Special PresentationBilly Lamont - Beyond Babylon - February 7, 2027Sunday, February 7, 2027 at 4:00 PM
“BILLY LAMONT - BEYOND BABYLON” -
Poetry At The Movies: Multimedia performance poet Billy Lamont will perform his engaging and innovative poetry, that was written as living in and contains imaginary of Babylon village, - LIVE! - synchronized with stunning immersive film, and original electronic music!
The BEYOND BABYLON multimedia performance poem songs were inspired by the Holy Bible Psalm, “By the waters of Babylon I wept for Zion.” It was written and recorded as Lamont was living in the village of Babylon as he was traveling through some personal suffering, while maintaining joy and strength, as being a single Father to his son Zion.
These poem songs have such titles as “argyle park” and “like marconi..:SOS (save our soul,) drawn from local places and experiences.
One month later Hurricane Sandy unexpectedly devastated his hometown of Babylon and neighboring towns, forever giving new meaning to this art as hope and comfort for the local community, and people suffering devastation and loss everywhere.
BEYOND BABYLON as a multimedia show is a Sacred Pop Art sensory experience at its very best!!! Not to be missed!
Lamont has memories of seeing movies at the South Bay Cinema since he was a child, with his brother, and is looking forward to sharing this special night with all attending! :)! <3
BILLY LAMONT - BRIEF BIO
Billy Lamont is an internationally recognized and acclaimed American poet with a reformer spirit. He is a multimedia performance poet, from NY, who has performed on national television a number of times, including Joe Franklin Show, MTV and MUCH MUSIC Television broadcast from Toronto, Canada. He has toured and performed with Lollapalooza rock festival for multiple dates several years, and appeared on major radio stations across the U.S. including Z-100 live from Lollapalooza in NY. He has also given in-store book signing events at major and independent book stores throughout the U.S.
Lamont has four books of poetry, and as a recording artist has ten album CD/digital download releases. His latest book Peripheral View: Soul Songs For The Strobe Light Generation 2020-2025 is available at Barnes & Noble and Amazon as a hardcover, paperback, or as an eBook, and all his albums can be streamed on Spotify and Apple Music.
He was awarded a Guinness World Record for his poetry contribution to a benefit song for Love Hope Strength Foundation, and those fighting cancer, recorded by Mike Peters of The Alarm, that was the ‘longest officially released song ever’ and was written as a seed of peace for Muslims, Christians and Jews in The Holy Land.
His 1998 debut album CD/digital release Into The 21st Century was a benefit for Teen Challenge, with performances by two of his greatest influences, the legendary Allen Ginsberg and the brilliant Mike Peters of The Alarm on the title track. In his later years, Ginsberg expressed his love and support for Lamont’s poetry with permission to use an audio sample from one of his first recitals of the Beat Generation epic poem Howl.
One Night Only: Sunday, February 7, 2027 at 4:00pm
$20 admission. $30 option includes admission with a personalized, signed book of Lamont’s poetry or one of his CD albums.