Climbing PoeTree will be doing a feature length performance.
$10-20 sliding scale

Part 5 of La Peña's Hip Hop Beyond Gender Series:

La Peña & STEELO Entertainment Presents
R-E-S-P-E-C-T: Ain’t I A Woman

Thought provoking panel and performances exploring the presence of female MCs in the field of Hip Hop.

Featuring:
Climbing Poetree (Brooklyn)
Raw-G (Mexico)
Aima The Dreamer (Oakland)
Ximbo(Mexico)
DJ Leydis (Cuba)
Davey D. (Hard Knock Radio Hip Hop Historian)

Hip Hop Beyond Gender is a five-part events series that features performances and workshops showcasing the cutting-edge music and art of women and trans Hip Hop artists. Mainstream hip hop may be lacking in female and trans artists, but La Peña seeks to prove that hip cop culture is alive and well amongst all genders. Hip Hop Beyond Gender illuminates the inherent connection between Hip Hop Culture and the struggle against misogny, homophobia, and transphobia. Each event will showcase the impact of music and art by women and transgender people in the hip hop movement.

La Peña Cultural Center
3105 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley, California 94705

Benefit for SF County Jail Workshop at The Hold Out
2313 San Pablo Ave, Oakland CA

Details coming soon!

Climbing PoeTree leads workshop with Fired Up! a grassroots network of people who have been or are currently, behind the walls of SF County Jail, building community with others who are committed to breaking down the barriers those walls produce. Together, we seek to build a vision of community rooted in principles of healing, self-determination, and social justice movement building.

F iercly
I nspiring and
R adical
E ducation to
D eepen our
U nderstanding and
P ower
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Climbing PoeTree is honored to perform as part of the opening ceremonies for the 15th annual Allied Media Conference, a collaborative laboratory of media-based organizing strategies for transforming our world, held every Summer in Detroit. CREATE. CONNECT. TRANSFORM! registration is open, click related link

OuterSpaces: Detroit

The OuterSpaces crew is excited to perform as part of The Foundation of 5e Gallery 4th Anniversary of
Celebrating Women in Hip Hop.

Other featured performances include indie-funk band Lola Valley with new soul singer Monica Blaire, critically acclaimed female lyricist Mae Day, and breakout female DJ XO. Hosted by internationally renowned poet Jessica Care More.

at Tangent Gallery
715 E Milwaukee Street

The Foundation of 5e Gallery weekly Tuesday night showcases ensures the presence of not only women in Hip Hop but reflects one of respect, honesty and strength of any Artist with similar values and a desire to positively continue the evolution of Hip Hop in Detroit and worldwide.

Tickets: $10.00 General Admission

Fire Historical and Cultural Arts Collaborative and Kalamazoo College are proud to welcome the Outer Spaces tour to Kalamazoo for a weekend packed with empowering artistic experiences. 

FRIDAY MAY 10 @ Fire, 1249 Portage Rd. Kalamazoo, MI 49001
Creative Justice workshop ft. Invincible & Las Krudas - 4:30pm 
Performance ft. Invincible & Las Krudas - 8:00pm $5 at the door 

SATURDAY MAY 11 @ Kalamazoo College 
1200 Academy Street
Kalamazoo, MI 49006 

A Zoo After Dark event ft. Invincible, Las Krudas & Climbing PoeTree - 9:00pm 
$5 for non-students

Free admission for K College students; one free guest per student

Outer Spaces is a visionary force of emcees and hip-hop poets representing the strength in marginalized identities. Featuring the spitfire wordplay of Invincible (Detroit), the soul-stirring spoken word of Climbing PoeTree (Brooklyn), and the irrepressible flow and flavor of Las Krudas (Havana), this international, bilingual, pansexual, polyracial, multi-media, cross-genre collaboration of artists nurtures parallel universes where our visions for planetary transformation become possible.

This event is brought to you by:
The Kalamazoo Poetry Collective
Fire Historical and Cultural Arts Collaborative
Fuel Vegetarian 
Pulse 

Many thanks to our additional Kalamazoo College cosponsors: 
The Office of Student Involvement, The Latino Student Organization (LSO), The Black Student Organizaton (BSO), MEChA, Kaleidoscope

Climbing PoeTree Keynote/performance at 9 am
Workshop 11 am

organized by Monsoon United Asian Women of Iowa

Outerspaces Tour featuring
-Las Krudas (Havana/Austin)
-Invincible (Detroit)
-Climbing Poetree (Brooklyn)

Opening performances by
-African Space Program (Teo Blake and Jane Spittman)
-Sodium

Frontier Bar
2421 Webberville Rd, ATX

All Ages, Wheelchair accessible venue

$10 21 and over
$15 20 and under (bar fee)
Tickets available, click related link

OuterSpaces is a visionary force of emcees and hip-hop poets representing the strength in marginalized identities. Featuring the spitfire wordplay of Invincible (Detroit), the soul-stirring spoken word of Climbing PoeTree (Brooklyn), and the irrepressible flow and flavor of Las Krudas (Havana/Austin), this international, bilingual, pansexual, polyracial, multi-media, cross-genre collaboration of artists nurtures parallel universes where our visions for planetary transformation become possible.

Outerspaces is also hosting a free workshop May 1st at U of T from 3-6

OuterSpaces Workshop
ART IS A HAMMER: RESHAPING REALITY THROUGH CULTURAL ACTIVISM

UT Austin, CLA 1.302B

Workshop free and open to the public

(Please RSVP to lyndonkgill@utexas.edu by Friday 4/26, Workshop will be capped at 30 persons)

This interactive workshop presentation combines performance, story-telling, slide-shows, and video to illuminate the powerful symbiosis between art and activism, sexuality and spirituality. Climbing PoeTree, Invincible, and Las Krudas share tactics and strategies from their walks of life as cultural workers, illuminating how hip hop, poetry, media-making, creative interventions and collaborative public art can be used to strengthen our movements for social justice. As queer people representing diverse backgrounds and heritages, the facilitators will also speak to the influence that sexuality and spirituality has had in defining their roles as change makers. Participants will have the opportunity to share examples of arts activism from their own experiences and communities, and should be prepared to get creative, imaginative, and inspired!

Featured performers for Take Back The Night event, presented by the Center for Womyn's Concerns.

Open to the public

Climbing PoeTree will be the featured performance with a opening acts by "Poetry in Pink"
Hosted by Multicultural Greek Council, FIU Residential Life, and Social Justice Living Learning Community

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

@The Everglades Lounge (South Campus)

Climbing Poetree will be presenting: UpRising-- A multimedia, multi-voice spoken word performance and hands on arts activism workshop. Climbing PoeTree will share tactics on how to use the arts for social justice movement building, community organizing and popular education.

Hip Hop for Change is a free day-long conference that brings together youth and community from across the bay area. This day is a venue to explore and build on the ways we use Hip Hop and youth culture for social justice and positive change. Using our culture, creativity, and critical consciousness and the elements we can be the answer to violence and injustices, making our world better PIECE * BY * PEACE.

FEATURING:
*Spoken Word artists, hip hop and theater activists: Climbing PoeTree
*Oakland Host of Hard Knock Radio and cultural scholar: Davey D
*Global filmmaker and Organizer: Eli Jacobs-Fantauzzi

Other workshops will include conversations with record industry insiders, global hip hop and identity, graf art and style workshops, local artists, vendors, cipher, lunch, prizes and more.

organized by the Social Justice Resource Center

Free and open to the public, but must RSVP so that they can feed you!
Register at http://bit.ly/hhfc2013

We will be doing an Outerspaces show along side Invincible
free and open to the public.

at the University of Arizona
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, detail coming soon

OuterSpaces is a visionary force of emcees and hip-hop poets representing the strength in marginalized identities. Featuring the spitfire wordplay of Invincible (Detroit), the soul-stirring spoken word of Climbing PoeTree (Brooklyn), and the irrepressible flow and flavor of Las Krudas (Havana), this international, bilingual, pansexual, polyracial, multi-media, cross-genre collaboration of artists nurtures parallel universes where our visions for planetary transformation become possible.

lunch-time performance 12:30-2pm
evening reception followed by Arts Activism S.T.I.T.C.H.E.D. workshop

106 Central Street
Wellesley, MA 02482

Climbing PoeTree feature performance in the Providence College Student Center.
brought to you by S.O.A.R. (Society Organized Against Racism)

the Slavin Overlook Lounge
at Providence College
1 Cunningham Square
Providence, RI 02908

Mission: To present art from female perspectives on socially relevant issues. To serve as a catalyst for a spirited dialogue between artist and audience. The festival is dedicated to providing an opportunity for female performing artists to showcase and collaborate their original work.

Climbing PoeTree performs Friday and Saturday night!

727 West Cass Street
Tampa
FL 33606

Mission: To present art from female perspectives on socially relevant issues. To serve as a catalyst for a spirited dialogue between artist and audience. The festival is dedicated to providing an opportunity for female performing artists to showcase and collaborate their original work.

Climbing PoeTree performs opening night!

727 West Cass Street
Tampa
FL 33606

Each spring, the United States Student Association, the country’s oldest and largest student-led organization, puts on the Grassroots Legislative Conference and National Student Lobby Day (LegCon).

This three-day event provides students at every level of organizing and leadership the ability and opportunity to learn new skills in student advocacy, network, lobby their elected representatives on student issues, march through historic downtown Washington, DC, rally on Capitol Hill, and of course build lifelong friendships.

March 14-18th, 2013

Climbing PoeTree performs March 16th during lunch.

The Sista-2-Sista Youth Summit (“S2S”) is a one-day empowerment summit connecting 125 high school girls of Pan-African descent from underserved areas across NYC with women making a difference in the areas of technology, media, law, health and wellness, medicine, entertainment, education, personal growth and development and other fields. The girls are engaged in workshops, live entertainment, and reflective activities. Utilizing a 3 step-process of self-awareness, self-appreciation, and self-actualization the workshops and activities equip participants with fundamental tools to make well-informed decisions today and in the future.

Produced by the Gye Nyame Empowerment Project

Climbing PoeTree performs 15 min set at 5:30 pm

St. Francis College
180 Remsen Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201

Performance geared for middle school through high school students, sponsored by the Dwyer Cultural Center in Harlem.
Open to the public. $7
Call Community Works to reserve your tickets. 212-459-1854, contact Maria Soriano

The Malcolm X & Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center
3940 Broadway New York, NY 10032

As part of "Social Justice, Real Justice Conference" presented by the Multicultural Center at the University of Oregon, Eugene

Climbing PoeTree Writing Workshop
1- 1:30 p.m.
Umpqua

Cultural Resistance Panel, Climbing PoeTree and Stic-man, Dead Prez
3:30-5p.m.
EMU Ballroom

Hip-Hop Concert with DSDC, Rocky Rivera, Dead Prez
8:30-12 p.m.
WOW Hall

Climbing PoeTree facilitates Queer People of Color Caucus Session
10:30 a.m. -12p.m.
Gumwood Room

and performs to open for keynote Dolores Huerta (labor leader and civil rights activist who, along with César Chávez, co-founded the United Farm Workers.)
6- 8 p.m.
EMU Ballroom

University of Oregon, Eugene
presented by the Multicultural Center

We will be doing a short set as part of a fundraising effort for local restaurants and business in Redhook, affected by Hurricane Sandy.

Climbing PoeTree performs and leads workshop as part of ReFrame International Film Festival whose mission is to reframe international issues through film and art in order to engage local community members about social justice concerns that connect us.

WORKSHOP: "ART is our WEAPON, our MEDICINE, our VOICE, our VISION"

Time: 11 a.m. to 12:45 p.m.
Location: Miranda Studios
140 Hunter St. W.

Pre-registration is required by emailing: workshops@reframefilmfestival.ca

PERFORMANCE: 9:30 p.m. at Market Hall Performing Arts
140 Charlotte St, Peterborough, ON K9J 2T8

We invite you to shake off your cynicism and shake out your body as we continue our tradition of post-film celebration guaranteed to propel us towards justice. This year's lineup includes the powerful inspiration of the internationally touring spoken word duo Climbing PoeTree, local funk reggae group Dub Trinity, and a sampling from the Peterborough Poetry Slam. Hosted by Esther Vincent.

