featured Poet 2021 The Harlem Bomb Shelter Fresh Face Showcase Feature Poet, April 1st 2021 Wisconsin Black Student Union Women’s History Month Celebration: Featured Poet 2021 Delta Sigma Theta Author’s Expo: Featured Poet 2021 Vibe Lounge: Love and Poetry Pre-Valentines Day Spoken Word & Neo-soul Affair: Featured Guest 2021 Tampa Organization of Black Affairs - Poetry Presentation (Mahalia: Queen of Gospel), January 17th, 2021 2020 Black History Month Program – Mt. Lebanon Baptist Church | Brooklyn, New York 2020 Equex 24hr Play Festival | New York, NY, 2019 Two Steps Forward Monologue Festival – Forward Theater Co. | Madison, WI The Vote is Just the Beginning by Takeyla Benton Jennifer Uphoff Gray – Artistic Director, Karen Moeller- Artistic Associate , Dana Pellebon - Director, and Takeyla Benton – Writer. 2019 Moonshine: An Evening of Excellence Curated by Chris Walker | Madison, WI 2019 Poetic Introduction to Black History Month Showcase: Christ the Solid Rock Baptist Church 2019 3rd Annual Black Soiree: We are the Drum | Madison, WI 2019 Black History Month Assembly for Jefferson Middle School |Madison, WI 2019 Moonshine: We are American Consciousness curated by Chris Walker 2018 Madison Public Library Book Festival: Poetry opener for Gyasi Ross 2018 Memorial Union Terrace: The JVN Project the Screw Tape 2018 Breaking Chains Community Healing Project in Partnership with Man Up and UW Madison HEX Poem: Messiah, Man Up Group. Incarcerated men in Dane County healing through storytelling and art. 2018 Step One: Water, Merry Go Strong Fundraiser for Samburu Girls Foundaiton Poem: She Needs Water, for girls to get education and avoid female genital mutilation in Samburu, Kenya. 2018 Film: Draping Series by Kennedie King and Tiffany Ike, featured dancer 2017 First Unitarian Society – Black Lives Matter Service Jamie Dawson and MacKenzie Berry – “How Does it Feel to Fly” 2017 Moonshine Black Arts Presentation curated by Chris Walker, Directed by Kennedie King and Mimi Fola 2017 Threads Ensemble Spring Fashion Show: Senior theses of Kelsey Wilkerson and Catherine 2016 YWCA Justice Summit “How Does It Feel to Fly” Jamie Dawson and Mackenzie Berry, In response to the Roadmap to Equality Madison, WI 2016 Poem: Mahalia Queen of Gospel, Final project for Soul Music and the Civil Rights Movement, poem choreography for video project over Mahalia Jackson’s “I’ve Been Buked” 2016 CommUnity Source Talk: Black Females as Prey Featured Artist 2016 Rhythm and Rhyme: Daughters of Destiny Featured Artist 2016 Coming Together, Virtual Open Mic Feature with Tom Earl Artist 2016 Featured Vocals “Trump” a mixtape by Francisco Velasquez 2016 Rotary Ethics Symposium, Ethical Dilemmas, “Ethical Dilemmas II, III” | Madison, WI 2016 Moonshine, Black History Month production by Chris Walker 2015 Multicultural Learning Community, Celebration of Hip Hop’s Birthday, “Heart Break Hymn” 2015 Gun Breaking Ceremony, Artist in residence Eric of Ghana Fantasy Coffin maker, “Key that Freedom Rings” 2015 Evening of Style and Grace, Epsilon Delta Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. Featured Performer 2015 Heard Em Say Youth Arts Collective Comprehensive Works 2021 Special Presentation of God Is At Your Feet: A One-Woman Show with New Saint Paul AME Church 2019 “Feast of Flowers” - Line Breaks Solo Show directed by Karl Iglesias Inspired by her Spanish - English bilingual and culturally pluralistic upbringing in sunny Tampa, Florida, Jamie Dawson in “Feast of Flowers” invokes the spirits of past friends, teachers, family and friends to question assimilation and sense of belonging, and to highlight the triumphs and complications that come with being bilingual in a monolingual society. Follow Jamie as she uses spoken word, song, dance, and storytelling to ceremoniously take us on a journey through the flourishes of birth, the withering of elegy and the redemption of incantation and ultimately delivers us to a beautiful blooming world unseen. 2019 “All Things Earth” - Gaia Gathering Gaia Gathering aims to inform, challenge, inspire, and move us to action. We will explore this using a mix of art exhibits, musical and movement performances, presentations, hands-on creations, workshops and discourse. The rich array of programs and offerings bring together community groups, organizations, businesses and individuals to share, teach and facilitate community involvement. These offerings reflect our community's diversity and are designed to appeal to be accessible to a wide range of ages, interests, and groups. 2018 Unreleased to the public, Sons a project rooted in an internalization and reflection of Jazz Aesthetic. Final project as created for Craig Werner’s Jazz Aesthetics class. Recorded by, mixed by and featuring Ricardo Cortez De La Cruz II. Featuring 6 tracks of freestyles, 90s remixes, reinterpretations of Negro Spirituals, and originals designed through operational levels of the individual, the community and tradition. 