"Voting is not just about voting in the presidential election, it's about voting in the midterm elections, the civic association meetings. Everywhere you have a vested interest you should vote, you should vote to have your voice heard."
Jon Goode is an Emmy Nominated and HBO Def Poet and renowned storyteller. Over the past decade, he has performed his unique brand of comedic and life-affirming poetry at colleges and universities, in commercials for major corporations, in interstitials for major cable networks including CNN’s “Black in America” and in venues all across the nation and the world. A national U.S. Slam Poet Champion, he is currently the resident host of the storytelling event, the “Moth Atlanta” – and serves as host to the Moth storytelling platform in cities across the globe – from Chicago to London. An accomplished author, his most recent book titled, “Mydas,” weaves a collection of stories and poetry to take us on the journey of a man who bleeds gold, a homeless woman haunted by a spirit, and a world where a virulent disease finds people afraid to touch at all.
As part of our We Got NEXT! Vote 2020 initiative, NEXT-Atlanta has partnered with local civic organization BTheNow to support their digital campaign to equip voters with the information they need to ensure everyone’s voice is heard this election! Visit their website here to check your registration status, request an absentee ballot, volunteer, or download the voting toolkit.
Want to spread the word? Be sure to check out the NEXT social media Get Out the Vote library featuring empowering messages and images from several Atlanta artists — and share far and wide! This election is all about you! Use your vote and use your voice!
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At NEXT, we are about more than art for art’s sake. At NEXT, we believe that together we can use our individual creative expression to find solutions to our community’s intractable social challenges. Through our talents and our passion, NEXT unleashes the potential of creative communities in order to inspire countless others who share our vision to get involved.