Cost: $10 waged and adults, $5 students, PWYC

Sponsored by The Centre for Gender and Social Justice

With Opening Acts:
ABSTRACT RANDOM
BRIXIA BLOODBEARD
YUSRA KHOGALI

ART BY:
MALCOLM YARDE
FRANCESCA NOCERA
TEE

MUSIC BY DJ SUNSUN

$10-$15 SLIDING SCALE

AT CINE CYCLE
129 SPADINA AVE

DRINKS, BEERS AND SNACKS WILL BE AVAILABLE
HAND MADE SHIRTS - CD'S, AND bklyn boihood CALENDARS FOR SALE

A feature length Performance

8:00 pm open mic
followed by featured acts
Shanon Matesky & Climbing PoeTree

Wordplay
1180 N Milwuakee Ave
Chicago, IL

in class Performance. not open to the public

Climbing PoeTree performs at EDELO Casa de Arte en Movimiento y Residencia Intercultural de Diversas Practicas in Chiapas to celebrate the New Year, alongside:

Olmeca (LA)
Manik B (SCLC Chiapas)
Meres Sia Gabriel (Poet, Oakland)
Sister Gaby (Hip Hop, Monterey Mexico)
Gran Om, (Graffic Artist, Mexico City)
Casa Felis (Expo Appropriated technologies, Chiapas)

EDELO
Flavio Paniagua #10
San Cristobal de las Casas,
Chiapas MX 29200

Tickets:
$20 General
$15 college Student
$5 Under 18

Click Here For: Facebook Event Page

Tickets:
$15-20 General

CONCERT:
All Ages

The Living Room Project
1919 Market St. Oakland

PRE-SALE TICKETS: $8 youth, $15 college students, $20 adults
TICKETS AT DOOR: $10 youth, $18 college students, $25-30 adults

Advance tickets click related site

QPOC after party at another venue nearby, details forthcoming.

Inner Mission
2050 Bryant Street

21+
Co-sponsored by Arab Cultural Community Center

Tickets:
$20 General

ADVANCE tickets, click related site!

Tickets:
PRE-SALE TICKETS: $8 youth, $10 college students, $12 Adults
TICKETS AT DOOR: $15-20 Sliding Scale

For Advance Tickets: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/300397

Workshop with Jeff Chang's Hip-Hop Arts Education Class.
(private event)

Presented by UZURI PRODUCTIONS & COMMUNITY SPONSORS
ALL-AGES

---- TICKETS ARE SLIDING SCALE ----
Tickets being sold by Representatives of Sponsor Organizations
& Brown Paper Tickets Click Related Site

PRE-SALE TICKETS: $8-$15 (youth & students); $15-30 (adults)
TICKETS AT DOOR: $10-20 (youth & students); $20-40 (adults)

Clear Here For: Facebook Event Page
More Info (including community sponsors and accessibility) click related site

FREE!!!

WORKSHOP: Parallel Universes and Shadow Histories VU567
CONCERT: VU Multipurpose Room. Free. (doors open at 7)

Presented by the AS Social Issues Resource Center, Queer Resource Center, Ethnic Student Center, Womens Center and Sexual Awareness Center!!!

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Climbing PoeTree joins forces with powerhouses INVINCIBLE (Detroit) and LAS KRUDAS (Cuba) for a series of mind-warping concerts and workshops down the west coast!!!

OuterSpaces is a visionary force of emcees and hip-hop poets representing the strength in marginalized identities. Featuring the spitfire wordplay of Invincible (Detroit), the soul-stirring spoken word of Climbing PoeTree (Brooklyn), and the irrepressible flow and flavor of Las Krudas (Havana), this international, bilingual, pansexual, polyracial, multi-media, cross-genre collaboration of artists nurtures parallel universes where our visions for planetary transformation become possible.

The OuterSpaces tour will present multi-dimensional performances, interactive workshops and dialogues addressing some of the most pressing social justice issues of our times. Bridging the gap between the personal and political, OuterSpaces aims to inspire audiences and participants to free their imaginations and become agents for the change the world thirsts for. Their art is a space craft breaking through to uncharted territories in our planet's capacity to come into balance, and illuminating the borderlands where we can bring our whole complex selves.

CONFIRMED SHOWS DETAILED BELOW:
For OUTERSPACES WEBSITE
OR to book an event click Related Site

We will be keynoting at the 12th Annual Student of Color Conference.

Climbing PoeTree feature show at Phil Mechanic Studios
109 Roberts Street, Asheville, NC

$15 admission

Lipinsky Auditorium at UNC

Free UNC Asheville students (limit one per OneCard)
$5 All area students (limit one; valid student I.D. required)
$10 UNC Asheville faculty/staff/alumni/NCCCR (limit one per OneCard)
$15 General public

Also, afternoon workshop, click link for details!

Climbing PoeTree feature length show at The Casbah
1007 West Main Street Durham, NC 27701

Climbing PoeTree returns to Durham with their unforgettable & rousing performance! Warming up the night is the fire of singer-song writer Laila Nur. (*and sooopa SPECIAL guests, to be revealed!!!*)

Tickets: $7 advance/students, $12 day of show
Advance tickets available, click related link

Ages: 18+ (or all ages w/adult)

Facebook event: CLICK HERE

Climbing PoeTree performs and leads 2 workshops for St. Johns tech students!

Sponsored by Sexual Assault and Violence Prevention Program, ALANA multicultural student center, the LGBTQ center, and the Feminist Alliance.

The show is open to the public and will take place at Rocky Classroom Building, Rm. 300, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY

Climbing PoeTree lead workshop and perform as part of Social Justice Week at RWU.

Climbing PoeTree performs at the second annual Word*Rock*&Sword: A Musical Celebration of Women, featuring Toshi Reagon, Meshell Ndegeocello, Imani Uzuri, Morley and many more!

This concert is a sanctified testimony of all the good that can happen when you put some of New Yorks best musicians in a room with some of New Yorks best people. Love, Power, Peace, and Celebration.

(le) poisson rouge | 158 Bleecker Street | NY, NY

check out full line-up and details at related site

Orientation event for incoming students.

Climbing PoeTree performs at this year’s Clear Creek Festival, a homecoming dedicated to Community, Culture, Healing and Action. Over Labor Day weekend, August 31 and September 1-2, 2012, the woods will be alive with summer’s sunshine, the stage will be graced with great artists, healing & rejuvenation will fill the air and a family-friendly, loving community will have us all comin’ home all weekend long!

Alixa and Naima perform on the Saturday night stage. Find out more about the festival, this year's Performance and Workshop schedules, and get tickets by clicking the related link!

Climbing PoeTree performs on the acoustic stage Tuesday at 5:30 and Thursday at 4:30 at the 37th annual international feminist music festival known as Michfest!

We are going back to NOLA! it has been a long time! come out if you can, it will be a powerful night of poetry, multimedia, pan-flute beat-boxing and more. This will be a featured length performance!!!!

$6-20 sliding scale

1212 St.Bernard Ave
(near the corner of St.Bernard & Rampart)
in the 7th Ward.

Battered Women's Justice Project: The CLSSP 2012 Institute

Culturally and Linguistically Specific Programs Institute hosted by Casa de Esperanza, the National Organization of Sisters of Color Ending Sexual Assault, Institute on Domestic Violence for the African American Community and the Asian Pacific Islander Institute on Domestic Violence in partnership with the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Violence Against Women.

The CLSSP 2012 Institute will bring together over 100 grantees and experts from a variety of fields. This institute will provide participants with significant opportunities for networking, resource and expertise sharing and critical discussions on traditionally challenging topics.

We will be presenting on July 31st in the morning plenary and we will be facilitating an afternoon breakout group.

To register click on the link above (across from the title)

Through art, poetry and food the FTT Youth Food Council will be celebrating their first year flipping the table on food justice (read below)! This coalition of young people have been utilizing the Hurricane Season Curriculum in their trainings.

Come connect with the Flip The Table youth leaders and learn about their advocacy campaign- “Is School Food Real Food?”

Special performance by Climbing Poetree

Magnolia Tree Earth Center
677 Lafayette Ave, Brooklyn

[Subway: Bedford Nostrand G stop]

Flip the Table: Youth Food Council is training future leaders in the sustainable food movement, lending a problem-solution framework around which youth can mobilize and envision change. We do this by connecting high-school age Brooklyn-based youth within a network of urban farms, non-profit organizations and institutions while raising awareness about local, regional, and systemic issues surrounding food systems. Flip the Table (FTT) is a coalition of over a dozen local grassroots organizations that work with these youth on the subjects of environmental, social, economic, and food justice in order to develop connections and strengthen community ties, address the challenges associated with fighting systemic poverty on limited resources, and amplify the skills and voices of future leaders.

We will be performing for roughly 3,000 youth who have gathered around the themes of faith, service and justice.

We will also be leading a workshop entitled "ART is our WEAPON, our MEDICINE, our
VOICE and our VISION: Arts & Activism for Social Change"

Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN

A Benefit night of performance to benefit the Dyke March with spoken word poetry, dance, burlesque, and more.

At the NYC LGBT Community Center
208 West 13th Street, NY, NY

Climbing PoeTree performs as part of "Half the Sky Festival: Brooklyn Women in Traditional Performance" presented by Brooklyn Arts Council: an intensive exploration of gender and diaspora in Brooklyn women's traditional genres, with six weeks of concerts and workshops featuring women’s music, dance, narrative, verbal arts, urban performance (spoken word and drumming jams) and ritual traditions performed in Brooklyn- from April 22 - June 8, 2012.

Saturday, June 2, 2012, 7:00pm until 8:30pm
Half the Sky Festival: Girls Hit The Streets

Don’t miss this evening especially geared towards girls of all ages featuring the legendary b-girl Rokafella. Girls have broken through in street arts often dominated by boys, such as breaking, step, mural arts and spoken word. Rokafella and her hand-picked Brooklyn b-girl crew are joined by the amazing wordsmiths Climbing PoeTree, the Gowanus Wildcats, an all-star, all-girl drill team led by Renee “Juice” Flowers and others.

At The Actors Fund Arts Center at the Schermerhorn
160 Schermerhorn Street
Brooklyn, NY

Join FIERCE for a spectacular night of spoken word, dance, voguing, funk rock, gender-bending drag, and live music! Come party and celebrate the power and beauty of our communities as queer youth of color and allies: all for a great cause!
All proceeds go to FIERCE's work to build the leadership and power of LGBTQ youth of color in New York City!

|| PERFORMING ARTISTS ||

• Kay Barrett - spoken word artist and a rare and precious element in the principality of word wizardry
• Manchild and Monstah BLACK aka the Blaks - intergelectrodiscosoul mayors of Gotham performing dance and vocals
• ButtaFlySouL - singer songwriter and golden tongued grande griot
• Wendell Cooper - dancer, voguer and maximus maven of movement magnificence
• Shelley Nicole's blakbüshe - funk rock and delicious diva of revelry
• Climbing Poetree (Alixa & Naima) - spoken word artists and soul sentinels of supernova linguistics
• Essence Revealed - gender bending ribald mistress of sanctioned smoulder

@ Sullivan Hall, 214 Sullivan Street, NYC

ALL proceeds go to FIERCE's work to build the leadership and power of LGBTQ youth of color in New York City!

*Advance Sliding Scale tickets available $25 - $110.
* Limited Reduced Admission Tickets available. Email Naa at naa@fiercenyc.org if you need a reduced admission ticket.
*You can also purchase a ticket for a youth member to attend!
*Tickets at the door are $35 - $120. So, buy your tickets in advance and save!

Click related site to buy your tickets

|| About FIERCE ||

FIERCE is a membership-based organization building the leadership and power of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) youth of color in New York City. We develop politically conscious leaders who are invested in improving ourselves and our communities through youth-led campaigns, leadership development programs, and cultural expression through arts and media. FIERCE is dedicated to cultivating the next generation of social justice movement leaders who are dedicated to ending all forms of oppression.

For more information about FIERCE visit www.fiercenyc.org.

Climbing PoeTree has been invited to feature their work as part of the world renowned TEDx!
Taking place at The New England Youth Theater, Brattleboro, VT

SOLD OUT!

But you can catch it through live streaming
by clicking here

We will be closing out the event and are scheduled to start between 3:30 and 4pm.

About this event:

TEDxSIT: Building Bridges: Connecting Our Communities is a journey to find the core of human existence: our connection to one another.

We strongly believe that a community only exists because of its members. In holding this event, we want to connect people and inspire them to take action on the issues that matter the most to them. As the Hopi elders say: “We are the ones we have been waiting for.” Change starts with us, one idea and one person at a time.

TEDxSIT is a community-run event; coordinated by students from SIT Graduate Institute in partnership with faculty, alumni, community partners from the Brattleboro and larger Vermont area to be a catalyst for the sharing of creative and profound ideas.

