People love them for their stand-up comedy and performance poetry. Now North Platte will have the chance to experience another side of Ignatius “Iggy” Mwela and Chad Songy – known collectively as CoMeTrY.

“CoMeTrY put on an entertainment show at NPCC in the fall of 2014,” said Josh York, assistant student activities director. “The duo will return Feb. 16 to present an educational piece.”

Mwela and Songy will stress leadership development and diversity appreciation during a show that promises to be informative, relatable and entertaining. The subjects have special meaning for the CoMeTrY artists, whose paths took many twists and turns before leading them to careers in the entertainment world.

Mwela started out as a homeless teenager who worked his way up to a college degree, and eventually, an accomplished performance artist.

Songy was a successful collegiate basketball player and magna cum laude graduate with a degree in business administration. He was selected twice by “ESPN The Magazine” as an Academic All-Region honoree and was nominated in 2009 for the Bob Cousy Collegiate Point Guard of the Year Award.

CoMeTrY’s goal in North Platte is to encourage people to be the type of leaders that others naturally gravitate toward.

The acronym GRAV will be used to convey four values Mwela and Songy believe apply to all sorts of skills necessary in school, such as becoming a leader, appreciating diversity and preventing bullying. GRAV stands for Growth, Research, Approachability and Validation.

The show will be at 8 p.m. Monday in the McDonald-Belton Theater on the south campus of NPCC. It is free and open to the public.