How to use Spoken Word Poetry to increase Brand Visibility and Acceptability..!!!

Nigeria is blessed with abundant resources, both human and material but we do not recognize or utilize them.

At i2X Media Company Limited, we have discovered the power inherent in poetic youths. We give them a platform to express their views and opinion in a creative and entertaining way.

Like someone once said;

writers write,

singers sing,

teachers teach,

painters paint,

drivers drive,

runners run,

but what do Spoken Word Poets do? They “Spoke.” :) 

Well, more like, they talk poetically and powerfully. They are capable of exerting influence a Governor or President might struggle with.

But why Spoken Word Poetry? Well, why not. Check out links of some of our poets' performances at different events we have organized, and you will get your answer.

http://youtu.be/42VS2FZyeCQ     - Increase 

http://youtu.be/EAfwjnPGDkU     - Obii

http://youtu.be/yq7FPpcbbSc     - Donna K

http://youtu.be/IXXmeGVVB_c     - HolyBlaze

http://youtu.be/dUjaShqBeyM     - Atilola

http://youtu.be/--EIu_yHWE0     - Soonest

http://youtu.be/QS1Mu59YiqQ     - Nini Efem

http://youtu.be/PFcn-vHyPrI     - Olulu

http://youtu.be/pn6OKZuGEUo     - Lahde

Spoken Word Poetry is an evolution, it’s an emerging art, and its gaining momentum in Nigeria and West Africa.

As a major promoter of Performance Poetry and Spoken Word activities in Nigeria, we are passionate about the Art as a genre of entertainment, a tool to increase literacy level, and a means of communication among people across the globe.

We are the organizers of WORD UP -the biggest Spoken Word Poetry Event in Nigeria.

In August 2012, November 2012 and February 2013, three editions of Word Up were held providing the much needed visibility for Brands we partnered with.

The next one is scheduled for May 18 2013 and 2 others thereafter.

For the rest of the year, we will be partnering with international poets from across the world, offering workshops to empower poets and aspiring poets on how to write and perform good poems as well as turn it into profit.

This year 2013, we will also be starting a performance poetry competition that allows poets from all over Nigeria compete against each other.

What makes this exciting is that the Brand that partners with our team will receive leverage as the entries will be centered around the brand’s values and other such matters they might want promoted online.

The competition will be both online and on stage involving video presentations, article writing and Performance Poetry. It promises exciting content and results for brands that partner with us.

There will be cash prizes for the top 3 poets and partners can offer additional gifts of value to the winning poets.

Spoken Word Poetry can be used to increase Brand visibility and acceptability in any or all of the following ways:

Branding Opportunity across all touch points.

Advert placements in our DVDS sold across the country, and around the world.

Brand exposure on social media sites and affiliated websites e.g. Google plus, Youtube, Linkedin, Facebook, Twitter, Pin Interest, Naij.com, BellaNaija etc

Media exposure.

Product/ Services Experience and Sampling

Speaking Opportunity

Database Acquisition and so much moreFor more detailed information and partnership on the captioned topic, you get in contact with the undersigned.


Regards

Olumide Holloway
+2348025070892
olulu4ever@gmail.com

 

The kinetic energy of your swinging hips............!!!!

Do you still remember your teacher?

Did you ever have a crush on your teacher?

Did you ever write a letter to your teacher about your crush?

Did it just end as a crush or it went more than that?

Did you enjoy it?

Did you tell anyone about it?

Did you believe it would last forever?

Could you have married your teacher?

Well, let's hear Soonest I Nathaniel tell us about his letter to his Aunty :).

Soonest I Nathaniel (SIN) doing a Spoken Word Poetry piece  titled, "Letter to my Aunty,"  at WORD UP Volume 3 aka Da Love Thang which held on February 16, 2013 in Lagos, Nigeria. 

WORD UP is the biggest Spoken Word Poetry event  in Nigeria. It features A-list Spoken Word Poets on the same stage.

Experiential Marketing with WORD UP (the Biggest Spoken Word Poetry Event in Nigeria).

Truth be told, nothing sells a brand faster than Experiential Marketing.

Picture this: it's 3:00 pm on a Saturday evening. 

A hall full of people applauds as their eyes stay glued to the stage. There is anticipation in the air. The excitement is palpable. Adding the needed colour and glamour all across the hall is the Brand behind the excitement. The people lose their voices as “he” steps on the stage. They influence, persuade, tweet, retweet and share their experience over social media, while others try to make their way to the venue even as your brand meets them at every point. They can’t wait to hear the sound of “The internationally renowned spoken word artiste,” on the shores on Nigeria for the first time. They can’t wait for YOUR BRAND, to make this happen.

Here’s introducing i2X Media Company Limited, the organizers of WORD UP -the biggest Spoken Word Poetry Event in Nigeria.

