Life The Griot: The Poet / The Film

Life The Griot: The Poet / The Film

Lemuel LaRoche AKA Life The Griot

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Appleton Auditorium • 2025 Baxter Street • Athens, Georgia • 706 613 3650 x343

Wednesday, February 28, 6:30 pm

On Wednesday, February 28, at 6:30 pm, Athens community organizer, activist, teacher and poet Lemuel LaRoche, AKA Life The Griot will be onstage at the Athens-Clarke County Library’s Appleton Auditorium. Life is a social worker, poet, chess enthusiast, and activist on a mission. His inspirational words entertain and touch thousands with a simple truth: if we want to see better, then we have to do better.

Life’s performance will be preceded by a screening of the 2014 documentary Life The Griot, directed by Matt DeGennaro and produced by Kathy Prescott 和 Grady Thrasher. This film chronicles one man’s effort to make an impact on the lives of as many youth as possible by activating change.

Lemuel LaRoche is the founder and executive director of Chess and Community Conference, Inc., a nonprofit youth empowerment organization dedicated to developing strategic leadership skills in young people. Known in the communities that he serves as Life the Griot, he fuses chess with conventional therapeutic methods to curb impulsive behavior amongst youth with delinquent pasts. Life has over fifteen years experience in adolescent and community development and brings a fresh innovative approach to counseling.