LIT CLUB!! Welcome to the return of Lit Club and our 2020 poetry season! We are kicking it off it true Lit Club style with our Voices of Color Showcase featuring powerhouses Kia'Rae Hanron, Jasmin Spiers, Opeyemi Parham, & Ama Peyman. Do not miss this night!! We've missed you! You've missed Poetry! Please, let us get together ♥

Kia’Rae Hanron is a born-and-raised Vermonter with a passion for the arts and teaching and working with kids. Kia’Rae has always used art as an exploration of internal chaos and conflicts with identity. She is currently in her 6th and final year at the University of Vermont and plans to graduate this spring with a bachelors degree in Art Education and a license to teach grades K-12. She currently works with the Clemmons Family Farm as a teaching artist, where she develops workshops centered around exploring social justice through the arts. Her main mediums as an artist are drawing, painting, printing, and collage, and every now and then she has bursts of literary inspiration to shake things up a bit.

My name is Jasmin and I use she/ her/ hers pronouns. I'm a second year at Champlain college and I'm a lover of pasta. I would love to give more info on myself but honestly I'm figuring out more about myself as I go on this journey called life. In the end I'm very excited to have all of you share this experience with me!

Opeyemi is a retired family doctor, exploring the world of artistic healing, and healing art. She 'edu-tains' with an engaging, hour long program called, 'Doctor O's Medicine Show' focusing on patient empowerment.

Ama Peyman aka Farmer Ama is a Poet, event producer, farmer & cook. As head of *Salon Black Walnut* she brings bipoc artists and diverse community members to her Human Family Table across the lines of Race, Age, Identity and Class. Farming in Vermont since 2010, Ama has also designed sets and costumes, directed a street theatre troupe, served as MC and booked musical guests in her own "BOX Cabaret", produced events in Boston MA, the City of Cambridge MA, NYC and beyond. Currently Ama cooks world cuisine & soul food for a series of arts and cultural conversations as performance nights entitled *Salon Black Walnut*, with Myra Flynn, Daniel Laurent, Rajnii Eddins, Letta Neely and many other esteemed Featured Artists to come. Her next project is organizing a series of events for February 2020 Black History Month with the Cabot Public Library.