Confirmed Speakers:

Lee Mun Wah
YK Hong
Climbing PoeTree
Raj Gill
Bo Muller-Moore
Barbara Sondag

3Rivers Arts Presents:"Hurricane Season: the Hidden Messages In Water"

Alixa and Naima will perform a one-hour version of their award-winning multi-media production "Hurricane Season: the hidden messages in water."

Through a tapestry of spoken-word poetry, video projection, and movement choreography "Hurricane Season" connects the issues that surfaced in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina to the “unnatural disasters” disenfranchised communities are experiencing nationwide and worldwide on a daily basis. The show tackles climate change, environmental injustice, poverty, over-policing and mass-imprisonment, militarization, corporate globalization, gentrification, and displacement as they manifest from one gulf to another. The performance also reveals the creative potency of the shifting time we are living in: the opportunity inherent in disaster to make a radical difference in the way we relate to ourselves, each other, and the planet.

"Hurricane Season pounds with intensity and fierceness and love. Naima and Alixa are truly forces of nature, delivering a performance that will move you to tears and to action."
-Tia Lessin and Carl Deal, Producers of Fahrenheit 9-11
and Directors of Academy Award nominated post-Katrina film Trouble the Water

Black Box Theatre at Groton Dunstable Regional High School
703 Chicopee Row, Groton, MA 01450


$20 at the door
$15 in advance and for students
"Launch related site" to get tickets: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/239232

Climbing PoeTree will be featured at Providence College, performing a full set of poetry including multimedia excerpts from their award winning production Hurricane Season: the hidden messages in water.

An interactive S.T.I.T.C.H.E.D. workshop will take place earlier that afternoon.

1 Cunningham Square
Providence, RI 02918

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Alixa and Naima's acclaimed performance is composed dual-voice spoken word poetry and multi-media theatre that explores diverse themes, including: healing from state and personal violence, environmental justice, civil rights, spirituality, global politics, and woman's empowerment. They will present excerpts from "Hurricane Season: the hidden messages in water," their widely-celebrated multi-media two-woman show that seeks not to captivate audiences, but to liberate them.

Jean Yawkey Center Gymnasium
400 The Fenway Boston, MA 02115

“Pages for the People- Bookmaking Workshop” Book making workshop, analyzing how we are viewed v.s how we view ourselves.
Jean Yawkey Center for Community Leadership
(This is for students in EC partner schools only)

Climbing PoeTree will be featured at Smith College. Alixa and Naima's acclaimed performance is composed dual-voice spoken word poetry and multi-media theatre that explores diverse themes, including: healing from state and personal violence, environmental justice, civil rights, spirituality, global politics, and woman's empowerment. They will present excerpts from "Hurricane Season: the hidden messages in water," their widely-celebrated multi-media two-woman show that seeks not to captivate audiences, but to liberate them. 

Weinstein Auditorium, Wright Hall
Smith College
Northampton, MA 01083

Handmade Journals and Creative Writing Workshop

Join Brooklyn-based duo Alixa and Naima of Climbing PoeTree for a free workshop. Participants will create a handmade journal using recycled materials and then use the journal for a few collective writing exercises.

FREE!
Presented by the Teton County Library and Teton Literacy Center

To register email odoherty@tclib.org or call 733-2164 ext. 135

1465 Gregory Lane, Jackson, WY 83001

Mural Painting Workshop.
Details still to be announced.

6-7pm Pre performance reception (Open to the public)

7pm SHOW

Climbing PoeTree will be featured at Center For The Arts. Alixa and Naima's acclaimed performance is composed dual-voice spoken word poetry and multi-media theatre that explores diverse themes, including: healing from state and personal violence, environmental justice, civil rights, spirituality, global politics, and woman's empowerment. They will perform excerpts from "Hurricane Season: the hidden messages in water," their widely-celebrated multi-media two-woman show that seeks not to captivate audiences, but to liberate them. 

265 Cache Street, Jackson Wyoming

Climbing PoeTree will be doing a morning of workshops on social justice and the theme of "Giving Voice" for the students Jackson Hole High School followed by a school assembly performance . Not Open to the public

Climbing PoeTree will be doing a morning of workshops on social justice and the theme of "Giving Voice" for the students of Jackson Hole High. Not Open to the public

Climbing PoeTree will be doing a morning of workshops on social justice and the theme of "Giving Voice" for the students of Summit High. Not Open to the public

Climbing PoeTree will be performing and doing an interactive workshop geared for children!!!

145 Brooklyn Ave, Brooklyn, NY

University of Maine at Augusta
Presents the 10th Annual Terry Plunkett Maine Poetry Festival

FREE to the public!

Climbing PoeTree will be the featured performers at the festival presenting an hour version of their award winning multi-media production, "Hurricane Season: The Hidden Messages in Water."

Through a tapestry of spoken-word poetry, video projection, and movement choreography "Hurricane Season" connects the issues that surfaced in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina to the “unnatural disasters” disenfranchised communities are experiencing nationwide and worldwide on a daily basis. The performance also reveals the creative potency of the shifting time we are living in: the opportunity inherent in disaster to make a radical difference in the way we relate to ourselves, each other, and the planet. (read more at related site)

"Hurricane Season pounds with intensity and fierceness and love. Naima and Alixa are truly forces of nature, delivering a performance that will move you to tears and to action."
-Tia Lessin and Carl Deal, Producers of Fahrenheit 9-11
and Directors of Academy Award nominated post-Katrina film Trouble the Water

University of Maine at Augusta
Jewett Hall Auditorium
46 University Drive,
Augusta, ME 0433

Climbing Poetree will be featured at Portland Stage, a benefit for Corah Brigit Hanlon. They will be performing a full set including multimedia excerpts from their award winning production, Hurricane Season: the hidden messages in water.

Corah Brigit Hanlon is a joyful, loving, hilarious, wicked smart 3 year-old. She is a big sister to Burton Caine and daughter of Crystal Gamet and Jamie Hanlon. Nearly since birth Corah's kidneys have been irrevocably damaged. She will shortly need her father's kidney. Please join the community of support for Corah and her family. Ticket sales will go towards coverage of kidney transplant-related expenses.

$15-50 Adults
$5-20 Children

Reserve tickets ahead by calling 781-820-0773 or e-mail be.thanlouisos@gmail.com or purchase at door.

25A Forest Ave
Portland, ME

We will be presenting for the whole student body of GCE excerpts of Hurricane Season and samples of the lesson plans from the curriculum. They will be utilizing the Hurricane Season curriculum this coming fall as one of their electives!

This will be a community event open to all!!! Please tell your peoples. This is a super last minute event and we need help spreading the word to let folks know to come!!!! Click related site for Facebook event.

$10-15 sliding scale no one turned away for lack of funds.

2801 S Hamlin Ave Chicago IL 60623

FREE and open to the public

Members of Detroit Future Youth (DFY) and other participants will get a chance to make social justice themed videos during the organization's March gathering hosted by Real Media of the Urban Neighborhood Initiative in Southwest Detroit's Springwell Village. The all day event will feature New York based performing artists and cultural workers Alixa and Naima of Climbing Poetree.

4-45pm: Free food, music, media slideshow case
4:45-5pm Introductions
5-5:30pm Exhibition of Real Media projects
5:30-6:15pm Climbing Poetree performance (one poem) and STITCHED activity
6:15-7:15pm Climbing Poetree along with RM staff will lead an interactive breakout session concluding in the creation of skits, videos, and performance by participants
7:15-7:45pm Viewing of breakout creations
7:45-8pm Climbing PoeTree closes off the evening with a multimedia performance

at Springwell Village
8300 Longworth Street in Detroit

FREE and open to the public, however, preference will be given to Mac students (The room holds 260 people.)

As the closing event for Macalaster's Women's History Month, the theme of this year is "I Was, I Am, I Will Be: Resistance and Liberation." The purpose of this theme is to recognize and honor women who are reclaiming and re-imagining their identities and images through transforming spaces, sharing stories of liberation to connect with past and present realities, and building new communities and new futures locally, nationally, and globally.

John B. Davis Lecture Hall in our Campus Center.
1600 Grand Ave
Saint Paul, Minnesota

Climbing PoeTree performs for Loring Nicollet Alternative High School, FAIR High School and Southside Family High School (not open to the public)

1931 Nicollet Avenue
Minneapolis, MI

Africa in Motion
presented by the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art
FREE EVENT

Alixa and Naima's acclaimed performance is composed of soul-stirring spoken word, video projection, and movement that explores diverse themes, including: healing from state and personal violence, environmental justice, civil rights, spirituality, global politics, and woman's empowerment. With flawless cadence and impeccable lyricism, stirring images and stunning verse, the poetry Alixa and Naima deliver challenges its listeners to remember their humanity, dissolves apathy with hope, exposes injustice, and helps heal our inner trauma so that we may begin to cope with the issues facing our communities.

In conjunction with Women’s History Month. This event will take place at The National Museum of the American Indian’s Rasmussen Theater.

Alixa and Naima will be offering a performance and workshop for students of The Woolman Semester, a school is on 230 acres in the Sierra Nevada Foothills where youth ages 16-19 apply to come from all over the country and live in little cabins with wood stoves, farm, cook, clean and partake in early college level courses focused on Peace, Justice, and Sustainability.

Climbing Poetree will be presenting at The Haven Underground with excerpts of Hurricane Season, multimedia, pan flute beat boxing as well as new and classic poetry!

The Haven Underground
226 Broad St.,
Nevada City, CA, 95959

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Be part of history in the making! Madrone Studios will film Climbing PoeTree performing the entire poetic script from their award-winning multi-media production "Hurricane Season: the hidden messages in water"!!! This will be the official film of Hurricane Season for the forthcoming DVD and curriculum. Be part of the audience and the inspiration for this once-in-a-life-time event that will archive this ground breaking production!

Madrone Studios
1417 15th Street
San Francisco, CA

Advance Tickets: $20 purchase here
At the Door: $25

Anyone anywhere can LIVE STREAM TO HURRICANE SEASON LIVE FILMING. Just go to www.madronestudios.com/live/
and make a donation of any amount to view it. All proceeds go to cover the expenses of this professional filming for the Hurricane Season curriculum and official Hurricane Season DVD! Thanks for the support!

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Climbing Poetree features at the Lyricist Lounge along side:

Lila Rose (acoustic unplugged set)
Raw-G
Steelo
Aima The Dreamer
Cleome Bova
Ariel Luckey

Hosted by Jada Simone

Admission: $12-$15
All Ages

Advance tickets: purchase here
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Climbing PoeTree Workshop and Show hosted by M.E.Ch.A (Moviemiento Estudiantil Chican@ de Aztlan) de UCSD at the Che Cafe Collective!

Workshop @ BSU/M.E.Ch.A Resource Center 5-7p $8
Show @ Che Cafe 8p-9:30 $10

Workshop&Show $15

Climbing PoeTree features at Natural High, one of Los Angeles' premier weekly open mic events infused with a live house band & frequent visits from the best poets & underground musicians this entire country has to offer.

Hosted by L.A native vocalist O.Smith & musical genius Hank G with the NHI Band (Sean Atkins, Farmer Greif, Paris Powell, Cori Jacobs, Mark Minor). Hosting duties are also shared by fellow resident poet/artist Sho King & Lady T(Natural High founder/Activist).

The venue serves delicious Eretrean/Ethiopian cuisine!

All Ages
Cover: $3.00

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STREET POETS Inc. is a non-profit poetry-based peace-making organization dedicated to the creative process as a force for individual and community transformation. For more information please visit: www.streetpoetsinc.com

Eco-Logical Art Gallery
4829 W. Pico Blvd.
Los Angeles Ca, 90019

+Light snacks and refreshments provided, supplies are limited+

Rites of Passage: An AlterNative Quinceanera

An interdisciplinary, intercultural, intergenerational performance fest of empowerment, affirmation and resistance in celebration of Women’s Day & Women’s Herstory Month, and Mujeres de Maiz 15th anniversary!!!! Mujeres de Maiz, is a grassroots, multimedia women’s art collective and networking/support circle of emerging Xicana and Women of Color cultural activists and artists in Los Angeles proactively creating work for, by and, about women’s issues from local to global, personal to political, stressing the importance of gender, race, sexuality, and class.

With Performance Ofrendas By:

Climbing Poetree
Members Of Quetzal
Adelina Anthony
D'Lo
Skim
Ms. Sho King
In Lak Ech,
Cuatro Noches de Luna
Critical Mass Dance Company
and special guests Cherrie Moraga and Celia Herrera Rodriguez

Admission: $15.00

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FREE to students and public.

