09/16/2025
✨ BE.BOLD. ARTIST ANNOUNCEMENT 🔥💫
We are thrilled to feature Andru Defeye, the Sacramento Poet Laureate Emeritus (2020–2024) at Be.Bold. 2025 this Thursday!
Among Andru’s many contributions as an artist, in 2024, he launched the city’s first Sacramento Poetry Week. He is the founder of Zero Forbidden Goals (ZFG), a creative collective responsible for cultural activations like National Guerrilla Poetry Month, Chainlink Poetry, and The Intersection. In 2025, he released UNLOCKED: The Laureate Years, a poetry collection chronicling five years of protest, pandemic, service, and personal transformation.
Defeye has been named one of Sacramento Magazine’s Top 100 business leaders and nominated for an honorary doctorate from CSUS. He continues to work at the intersection of art, education, and systems change—building movements rooted in joy, language, and cultural strategy.
DON’T MISS Andru Defeye this Thursday at Be. Bold.
🗓️: Thursday, September 18, 2025
📍: The Sofia in Midtown Sacramento
⏰: 12 PM - 6 PM
☑️ REGISTER at the link in bio or at tinyurl.com/be-bold-2025
📸 https://andrudefeye.com/bio