WAMFest 2021

FDU School of the Arts presents WAMFest 2021, Monday, November 22, at Dreyfuss Theater, FDU Florham Campus.

6 PM Arts by the People

What’s in a Name: An interactive workshop, a celebration of our diversity.

8 PM The Classical Theater of Harlem

Andre Braugher in conversation with Ty Jones.

All events are free of charge and open to the public, but reservations are required.

WAMFest events are in high demand and sell out quickly. Reserve your free tickets now

Andre Braugher has received two Emmy Awards from 11 nominations, as well as two Golden Globe Award nominations. TV credits include Homicide: Life on the Street, Men of a Certain Age, Brooklyn Nine-Nine.

Ty Jones serves as Artistic Director of The Classical Theatre of Harlem. Credits include numerous Broadway, film, and TV projects including Power.

An Annual Festival

WAMFest is an annual series of readings, interviews, talks, and performances hosted by Fairleigh Dickinson University’s School of the Arts. WAMFest brings successful artists of various art genres to the campus to inspire and inform students and the community. Past guests have included Bruce Springsteen, Robert Pinsky, Roseanne Cash, Eugene Mirman, Jonathan Demme, Talib Kweli, Mark Morris, Neil Gaiman, Ice-T, Sean Astin, Chita Rivera and Laverne Cox.

WAMFest was created by poet and creative writing professor David Daniel with the hope of bringing together writers, songwriters, visual artists, dancers, musicians, actors, comedians, and filmmakers to create conversations and collaborations that bridge the gap between ‘the people’s art’ and the ‘art of the academy,’ and to create a model for teaching and celebrating the arts across the country.

WAMFest posters
Say “poetry” or “poet” and you won’t have to have a conversation for long, either in a classroom or at a party. But if you mention music and songwriting to those same people, they expand again, filled with life and endless strong opinions. In 2009, the Words, Arts, Music Festival was born with this in mind. -- David Daniel, poet, creator of WAMFest

WAMFest has been made possible in part by funding from Morris Arts through the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts. Special thanks to FDU Trustee Robert and Patricia Pures.