Sister Solidarity Presents:

Alixa and Naima's acclaimed performance is composed of dual-voice poems that explore diverse themes, including: healing from state and personal violence, environmental justice, civil rights, spirituality, global politics, and woman's empowerment. Through a tapestry of spoken-word poetry, video projection, and movement choreography, Climbing PoeTree will also be presenting excepts of their award winning "Hurricane Season" connecting the issues that surfaced in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina to the “unnatural disasters” disenfranchised communities are experiencing nationwide and worldwide on a daily basis.

Sister Solidarity Presents Climbing PoeTree workshop

S.T.I.T.C.H.E.D:
story-telling for movement building- a workshop about the collective wisdom and collaborative power of our communities using S.T.I.T.C.H.E.D., a growing tapestry of Stories, Testimonies, Intentions, Truths, Confessions, Healing, Expressions, and Dreams that we have collected and stitched together from more than 4,000 audience members and workshop participants across the country. This interactive workshop will have participants exploring and testifying to the power of their personal and collective stories, they will also have the opportunity to add to this ever growing project! You can read more about it in the S.T.I.T.C.H.E.D section of this website

Climbing PoeTree will perform for 250-400 High School students in collaboration with the Common Vision Fruit Tree tour who is facilitating the school in caring for 75 mature fruit trees with 7 different classes, planting 5 more, training a class in grafting pear trees, installing and repairing the existing irrigation system, and using biological strategies of disease prevention.

Common Vision, the Emmy Award-winning tree-planting theatre troupe, is bringing their famous Fruit Tree Tour back to California public schools for the ninth year running. In the Bay Area, Fruit Tree Tour will bring the full show to first-time schools and go about its magical work of inspiring students to transform their schoolyard into an orchard in just one day. Read more at related link!

Climbing PoeTree will perform for 150-500 High School students in collaboration with the Common Vision Fruit Tree tour who is facilitating the Castlemont High School in caring for 20 fruit trees, planting 5 to 10 more, and training 3 classes of the Green Academy in Urban Forestry as it pertains to Fruit Trees.

Common Vision, the Emmy Award-winning tree-planting theatre troupe, is bringing their famous Fruit Tree Tour back to California public schools for the ninth year running. In the Bay Area, Fruit Tree Tour will bring the full show to first-time schools and go about its magical work of inspiring students to transform their schoolyard into an orchard in just one day. Read more at related link!

Climbing PoeTree Keynote Performance at "New Frontier: The Political Crossroads of Our Environmental Future," the 30th Annual Public Interest Environmental Law Conference at the University of Oregon School of Law in Eugene, Oregon

Click related site for more info and to register.

Sponsored and hosted by the Multicultural Center.
FREE and open to the public

S.T.I.T.C.H.E.D: story-telling for movement building- A workshop about the collective wisdom and collaborative power of our communities using S.T.I.T.C.H.E.D., a growing tapestry of Stories, Testimonies, Intentions, Truths, Confessions, Healing, Expressions, and Dreams that Climbing PoeTree has collected and stitched together from more than 4,000 audience members and workshop participants across the country. This interactive workshop will have participants exploring and testifying to the power of their personal and collective stories, bridging the political with the personal through multimedia, free-write, poetry, and performance. Participants will also have the opportunity to add to this ever growing project!

Please join the Multicultural for our their second annual spoken word event.
FREE and open to the public

"Why we rage!"
 time: 7-8:00 pm (students), 8-9:00 pm (Climbing PoeTree)

Alixa and Naima's acclaimed performance is composed of dual-voice poems that explore diverse themes, including: healing from state and personal violence, environmental justice, civil rights, spirituality, global politics, and woman's empowerment. Through a tapestry of spoken-word poetry, video projection, and movement choreography, Climbing PoeTree will also be presenting excepts of their award winning "Hurricane Season" connecting the issues that surfaced in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina to the “unnatural disasters” disenfranchised communities are experiencing nationwide and worldwide on a daily basis.

FREE FOR STUDENTS AND FACULTY.
NOT OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.

FREE!!!

Alixa and Naima's acclaimed performance is composed dual-voice poems that explore diverse themes, including: healing from state and personal violence, environmental justice, civil rights, spirituality, global politics, and woman's empowerment. They are touring with excerpts from "Hurricane Season: the hidden messages in water," their award winning multi-media two-woman show. "Hurricane Season" connects the issues that surfaced in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina to the “unnatural disasters” disenfranchised communities are experiencing nationwide and worldwide on a daily basis. Stirring images, animation, a breath-taking music score and stunning verse take audiences on a voyage of unthinkable tragedy and undeniable promise from the eye of a systemic storm.

Audience members will also have the opportunity to interact and contribute to S.T.I.T.C.H.E.D, a national story gathering project with close to 5,000 submissions.

There will be some finger food.

We will be presenting Hurricane Season multimedia excerpts, speaking on Arts and Activism, and showing a slide show of our work and how we merge the two.

A benefit for Ayiti Resurrect, a global delegation of visionary artists, community builders, mental health specialists, and healers going to Haiti in January 2012 to continue a collaboration with local Haitian organizations to foster psychological and spiritual healing through solidarity, creativity and collective resilience.

The NeXus @ United Earth Networks
1414 Harbour Way South, Suite #1010
Marina Bay, Richmond, CA 94804

On Fete Gede, the night of Festival of the Ancestors (Haitian Day of the Dead), we will gather to honor those who passed in the earthquake and all celebrate the resilience, survival and self-determination of our Haitian family. An inspiring array of artists from coast to coast with bloodlines in the Haitian Diaspora across the globe are coming together to being a powerful offering to Spirit, and to support the collaborative healing work Ayiti Ressurect is engaged in Leogane, Comier, Haiti. Get over any hesitation about going to Richmond on Sunday night, to this post-industrial temple filled with magical sculptures and creative sanctuary. We will be drunk on the synergy of poetry choreographed to movement, medicine distilled from song, music carved from the hollow spaces transformation creates in our lives.

FEATURING:

*folk soul songtress, Gina Breedlove*
*r & b, jazz, soul singer, Lalin St Juste*
*soul-stirring spoken word by Climbing PoeTree*
*warrior dance by Richelle Donigan*
*modern jazz dance by Jene Levine Snipes*
*Haitian drumming by Daniel Brevil*
*hip hop dub poetry by Ambessa the Articulate*
*blues by Cleome Bova*
*reggae by ABJA*

++SPECIAL GUESTS!!!

HOME-COOKED HAITIAN & VEG FOOD WILL BE SERVED!

$15-35 sliding scale
all proceeds benefit Ayiti Resurrect January delegation to Comier, Leogane, Haiti

learn more about AYITI RESURRECT by clicking related site!

Join us for a night of beautiful, sexy and inspiring performances as we bring people and resources together, celebrate our work, and create Abolitionist cultures of liberation that grow the sense of possibilities for ourselves, our communities and our movements.

Featuring:
Angela Y. Davis
Climbing PoeTree
Rupa and the April Fishes
Destiny Arts & more...

Plus!
DJ and Dancing
Fantastic Food & Delectable Drinks
Auction for a New Economy
The Liberation Documentation Photobooth
and much much more.

Tickets, sponsorship info, volunteer requests, and more coming soon!

We will be presenting at the Second Annual Environmental Law and Justice Symposium at Florida A & M College of Law. The conference will take place on Thursday and Friday, November 3-4, 2011. We will be presenting on the 4th next to speakers and panelist from around the world specializing in Environmental Justice.

This is a private presentation for the Nease High School population. We will be doing 2 presentations for roughly a thousand students and get to test out some of the Hurricane Season curriculum multimedia materials! yay!

"Fire... optimistically affects the community by promoting programs that improve social justice and hone individuals' authentic self-expression through forms such as: Poetry, Hip-hop, Visual Art, Improv, Comedy, Culinary programs, Photography, etc. "
- Devonnte DeJarnette, Fire young adult staff member

CLIMBING POETREE BACK AT FIRE! Alixa and Naima feature at this incredible Historical and Cultural Arts Collaborative in a renovated fire station! Sign up for the Open Mic and get ready for a soul-stirring and heart-opening multi-media performance combining dual-voice spoken word with stunning images. The poetry Alixa and Naima deliver challenges its listeners to remember their humanity, dissolves apathy with hope, exposes injustice, and helps heal our inner trauma so that we may begin to cope with the issues facing our communities.

Also, join Climbing PoeTree at the new unpredictably vegetarian restaurant FUEL for a chance to rub elbows with the artist and fill up before the show. Dinner is served at 5:00 and 6:00 pm at Fire.

$10 regular show admission
$30 includes dinner at Fire (served by Fuel) and admission

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an evening of Rhythm, Blues, Poetry & Soul
Featuring Climbing PoeTree, Yaw & Khari Lemuel ("The Ones")

Center on Halsted
3656 North Halsted
Chicago, IL 60613-5974

admission: $10
RSVP to mross@centeronhalsted.org

Climbing PoeTree shares the stage with local legends Yaw & Khari Lemuel ("The Ones").

Yaw & Khari Lemuel, "The Ones" spread the message of collective consciousness through music. Their mission is to create a sound that will inspire humanity toward the awareness of themselves as The Ones.

In total Yaw & Khari have given over a decade of musical devotion to the world. Khari & Yaw have performed for colleges, community events, television programs, large and small venues in efforts to spread that same resonance with the world. In addition they have opened for many of the great artist of their day such as Isaac Hayes, Anthony David, Fertile Ground, Chico Debarge and Stevie Wonder. On their latest project entitled “Community Service” The Ones will feature artist such as Eric Roberson (who is also featuring “The Ones” on his Up coming album Mr. Nice Guy) and Black Thought of “The Roots”.

The idea of service, empowerment, enlightenment, love, devotion and healing run deep in the texture of this music. Drawing inspiration from the place of their origin. The music of “The Ones” vibrates every atom in the body. On stage they give every part of themselves and the people they touch are inspired to give love and create the world, as it should be.

Climbing PoeTree presents at the Chicago Women's Theater class offered through Women & Gender Studies

Social Justice Dinner Dialogue at Loyola University.
Climbing PoeTree will lead a STITCHED workshop for self exploration, community building, social justice activism.

Presented by the Department of Student Diversity and Multicultural Affairs and LUCES

The Mission of POW-WOW, Inc. is to support, develop and increase the visibility of women artists particularly those of color in an effort to create social change and gender consciousness around issues of media representation, inclusive cultural arts documentation and political awareness of how we fit in the scope of global affairs.
P.O.W.W.O.W. Inc. provides a weekly performance space for women artists to present, create, develop and implement artistic performances.

Climbing PoeTree features POW WOW's authentic alternative reading series Tuesday, Oct 25th @ Jeffrey Pub.
7041 S Jeffrey Blvd. South Side Chicago.

$5 suggested donation.
food served at 7:30pm
open mic at 8:30pm
feature appx 9:00 pm

We will be doing a week long residency focusing on the interweaving power of Art and Activism and the potency of story telling and personal narratives. Through poetry writing, book binding, graffiti, stencil making, silk screening, and performance theater we will explore the power of alternative media and how it can help us explore our deeper selves and environment. We will critically look at our current times and find new ways to express our stance in an ever changing world.

Climbing PoeTree opens for the The BlakTina Performance Series this Friday at BAAD (Bronx, NY)

BAAD! - The Bronx Academy of Art & Dance presents its annual BlakTina Performance Series, a festival celebrating works by Black, Latina/o and Blatina/o artists. This year we are using BlakTina in the festival’s title to flip the Spanish language norm that uses the masculine to describe the universal.

Opening Night!
Friday, Oct. 14 at 8pm/$20

Climbing PoeTree and poets J. Skye Cabrera and Charan P. Morris

The mesmerizing and unapologetic duo, Alixa and Naima, of Climbing PoeTree, deliver a personal/intimate evening of interactive poetry and story telling with some sampona beat boxing to take listeners on a journey of spiritual awakening, woman's empowerment, queer issues and more. The show begins with the poetic prowess of Charan P. Morris and daring poetic performance of J. Skye Cabrera.

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The festival runs from Friday, October 14 and continues through Friday, October 28, 2011 at BAAD! Tickets cost $15-$20 and a festival pass costs $50. Several events are free! BAAD! offers discounts to BAADGE and Bronx Cultural Card holders. Students and seniors also receive discounts. Ticket offers cannot be combined. For further information and tickets call (718) 842-5223 or visit www.BronxAcademyofArtsandDance.org.

The goal of this conference is to explore and mobilize around the intersections between related movements for social justice to end violence against women. This is a two day conference Oct 10th and 11th. We will be performing on October 10th.

