Celebrate Life

Viva La Vida 2017

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Celebrate Life – Stories of the Sublime and Absurd is a blend of humorous stories and songs that celebrate life, love, travel, and relationships. Includes stories about Namaya’s neighbors in Vermont and adventures around the world.

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Stories, songs and poems by international performance artist and humorist

Namaya has toured around the world performing in theaters and clubs in Europe, Asia, the United States, and the leading performance venues like Bowery Poetry Club, and Apples and Snakes in London.

Celebrate Life

Viva La Vida: 2017

Namaya is touring with “Celebrate Life: Viva La Vida” 2017. Tour stops are planned for Ireland, and Northern Ireland in April 2017. Then in the USA.

Namaya said, “In a world of such madness and pain, it is vital for stories that celebrate the absurdity and joys of life.”

He is a poet and storyteller who masterfully weaves his craft to create a space for his audience to disarmingly engage in a child-like way that enabled me to slip into another soothing healing world. Let his stories and music take you away.

- J. Knowlton, Director Manchester, VT Library

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- J. Knowlton, Director Manchester, VT Library

http://thejazzpoet.com/testimonials/awesome/

Great fun we loved it. Come back!

- Australia Theater in Sydney

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- Australia Theater in Sydney

Great fun we loved it. Come back!

http://thejazzpoet.com/testimonials/australia-theater-in-sydney/

Down home story telling!

- Woodstock Times

2017-01-01T10:36:57+00:00

- Woodstock Times

Down home story telling!

http://thejazzpoet.com/testimonials/woodstock-times/

High Wire performance artist of the spoken word!

- Aquarian

2017-01-01T10:33:45+00:00

- Aquarian

High Wire performance artist of the spoken word!

http://thejazzpoet.com/testimonials/aquarian/

It was a night of magic as Namaya spun his stories and improvisations.

- Magnet Theater in NYC

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- Magnet Theater in NYC

It was a night of magic as Namaya spun his stories and improvisations.

http://thejazzpoet.com/testimonials/magnet-theater-in-nyc/

It was a packed house! And the audience loved his improvisation and stories drawn from his travels around the world. Pure enchantment!

- San Miguel Theater in Mexico

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- San Miguel Theater in Mexico

It was a packed house! And the audience loved his improvisation and stories drawn from his travels around the world. Pure enchantment!

http://thejazzpoet.com/testimonials/san-miguel-theater-in-mexico/

A later-day Thoreau, man in search of peace in a world gone mad.

- Seven Days Magazine

2017-01-01T06:51:47+00:00

- Seven Days Magazine

A later-day Thoreau, man in search of peace in a world gone mad.

http://thejazzpoet.com/testimonials/seven-days-magazine/

About

Who Is Namaya

Poet | Artist | Story Teller | Musician | Playwright

Namaya – “The high wire performance artist of the spoken word!” has performed on tour on five continents as a storyteller, jazz poet, and musician. His solo shows of Celebrate Life: Viva la Vida has been presented in Mexico, USA, and with forthcoming shows in Ireland in 2017. “Celebrate life – is wonderful tall tales, poems and songs filled with humor … told by a master story teller. A gem of a show.”

Author of books of poetry, memoirs, and CDs – Eros to Godhead; God.Sex.Politics., Vermont My Home, and the CD’s Green Mountain Radio Hour, Best of the Jazz Beat Blues Poetry ensemble: and the children’s CD – On the Island of Binga Bonga the war that never was. He is the author of – New Journal of the Plague: Living and working with AIDS and the Novella “Thirst.” Namaya said, “Telling stories and performing is the most fun I have… with my clothes on.”

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Celebrate Life E-Book

Yes – to life. Yes – to the extraordinary possibilities in life. What inspires you? What is your manifesto in life? What satisfies you deeply – to the bone? “Celebrate Life” are stories, anecdotes, and, yes, poems about the journey of life. Don’t be scared of the poems. They ain’t fancy or intellectual things; they’re more bread and butter poems about life, and they might even make you laugh.