Award-winning Canadian actor and rap artist, Baba Brinkman brings his unique evolutionary style of teaching to the Darwin Festival, which runs 5-10 July. Baba will give two evening performances of his The Rap Guide to Evolution, which has been developed with the support of the British Council -

Performance: Tuesday 7 July at 19:30, Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, Fitzwilliam Street, admission free

Performance: Friday 10 July at 19:30, Michaelhouse Cafe, Trinity Street, tickets available on the door £8

Workshop: Friday 10 July at 16:15, Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, Fitzwilliam Street, registration on the door £5

The Rap Guide to Evolution explores the history and current understanding of Darwin's theory, combining remixes of popular rap songs with storytelling rap/poems that cover Natural Selection, Artificial Selection, Sexual Selection, Group Selection, Unity of Common Descent, and Evolutionary Psychology. Dr. Pallen has vetted the entire script for scientific and historical accuracy, making it a powerful teaching tool as well as a laugh-out-loud entertainment experience. The show also engages directly with challenging questions about cultural evolution, asking the audience to imagine themselves as the environment and the performer as an organism undergoing a form of live adaptation.

Baba will also be performing in the Festival Fringe street performance programme throughout the week at various city centre locations, so don't miss him!

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