TEDYouth 2011
Carvens Lissaint: "Put the financial aid in the bag"
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At TEDYouth 2011, performance artist Carvens Lissaint shows how to use language, metaphor and imagery to express a powerful idea -- as in this spoken-word performance, a stirring plea to make college education more accessible.
Carvens Lissaint - Performance artist
Carvens Lissaint is a slam poet, performance artist, and member of the Hip Hopera Theater troupe. Full bio
Carvens Lissaint is a slam poet, performance artist, and member of the Hip Hopera Theater troupe. Full bio
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I want everyone to put their hands on top of their head.
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大家把手放到头上。
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. Put your hands on top of your head.
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是的，是的，就是，把手放在你的头上。
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Just relax. Just stay calm. Everything will be nice
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放松，平静。
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and smooth if you just participate and just relax, okay?
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如果你仅仅参与并放松，会感觉很好和舒适，是不是？
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Yeah. All right, now put your hands down.
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是的。好了，现在把手放下来。
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Don't be no hero. Put your hands down. Okay?
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不是没有英雄。放下手，好吗？
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All right. Now. Cool. Good.
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好的，现在，冷静，很好。
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I want you to run all that financial aid.
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我想让你考虑所有的经济资助。
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Yeah, sucka, put the scholarships in the bag, yeah, yeah.
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是的，很差劲，把奖学金放到书包里，对，对。
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Put the scholarships in the bag. Yeah, you too, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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把奖学金放到书包。是的，你也一样，对，对，对。
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Yeah, you. Yeah, yeah. You over there, go put the Pell Grants in the bag.
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是的，你，对，对，那边的那个。把你的Pell奖学金放到包里
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Put the Pell Grants in there too. Yeah, you. Go. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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把Pell奖学金也放进去。对，就是你，好，对，对，对。
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You, go over to that booth and get me some of them subsidized, some of them subsidized loans.
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你，去那边的货摊，给我拿些补助，一些贷款补贴。
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It ain't a game no more. I know you're hiding the money somewhere here.
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这不再是游戏。我知道你在那藏了些钱。
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With all this tuition you got me and my homies payin' --
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你所有的学习指导和家庭投入
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Woo! -- I'm about to get gangster-scholar up in here.
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哇！我为了在那得到差劲的奖学金。
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Up in here. I'm about to go N.W.A. meets Beastie Boys
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就在那。我打算去 N.W.A 见野兽男孩。
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if I don't see the cash, man.
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如果我没有现金，男人。
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Cause we're not gonna take it. ♪ Oh ...
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因为我们没有带现金，哦...
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Oh, you thought I was playing.
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啊，你认为你正在玩。
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Oh, you thought this was a game. Back up, back up. Mind your business, that's all.
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啊，你认为这是一个游戏。后退，后退，注意，就这些。
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What do you, think this is a game? What?
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你，也认为这是游戏？什么？
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Huh? You don't even know me.
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啊？你就不认识我。
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I'll say something else. Don't call me crazy.
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我要讲些其它的。不要叫我疯子。
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Do not call me -- Rives, tell 'em don't call me crazy before I go crazy.
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不要叫我-Rives。告诉他们在我变疯前，不要叫我疯子。
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I'm telling you, now I'm about to go crazy. I'm about to go Tupac Thug Life in here.
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我就要告诉你，现在我就要变疯。我要取Tupac Thug那边生活。
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Like, "I ain't a killer but don't push me. Revenge is like the sweetest joy --" Woo!
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就像“我不是杀手，不要逼我。复仇像是最甜蜜的欢乐-”哇！
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I'm about to go Biggie Smalls Brooklyn type, like,
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我也想要布鲁克林Biggie Smalls的风格。
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"Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis. When I was dead broke --"
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“超级任天堂，创世纪。当我完全破产-“
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Woo! I'm about to go KRS-One
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哇！ 我也要成为艺人。
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cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs-type wild.
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寻找可可的原始风格。
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Like, "Wa da da dang, wa da da da dang,
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就像，“哇 当 当 当，哇 当当 当当，
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listen to my nine millimeter go bang." You know what?
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你我的9毫米重击声。“ 你知道是什么吗?
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You are dumb. You are really dumb.
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你无法可说。你真的无话可说。
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Hide your kids, hide your wife, 'cause we gettin' financial aid
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不要告诉你的孩子和爱人。因为我们得到了经济资助
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all up and in and around here. You think this is a game?
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所有的都有了。你认为这是游戏吗？
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You think I want to be out here doing this?
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你认为我要出去做这个吗？
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Do you know how hard it was to find these guns?
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你知道找到这些枪支多么难吗？
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All right, I'm sorry. You understand?
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好的，对不起。你明白了？
02:27
I'm just trying to get my education. You know what I mean?
