Tai Allen will be performing vocals in the Carlton Room at The Betsy on Feb 7 as part of the Kilombo Photo Exhibition Celebrating Black History Month.

The exhibition of large-scale documentary photographs entitled Kilombo, a tribute to the resilience and vitality of the African legacy in Brazil, represents the work of Maria Daniel Balcazar, a prize-winning documentary photographer and visual anthropologist, whose projects focus on the vitality of cultural traditions in the constant remaking of identity.

Artist Maria Daniel Balcazar will be present at the opening event to speak about her work, in partnership with Pulitzer Prize winning photographer Carl Juste, founder and curator of iWitness. Brooklyn-based Poet/Performer Tai Allen (with Brian Murphy, piano) will also present and perform. Ms. Balcazar and Mr. Allen will be in residence in The Betsy Writers Room (thebetsywritersroom.com) as part of this initiative - joining more than 1000 alumni in the program.

Tai Allen is a poet, performer, vocalist, musician, producer and designer. He has toured domestically and internationally, performing at the Apollo Theater's Music Café, the National Black Writers Conference, Restoration Rocks, the American Jazz Museum, the Art of Cool Festival and Blue Note, among other venues. His poetry collection No Jewels and its official soundtrack were released in 2017.

Tai Allen is the CreARTe Jazz Artist in Residence in The Betsy Writers Room.