blessing the boats

Poet, playwright and seasoned performer Sekou Sundiata is considered one of New York’s most intelligent and gifted poets of the African-American consciousness; his work is filled with the rhythms of blues, funk, jazz and Afro-Caribbean percussion. In blessing the boats, a tour de force solo performance, Sundiata relates his journey through life-threatening kidney disease and organ transplant. Laced with both honesty and humor, blessing the boats blends monologue, video projections, music and griot storytelling in an extraordinarily moving story of the triumph of the human spirit.