Hailing from New York City, Baba Israel is a multitalented emcee whose parents were core members of the Living Theatre. He's shared stages with musical heavyweights, including Outkast, The Roots, Ron Carter, and Arturo O'Farrill, and is a core member of the Hip-Hop/Soul project Soul Inscribed. He has toured as an emcee, beatboxer, and theatre artist across North and South America, Europe, Africa, Australia, and Asia. Baba Israel has served as the host of Word. Sound. Power for more than ten years.

Jade Charon is an interdisciplinary artist, choreographer, filmmaker, and international dance educator, hailing from Milwaukee, Wisconsin and based in Brooklyn. Charon received a MFA in Dance from the University of California, Los Angeles and a BA in Dance and Theater from Columbia College Chicago. Charon was awarded the 2020 Hicks Choreographer Fellowship from the School of Jacob's Pillow where she received mentorship from Dianne McIntyre and Risa Steinberg. In 2018, Charon was selected as the Chuck Davis Emerging Choreographer Fellow at BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music). She is an Assistant Professor of Dance and Technology at Medgar Evers College. As a filmmaker, her films have been accepted in festivals and conferences such as: Montreal Independent Film Festival, Mke Film Festival, Toronto International Women’s Film Festival, American Dance Festival Movie By Movers, and The Outland Dance Project Dance Film Festival. She was awarded the jury select Cream City Award at Mke Film Festival and was a semi-finalist for Best Experimental Film for Montreal Independent Film Festival.

DJ Reborn is a trailblazing international DJ, sound collage artist, and arts educator.  

Born in Chicago and based in New York, Reborn’s diverse career spans decades of electrifying audiences across continents. This sought-after phenom has opened shows for artists ranging from The Roots, Erykah Badu and John Legend, to Jack White. Her dynamic style has been embraced across mediums by artists like Kara Walker, Wangechi Mutu, Carrie Mae Weems, Julie Mehretu, and Sanford Biggers. She has rocked the decks on BET, the NAACP Image Awards, prestigious stages and festivals including Carnegie Hall, The Sydney Opera House, Glastonbury, Camp Flog Gnaw, The Kennedy Center, and The Apollo. She is the resident DJ for the iconic Ms. Lauryn Hill’s world tour. Most recently, Reborn dazzled at the historic 2022 Academy Awards Governor’s Ball alongside the incomparable DJ D Nice. 

Reborn is an active arts educator and mentor, partnering with Urban Word NYC, Sadie Nash Leadership Project, Lower Eastside Girls Club and more. She is also the founder of DJs for Justice, a coalition of DJs using their platforms in service of racial, social, and economic justice. She is currently developing an international performance piece centered around archiving the stories of women in the DJ world. DJ Reborn’s uncanny ability to impact crowds from festivals to galas to weddings sets her apart in her field. Her love for music is palpable. 

Born in Brooklyn, raised in Staten Island, Robert Knowles has been playing music from an early age, proving exceptional talent by winning the grand prize in the College of Staten Island’s young musicians competition at age 9. Since then he has gone on to win numerous classical piano competitions at schools like Milton Academy and Stonybrook University, continuing throughout his time at The New School for Jazz, where he received his BFA in jazz improvisation.

Robert is currently filling various roles as keyboard player and arranger in a number of different projects including: Soul Inscribed, a New York based hiphop/r+b group and Uglybraine, an eclectic instrumental hiphop group.  Robert has also spent time traveling the world with various bands including, GZA, Masta Killa and Killah Priest from Wutang, as well as Tina Turner and Michael Jackson impersonators. He also continues to pursue instrumental jazz, working with groups like Holy Hand Grenade, TV on the Radio, Actual Magic, and a new off-Broadway show called Cannabis: A Viper Vaudeville.

A prolific recording and performing artist from Brooklyn, NY, by way of New Brunswick, NJ, Silent Knight's music has been featured in “Wu-Tang: An American Saga" (Hulu), commercials for Levi's, and the first Hip Hop edition of “World News Polka" on ABC World News Now.

He is the frontman for The Band Called FUSE, an Innocence Ambassador with the Innocence Project, and an Artist-in-Residence for the award winning News Beat podcast.

Credits include sharing stages and song collaborations with the likes of Craig Robinson, Nneka, and Inspectah Deck of the Wu-Tang Clan, as well as being a featured performer at South by Southwest, CMJ music festival, and Van's Warped Tour.

Silent Knight also hosts all ages art and music events in NJ and NY.