We will be presenting for whole the freshman class at UVM. (open to students)

IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN HOSTING A PERFORMANCE IN THE BURLINGTON COMMUNITY ON THE 26TH OR 27TH PLEASE CONTACT US ASAP. AT BOOKPOETREE@GMAIL.COM

We will be facilitating a S.T.I.T.C.H.E.D workshop at 2pm. (Read more about this in the S.T.I.T.C.H.E.D. section of this website ) And we will be doing an interactive performance with Hurricane Season excerpts as well as classical poetry and new creations. at 7pm

Social Justice Artists Convening closing performance with Bryonn Bain, Yalani Dream and Mildred Ruiz-Sapp from Universes

We will be doing Hurricane Season excerpts, along side other poetry. We will also be bringing S.T.I.T.C.H.E.D and give audience members and opportunity to interact and participate in the project through out the performance. Can't wait to see you there!

The 2nd NYC Climate Justice Youth Summit: "Our People, Our Hoods, Our Future" is right around the corner! The summit is being held on August 19th- 20th, 2011.
With workshops, speakers, and performances. This event is geared towards youth of color.

If you have not registered yet, please do so. We look forward to seeing you all there!

(Quick Recap)
Date:
August 19th, 2011
3:00 pm- 7:00 pm
(We will be performing this day, at 4pm)

August 20th, 2011
11:00 am- 8:00 pm

Climbing PoeTree will be performing on the acoustic stage on Wednesday as part of the 31st annual Michigan Womyn's Music Festival: a music and performing arts festival that stirs up a steady mix of emerging artists, returning favorites, and new-to-Michigan pros. It's a space to mix and mingle with thousands of womyn in a village inspired by feminist values and built through a unique collective ingenuity. This is a week to relax in the sun, play hard in the woods, engage deeply and connect with community. Each year brings together the most amazing cross-generational multi-cultural group of womyn to live as friends, lovers, neighbors all. Bring the best of who you are – you will recognize yourself everywhere.

Combining storytelling, creative writing, and poetic outbursts, the Brooklyn-based duo Climbing PoeTree (Alixa Garcia and Naima Penniman) will facilitate activities and share strategies on how art and cultural work can be used at the service of a more just and sustainable world.

This will be an intensive multi-sensory writing and visual arts workshop for both beginning and experienced poets and artists who seek to deepen their artistic and poetic soul. Through journal making, collective writing exercises, testimony, and poetry ciphers, Alixa and Naima will cultivate a fertile environment for participants to express their creative spirit and develop personal narrative. Sowing seeds in the realm of the imagination and drawing on personal experiences, participants will bear the fruits of the collective. This is a journey that will stimulate and awaken the mind’s eye, and result in new writing and hand-bound journals rich with emotional texture and depth. Participants will also have an opportunity to interact and contribute to S.T.I.T.C.H.E.D, a national story gathering project. This workshop is open to participants ages 15 and up.

Please note: On July 2nd there will be a property-wide celebration with live entertainment. This event is open to the public.

At Esalen Institute situated on 120 acres of fertile land carved out between mountain and ocean, blessed by a cascading canyon stream and hot mineral springs gushing out of a seaside cliff...

Girlatik Productions and Lotus Saturdays welcome
Climbing Poetree's return to Northampton to raise awareness and funds for their multi media 2 woman show Hurricane Season the Hidden Messages in Water.
Climbing Poetree is turning Hurricane Season into a curriculum, DVD and book project to help educate and transform the cultural diaspora and elevate our consciousness to the possibilities inherent in our collective creation.

IRie Offerings Include:

*Climbing Poetree performance and excerpts from Hurricane Season
*Local Artists Venus Zephyr and Kiran Bhowmik live art installation
*Rising Star Poets open mic Featuring
Taisha Marks~VT
Venus Zephyr~ MA
*After Hours with DJ Nur~sufi beats mixed live and on site
*Local Inspirers showing wares, creations and texts
*Full Moon Henna with Emily Sat Akal
*Raw Delights~Teas ~Infusions and Elixirs
*Love that is transformative in ways your heart didn't know before now

at Karuna Yoga Center~Northampton, MA

Presale tickets are $18
Tickets at the door are $20-$25 sliding scale
Parents bringing children offer a donation for kids over 12
all other children are always free
Student Tickets are $15~if you are a student you can purchase presale but you need to present your id at the door

tickets and more details click "related site" for FB event:

S.T.I.T.C.H.E.D. Workshop for Students of Color Symposium

Climbing PoeTree performs Hurricane Season excerpts at DANCE THEATRE ETCETERA's annual celebration of community and culture, Kick Off Event at PS 15 (*NOTE LOCATION CHANGE)

Featuring CLIMBING POETREE
Pre-show Dance Party with DJ Yono Ohno
DTE's In Transition Hip Hop Theatre Company
Refreshments provided by South Brooklyn Community High School's Cook for Life Program

PS 15 -
71 Sullivan Street, Red Hook, Brooklyn
between Van Brunt St and Richards St
Climbing PoeTree performance scheduled 7:20-8:00 pm

For more information click related site or call (718) 643-6790 x410

A Night of Performance Art featuring "Hurricane Season: Hidden Messages in Water 

(excerpts)
at Nyack Center
8 Depew Ave, Corner of Broadway

NOTE THE DATE CHANGE!!!!!

We will be doing a full set with multimedia Hurricane Season excerpts! We are rarely this north, come come!

5-25 sliding scale. no one turned away from lack of funds.

Gates, COA
105 Eden Street
Bar Harbor, ME

Open to the public
$10 general admission, donations welcome.

We will be doing the featured artists with a full set presentation including multimedia Hurricane Season Excerpts!

Presented by GLC (LGBTQ issues), United Front, Women's Caucus, SNAP (Society of Native American Peoples), Asian Caucus, Art Club, and the African Student Organization

Climbing PoeTree performs at Tishman Commons in the Lulu Chow Wang Campus Center in celebration of Earth Day. Presented by Wellesley's Environmental Studies Program

We will be doing the featured artists with a full set presentation including multimedia Hurricane Season Excerpts!

Door $2.00 (will be donated to Japan)

Madison Wisconsin Campus

Arts Activism & S.T.I.T.C.H.E.D. workshop
Workshop Location:
UW MEChA Office (next door to Brother's)
710 University Avenue

Climbing PoeTree performance
Performance Location:
CCE (Center for Cultural Enrichment)
717 W Johnson Street
Madison WI 53706
Phone: 608-263-1192

Presented by MEChA (Chican@ Student Movement of Aztlan) and QPOC (Queer People of Color)

We will be doing the featured artists with a full set presentation including multimedia Hurricane Season Excerpts!

Location:
'Sco (in the basement of the student union building)
135 W Lorain St
Oberlin, OH 44074

Bowling Green State University’s Arts Village and “urban nu-sense” present:
CLIMBING POETREE conducting a workshop

S.T.I.T.C.H.E.D: “creating a future by re-writing our histories”

-Stories
-Testimonies
-Intentions
-Truths
-Confessions
-Healing
-Expression
-Dreams

The Arts Village
Kreischer Hall
BGSU-1001 Wooster St.
Bowling Green, Oh. 43403

FREE & OPEN to ALL, but there is a 50 SEAT limit!!!
Sign up early or you may miss out on this wonderful opportunity to join the ladies of CLIMBING POETREE, as they offer tools for self empowerment & the chance to share your own stories on a tapestry, created with squares scripted on and “S.T.I.T.C.H.E.D” together by YOU!

Climbing PoeTree features at "The Outlet"

at The Clazel
127 North Main Street

8:00 pm featured visual artists Jack Hedrick
9:00 p.m. open mic and spoken word

Urban Nu-sense is committed to offering a venue and voice to the creators and lovers of urban art in the Bowling Green community.

Lakireddy Auditorium (COB 102)
University of California, Merced
5200 North Lake Rd.
Merced, CA 95343

Violence of Silence: Voices for Social Change Through Identity and Poetry
(during UC Davis' Pride Week)

Other performers include Ignacio Rivera and CircleJerk (student performance collective)

Venue: Art Annex
The event is open to the public!

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We will be performing a whole set with excerpt of Hurricane Season. Also performing: Rosco Kickingstone with an acoustic punk set and Blossoms Of Fire.
10-25 sliding scale no one turned away for lack of funds!

featuring Climbing PoeTree and Gabriel Teodros, and local artists Vradiazeiand Danza Quetzalcoatl

The Rachel Corrie Foundation and the Olympia Rafah Solidarity Mural Project present the grand finale of the 2011 Peace Works conference Solidarity in Action featuring acclaimed author and activist Alice Walker as keynote presenter.

(Walker’s talk, entitled The Poet/Writer as Activist, will be at the Washington Center for the Performing Arts, Friday, April 8, at 7:30 p.m. )

The celebration is open to the public and will take place at:

Historic Capitol Theater
206 5th Ave SE, Olympia, WA
Tickets are FREE for conference attendees
7.00 for General Admission

Contact: Rebecca Pilcher, Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice
Email: becca@rachelcorriefoundation.org
Phone: 360-754-3998

Family: Scripps’ Queer Straight Alliance
Presents Climbing PoeTree

Art as Activism Workshop
SCORE, Scripps College
April 8, 3-5 p.m.
RSVP: Family@scrippscollege.edu

Multimedia Spoken Word Performance
Balch Auditorium, Scripps College
April 8, 7:00 p.m.
Free and Open to the Public Doors at 6:30 p.m.

Generously Sponsored by: Family, SCORE, SAS, The Motley Coffeehouse, Scripps Live Arts, Café Con Leche, 5C Criminal Justice Network, Chicana/o-Latina/o Student Affairs Office, Queer Resource Center, Wanawake Weusi, Office of Black Student Affairs

FMI: community.scrippscollege.edu/Family or family@scrippscollege.edu

A Special Project Presentation & Performance with
Ayiti Resurrect & Naima Penniman of Climbing PoeTree

Join The African American Museum in Philadelphia for a closing program celebrating the exhibit
Patience to Raise the Sun: Art Quilts from Haiti and Their Power to Change Women’s Lives

An evening of creativity, poetry and purpose, this program focuses on art and activism inspired by the beauty and resilience of Haiti and its people. Founded by Naima Penniman of Climbing PoeTree, AYITI RESURRECT is a team of visionary artists, community builders, and holistic healers with bloodlines in Haiti and the African Diaspora, working in collaboration with grassroots Haitian organizations, to help address the psychological and spiritual healing of the survivors of the January 12, 2010 earthquake. Four Ayiti Resurrect members will report back with stories and a slide show of images from their most recent trip to Ayiti working in solidarity with the Comier community to honor the anniversary of the quake and facilitate expressive arts workshops and a mental wellness clinic in the days leading up.

Participants will have the opportunity to experience a tent sanctuary interactive installation created by Naima, and participants will be invited to contribute personal thoughts, hopes and prayers for Haiti quake victims and survivors. These colorful messages will be added to the S.T.I.T.C.H.E.D. tapestry, representing an accumulative expression of compassion and solidarity from Climbing PoeTree audiences throughout the U.S. and around the world.

@ The African American Museum in Philadelphia
FREE with Museum Admission!
701 Arch Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106

For more information contact
lsumpter@aampmuseum.org / 215. 574.0380 x243

Alixa and Naima will be sharing excerpts from “Hurricane Season: the hidden messages in water,” Climbing PoeTree's groundbreaking multi-media show that connects the issues that surfaced in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina to the “unnatural disasters” disenfranchised communities are experiencing nationwide and worldwide on a daily basis. The show will serve as a provocative precursor to the design school’s In the Terrain of Water conference scheduled on April 1-2nd.

presented by the PennDesign Black Student Alliance (BSA)

Meyerson Hall Rm B-3.
The event is free to Penn graduate students and faculty.
All others pay $5.
Space is limited. Click related link to Register

We will be doing a Women's Empowerment workshop and talk with the young women.

Performance and talk in the Ballroom
University of Wisconsin
410 West 10th Street
Duluth, MN 55806

POETIC JUSTICE: A Night of Spoken Word at Yeshiva U-a Black History Month celebration of the oral tradition also featuring: BEAU SIA, Carvens Lissaint, and muMs & Aurora. 7 p.m. Free and open to the public but PLEASE RSVP to Suzen.baraka@law.cardozo.yu.edu
Benjamin N. Cardoz...o School of Law, Room 1008, 55 5th Ave, NY

Climbing PoeTree closes out "Black Brooklyn Renaissance, Black Arts + Culture, 1960 - 2010," a yearlong project celebrating the contributions of artists of the African Diaspora in Brooklyn.

