This week on Open Studio, Jared Bowen sits down with C. Brian Williams, the founder of Step Afrika!, which has made step dance a cultural and artistic art form. Step Afrika!'s latest production is " DRUMFOLK," now onstage at Emerson Cutler Majestic.
From there, Bowen marks Hispanic Heritage Month with poet and UMass Amherst professor Martin Espada. His collection of poems, "Floaters," which largely examines the immigrants' experience, won the 2021 National Book Award for poetry. They dive into how poetry, an art form of economy, can often deliver a huge emotional punch.
Bowen wraps up the show with Arts this Week, his round up of the arts and culture events to take in this week throughout Greater Boston.
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