Bring Myles Bullen to your community!
Myles offers of variety of programs and performances perfect for libraries, schools, and community organizations. Their target age range is teens and young adults, but adults of all ages have enjoyed music, poetry, and workshops. Through poetry and music, Myles takes audience members and participants on a journey, guiding all through the winding roads of mental health struggles, recovery, and navigating grief, all the while never letting go of a spirit of joy and playfulness.
“I decided to offer concerts and writing workshops at libraries for young people as a creative way to speak about grief, addiction and ways of healing and creating a new life filled with music and playfulness. When I was a teen I was experiencing a lot of death of friends, family, and classmates and didn't have anyone to talk to about it. My goal with these programs is to help young people know that they are not alone and that they can make art as a way of processing challenging times.”
- Myles
Performances
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Poetry, Rap, and Navigating Grief
Books Myles to do their thing! They’ll perform songs from their many albums and maybe even new unreleased material they’re working on. Myles also likes to freestyle at their shows, drawing inspiration from suggestions by the the audience. An audience member recently praised the show by describing it as a rollercoaster. Myles takes the listener on a journey through highs and lows, guiding them gently through the winding roads of mental health struggles, grief, and recovery, all while never losing a spirit of joy and playfulness.
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Mourning Travels: Journeying Grief through Music, Poetry, and Rap
Myles Bullen is offering libraries a teen/young adult performance to fit with the summer reading theme for 2024: Adventure Begins at Your Library. For this performance, Myles will perform songs from their album, Mourning Travels, about navigating the waters of grief as well as other songs which embrace life’s journey in all its beauty, pain, joy, and wonder.
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Poetry, Rap, and Expressive Arts
Myles is offering libraries a teen/young adult performance to fit with the summer reading theme for 2025: Color Your World. For this performance, Myles will incorporating songs and discussion with the audience about using poetry, music, and other art-forms as a tool for self-expression, processing feelings, and healing.
Writing Workshops
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Find Your Voice: Creative Writing Workshop (Teens)
In this workshop, Myles works with young teenagers to help them find their voices and express themselves creatively with words, whether those take the form of poems, songs, raps, or stories—real or imagined. With undeniable genuineness, Myles leads by example, modeling vulnerability, as they guide participants on through their creative process.
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Find Your Spark: Creative Writing Workshop (Adults)
Human beings often find themselves wondering where their playfulness, sense of wonder, and creativity have gone when they reach adulthood. Many adults struggle to see themselves as artists, writers, or creative beings. In this workshop, Myles helps participants find their innate creative sparks. The workshop will focus on creative writing in whatever form each participant is naturally drawn toward, whether it be poetry, song or prose.
Testimonials
“Myles’ skills of writing and performance, his dedication to group process and group work, and his commitment and ability to see the power in everyone’s voice, makes him a standout group facilitator and artist. He was noticed by all, adults and youth alike, as someone who has taken his personal experiences and used art as a tool for transformation.”
Margot Fine, LCSW, Co-Director, Maine Inside out
Lewiston, Maine
“Myles’ melodies and beats are current and interesting. They draw you in. And, his words are real. His songs and beat poetry include themes of truth, loss, addiction and kindness. His performance at Hebron was authentic and had meaning. If you are looking to awaken your students to memorable art and honest communication, Myles Bullen’s performance will do it.”
Julie Middleton, Administrator, Hebron Academy
Hebron, ME
"Myles was engaging and fun! The teens were encouraged and seemed to naturally open themselves up to Myles and the prompts they worked on. Would definitely have Myles come again!! (I also had a lot of fun, too!)"
Nicole Burchfield, Teen Librarian, Durango Public Library
Durango, CO
“With a colorful personality and exterior and an expansive, joyous presence, Myles Bullen is a herald of positivity. While their songs focus on material that can easily be distressing, Myles is able to bring humanity and hope to topics like death, addiction, and loss, as well as everyday struggles like identity and sexuality.
Teens are reporting record levels of low mental health—especially after weathering a pandemic and experiencing growing stress related to an uncertain future—and there is no better time for normalizing discussions around depression and other tough topics. Myles is frank and unguarded while they sing and gently prompts dialogue with the audience. Moving between intelligent and thought-provoking raps accompanied by prerecorded backing tracks, to singing softly while strumming a ukelele, they always allow space between songs for the audience to feel their feelings or talk about their own experiences with the topics.
Of course, it's hard for teens to let down their defenses, especially in a public space and around people they don't know. But Myles projects a very immediate sense of acceptance and kindness that infuses the room. They invite the listeners to join him in singing on choruses, on clapping along, and—most magical—asking their new fans to offer thoughts or current worries that they took and swiftly spun into a fun, freestyled ukelele jam.
We cried. We laughed. We gripped hands with the people next to us and fully felt our emotions. We may not all have known each other an hour previously, but by the end we were all electrified by the current of love that Myles carries with them.
They reminds us: we are not alone. They reminds us: unmet friends and compassion and understanding are all around us.”
Nicole Burchfield, Youth Library Associate, Schusterman-Benson Library
Tulsa, OK