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Baba Brinkman

Rap Artist, Writer

Canadian rap artist, writer, and former tree-planter, Baba Brinkman has personally planted more than one million trees in the Rocky Mountains. After graduating with an M.A. in comparative literature in 2003, he began his career as a rap troubadour. To date, Brinkman has released seven solo albums and written or co-written four hip-hop theatre shows—winning three awards and entertaining thousands of people during his six seasons at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. His lyrical masterpiece, The Rap Guide to Evolution, won the prestigious Scotsman Fringe First Award in Edinburgh in 2009 and was nominated for a 2012 Drama Desk Award. The show has been performed off-Broadway and on tour in the USA, Australia, and the UK, in addition to several TEDx conferences and on The Rachel Maddow Show on U.S. national television. Brinkman is a recent winner of the National Center for Science Education’s “Friend of Darwin Award” for his efforts to increase the public appreciation of evolutionary biology.

Past Programs Featuring Baba Brinkman

Sunday, June 2, 2013 | 11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Saturday, June 1, 2013 | 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Saturday, June 2, 2012 | 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Saturday, June 4, 2011 | 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

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