I am now represented by The American Program Bureau for speaking engagements at Universities and select high schools throughout the country and abroad. For more info on how to book me for a lecture at your school or institution, please visit Will Power on the American Program Bureau website. The link also features a lively sample of some of the things I touch upon in my presentations.
Peace!
Here’s me performing and speaking in Bristol, PA. I’m opening the presentation with a freestyle. By the end of the night, we were eating indian food and engaging in a lively discussion. Freestyle rhymes, theatre, and vegetable curry? You know it!
This is a clip of me speaking with high school students in Camden New Jersey. Camden is considered one of the most challenging places to grow up as far as poverty levels and what not, yet these young folks were very much alive and focussed in ways that were truly inspiring. I taught them, but learned just as much in the process-big up to all the students and teachers in Camden!
Direct link to Will Power in Residence at Bristol Riverside Theatre 5.
Will Power in Residence at Bristol Riverside Theatre 4
A short excerpt from the the Bristol Middle School students’ final performance. Though I gave them the tools and direted the play, it was ultimately the young ones themselves who wrote the script, created the choreography, and performed its final version (many of them on stage for the first time)- Do it yall!
Bristol Middle School Students and myself, working on the basics of storytelling. In order to lead them further into the concept of theatrically utilizing music and rhythm to create theatre, I ask them to make a scene using only verse or other musical elements as the basis for the scene’s language
YouTube link: Will Power in Residence at Bristol Riverside Theatre 3.
Part 2 in the video series on my residence at BRT. What I’m trying to do here is get the students more comfortable with the idea of movement. Once they became comfortable with moving to music within the safety of a group setting, I then encouraged them to create from movement a physical vocabulary for a character. Once they did this (and what amazing characters they created too!), we then started to build the piece.
The video is also available here: Will Power in Residence at Bristol Riverside Theatre 2
Often times, a regional theatre or University will have me in residence, doing a variety of activities in order to help enhance and empower the community or communities that they represent.
Sometimes, this may take the shape of me working with a select group of participants to develop an original piece of theatre that uniquely reflects their community. Other times I’m invited to speak or perform as a way to spark the creative process within the institution. In the case of this video, I was invited to the Bristol Riverside Theatre for four one week seasons throughout the year. My purpose was to help inspire and teach young people, as well as bridge the gap between old and young and between different cultures and classes within the town of Bristol, Pennsylvania. This clip features me connecting with an amazing group of high school students in Camden, New jersey. It was organized as part of the Bristol Residency.
Direct link to youtube video is here: Will Power in Residence at Bristol Riverside Theatre 1
Mohammed and I put this video together for 247 Townhall. Old School Rapper gives an unemployed dad helpful job advice.
