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Willow Smith Delivers a Magical Performance at Atlanta’s Afropunk: Carnival of Consciousness

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8 years ago

October 18, 2017

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Harez Productions

From the wave of magical expressions of fashionista’s, natural afro puffs, and music lovers of soul, pop, and rock, the Atlanta version of Afropunk was everything you could had asked for. The perfect blend of musical talents in front of a crowd with popping melanin and artistic souls created a magical festival. It’s rare approach to black arts had Atlanta buzzing about what to expect this year. With an amazing performance from head liner Solange to the Flatbush Zombie’s guests were locked in.

The Afropunk Festival, a colorful celebration of life, art and culture, is a traveling festival. The annual festival, officially Afropunk Presents The Carnival of Consciousness Atlanta, paid homage to cultural cornerstones through music, film, skate, and art.

Check out these amazing photos and don’t miss the next Afropunk in your city:

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Caitlin Cook’s Musical Bathroom Odyssey Hits the UK

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1 week ago

May 9, 2025

Joni Jones

What do cowboy dicks, milk pistols, and public toilet walls have in common? They all find a strange kind of poetry in The Writing on the Stall, the wildly inventive musical comedy from US performer Caitlin Cook, landing in the UK this summer. After sold-out runs Off-Broadway, at Edinburgh Fringe, and in London, the New York Times Critic’s Pick returns for a short UK tour—playing Brighton’s Komedia (31 May & 1 June) and Soho Theatre, London (4–7 June).

Set entirely in a public bathroom, The Writing on the Stall is anything but private. In this whip-smart and wickedly funny one-woman musical, Cook dives into the scrawled messages and mysterious wisdom etched on cubicle walls and turns them into something bold, bizarre, and unexpectedly moving. The songs are catchy, the jokes are razor-sharp, and the show isn’t afraid to get its hands dirty—literally.

Armed with a guitar and a knack for digging gold out of the obscene, Cook crafts a genre-defying hour that’s part stand-up, part cabaret, and all catharsis. This is confessional comedy with clever hooks, pitch-perfect melodies, and enough surprises to keep your eyebrows permanently raised. Expect satire, sincerity, and some surreal props—rumour has it a pair of slingshotted knickers makes a cameo.

Caitlin Cook isn’t your average musical comic. She’s Oxford-educated, New York-hardened, and streaming in the tens of millions. She’s also collaborated with some of comedy’s finest, directed offbeat hits, and performs as one-half of the musical duo 2/3rds of a Threesome. With this new UK run, she’s not just touring a show—she’s building a movement that blurs the lines between comedy, theatre, and performance art.

If you missed her during her Edinburgh frenzy, this is your chance to catch the musical everyone’s been whispering about in pub toilets and shouting about in five-star reviews. You might come for the laughs, but you’ll stay for the songs that (fair warning) may live rent-free in your head for months.