Voices at the Table Present Poet Laureate David "Excalibur" Camper
FREE EVENT: ADDRESS SHARED UPON RSVP- HELD IN PRIVATE RESIDENCE
Our March Voices at the Table rises in full crescendo as we proudly welcome David “Excalibur” Camper — Bay Area rapper, producer, poet, and the first-ever Poet Laureate of Suisun City, as our featured guest artist. As well as Monica Chew, Acclaimed pianist and composer to the table this month. This is a must attend event and a rare opportunity to here black composer Fred Onovwerosuoke piano works perform live by Monica. Her performance is powerful and exquisite.
With a fierce passion for authenticity and a fearless willingness to stand apart, Excalibur breathes life into every stage he enters. His voice does not simply speak — it moves like rhythm itself, each word striking with the clarity of percussion, each silence charged with meaning.
Born in Vallejo, California, and rooted in Suisun City, Excalibur began his artistic journey at just fifteen years old, composing rap verses and short stories — early notes in what would become a powerful and evolving artistic symphony. His creative path expanded during his collegiate years at Jackson State University, where he became a member of the MADDRAMA Performance Troupe and the Outspoken Arts Collective, refining his voice and deepening his presence as a performer. Now a Master’s graduate of UC Berkeley, Excalibur performs across the Bay Area with commanding presence and unmistakable originality. As Suisun City’s first Poet Laureate, he stands as both messenger and musician of language, transforming lived experience into sound, memory into movement, and truth into living breath.
In March, Voices at the Table becomes the instrument. Excalibur becomes the pulse. And together, we witness poetry not merely spoken — but performed, lived, and heard in its full, unforgettable music.
Monica Chew (she/her) is an Oakland-based composer and pianist. She is the founder of We Track Foibles, LLC, which is devoted to shining a light on abuse and equity issues in classical music. She celebrates presenting rarely performed music and new works from around the world. A “gifted player with an affinity for deeply sensitive expression” (Whole Note), her playing is “wonderfully delicate, like tissue” (International Pianist). She started composing in 2017 and couldn’t be happier about it. Her work has been commissioned by Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, Community Women’s Orchestra of Oakland, Masterworks Chorale, and Gabriela Lena Frank’s Creative Academy for Music and featured as part of the Darkwater Festival, Verdant Vibes, Hot Air Music Festival, Sonic Harvest, and Vox Novus. er first string quartet, Delayed Send, was premiered by Friction Quartet and reviewed as “monumental” and “stunning” by San Francisco Classical Voice. Prior to 2015, she neglected piano for nearly a decade to work as a principal software engineer on security and privacy at Mozilla and Google after receiving her Master of Music from SF Conservatory of Music and a PhD in computer science from UC Berkeley. She lives in Oakland with her husband, cat, a 1899 Steinway B, and a clavichord.
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