Baba Brinkman
Performance artist Baba Brinkman will offer his hip-hop interpretation of several of Geoffrey Chaucer’s most famous “Canterbury Tales” at 4 p.m. on Monday, November 2nd in room L160 of the Chazen Museum of Art, 800 University Avenue.
Part of the Year of the Humanities Festival and “The Premodern Outloud” series, the performance will be preceded by a brief introductory lecture on Geoffrey Chaucer and medieval manuscripts.
According to his website, “Baba Brinkman is a former tree-planter who worked in the Rocky Mountains of B.C. every summer for more than ten years, personally planting over one million trees. He is also a scholar with a Masters in Medieval and Renaissance English Literature. His thesis drew parallels between the worlds of hip-hop music and literary poetry. After graduating in 2003, Baba began his career as a rap troubadour.”
This performance is free and open to the public. For additional information contact lhcooper
