Compassion Speaks: Creativity and Community, Hosted by Mr. Hip

Compassion Speaks is an outreach program from Compassion Arts in which four or five special guests give voice to compassion in action through the arts and education. Guests share their work in relation to a specific topic by contributing a short talk, performance, or presentation. The program will be an integral part of Compassion Arts going forward and will take place in multiple cities.

The Compassion Speaks program for Los Angeles, Creativity in Community, will be hosted by poet, educator, and spoken word artist Donald Vincent (aka Mr. Hip) of Vegan Paradise, and will highlight the work of five entrepreneurs and founders of community-based initiatives who use creativity to inspire compassion in action and ahimsa peace. The gathering will include talks, readings, presentations, sharing, and discussion by creators of vegan arts projects that cultivate community, inspire awareness and understanding, and offer new perspectives on a plant-based living.

Tickets and Registration
The event is free and open to the public. No prior registration is required.

About Donald Vincent, aka Mr. Hip
Donald Vincent, also known as Mr. Hip, is a poet, educator, spoken word artist, and founder of le pamplemuse™, a content development platform dedicated to spreading the awareness of vegan companies. Under @le_pamp, Donald also created ‘That’s So Vegan’, a visual project merging creativity and education on plant-based foods and products with uplifting information on vegan lifestyles. Mr. Hip is also a Culture and Animals Foundation grant honoree 2018 and the creator/producer/performer of the hip hop album Vegan Paradise. He is a co-director of new programs being presented for Compassion Arts’ Los Angeles chapter and has performed readings of his work with Compassion Arts at Symphony Space NYC in 2017, as well as at galleries, theaters, libraries, colleges, and music and reading rooms throughout Boston and New York. Donald Vincent can also be found teaching English Composition for UCLA’s Writing Programs.