David surprised the crowd with his own rendition of a classic Abbey Lincoln song “Throw is Away” at Dream weekend back in September. Download Ndelible’s song “Hope” on iTunes today. All proceeds go to the victims of the earthquake in Haiti (Through Yele: http://yele.org/). That’s what it means to be and Artist in Bloom.

Nothing new. Asheru has been holding it down at BloomBars for the last year as an Artist in Bloom Resident Fellow. Most recently, he introduced Visiting Resident Hip Hop Pantsula to the music and education communities here in DC as part of a BloomBars exchange program. Asheru co-founded Educational Lyrics, LLC, an independent publishing company that creates culturally relevant cross-curricular teaching materials, the first of which being H.E.L.P. (Hip Hop Educational Literacy Program). Learn more: www.wethewilling.org

*Seed the Sound Sundays w/Terrence Cunningham*

The buzz is out. This is the smartest thing you can do in Washington, DC on a Sunday night, and the most fun. We encourage you to bring people who you love, or people you think need a little love. Artist in Bloom Resident Fellow Terrence Cunningham has been holding it down for seven months, and HASN’T MISSED A SUNDAY. Come see what a FULL BLOOM looks like. Another bit of exciting news, Terrence has submitted his song, “Champion,” to be the official song of the World Cup in South Africa. This was the result of his trip there last month. We believe World Cup decision makers will see the light in this beautiful song and share it with the world. $5-10 suggested donation.

Join us for an intimate conversation with on of the best in the business of screenwriting on Saturday, March 20th from 1-2pm.

Marilyn Horowitz is a NYU professor, writer, producer, writing coach, and script doctor. She won the New York University Award for Teaching Excellence in 2004. Marilyn hosts two seminars per year on the “Creative Business of Screenwriting” for New York Women in Film and Television (NYWIFT). Marilyn was the script consultant and associate producer on The Reawakening, an independent feature film produced under the auspices of the ABC New Talent Development Scholarship Grant.

Marilyn’s private writing students have gone on to sell scripts to Miramax, HBO, Hallmark Entertainment, and ABC, as well as gained admittance to the AFI Graduate Writing Program, Sundance Writers Lab, and the IFP Market’s No Borders Forum. Marilyn’s students have also won the 2002 and 2003 NYWIFT Screenplay Contests, placed highly in the Nicholl Fellowship, and were finalists in the Slamdance Film Festival and Austin Film Festival script competitions.

To learn more about Marilyn Horowitz visit: http://www.FinalDraftScript.com

Saturday, March 20th – 2:00 to 4:00pm

Screenwriting 101 — The Four Magic Questions of Screenwriting

Cost: $50 (We know it’s steep, but that’s why we’re having the “Conversation with” from 1-2pm) Pre-Registration Required.

This two-hour intensive workshop will end the agony that plagues screenwriters of all levels: How to structure a script. The Four Magic Questions of Screenwriting helps writers structure, write and rewrite scripts with ease. By asking your characters these four simple questions you will be able to outline your screenplay like magic. The Four Magic Questions of Screenwriting, part of The Horowitz System® of writing taught at New York University for over 10 years, has helped hundreds of writers create market-ready screenplays fast.

Spaces Limited. To register contact Classroom 34 at (410) 231-3434 or info@classroom34.com

*Poetry in the Morning*. Bring whatever you’d like to read for this eye-opening event. As host Dejean says, “Whatever you have to say, before work and school, on a Monday, is poetry.” Beginning March 15, Mondays from 7:30 to 8:15 a.m. (Yes, that’s a.m.) Bloombars. 3222 11th St NW. 202-285-0448. http://www.bloombars.com. *Free.*

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/04/AR2010030402003.html

They asked us to write about volunteerism. This is what came to mind: http://www.blackplanetrising.com/blog_item1.php

Black Planet Rising is a really cool site that connect volunteers with organizations in need.

To all the artistic seeds needing a little TLC, BloomBars has finally tilled “The Garden.” Come share your creation with the community. (Material must be appropriate for all ages). Suggested donation is $5-10.

Special featured artists this week, FRANK BELL. a young singer and songwriter extraordinaire, his music has been featured on MTV’s The Real World and he has played major venues from Atlanta to Times Square, NYC. Currently on his east coast tour, Frank’s only stop in DC is here at BloomBars. LISTEN TO THIS CAT!! www.frankbell.net

Hosted by Jonathan B. Tucker, of the 2009 DC Slam Team

Sign-up on the list starts at 8:30. show starts by 9pm. bring your poetry, music, comedy, song, rap, spoken word, or whatever. as long as it is within the realm of human respect it is okay. All ages and eccentricities. are welcome. That means ALL MATERIAL is appropriate for all ages, okay?

This is by far the coolest bio we’ve ever read, and most hilarious….Did we SAY LISTEN TO THIS CAT. Listen! www.frankbell.net

Frank Bell was born in Calabria. His father was a soldier in the Calabrian mob, and his mother was a professor of Romantic Literature in a convent school. His family moved to Argentina when he was very young following the sudden death of his father’s employer Don Aldo Brancaleone. They settled in Iguazu Falls near the Brazilian border where little Frank became fluent in Portugese and Spanish in addition to his native Calabrian dialect. When his father was deported back to Calabria for gun-running Frank left home. He headed for the pampas to become a gaucho, learning to ride and throw the bolos and developing his lifelong taste for yerba maté. While visiting Buenos Aires he had a chance encounter with the famous Argentine impresario Señor Fulgensio Sorprender who saw potential in the hirsute young gaucho and cast him as the lead in a local production of Evita. Frank stole the show and his acting career was launched. Frank then moved to New York City to pursue acting and had a notable string of successes in off-broadway art house productions, including the legendary Utica Community Performing Arts Center production of Streetcar, before his acting career was briefly sidetracked for a season playing power forward for the Nets. When a serious dental sprain ended his basketball career, Frank reluctantly returned to acting. He and his roommate, Vin Diesel, then moved to LA to act in TV and cinema. The two actors no longer live together in their small Hollywood apartment – each now has a mansion in the Malibu colony – but they are planning to work together soon in a Miramax biopic on the life of Warren G. Harding. Frank is also a serious graphic artist and has had a number of one-man shows in select galleries in Soho and the Bowery. His influences include Red Grooms, Hieronymous Bosch and Margaret Keane. He has been married twice, once for several years to Uruguayan actress Lola Chang, with whom he had three sets of twin girls, and again for part of an afternoon to Julia Roberts. He is currently an eligible bachelor and an avid reader of the personal columns.