Since 2010, we have grown Performance Poetry and Spoken Word, working tirelessly to promote the art in West Africa and position it as a genre of entertainment, a tool to increase literacy level, and a means of communication among people across the globe.

This quarter we have plans to bring in an international poet from the United States of America to influence our poets here and further grow the industry. Your love for art and the entertainment industry has led our proposal right to you.

WHY US

The question is why not? Every quarter, poets gather from across the globe at our quarterly organized show – WORD UP.

WORD UP (SPOKEN WORD POETRY AND SOUL MUSIC EVENT): is a show that features the best Spoken Word Poets in Nigeria all on one stage. It is a major platform for poets across the globe. Previous editions saw poets from the Namibia, England and America grace the stage. We also feature celebrities who come on stage to read, recite and/or perform poems.

We have  held three editions of WORD UP in UNILAG, Akoka, Lagos supported by Charvet Nig. Ltd (major marketer of Power Horse energy drink and Kiss Mix), First Bank of Nigeria Plc,  Airtel and Smooth FM. 

WHERE YOU COME IN.

We request that you partner with us through sponsorship to showcase your products and services and portray your brand as one with a passion for development of the art and the average individual.

WHAT IS IN IT FOR YOU.

We understand that businesses exist for profit and the current economic situation requires granular analysis of your marketing spend. This is why working with our partners, we have designed special sponsorship plans to drive your marketing efforts.

Sponsorship of WORD UP provides you the under listed which can be further explained at our initial meeting.

·         Brand exposure on our various platforms

·         Branding Opportunity across all touch points

·         Advert placements in our DVDS sold across the country

·         Media exposure

·         Product/ Services Experience and Sampling

·         Speaking Opportunity

·         Database Acquisition and so much more.

WHERE YOU CAN FIND OUT MORE

Don’t take our words for it, please visit http://wordup411.blogspot.com/, where pictures, videos and information about our events and the organization can be accessed. While you are at it please feel free to check out our YOUTUBE channel, http://www.youtube.com/user/olulu4eva?feature=mhee, for video clips of some of our events.

SPONSORSHIP LEVELS 

Platinum, Diamond, Gold, and Silver.

We are open to further discussions should you decide to pick any of these options.

WHAT’S NEXT?

The next edition of our event, WORD UP Volume 4 (Spoken Word Poetry and Soul Music Event) is on May 18, 2013 and will hold quarterly thereafter.

Performance Poetry and Spoken Word Event is the next tidal wave that will sweep through Africa. The good part is it captures all genres of people, and creates job opportunities for our youths.

Do not miss the opportunity to ride on the waves.

We can’t wait to read from you so we can work together and achieve our objectives.

Kind regards.

Olumide Holloway

+2348025070892

+2348038315055

olulu4ever@gmail.com

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Love is.............!!!!!

Princeps - The Renaissance Man.

A London Based Published Writer, Philosopher, Poet, Musician, Artist, Sculptor, Martial Artist (Kung Fu Style -Tiger) & Political / Social commentator. 

He says, call Me Legion-aire for I Am Many!

U.K.A. Or Uniquely Known As The Microphone Chameleon, This M.C. Multi- Talented Phenomenon is a Pioneer in the Art of what He Terms "Total Poetry" and will publish his 1st Tome enigmatically titled, "Inside Looking Out" this 2013.







To be followed by a humorous collection of Philosophical Quotes all created by him titled, Mental Macaroni - (i.e. Food For Thought).

He was on stage for WORD UP Volume 3 aka Da Love Thang and he gave a very detailed and interesting definition of what Love is. 

WATCH THE VIDEO BELOW and see this handsome hunk tell you what Love is all about. :) 

Princeps doing a Spoken Word Poetry piece titled, "Love is,"  at WORD UP Volume 3 aka Da Love Thang which held on February 16, 2013 in Lagos, Nigeria. WORD UP is the biggest Spoken Word Poetry event  in Nigeria. It features A-list Spoken Word Poets on the same stage.

They did it for love.......!!!!

It was a wow experience at WORD UP Volume 3 when the number one Spoken Word Poet in Nigeria, Efe Paul Azino, got on stage with his lovely wife, Osasu, to perform poetry. 

The Spoken Word piece was about love and was so apt for WORD UP Volume 3 aka Da Love Thang.

The couple were a major highlight of the event and got the audience up on their feet all excited.

You need to WATCH THE VIDEO to understand and appreciate all I'm trying to say because words are inadequate.

Efe Paul and Osasu Azino on stage doing a Spoken Word Poetry piece  about "Love"  at WORD UP Volume 3 aka Da Love Thang which held on February 16, 2013 in Lagos, Nigeria. WORD UP is the biggest Spoken Word Poetry event  in Nigeria. It features A-list Spoken Word Poets on the same stage.

JOURNEY TO SELF.............!!!

