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Spoken Cinema Partners with Scott Hamilton CARES Foundation
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Spoken Cinema®, the award-winning entertainment innovation, featuring renowned spoken word poet, Steve Connell, premiered it's latest multi-sensory performance piece, RISE, at the Bridgestone Arena last month for the Scott Hamilton & Friends annual fundraising gala & ice show.
Combining Olympic, World, and National Champion Figure Skaters with some of the biggest names in music and, for the first time ever, poetry, the event was a once-in-a-lifetime experience benefiting the Scott Hamilton CARES Foundation. All proceeds helped change the future of cancer by funding advanced, innovative research that treats the cancer while sparing the patient.
"RISE is an eight-minute, never-before-seen piece that I wrote, accompanied by an original cinematic score and an immersive digital background that was projected onto the ice, scoreboards, and every other digital surface within the arena," explains Steve Connell. "The technology literally placed my live performance inside of a movie, bringing my poem to life with breathtaking creativity."
RISE is the hallmark of the work done by Spoken Cinema®, a joint venture between Steve and Career Creative, David Fischette.
"I don't know how Spoken Cinema did it. They somehow managed to collapse a 30-year journey into an 8-minute piece. Truly amazing!" - Scott Hamilton
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Spoken Cinema Offers Hope for the Broken-Hearted at Christmastime, Opens Hope for the Holidays
The Holidays are a magical time..so much joy, so much celebration. But for many of us, they are also a time when heartbreak and sadness and stress can be amplified. And sometimes the burden of attending holiday events with a masked smile can be too much. So Hope for the Holidays was created to allow the audience to come as they are, however they are feeling, whatever they are going through...This is a place where everyone will be seen and valued. This is a place where hope will be present and available.
The star-studded line up of performers features, Kathy Lee Gifford, Louis York, Twinnie, Cade Thompson and world renown poet and activist, Steve Connell and Spoken Cinema.
Steve Connell is an acclaimed spoken word artist, celebrated improv comic, and sought after speaker and entertainer. His work has been seen on ABC, HBO, and MTV, and he has performed live at Sundance, the Kennedy Center, the White House, and most recently at the NFL hall of fame induction ceremony. Earlier this year Steve's father lost his battle with Parkinson's disease .This will be his first holiday without his hero.
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Steve Connell-The Poetic Voice of the NFL Hall of Fame
Acclaimed creative artist Steve Connell will bring his one-of-a-kind style to Canton this August for a pair of live performances incorporated into events during Enshrinement Weekend.
Connell will appear at the Enshrinees’ Gold Jacket Dinner on Friday, Aug. 4, and again at the Class of 2023’s Enshrinement on Saturday, Aug. 5. At the latter ceremony, he will take the stage at Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium in conjunction with the enshrinement speech of each of the nine new class members, with original content he has created for each enshrinee. Audience members will see and hear the tributes exclusively; his performances will not be part of the national television broadcast.
“It has been an incredible honor to get to create work for the Pro Football Hall of Fame,” Connell said. “To know I’m going to stand on that stage to deliver tributes to these men – in one of the most significant moments of their life – is one of the most significant moments in mine.”
Defining Connell’s unique talents defies conventional labels. Spoken word artist and poet. Celebrated improv comic. Transformative entertainer and speaker. His live performances have been described as being “as dynamic as the words he delivers.”
Connell has delivered private performances for Norman Lear, President Barack Obama, Oprah Winfrey, Maya Angelou, James Cameron and Quincy Jones among many notable people who have witnessed him as part of a live audience. Others have seen his work on broadcast networks ABC, HBO and MTV.
He has performed live at Sundance, TEDMED, Kennedy Center and The White House, among numerous venues. Corporate giants like Sony/Universal, Pioneer, Farmers Insurance Group and Gap Inc. are among the many companies with whom Connell has maintained longstanding collaborations.
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