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Los Angeles Native Joshua RKB Silverstein is a 2002 graduate of the Academy of Entertainment and Technology of Santa Monica California. He has studied acting under the tutelage of Cynthia Saint James, Delores Aguano, Elina DeSantos and Akuyoe Graham and has been impacting the creative arts scene for some time now. He has enriched this community through many media such as visual art, dance, theater, poetry, and especially beatboxing. While being a vessel for Jazz, Funk, Blues and Soul, through time Joshua has graciously earned the title as the "hardest working beatboxer in LA". Joshua has performed in many venues including LA's premiere poetry venue, Da Poetry Lounge, the House of Blues, the Ford Amphitheater and the 2003 Panifest which took place in Ghana, West Africa. He has shared the stage with renowned artist such as Jerry Quickly, Cal Bennett, Bridget Gray, Sheila Nicholls, Double G of Dakah, Jason Samuels-Smith, Slash, Kid Beyond, and Click Tha Supah Latin. Most recently Joshua completed touring for Norman Lear's "Declare Yourself", a nonpartisan tour rallying the American to register and vote.RatPack Slim:
the altered ego of Milwaukee-born Rob Sturma, is a slam poet by name and poetry host by necessity. He started out in the shadow of KRS-ONE and Saul Williams and later found his inner emo kid. He's a hopeless romantic. He's been on stages with the likes of Z-Trip, Angelo Moore (Fishbone), Sage Francis, Sole, Medusa, Kid Beyond, Buddy Wakefield, and Mighty Mike McGee. He's co-hosted or guest hosted venues like Da Poetry Lounge, Chromosome X, Fresh Produce, The Los Feliz Slam, and of course, Green. He taped a pilot for Comedy Central that never aired, and an episode of How We Do It for BET which did air, but he never saw it. He's got a very unique voice--think Kermit The Frog meets Marvin the Martian meets Bill Murray's lounge lizard. He has self-published three chapbooks, the latest titled Nerdplay: Poems about Robots, Rasslin', and Romance. He's been the member of three slam teams (including Team Los Feliz 2003 and 2004) that represented at the National Poetry Slam; in 2005 he helped Team Hollywood make it to the finals stage in Albuquerque, NM, as documented in the film Spit. He's still proudest of the heart-shaped box of chocolates he won for "Best Written Poem" at the $1000 Slam at Berkeley, CA. He thinks poetry slam and wrestling ain't that far removed from each other. He has accounts on livejournal (http://ratpackslim.livejournal.com) and MySpace (http://www.myspace.com/ratpackslim). He still rhymes a lot.DJ Jedi:
A 12-year veteran of countless parties and local clubs, DJ JEDI quietly gained notoriety in the Los Angeles hip-hop and spoken word community by being the resident deejay at the weekly open mic Green (home of the 2003 National Champion L.A. Slam Team), and by holding it down at Da Poetry Lounge, where he would keep the capacity crowds nodding their heads and shakin' their asses on the regular. For the past four years, along with partner in crime Pocho Joe, he's served as resident selector for the teen-only high-school open mic Downbeat 720 (and more recently, its television spinoff, Downbeat Showdown) in Santa Monica, California, and he's rocked shows at some of the most prominent hotspots in Los Angeles, including the House of Blues, the Knitting Factory, Project Blowed, The El Rey and the Temple Bar, among numerous others.|
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