2017 OMAI First Wave Line Breaks Festival: “Goddess at Your Feet” a one woman show by Jamie Dawson Synopsis: Inspired by the black musical tradition of masking in which lyrics can represent both the trifling love of a relationship and a trifling system that stands against a person and community, Goddess at Your Feet follows the character Angel as she heals from personal heartbreak while still recognizing the breaking of black bodies from this world as a result of institutional pressures and systematic oppression. 2016 OMAI/ First Wave Linebreaks Festival: “Unhe[a]rd: Radical Forms of Protest with 9th Cohort of First Wave 2016 The Real UW One Day Exhibition Curator A radical one-day gallery expressing the narratives of students through visual art, video, projections, and live performance. 2015 Heard Em Say Youth Arts Collective Commissions 2021 “For the Love of This City” Mouth of the Mural: Featured Poet and Interview 2020 Theater Unmasked - PLACES! A virtual playlab.// http://www.theatreunmasked.org/ “2000 Questions” - One of 10 newly written playscripts presented after being worked on for a week. 2020 LunART Presents 2020 Virtual Festival: Human Family - Celebrating Black Women in the Arts The Turtle and The Log The Child Within 2018 Breaking Chains Community Healing Project in Partnership with Man Up and UW Madison HEX Poem: Messiah, Man Up Group. Incarcerated men in Dane County healing through storytelling and art. 2018 Step One: Water, Merry Go Strong Fundraiser for Samburu Girls Foundaiton Poem: She Needs Water, for girls to get education and avoid female genital mutilation in Samburu, Kenya. 2016 YWCA Justice Summit “How Does It Feel to Fly” Jamie Dawson and Mackenzie Berry, In response to the Roadmap to Equality Madison, WI Workshops 2021 Facilitator for As She Speaks Events Poets Meet Mental Health: Perfectionism 2021 Facilitator: The Write Presents Young Voices - Orlando Youth Arts Workshop and Platform 2021 Harlem Bomb Shelter Writer’s Circle: Absorbing the Impact 6 Day Virtual Series 2021 Harlem Bomb Shelter Writer’s Circle: Waking Up 6 Day Virtual Series 2021 Harlem Bomb Shelter Writer’s Circle: Writing Reality 6 Day Virtual Series 2021 Students Against Hate United By Love Workshop Facilitator a virtual pilot workshop series exploring the roles of art and activism with Kromrey and Glacier Creek Middle Schools in Madison, WI. 2021 The Harlem Bomb Shelter: 30 for 30 Writer’s Circle Facilitator Engaged 30 poets in 30 days of writing prompts, feedback and reviews on over 200 poems including forms, devices, introspection, perspective, imagination, joy, pain, love, hurt, time-travel, magic, nature, inspiration, and art. Hosted a weekly virtual cypher sharing space with conversation and critique.The virtual group was comprised of people from all over the United States. 2015 Heard Em Say Youth Arts Collective Invited Talks 2021 Phi Beta Kappa Key Connections Science and Research Panel: Moderator 2020 The Write Presents Young Voices - Orlando Youth Arts Workshop and Platform: Invited Guest 2018 University Wisconsin-Madison Winter Commencement Speaker December 2018 2017 118th Annual Phi Beta Kappa Banquet: “For All We Know: A Speech the Simple Yet Forgotten Things” 2016 Passing the Mic Festival, “Dismissed” for Jeff Chang as respondent 2015 Passing the Mic Festival, “Dust Bowl” with Cuban poet Telmary Diaz as respondent Interviews and Press Coverage 2021 The Rose Garden Events: The JRose Experience Season 4 - Tampa 2021 Tom Earl: Staying On The Path An Interview With Warrior Poets Jamie Dawson and Sam(ira) Obeid 2021 “For the Love of This City” Mouth of the Mural: Featured Poet and Interview 2020 Interview with Jesse James: James Baldwin and the Artist's Struggle for Integrity with Jamie Dawson 2020 Soundproof Creatives: Podcast Interview with Angela Lawrence 2018 First Wave Cypher – UW Madison Representation for “Progress is an Endless Challenge” Commercial Spot 2018 Post- Commencement Speech Article: First Wave scholar Jamie Dawson urges graduates to... 2018 For Student Commencement Speaker, Years of Writing and Performing Lead to Kohl Center Stage 2018 College of Letters & Sciences Student Spotlight: Jamie Dawson “When the stage is just the start…” Subsequent revamp and relaunch of article for the University of Wisconsin-Madison Wisconsin Experience: “When the stage is just the start…” 2017 Division of the Arts and UW Madison Arts institute: Goddess At Your Feet Photography by Aliza Rand Awards, Honors and Internships 2020 Lincoln Center Education – Kenan Fellowship Collaborator | New York, NY Prairie by Bailey Lee with Cricket Brown, Coleman Ray Clark, Jamie Dawson and Jaevon Williams 2019 Overture Center for the Arts Diversity and Inclusion Intern: Programming and Community Engagement 2019 Outstanding Alumni Award - 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