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我刚才试着得到我的教育。你知道我的意思？
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I'm just trying to fight for the opportunity that my great-great-great-grandfather died for, you know what I'm saying?
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我正在努力找到我的先祖致死都在寻找的机会。你知道我在说什么？
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You know how my ancestors did sit-ins,
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你知道我的祖先怎么静坐示威。
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just so I can sit in a classroom.
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就像我做在教室里。
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And all these years, all y'all been doing
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所有这么多年，你所做的
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is strangling the life out of my bank statement,
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正在束缚着我的银行账单意外的生活，
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leaving my pockets as vacant as parking lots.
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让我的口袋像停车场一样空旷。
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Professor Willie Lynch taught you well, huh?
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Wille Lynch 教授也教过你，啊？
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Keep the body, take the money.
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保持身体，拿上钱。
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Force feed my people deception and failure.
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迫使我面对欺骗和失败。
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Condition our brains to malfunction at the sight
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在成功的视点以我们的头脑失灵为条件。
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of success. Just keep the cycle going.
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仅仅保持运转。
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Make us pay for an education that will end up failing us.
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使我们为教程我们失败的教育买单。
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Put us in debt so we're giving back
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让我们负债， 那些我们要偿还的债务
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the money we earned from our back-breaking work.
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用我们繁重的劳动所得。
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This seems all too familiar.
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这写都太熟悉了。
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Sounds like the rust of shackles locking their way onto my degree.
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听起来像是生锈的手铐锁住了我的学习之路。
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Sounds like the Thirteenth Amendment in reverse.
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听起来项是第13修正案的反转。
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Lecture halls shouldn't feel like cotton fields,
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大学讲座不应该像在棉花地里一样，
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shouldn't sound like muffled freedom songs trapped
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不应该像模糊不清的几代人梦想的自由歌曲
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in the jaws of a generation's dreams. Oho! Oh, it all makes sense.
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哦！这些都是对的。
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Give us enough to get by but not enough to provide for ourselves.
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给了我们足够的认可，可是提供给我们的不足。
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Keep us psychologically feeble so we lose our purpose in the process.
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保持我们心理上的弱势，使我们在这个过程中失去了目的。
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Stop thieving our aspirations out of our sleep.
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当我们睡觉时，停止窃取我们的精神。
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Don't call it financial aid
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不要称它经济援助
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if you're not helping anyone with it.
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如果你没有用它帮助任何人。
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We have fought.
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我们已经在争取
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We have fought way too hard
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我们争取的太艰难了
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to let green paper build a barricade in front of our futures.
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无法通过我们未来前边的障碍。
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I will not let you potentially rob food out of my children's stomach.
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我不想让你剥夺了我们孩子的食物。
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Best believe I'm going out blasting.
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最好相信我也会爆发。
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I ain't no killer, but don't push me.
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我不是杀手，可是不要逼我。
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I wish it didn't come to this, but I have to for my cousins
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我希望我碰不上这些，可是我不得不为了我海地的亲戚们
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in Haiti who don't even know what a college looks like,
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他们甚至不知道大学是什么样子，
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for my best friend Raymond sitting in cell block nine
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为了我最好的朋友Raymond，坐在一个小的街区
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instead of a university,
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而不是上大学
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for the nooses hanging my GPA by its neck.
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为了那些套在我脖子上的GPA。
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There is no other option.
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没有其它选择。
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There is no other way.
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没有其它路可走。
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Just, please, put the money in the bag.
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仅仅是请把钱放大书包里。
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Put the money in the bag. I just want to go to school, man.
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把钱放到书包里，我只想去上学，男人。
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I just want to get my education. I just want to learn. I just want to grow.
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我只想要我的教育。我只想学习。我仅仅要成长。
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Put the money in the bag, please.
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请把钱放到书包里。
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Just put the money in the bag.
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仅仅把钱放到书包里。
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Carvens Lissaint - Performance artistCarvens Lissaint is a slam poet, performance artist, and member of the Hip Hopera Theater troupe.
Why you should listen
Carvens Lissaint is a Haitian American performance artist. Raised in Upper West Side Harlem, New York, he lives in Washington Heights. He established himself as a spoken word artist in 2006 and went on to win multiple poetry slams across the country and coach award-winning teams. He made his transition into musical theater in 2007 as a part of the Hip Hopera Theater troupe, working with Edward A. Reynolds West Side High School in collaboration with the Metropolitan Theater Opera Guild. He also debuted his high-energy one-man show Walk (directed and co-developed by Queen God-Is, choreographed by Nicco Anann) at Dance Theater Workshop and off Broadway at the 2009 Hip Hop Theater Festival. Carvens lives, eats and breathes art hoping to share his light and become a better being of the Universe.
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