Rosie Peters & JG Everest Bring Music & Poetry to Room 203
Leave it to these two creatives to inspire and connect us all more deeply to our own human experience!
Poet and storyteller Rosetta "Rosie" Peters and musician JG Everest returned to Grand Rapids on February 25th for a special performance of their live poetry + music storytelling collaboration, featuring brand-new material, as well as pieces from their acclaimed 2022 chapbook album, The Hummingbirds Dance. The combination of Rosie’s heartfelt and powerful poetry and JG's transcendent musical accompaniment made for a transportive evening.
Leading up to this concert, Rosie led two creative writing workshops, sharing poetry and prompts that focused on the heart and what it needs to heal. One was hosted in Room 203 and the second was in collaboration with MacRostie Art Center, held in the Giinawind Creative Space. Participants were invited to be a part of the opening act for Peters and Everest, along with our ‘Paper in Fire’ writing circle and other community members. As the evening of the show arrived, they came ready to share their stories.
Annie Humphrey and others from Fire in the Village’s ‘Paper in Fire’ Creative Writing Circle
About Rosie & James:
Rosetta “Rosie” Peters is a Minnesota-based poet, author, public speaker, storyteller, and activist. She is excited to be a part of the revitalization of her ancestral language, Dakota, which is currently being taught at the University of Minnesota. She is of Yankton, Crow Creek, and Oglala descent. Rosetta hopes to learn the language and pass it on to future generations. She is a single mother of six beautiful children, four daughters and two sons. You can learn more about her on her website and hear poetry from her chapbook album with JG Everest, The Hummingbird's Dance on Bandcamp.
Composer / Musician / transdisciplinary artist JG Everest was born and raised in Imnížaska, Mni Sota Makoče (St Paul, MN) and is currently based in Minneapolis. He has been collaborating closely with poet / storyteller Rosetta Peters since 2017, releasing their debut "chapbook album", The Hummingbird's Dance, in 2022. He is a founding member of musical ensembles Lateduster, BLACKFISH, Roma di Luna, Sans Le Systeme, and Gold Minefield, and was music director and lead collaborator with acclaimed dance company Emily Johnson / Catalyst for over a decade, awarded a NY “Bessie” award for The Thank-you Bar in 2012. In 2016 he founded Wavelets Creative, a community arts organization focused on bringing transformative and collaborative arts experiences to our communities. He is a 2019 McKnight Composers Fellow. Learn more on his website jgeverest.com.