This concert will be Emceed by Tah Phrum Dah Bush. Participating artists include Talu Green, Climbing PoeTree, Guillermo E. Brown, Michela Marino-Lerman, and Singers with a Testimony (S.W.A.T.).

BAMcafé, Peter Jay Sharp Building, 30 Lafayette Ave. (Ft. Greene)
Co-presented by BAC and BAMcafé Live.
Free!

Climbing PoeTree performs Saturday in NYC as part of a soulful night to support the healing and honor the irrepressible spirit of Haitian people.

As the one-year anniversary of the earthquake approaches, let's continue to raise our awareness and keep HAITI IN SIGHT! This benefit will raise money for a grassroots healing project Naima has been organizing with a group of visionary artists, community builders, and holistic healers with bloodlines in the Caribbean and African Diaspora to facilitate psychological and spiritual healing for quake-survivors based on principles of solidarity, creativity, and collective resilience.

a target="_blank" href="http://www.ayitiresurrect.org">Click here to find out more about AYITI RESURRECT!

Join us for an enlightening evening of performances and multi-media art culminating in a not-to-miss dance party! We will take the opportunity to learn more about the situation in Haiti from our partners on the ground, and contribute to the healing and sustainability of this troubled and tenacious nation.

Hosted by Imani Uzuri
Live Performances by Climbing PoeTree and Mahina Movement
Afro-Electronica Soundscape Artist Val-Inc
Featuring Paintings by Carl Thelemaque
Photography by Sade Dozier & Wyatt Gallery
Live Art by Vaimoana Niumeitolu of Mahina Movement
Music by DJs Hard Hittin Harry and Sabine Blaizin'
Silent Auction of Visual Art Curated by Dexter Wimberly
* More Special Guests & Artists TBA *

Co-Produced by Ubiquita Worldwide
Presented by Ayiti Resurrect & Ayiti Cherie Healing Project
For more info: see www.ayitiresurrect.org & www.ayitihealing.org

Sat. 12.11.10
7:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m.
(Climbing PoeTree set at 9:45)

@ Red Bull Space
40 Thompson Street (Enter at Watts St.)
SoHo, New York

21 plus
OPEN BAR All Night!
REQUIRED RSVP Ticket and Donation $12 CLICK HERE

FACEBOOK EVENT CLICK HERE

Through a tapestry of spoken-word poetry, film, dance, shadow art, and a sound collage of personal testimonies, Hurricane Season connects the issues that surfaced in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina to the "unnatural disasters" unfolding nationwide and worldwide on a daily basis. Unflinching and uplifting, raw and deeply moving Hurricane Season takes audiences on voyages of unthinkable tragedy and undeniable promise from the eye of a systemic storm.

Hurricane Season seeks not to captivate audiences but to liberate them.

click on link for full graphic campaign:

Transformation through Love and Art: Actively Reclaiming Power for Our Community (Nov. 19-21, 2010)

Climbing PoeTree will perform on Nov 20th for the opening ceremonies in Campbell Hall

This workshop will use S.T.I.T.C.H.E.D, the story-gathering project contributed to by 4000 people across the nation to reveal the collective wisdom & collaborative power of our communities.

ONE NIGHT ONLY! Climbing PoeTree performs HURRICANE SEASON in its entirety:
the soul-stirring multi-media show that has toured 56 cities across the country bus converted to run on recycled vegetable oil, drawing vital connections between shared struggles and common solutions in a critical moment in human history.
"Inspiring", "heart wrenching", "unforgettable", "transformative " as some of the words used by audience members who've experience Hurricane Season! Don't miss this special night!

Free & Open to the Public!

Two auditorium presentations for students only!

A Night of Hip Hop and Metralleta Poetics with
Climbing Poetree & SKIM

Pieter
420 West Avenue 33,
Unit 10. Lincoln Heights L.A 90031

Cost: $10-15 suggested donation
(A Hurricane Season Curriculum fundraiser!)

A workshop and performance for students only!

Workshop/ Performance
presented by: Women’s Creative Collective for Change (click related site!)

GRIOT RIOT!:
Poetry & Story-telling For Radical Change
a performance and interactive workshop by Climbing PoeTree,
using S.T.I.T.C.H.E.D. the story-gathering project contributed to by 4000 people across the nation!

Open to the public!

An Arts Activism & S.T.I.T.C.H.E.D Workshop by Climbing PoeTree!
How can we transform our creative powers into meaningful change in our communities?

In this interactive workshop that will combine story-telling, slide-shows, creative writing, and poetic outbursts, the Brooklyn-based duo will share tactics and strategies on how art and cultural work can be used at the service of our visions for a more just and sustainable world. Be prepared to share struggles and solutions from your own communities, and to get creative, imaginative, and inspired!

Madrone Studios Workshop
1417 15th Street
San Francisco, CA 94103

$15-50
(A Hurricane Season Curriculum fundraiser!)
Advance Workshop Tickets! Click Here

A Night of lively Spiritual Uprising through Song, Poetics, Dance, Live Painting, Food and Elixirs!

with:

Aima the Dreamer
Members of Goddess Alchemy
Elli Painted Crow
Phil Meshekey
Live painting by : Roman Villagrana and Haiku

Madrone Studios Performance
1417 15th Street
San Francisco, CA, 94103

$20-100
A Hurricane Season Curriculum Fundraiser!

Advance Show Tickets!: CLICK HERE

Advance Workshop & Show combined tix: CLICK HERE

We will be doing a short 20min set for the Clean Energy Tour! along side:
Pete Rock and CL Smooth
Freedom:
J-SW!FT Fat Lip & St. Imey
Dj Maseo
Christen Lien
Mike De La Rocha
What's Your Story Ensemble

learn more:

A Hurricane Season Curriculum Fundraiser!

We will be doing the one-hour excerpt from "Hurricane Season: the hidden messages in water". Compiling the strongest sections of the unforgettable 2 hour production that Climbing PoeTree brought to 56 cities, this one-hour multimedia edition of Hurricane Season is a poetic, visual and spiritual journey not to be missed.

We will be sharing the stage with:
www.lindseyvona.com
www.goddessalchemyproject.com
Cost:15$-25$

Workshop:
Unraveling the Prison Industrial Complex, come for an interactive workshop that analyzes the PIC through art, theater and movement!

The one-hour excerpt from "Hurricane Season: the hidden messages in water"
Compiling the strongest sections of the unforgettable 2 hour production that Climbing PoeTree brought to 56 cities, this one-hour multimedia edition of Hurricane Season is a poetic, visual and spiritual journey not to be missed.
www.hurricaneseasontour.com

A Common Fire and Be Present Benefit!

With a night of Poetry, dance, music, live-art and more to nourish the soul with:
Climbing PoeTree: http://climbingpoetree.com/
Nikila Badua: http://www.myspace.com/mamawisdommusic
MJ Greenmountain: http://www.mjgreenmountain.com/
Sparlha Swa: www.sparlhaswa.com/
Richelle Donigan,
and other special guests

Friday July 9, 2010
8pm
@ La Peña
$15-$50 sliding scale donation
A benefit for Common Fire and Be Present, Inc.

Common Fire and Be Present are nonprofit organizations helping people to live our dreams for wholeness, justice and sustainability.

For over 20 years, Be Present, Inc. has been using the Be Present Empowerment Model® to affect systemic change at the individual, organizational and societal levels by helping people find their true voices, break personal and collective silences, and create new avenues of trust and understanding across differences. Be Present and Common Fire recognize that the situation in the world today requires that we nurture new ways of thinking and living that can help us bridge to the more just and sustainable human story awaiting us on the other side of the many crises we face. Common Fire creates communities that not only train people in the skills and knowledge this new reality will require, but that actually embody that transformation: from our LEED Platinum housing co-op for changemakers in NY’s Hudson Valley to the larger scale communities and retreat/learning centers forming in the Bay Area and NYC.

We invite you to learn about our community building work here in the Bay Area with Common Fire West and the Bay Area Be Present network.

ΩSeven7sitersΩ
Productions Presents

The Mothership Movement S.F
With all of the key ingredients to EMPOWER a better future - Creativity, Spirit, Purpose, Teamwork, Education/Wisdom and Community Roots - we invite YOU to play an important role in the expansion of this circle and simply show up!

$15-25 sliding scale

performances by:
Soulflower “Empress of Hip Hop”
Climbing poetree
Anahata sound
Lotus drops
Tawk
Phadroid

Live Painting
by nikila badua
airbrush body art
by Icarus Zaure
visuals by
Davin Infinity

ΩSeven7sisters castΩ
Starsinger
Amma maat nubi ankh
Satu Ra
Tbird luv
Sasha rose
Marya stark
Heather Salmon
Ima vibration
Ananya ma
Niema Lightseed
Tara shorey
Tuana Hunt
Heidi Edwards
Stasia Pfeiffer

Arts Festival 2010 features six weekend workshops, a group of visual art exhibitions, and a special World Music and Dance Festival Celebration on the afternoon of July 3.
Weekend workshop registrations are open now.

On the evening of July 3 Climbing PoeTree will be performing along side incredible world renowned artists! the celebration is open to the public; click here to purchase tickets. Workshop participants receive free admission.

Through out the 3 day gathering we will be leading a natural and sustainable theater set design building, costume making, and theater production workshop with the co-facilitation of Samara Gaev and Arts Festival founder Jayson Fann. This workshop is for all ages. small children must be accompanied by an adult.

The USSF is a space to come up with the peoples’ solutions to the 
economic and ecological crisis while building a powerful multi-racial, multi-sectoral, inter-generational,
 diverse, inclusive, internationalist movement that transforms this country and
 changes history. The USSF provides spaces to learn 
from each other’s experiences and struggles, share our analysis of the problems 
our communities face, build relationships, and align with our international 
brothers and sisters to strategize how to reclaim our world.

The USSF will convene social movements from across the United States and globally, June 22-26, 2010 at Cobo Hall and Hart Plaza in downtown Detroit.


1) CLIMBING POETREE will share a one-hour performance of HURRICANE SEASON for the USSF AMPHITHEATER, THURSDAY, June 24th, @ 7:00 pm
***also on stage that night: X Clan, Sunni Patterson, & John Trudell!!

2) Climbing PoeTree @ the BE PRESENT & COMMON FIRE WORKSHOP!!!
Event Date: 06/25/2010 - 1:00pm - 5:00pm
Event Location: Cobo Hall: DO-4B

3) CLIMBING POETREE will PERFORM as part of LEFTIST LOUNGE
Johanson Charles Gallery
1345 Division St
Detroit, MI 48207
11-2am
we will be performing between 12am and 1am for a half hour set!

On Friday June 25, 2010, more than 8,000 party people will converge to work it out on the dance floor, as Detroit plays host to the largest Leftist Lounge ever, as part of the US Social Forum!
http://www.leftistlounge.com/

The Allied Media Conference cultivates strategies for a more just and creative world. We come together to share tools and tactics for transforming our communities through media-based organizing.


Participatory Media to Transform Our Selves and Our World
"The Allied Media Conference advances our visions for a just and creative world. It is a laboratory for media-based solutions to the matrix of life-threatening problems we face. Since our founding in 1999, we have evolved our definition of media, and the role it can play in our lives – from zines to video-blogging to breakdancing, to communicating solidarity and creating justice. Each conference builds off the previous one and plants the seeds for the next. Ideas and relationships evolve year-round, incorporating new networks of media-makers, technologists and social justice organizers. We draw strength from our converging movements to face the challenges and opportunities of our current moment. We are ready to create, connect and transform."

