• Speakeasy Records, the first spoken-word label in Minnesota
• Developing the first exhibit of African visual artists in Minnesota with Intermedia Arts
• Facilitating a developmental play workshop of a play about the Troubles in Ireland
• 2 spoken word/hip hop theatre productions
• 3 spoken word/hip hop albums
• Presenting the National Poetry Month spoken-word radio series "Words Will Heal the Wound" with KFAI
• Producing a half-hour narrative film which was adapted from a short story by award-winning novelist Percival Everett
• Producing performances, radio spots and television PSAs with the African American Men's Project

E.G. BAILEY + SHA CAGE ON BET
during the 'BET HIP HOP AWARDS'
TARGET'S ART CONNECTS Ad
October 17 - National Television - 8:00pm (ET/PT)

NEW RELEASES


HARRY POTTER (SINGLE) (coming soon)
EL GUANTE


• UPCOMING SHOWS + PROJECTS

- MN History Theater presents Kirby Puckett play "KIRBY" starring Sha Cage - Oct. 11 - Nov 4
EL GUANTE @ CLUB UNDERGROUND - Oct. 21
MADAME MIMI @ MINNESOTA MUSEUM OF ART - Oct. 26
E.G. BAILEY co-curates + hosts LATE NITE SERIES @ PILLSBURY HOUSE THEATRE - Nov. 16 - 17
TRU RUTS co-sponsors TWIN CITIES YOUTH RISING SUMMIT + FESTIVAL @ CAPRI THEATRE - Oct. 13
EL GUANTE @ Just Bust! - Youth Speaks Wisconsin/University of Wisconsin - Dec 7

Websites:  truruts.com
               e.g. bailey  
               Shá Cage
               Speakeasy Records

Shá Cage is an actress, playwright and producer who helped found MaMa mOsAiC, a women-of-color theatre company, works with the Minnesota Spoken Word Association, and recently received a grant from the Playwright Center to develop a one-woman show about Natchez, Mississippi, her hometown.

e.g. bailey is an award-winning spoken word artist and historian, as well as poet, playwright, photographer, and filmmaker. In addition to co-founding Trú Rúts, e.g. bailey has co-founded: @rkology, a spoken word and music collective, which was chosen in the City Pages' "Picked to Click" Best New Band Poll in 1998 and 1999 Singers of Daybreak, the first spoken word conference Minnesota Spoken Word Association Sirius B, a black male performance ensemble

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