Open mic for last day of Ocean City’s DreamFest
OCEAN CITY, Md. – The Ocean City Art League partnered with the city to shed light on Doctor Martin Luther King Juniors legacy, and inspire upcoming artists to follow their dreams.
The Ocean City Art League hosting an open mic for the last day of Dream Fest, amplifying the voices of upcoming artists like Hip Hop Artist and Comedian Jay Konsciouz.
“It’s more than just the music, it is the creativity of it.”
“It is taking your feelings and emotions and your history and past and hopefully your future, and putting it all on a sheet of paper.”
Konsciouz says the best thing someone can do to get into the rap game is to give open mic a shot.
“Go to your local open mics and find other places you can be heard because this is the best practice you can have plus you want the opportunity for people to hear you,” and Professor Rachel Smith this to heart and took the stand.
She shared poetry about not being afraid to get lost in thought.
“There is so much to think about river rock, hundreds of fish, bald eagles, tree root, clams.”
“This and that and so much more.”
“Too think to little, would be like surrendering to drought, suicide or worst.”
“To think nothing beyond what is seen what we are told, as if being told there is such a thing as thinking too much.”
Organizers say people from all over Maryland travel to the art center to see the work inspired by the civil rights movement and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Executive Director the OC Art League Rina Thaler says “a community arts center is a space to make dialogue.”
“To have dialogue between people,” Thaler said. “A place for people to come and share their dreams and their hopes and that is all what Dr. Martin Luther King was about.”
Thaler also said that Dream Fest drew descendants of a famous Eastern Shore abolitionist.
“We had the descendants of Harriet Tubman here we had her great great grand niece and great great great grand niece that were here and a lot of the students were coming in to see their artwork.”
She said fifty students from local schools submitted their art work inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King Junior, which is hanging in the gallery halls.