1) HURRICANE SEASON PERFORMANCE EXCERPT, SLIDE SHOW PRESENTATION / Q&A
as part of the Eco-Justice Media Making for Sustainable Communities track,
Coordinators: Green Guerrillas Youth Media Tech Collective and the Climate Confluence Network

2) Alixa and Naima will be PANELISTS at: The Art of Strategy, The Strategy of Art

An education-culture-art-organizing fusion session at the AMC

Facilitators: Vanessa Nisperos and Skim

Participants:
Cece Carprio- Trust Your Struggle Mural Collective
Patrisse Cullors - Summer Youth OrganizIng Academy
Ayed Fadel- Baladna, Palestine
Mujeres de Maiz collective
Climbing Poetree

3) KEYNOTE PERFORMANCE: Hurricane Season excerpts as part of the AMC keynote

1249 Portage Rd
Kalamazoo Michigan 490001

FREE and Open To The Public!

workshop:
S.T.I.T.C.H.E.D is a living tapestry of Stories, Testimonies, Intentions, Truths, Confessions, Healing, Expressions, and Dreams that Alixa and Naima have been collecting and stitching together from more than 3,000 individuals nationwide since the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Participants will have an opportunity to contribute their personal manifestos to S.T.I.T.C.H.E.D., and Alixa & Naima will share stories from squares to facilitate a dialog drawing vital connections between shared struggles and common solutions in a critical moment in human history.

performance:
Climbing PoeTree headlines at This Is Fire
an Arts Non-Profit, 1249 Portage St, Kalamazoo, MI

workshop:
S.T.I.T.C.H.E.D is a living tapestry of Stories, Testimonies, Intentions, Truths, Confessions, Healing, Expressions, and Dreams that Alixa and Naima have been collecting and stitching together from more than 3,000 individuals nationwide since the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Participants will have an opportunity to contribute their personal manifestos to S.T.I.T.C.H.E.D., and Alixa & Naima will share stories from squares to facilitate a dialog drawing vital connections between shared struggles and common solutions in a critical moment in human history.

performance:
Climbing PoeTree headlines at This Is Fire

theatre workshop & performance for the Council of Students of Color

sponsored by the Smith School of Social Work

THE COUNCIL FOR STUDENTS OF COLOR AT THE SMITH SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL WORK PRESENT CLIMBING POETREE

Join us for a day of interactive workshops and performances, Open to the Smith SSW and the public,

Workshops in Seelye 101, Smith College Campus

1:00-3:30pm Mental Illness and Violence. Art as Medicine
4:30-6:00pm Sensory Experience and Collective Creation

Performance: at Helen Hills Hills Chapel, 123 Elm Street (a.k.a. Route 9)
7:30- 9:30 pm
wheel chair accessible at rear

HOSTED BY THE COUNCIL FOR STUDENTS OF COLOR. Co-Sponsored by the LGBTQQ Alliance, The Social Welfare Action Alliance, The Jewish Students' Alliance, The Curriculum Committee, and The Office of the Helen Hills HIlls Chapel

This weekend we gonna be rocking it with the ReadNex at their NYC CD Release party!!!!

opening: Climbing Poetree, Rebel Diaz, Mahina Movement, Captain Planit, Spirit Child

Dance the night away with DJ Chela and DJ Oja

Get tix in advance: http://bit.ly/ReadNex
15$ @ Door

WORDS & RHYTHMS
SPIN Open Forum & Poetry Nite

Office of Multi-Cultural Student Affairs
5710 S. Wooodlawn Chicago, IL 60637

Students Promoting Interracial Networks (SPIN) believes in cultural unity through knowledge.

This is event is free and open to the public, the more the merrier!

The Cipher Project (In Partnership with The Audre Lorde Project and Queer Black Cinema) Present:

ZAMI '10: A Community Cipher on Haiti, Hope, and Homeland

May 7, 2010. 7-9:30pm.
Soho Loft: 167 Spring Street. Buzzer 3.
*DINNER WILL BE SERVED AT 7PM SHARP*
$10 Suggested Donation - No one will be turned away.
Cash and Card Accepted for entry fee, donations, sales, auctions, etc.
Limited dinner space.
Register here: https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dGF1Vlc0MTRobldVZkVrUG5mLWk3aUE6MA

Zami '10: Haiti, Hope, and Homeland is a community forum focused on raising collective discussion about Haiti, its history, and current status post-earthquake. We invite all members of the community to come and take part in our cipher and make connections between what is happening in Haiti and what is happening your various "homelands," whether those be other countries, identities, bodies, etc. Come learn, listen, and share with guest speakers. Enjoy our powerful performers, and help us RAISE FUNDS FOR HAITI! *All proceeds will be donated via Partners in Health.

EMCEED BY: Comedian Micia Mosely

CIPHER SPEAKERS INCLUDE:
Naima Penniman and Alixa Garcia (Climbing PeoTree)
Kay Ulunday Barrett
Kim Ford (The Audre Lorde Project)
Berlotte Israel (Dwa Fanm)
YaliniDream Marian
Mario J. LaMothe (Ph.D Candidate and Earthquake Survivor)
... all of us

PERFORMANCES FEATURING:
Climbing PoeTree (15 minute excerpt of HURRICANE SEASON)
Naima (10 minute excerpt of new solo work, AYITI RESURRECT)
Fly Onakeme Etaghene
Sweet Lorraine
and more!

DON'T FORGET OUR FUNDRAISERS!
- Headshots for Haiti (Come get your professional headshot taken by Rebecca Emanuelle Photography)
- Silent Art Auction
- Raffles
+ more!

We accept cash & card!!

THE CIPHER PROJECT
is a grassroots initiative dedicated to creating "ciphers" among women and LGBTQ people of color and their allies. Ciphers are community projects that are initiated and rooted in the philosophy that as a community we must share and use all of our gifts, knowledge, and skills with one another and create spaces where everyone is acknowledged and valued. We believe in community growth; building and sustaining networks among women and LGBTQ people of color and allies, and providing community education that raises awareness about women and LGBTQ people of color.

An Incredible Evening of Inspiration
with Julia Butterfly Hill and Climbing PoeTree
A Benefit for the Common Fire Foundation

@ Peter Max's Gallery/ Studio
37 West 65th St, 7th Floor, NYC

Can you feel the changes coming? From climate response to racial justice to slow foods and so much more, our movements are building, and so is our relational web, expanding our capacity to live into a new relationship with ourselves, each other, and our earth.

We are writing to you as a member of this web, a friend on a shared healing path, to invite you to an evening of poetry and inspiration, of sharing visions for a just and sustainable world, and learn about how that world is already being created. Join world renowned performance duo Climbing PoeTree and author, activist Julia Butterfly Hill amidst the captivating backdrop of pop icon Peter Max's art for an unforgettable evening.

$50-$150 suggested donation at door
organic, vegan, and fairly traded appetizers, desserts and wine served

Spaces are limited. RSVP is highly encouraged. To reserve a spot place your donation in advance here.

Art by Peter Max will be available for sale as well as a silent auction including art work by Julia Butterfly Hill.

Please call (845) 309-2391 if you have questions.

This is a rare opportunity to dream the future with some of the greatest Cultural Creatives of our time. Please bring your passion and open hearts, and your check books and credit cards in case you are inspired to further support this movement (and we think you will be!).

A BENEFIT FOR COMMON FIRE

COMMON FIRE is a foundation helping to create communities here and now that give expression to healthy, joyful living in solidarity with other people and the planet. These communities inspire and nurture ways of being in the world that are holistically and deeply rooted in just and sustainable cultures! Over the next five years Common Fire aims to establish several neighborhood/village-scale communities with affordable green housing, retreat centers, multi-use office spaces, gardens, and more, with an important focus on working with and training people from outside the communities.
click on the link for more info about Common Fire

JULIA BUTTERFLY HILL (http://www.juliabutterfly.com/en/)
For 738 days Julia lived in the canopy of an ancient redwood tree to help make the world aware of the plight of ancient forests. Her courageous act of civil disobedience gained international attention for the redwoods as well as other environmental and social justice issues. "When I entered the majestic cathedral of the redwood forest for the
first time, my spirit knew it had found what it was searching for. I dropped to my knees and began to cry because I was so overwhelmed by the wisdom, energy and spirituality housed in this holiest of temples"~ Julia Butterfly

2$ students 4$ general public

We will be doing a full set of poetic and video excerpts from our latest production Hurricane Season as well as some classic poetry and animated story telling of our 11,000 mile journey across the country on a veggie oil bus!

FREE!!

Workshop: Art as Activism
An interactive workshop that touches on and gives examples of the many ways art is utilized in the social and environmental justice movement. We will be focusing on our own work primarily giving transferable examples through slide projection, story telling and performance. We will also be using S.T.I.T.C.H.E.D as an inspirational tool for story gathering, social cataloguing.

Climbing PoeTree will be performing and sharing multi-media excerpts as part of the cultural event series and culminating Key Note event for the UMWA 2010 Assembly. United Methodist Women assemble every four years to celebrate, to lift up, to learn, and to return to their communities better equipped to stay at the forefront of the work being done both locally and globally, both systemically and in charity, to improve and sustain the lives of women, children and youth.


Climbing PoeTree performs in Hall 4/5 ("The Dome") on Saturday, May 1, 2:30-3:00.

& Hurricane Season video will be part of the Sunday keynotes.

Check out the link below for more info!!!

One Night Only if Ya in Town Joinin in Tha LOVE is Mandatory!

pre sale$22-$25 (Tix at the Door $25-$28 sliding scale Students $15-$18 sliding scale with Valid ID)

W.O.M.B.S.S~Women Organizing Meaningful Belief Systems and Sacred Sanctuaries In Co~Creation with The Pioneer Valley Red Tent Temple Project offers up a night of: Performance~Prayer and Power

2 Dynamic Soul Stirring Collaborations by Climbing Poetree and Appalachia Rising

A portion of the proceeds will benefit The Pioneer Valley Red Tent Temple Project and W.O.M.B.S.S, a Not for Profit Vision supporting empowered and eclectic belief systems for women from diverse backgrounds and walks of life. Our mission and purpose is to create Sacred Sanctuaries, Shared Gathering Spaces and Events where Women can stand in their power to create, listen,vision, express, ground and remember the voices within them.

Solar Fest is open to the public, FREE solar powered music and awareness event sponsored by Keene State College, Campus Ecology. It starts at 11am and goes all day til 7. Vendors, non-profits, and student organizations. Creative Life art show, showcasing some student work as well as local artists. A true festival with hair wrapping, wire wrapping, face painting, tie dye, raffles and prizes!!

We will be performing with the incredible Rebel Diaz along with other amazing dance,hip hop and spoken word performers based out of NYC!!!!

UPROSE is dedicated to the development of Southwest Brooklyn and the empowerment of its residents primarily through broad and converging environmental, sustainable development, and youth justice campaigns.

This is going to be an inspiring and beautiful event for youth who want to know more about environmental justice and how to bring earth saving skillz and dialogue back to their hoods!

This is a two day conference April 16th-17th

Click on related site for more info

FREE!!!!
We will be doing a set of classics and newer work as well as Hurricane Season poetics and video excerpts. Come for a night of fiery poetree!

We will be doing a full set with Hurricane Season excerpts and poetic classics.
McPhail's is located on the ground floor of the Slavin Center.

FREE EVENT!!!

Climbing Poetree will be featured during Queer Week At RISD as part of the Leadership Lectures. We will be presenting an interactive workshop that will interweave poetry, storytelling, multimedia and S.T.I.T.C.H.E.D to address queerness at the forefront of social movements in the US, Hurricane Katrina, and our latest production and national organizing strategy
Hurricane Season.

This will be one of the few opportunities to catch Hurricane Season in it entirety this year, or maybe even ever!!!

THIS SHOW IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!

Click on related site for the Hurricane Season Trailer:

"Women Speak out! Stories of Resistance, Liberation, and Solidarity"
Macalester College's Women's History Month Culminating Event
Climbing PoeTree Workshop & Performance
Macalester College, Saint Paul, Minnesota

We are so honored to be participating on the "Restoring Community: Black Writers Respond to the Environmental Crises" a panel with Majora Carter, and Omar Ferilla as part of the Tenth National Black Writers Conference!

The conference will be taking place from Thursday, March 25th- Sunday, March 28th. This conference is rich, ya'll! with performers and speakers such as Toni Morrison, Talib Kweli, Amiri Baraka, Sonia Sanchez and more!!! make sure to check the full schedule (click on related site).

Admission into the conference is broken down by 1 day -4 day participation. There is also student and senior rates!!! check on the link below for the complete breakdown

http://www.nationalblackwritersconference.org/registration.html

Hurricane Season: the hidden messages in water
a two-woman show, about unnatural disaster and a great shift in universal consciousness
Two Night Run at Passage Theater, Trenton, NJ
as part of SOLO FLIGHTS FESTIVAL "Greening: Natural Connections, Growing Community"

This will be one of the few opportunities to catch Hurricane Season in it entirety this year, or maybe even ever!!! and its a Two Night Run!

For Tickets click on related site:

We are so happy to be returning to ChiTown for a one night appearance @ Loyola University. We will be doing an hour performance of Hurricane Season excerpts, poetic classics and new alike! AND this might be the only time you can catch us in these parts for 2010!!!

More info to come!!!!

We will be doing a series of workshops through out the week that address the marriage of Art and Activism in our own work and the importance of weaving the two from the personal to the global in cultural shift, movement building and universal transformation.