Dahlak is an award-winning playwright, composer, and performer. His work has been presented at The Smithsonian, BAM, The Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, REDCAT, MCA Chicago, Ars Nova, The Public Theater, The Apollo, SXSW, by Creative Time, and on HBO’s last two seasons of Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry. Dahlak’s trilogy of works—Spiritrials (solo play), Try/Step/Trip (musical), Adapting History (documentary film)—take a personal look into the criminal justice system and the relationship between Black American music and Black American subjugation. Development of the work has been supported by CalArts, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Victory Gardens, and Montalvo Arts Center. Dahlak has received awards and support from NEFA, The NEA, the Doris Duke Foundation, The U.S. State Department, NYU Tisch, and MAP Fund. He was a Creative Capital finalist and a United States Artist nominee. He is a graduate of NYU’s Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program, where he was awarded the Dean’s Full-Tuition Fellowship and served as the Assistant Director for the national tour of the Tony-winning revival of Oklahoma!

With her powerful commanding voice, and life-driven lyrics, Pri the Honeydark has been labeled underground Hip Hop’s “Renaissance Woman”. Not only is she a hip hop artist and music producer, Pri also carries an arsenal of other strong artistic skills under her belt, including award-winning photography, carpentry, visual arts, and creative education. Pri (pronounced Pree) is also the major rap battle champion for both the Vibe and Blaze Magazine MC battle championships, as well as the Everlast Boxing rap battle champion. Pri the Honeydark is an original member of the recognized hip-hop Collective, The Anomolies, and has been featured in various music publications including Vibe, Blaze Magazine and The Source. Pri was also featured in the film Gangstresses, as well as the BET documentary My Mic Sounds Nice: A Truth About Women and Hip Hop, and has produced music for television and independent projects, including MTV. 

Helixx C. Armageddon is a storyteller intrigued with the human condition. She is a performance artist weaving together poetry, music, and fashion to shift her audience from observers to participants. Known for impassioned performances, Helixx channels space for community, connection, and dialogue. For her, words are powerful and create more than narrative—words create action and momentum toward a more just world. Helixx is an original member of the hip-hop collective The Anomolies and has performed in notable venues around New York City including Nuyorican Poets Cafe, Bowery Poetry Club, Joe’s Pub at the Public Theatre, Hammerstein Ballroom, Gene Frankel Theatre, Howl! Happening, Blue Note Jazz Club, and the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art.

David “Twice Light" Adelaja was born in the Bronx borough of New York City. At age seven, David begun his career as an artist, entering talent shows and competitions throughout his state, developing in skill, research and training. The ‘Twice Light' name and brand has surfaced to higher potential by teaching dance workshop classes at Marta Velle High School in the Lower East Side area of NYC at 14 years of age, and many other facilities as well.

Furthering his career, Twice learned International Creative Based Forms Of Cultured Dance Art Styles such as Modern Contemporary, Afro Jazz, Footwork, Hip Hop, and Krump.

Presently, Mr. Light is continuously gaining experience and insight to bettering his art forms with his trio dance group band The Nuu Knynez as they build new formats of study for all people and industries including film, modeling, entrepreneurship, music, curating, and creative consulting.

Personal Philosophy :

“As a professional dancer the basic concept a dancer must possess is a sense of rhythm and an understanding of music, and its relationship between sound and instrument. The dancer becomes the translator of those components into feeling and movement, though their own unique expression."—David ‘Twice Light' Adelaja

Eugene, also known in the dance scene as Spydey, was born and raised in Hollis, Queens. Eugene started dancing at the age of 18 in Bayside High School. His love for dancing grew exponentially after attending and learning in college with one of the most influential figures in the dance community, Kid Glyde. Starting in 2012, Eugene started competing in world-known breaking competitions like R16 and Outbreak. 

He has also worked with amazing celebrities like Kurtis Blow, Grandmaster Kaz, Alicia Keys, Crazy Legs, and Baz Luhrmann. He also dances for the Brooklyn Nets team hype!

Outside of dancing, Eugene also likes to draw, create music, and practice archery.

Eliyah is a Harlem-born performing artist of Jamaican descent. She graduated from Fairleigh Dickinson University with a Bachelor's in Business Management, specializing in Leadership. As an alumna, Eliyah currently works as a skating instructor/social-emotional learning (SEL) teacher at Figure Skating in Harlem. 

Eliyah has trained professionally in the art of dance for over 5 years and is currently a part of several companies including Lakai Dance Theatre and Kr3ts (Keep Rising to the Top). Her movement is mainly focused in Afro-Caribbean, and Hip Hop based dance styles.