JOURNEY TO WHO I AM

Next time, next time someone asks me who I am

I’ll tell them. I’ll tell them that I’m - an amazing

God like specimen painstakingly crafted in God’s own

Image and I’ll mean every single word of it.

For far too long all I felt was invisible

I didn’t like myself, couldn’t recognise my self

So every time I stepped out confidence was lacking

And questions were abounding

Looking around me didn’t help, it just made

Me wonder why my face wasn’t spotless

Why I wasn’t taller, why my boobs didn’t grow quicker

My hips weren’t wider, my waist not smaller

My teeth not whiter, my stomach not flatter

My grades not higher, my swag not flyer

This  could go on forever, basically the world made me wonder

And every time I stepped out confidence

was lacking And questions were abounding

So I just wanted to be invisible. With teenage

years came cross continental migration and that

Didn’t help matters. You see this new culture was

such a frustration, my new peers – I couldn’t understand

a fraction, with so much opportunity, their dreams

Somehow never achieved conception

Morality was missing in action

Fun was identifiable by a long list of regrettable actions

They existed just to be the centre of attraction

And I to them was a side distraction

My name - they mangled beyond recognition

My accent - they ripped to shreds with no contrition

My feelings they crushed with no emotion

And I couldn’t find myself in all of their commotion

So I felt invisible, wanted reality to match my emotion

Felt invisible craved a confidence that only comes with

True self-definition, So I set out to find myself

At first, I moulded myself into the image of their perfection

And when they said I was beautiful, I guess --I was

I lived for those moments when showering me with compliments;

I saw glimmers of that confidence that person I so badly wanted to be

I didn’t know who I was so I sold whatever that was at a high price

Just so I could hear someone say you are beautiful

Choosing to forget that when he called me beautiful he wasn’t giving me an upgrade

He simply acknowledged what God made,

I became almost all their expectations

Only to find that the new me - wasn’t matching my expectations

I didn’t know who I was

But I had to be - I was I had to be worth more than that

With that realisation I took my first steps on the road to who I am

Saw a sign defining bondage as allowing my self worth

 To be determined by others’ subjective limitations

So I found a standard that wasn’t subject to permutations

Salvation set me free from self-imposed incarceration

Now my self worth is defined only by the Creator not his creations

I opened Psalm 139 and found my true definition

It wasn’t linked to my profession, or my current situation

It didn’t fluctuate with emotion; in fact it made me rise out of

Depression, I opened it and it said

I am fearfully and wonderfully made

And with that discovery history was made

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

So if for some reason you  don’t behold mine

It doesn’t dismantle what God made

My confidence has totally been remade

And my value it’s not manmade

I know who I am so I can embrace what I am

I’m 5 foot 4 of intelligent, beautiful awkward awesomeness

Who is fearfully and wonderfully made

On those days when I wake up daring to forget what God has made

When the confidence of yesterday has somehow been mislaid

I react on purpose until my misgivings are allayed

Repeating to myself in the mirror of life

I am not invisible; I am not worthless

I am not invisible; I am not worthless

I am not invisible; I am not worthless

I am 5 foot 4 of intelligent, beautiful awkward awesomeness

Who is weirdly, wonderfully, fearfully and awesomely made

And I dare you to prove different

Because this is who I am

An amazing god like specimen painstakingly crafted in God’s own image

This is who I am. Now tell me,

Who are you?

©ToluAgbelusi 2012

WATCH THE VIDEO......

Tolu Agbelusi is a performance poet with an uplifting message delivered in a heartfelt manner that engages across generational divides. She speaks about the human condition with an endearing sincerity. More of her poems can be found on her blog http://poetic-echos.blogspot.co.uk 

Broda yi jor.....(The danger of unprotected sex.")!!!

Olulu, (the King not from Zulu), at WORD UP Volume 3, doing a Spoken Word Piece on "The danger of unprotected sex." Find below some lines of the poem.

She was the finest girl in town,
had a body that made the guys lose their frown.
She had wonderful pair of milk shakes, 
which made guys stare, concentrate and appreciate.
She had a well rounded behind,
which puts guys minds in a bind.
Being single
she was ever ready to mingle,
and guys came knocking
word on the street said she was ever willing.
Infact............................ 

WATCH THE VIDEO...........!!!!! :)

CHILL and RELAX : MARCH EXPRESSION

CHILL and RELAX : MARCH EXPRESSION

A monthly Performance Poetry and Spoken Word open mic event where everyone and anyone can step up and rock the mic.

Date is March 10, 2013 (2nd Sunday of the month)

Time is 3pm

Venue is 16, Abeni close, ASA Estate, off Ayodele Okeowo street, after Deeper Life church, Soluyi Gbagada, Lagos 

Featuring Naija's Finest Poets.

Word Up Vol. 3 (Da Love Thang) – [Pictures] | OnePageWeekly

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