GRIOTS REPUBLIC - AN URBAN BLACK TRAVEL MAG - OCTOBER 2016
In the October Issue of Griots Republic we cover GLOBAL DESIGN! From interior to sound design we plug into the subjects that interest urban travelers. Black Travel Profiles include: Brooklyn Circus Founder, Ouigi Theodor. Up In Air Life Founder, Claire Soares. Fashion Influencer, Jason Andrew and Blogger A.V Perkins of A.V Does What. This issue also includes interviews with International D.J., DJ Super Nova and street artist and designer Jerry Gant. This is Black Travel!
In the October Issue of Griots Republic we cover GLOBAL DESIGN! From interior to sound design we plug into the subjects that interest urban travelers. Black Travel Profiles include: Brooklyn Circus Founder, Ouigi Theodor. Up In Air Life Founder, Claire Soares. Fashion Influencer, Jason Andrew and Blogger A.V Perkins of A.V Does What. This issue also includes interviews with International D.J., DJ Super Nova and street artist and designer Jerry Gant. This is Black Travel!
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GR: TELL OUR READERS ABOUT YOUR<br />
MOST MEMORABLE <strong>TRAVEL</strong> EXPERI-<br />
ENCE IN ENGL<strong>AN</strong>D.<br />
Jerry Gant: I was in Brixton trying to get<br />
my poetry chops up and I went to a comedy<br />
club and I was told to sign up to do a<br />
piece, so I did. Well, the announcer comes<br />
on and sets my time on stage up as me<br />
coming from nowhere and about to do<br />
some mediocre stuff in comparison to what<br />
they are used to. So, I walked on stage to a<br />
stone-faced (almost Apollo Theatre-esque)<br />
crowd. Essentially, he had set me up to fail<br />
but by the time I got to my second piece,<br />
the audience was transformed. Their looks<br />
of admiration and the applause told me<br />
that I had surpassed their expectation.<br />
The same cat who set me up, ended up<br />
asking me back. So, I encourage anyone<br />
who is hitting the stage, to travel outside<br />
of their comfort zone to a place where the<br />
language, jokes and colloquialisms are<br />
different and rock it. If it makes it there,<br />
you know you are onto something. Later<br />
we crashed at a friend of a friend’s flat in<br />
exchange for doing a set on a pirate radio<br />
station. We get on there, did a two-hour<br />
slot and rocked that!<br />
GR: TELL US ABOUT YOUR FASHION<br />
MOVES.<br />
Jerry Gant: Well I know you know because<br />
Griots just did a piece on the Lincoln Park<br />
Music Festivals and how that was a by-product<br />
of night-life culture. My age-group is<br />
post disco but one thing that stuck was<br />
the importance to be seen and recognized<br />
when you went out to a hot spot. Your attire<br />
is something to be taken very seriously.<br />
You could not be seen in the same place<br />
with the same outfit. Don’t come rocking<br />
the same thing you had on last week.<br />
So, not being wealthy, we had to be creative<br />
and make our stuff. We changed our