LA’s spoken word scene is blowing up right now – and the grassroots poetry group Get Lit is at the epicenter of this activist movement.

2020 has been a year of protest, division, despair, and hope. In the run-up to this November’s Presidential election, a generation growing up in America today are standing up and making their voices heard on the issues that will impact their future.

Join Get Lit hosts Mason Granger and Tyris Winter live from Second Home Hollywood’s yellow rooftops to hear from some of the country’s most exciting young poets and their powerful take on life in the United States.

The Poets
Violeta Tabilla-Esquivel aka ‘La Poeta Violeta is a 14-year-old LatinX spoken word artist. She speaks on climate change, LatinX-girl power, immigration reform, and gun violence.

Nyarae Francis is a 16-year-old Hamilton High School student from Inglewood, CA. Her poetry speaks on the community, academic inequality, mental health, the joys of life, family, gender and sexuality and the black experience through the eyes of a young woman finding healing and growth through poetry.

Salome Agbaroji is a fourteen-year-old Nigerian-American poet based in Los Angeles County, California. Through each piece she urges social change and community action to improve the nation and our world.

The Hosts
Tyris Winter is Get Lit’s Social Media Curator, an aspiring legend, and self-proclaimed 70s guru. With a passion for the arts, his love lies in multiple outlets, from painting, dancing, fashion, to poetry.

Mason Granger is a poet with 15+ years of professional experience and the Manager of Public Outreach at Get Lit. In 2014, he created SlamFind, a digital platform specifically intended to connect fans of poetry videos with the poets & live poetry venues where these videos are born.

This event is part of a new series presented by Second Home and Berggruen Institute – public events that bring together the most inspiring and celebrated figures of our time to exchange and discuss groundbreaking cultural, social and political ideas.