CANDLELIGHT SOUL CYPHER - a benefit for CLIMBING POETREE
an intimate evening of Spoken Word - Acoustic Music - & Tea

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24TH, 2009 8:30pm sharp - midnight

@ Precious Life Wellness Village
2116 Berkeley Way @ Shattuck, Berkeley, CA (510) 841-5433

$10-20 sugg. donation, no one turned away for lack of funds

featuring:

CLIMBING POETREE
CLEOME BOVA
ARIEL LUCKEY http://www.arielluckey.com
MEMBERS OF GODDESS ALCHEMY PROJECT
http://myspace.com/goddessalchemyproject
AIMA THE DREAMER http://myspace.com/aimathedreamer
ISIS INDRIYA
YLEM
YAQUELINE LA PORTE
RUN DEEP
NIKILA-MAMAWISDOM
& MORE...

special guest instrumentalists:

KEEPYAHJOY (of Audiopharmacy) http://audiopharmacy.com
JOSEPH RYNDE
& More...

LIVE ART by ANDREASONE & NIKILA-MAMAWISDOM
http://www.peacefits.com
http://www.myspace.com/mamawisdom

TEA SERVICE by OMSHANTEA http://www.omshantea.com

*** We're dedicating this month's Soul Cypher to the Indigenous People's of this land and the Gratitude for Life, during this week
of "Giving Thanks".

Mystic Family Circus Presents:
ANCESTOR'S WISDOM, messages for these times

An intentional community gathering, with Elders presentations and rituals, wisdom keepers messages and prophecies conveyed through muti-media and performance.

$25-$50, all ages

THE WOMENS BUILDING
3543 18th st (2 blocks from 16th st BART station)
San Francisco

Elders present:
JULIA PARKER, Basket Weaver, California Indian, Miwok/Pomo/Paiute Cultural Curator.
MAMA KIA, founder of Casa de Milagros orphanage, Peru.
ANNA HALPRIN, legendary dance icon, author of "Returning To Health With Dance Movement And Imagery".
ARIEL SPILSBURY, the Mayan Oracle.
PENNY LIVINGSTON, permaculture teacher, designer and speaker. Co-creator of Ecological Design Program: San Francisco Institute of Architecture and co-founder of West Marin Grower’s Group, the West Marin Farmer’s Market and the Community Land Trust Association of Marin.
ROB BRESZNY, Free Will Astrologer, author of "Pronoia".
CHRIS CARLSSON, founder of "Critical Mass", author of "Nowtopia".
FRED WAHPEPAH, founder of Seven Circles Foundation.
LESLENE DELLA MADRE, author of "Midwifing Death".
ALEX FENG, world renown martial artist and healer, founder of the Taoist Center.
TEKEBA BANTU, founder of bantu mystic family circus.
DAVID ULANSEY, Professor of Philosophy and Religion.
JYOTI, embassador for the International Council of Thirteen Indigeneous Grandmothers.

Performance by:
MYSTIC FAMILY CIRCUS
DESTINY ARTS YOUTH PERFORMANCE COMPANY
CLIMBING POETREE
SHIMSHAI
SASHA BUTTERFLY ROSE
AIMA THE DREAMER
& Matt Lucas Martial Arts, Big Tadoo Puppet Theater, Sunru, Eve lady Apples, Random, Lucid Dawn, Lali and Ronnie, Mathew Peace Dove Hoffman, Ariel Spilsbury and Natalia Price, Isis Indriya, Nikila MamaWisdom, Kate Gibson, Tenley Wallace, Carolina Duncan/Coicoi, Madeleina Bolduc, Audette Sophia, Crystal Cobra, Eve Isabelle, Bast


$25-$50, all ages

50% PROCEEDS GO TO PARTICPATING ELDERS

a celebration to benefit Critical Resistance Oakland,
a local chapter of a national organization working to abolish the prison industrial complex

featuring:

Angela Y. Davis
Climbing PoeTree
Sparhla Swa
Destiny Arts
Randy Garcia-Dancy
and more...

First Unitarian Church of Oakland
685 14th St
Oakland, CA 94612

tickets are $40 to $80 sliding scale.

For more info and to purchase tickets , click related site.

Climbing PoeTree performs as part of ceremony and gathering for the Dark Room Retreat Center called, Sierra Obscura

opening and closing prayers w/ Rigzin, Serpent Path Initiatory Ritual w/ Isis Indriya & Eve LadyApples

Guest performances by: Nikila - MamaWisdom, Lyndsey Vona

Visionary Art & Sculpture shown by: Android Jones, Carey Thompson, Andrew Gonzalez, Raul Casillas, & Moksha

Sierra Obscura Darkness Retreats
10421 Jasper Agate Court
Nevada City, CA

Contact: poeticwonderproductions@gmail.com
or Danielle Dao: 530-292-4349

Sunday's Official Green Fest After Party

3 rooms of music with over 30 performers! Live art, organic food, local vendors and sustainable organizations & more!

A Benefit for COMMUNITREE & OAKLAND’S GREEN YOUTH ARTS & MEDIA CENTER!!!

The Center is a creative empowerment hub in Oakland that serves youth impacted by violence and poverty through innovative programs in the arts, media production, and environmental sustainability.

Featuring: Dead Prez, Speech (of Arrested Development), Davey D, Audiopharmacy, J-Boogie, Aima the Dreamer, Sake One, B-Brown, Fiyawata, Climbing PoeTree, Wisdom w/DJ Swint & Seasunz, Turf Unity, Destiny Arts, DJ Twelvz, Kevin Danaher (Co-Founder of Global Exchange), Ross Mirkarimi (District 5 Supervisor, SF), David Satori, El Diablo, & Sidecar Tommy of Beats Antique, Queen Afua, Selassie, Lotus Drops, Sweet Anomaly, Social Prophet Choir, Javier Reyes (Colored Ink), latef Hotep Vita, Da Masters, and surprise guest performers.

Live Painting: Ras Terms, MamaWisdom, & AndreasOne

1015 Folsom Nightclub
1015 Folsom Street

$15 before 10pm & $18 - 20 sliding after

MORE INFO & PRE-SALE TICKETS click related site

Discussion Panel feat. Dead Prez, Speech (of Arrested Development), Climbing Poetree, and Davey D. (of Hard Knock Radio)

"In today's world of climate chaos and pop tune ringtones, is Hip-Hop, helping generation Y" become a generation of "Why Not's?" Come learn how conscious cultural leaders are creating a pathway for self-determination and vibrant healthy communities, especially for those often left out of this new surge of green? This panel will give space for cultural revolutionaries to share their ideas and passions. Books and merchandise to be made available after the panel."

San Francisco Concourse Exhibition Center
635 8th St (at Brannan St)
San Francisco, CA 94103

The Regency Ballroom
1300 Van Ness

Common Vision is a non-profit organization touring with a fleet of veggie powered buses to schools in under served communities, planting fruit trees and teaching kids about how to take care of the Earth!

Special Guests performances by Brazilian drummer AIRTO MOREIRA http://www.airto.com & Hamsa Lila

There will be an opening drum ceremony/jam with The Master's of Rhythm featuring Airto & Rasaki

EARLYBIRD TICKETS ON SALE NOW!!!!
$16 earlybird / $22 in advance / $28 day of show / $50 VIP TICKETS!!!
click related link

OFFICIAL GREENFEST AFTER-DARK PARTY!

CO-SPONSORED*** BY: Earthdance Network / 6 Degrees Records / Global Exchange / Harborside Clinic

Links:
Hamsa Lila
Common Vision
DJ Dragonfly
DJ Jef Stott (6 Degrees Records)
LYNX & Jamie Janover
Rasaki (King Sunny Ade's talking drum master)

Newark Stage
Newark Symphony Hall
1030 Broad St
Newark, NJ

Advanced Tickets can be purchased through Brown Paper Tickets
CLICK HERE

We will be performing an excerpt of Hurricane Season as part of the morning keynotes just before VANDANA SHIVA @ The fifth Annual Bioneers by the Bay: Connecting for Change conference (presented by the Marion Institute in the historic Downtown of New Bedford, MA, on October 22-25, 2009).
Bioneers by the Bay: Connecting for Change is an internationally acclaimed annual gathering of environmental, industry and social justice innovators who have demonstrated visionary and practical models for restoring the Earth and its inhabitants.


Over 2,000 students, teachers, green business innovators, scientists, grassroots leaders and everyday folks from across the East Coast will gather to embrace, share, brainstorm, network, heal, learn, teach, celebrate, recharge and connect for change. We will roll up our sleeves and harvest tangible, practical solutions to the specific challenges we face here in the Northeast and the world at-large!
CLIMBING POETREE will be performing on Sunday, Oct. 25th, 10:53am, [before Vandana Shiva’s presentation] at the Zeiterion Theatre, 684 Purchase St, New Bedford, MA.
In addition to our keynote performance, we are leading a workshop on Saturday, Oct. 24th, 3:30-4:45 (Hurricane Season: arousing the power of our creative consciousness to unearth solutions in an era of unnatural disaster).
And we are performing at a 350 [link] event on Sat, Oct. 24th, 5:00-5:45pm.

Registration and SCHOLARSHIPS (easy to get!!!!) click related site

Alixa and Naima will be performing excerpts from Hurricane Season and sharing spoken word from a repertoire of impassioned poetry that will leave you uplifted and uprising! Climbing PoeTree will be sharing the stage with Fred Ho, legendary jazz saxophonist and political activist (http://www.myspace.com/fredhomusic)

Music by DJ Marvel

Presented by Hampshire College Hip Hop Collective
scholarship benefit for the sons of Julius Ford
$5 suggested donation

Hampshire College RED BARN
893 West Street
Amherst, MA 01002

Unification church, Rev. Martin Luther King Center
1610 Columbia Rd NW
Washington, DC 20009

The Rotunda
4014 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Tickets are sliding scale $12-25 at the door. No one will be turned away for a lack of funds!

Advanced tickets are available for $20-25 sliding scale through Brown Paper Tickets CLICK HERE

CLIMBING POETREE AT NewARC
THE NEWARK ARTS RESOURCE CENTER
The Barat Foundation, 765 Broad Street, Newark, NJ

Alixa and Naima will be performing excerpts from Hurricane Season and sharing spoken word from a repertoire of impassioned poetry that will leave you upflifted and uprising!

Trinity on Main
69 Main St
New Britain, CT 06051

Opening Reception: featuring music, art and photography by local artists, tabling organizations, and refreshments. Maurice Robertson and Zoraida Lopez will be exhibiting photography. Margaux Hayes will be performing and Dana Rondel will be reading.

SHOWTIME: 7:00 pm!!!
Tickets: $15-25 sliding scale at the door
Advanced Tickets can be purchased through Brown Paper Tickets
CLICK HERE

Alixa and Naima will be performing excerpts from Hurricane Season and sharing spoken word from a repertoire of impassioned poetry that will leave you upflifted and uprising!

Keene State College
Mable Brown Room
229 Main St
Keene, NH

North East American School of Dance
25 Main St.
Northampton, MA 01060

Tickets are sliding scale $15-25 at the door. No one will be turned away for a lack of funds!
Advanced Tickets are available for $20-25 sliding scale through Brown Paper Tickets CLICK HERE

Mixed Magic Theatre
171 Main St
Pawtucket, RI 02860-4101

2 NIGHT RUN!!!

Tickets are sliding scale $12-25 at the door. No one will be turned away for a lack of funds!

Advanced tickets can be purchased for $20-25 sliding scale through Brown Paper Tickets CLICK HERE

Climbing PoeTree will perform poems from Hurricane Season and other favorites. The event at Yoga & Nia For Life will raise funds to support the incredible vision of the tour. A reception with the artists and silent auction will follow the performance.

$10 at the door
CLICK HERE to purchase tickets

Yoga & Nia for Life
50 Beharrel Street,
W. Concord, MA

Event will be in the yoga studio. There will be NO chairs -- floor seating only. **Attendees are encouraged to bring their own floor pillows or meditation seating.
Auction purchases are tax-deductible. Climbing PoeTree's fiscal sponsor for Hurricane Season is the Common Fire Foundation, www.commonfire.org.
If you have an auction item you’d like to donate, please contact Monica Hinojos, monica@monicahinojos.com or 617.256.5835

Special thanks to Maria Skinner for donating her studio space and Monica Hinojos for organizing the event!

Alixa and Naima will be performing excerpts from Hurricane Season and sharing spoken word from a repertoire of impassioned poetry that will leave you upflifted and uprising!

Vanderslice Cabaret Room
Boston College
in the Chestnut Hill section of Newton, Massachusetts

Villa Victoria Center for the Arts
85 W Newton St
Boston, MA 02228

Tickets: $12-25 sliding scale at the door
Advanced Tickets can be purchased through Brown Paper Tickets
CLICK HERE

Alixa and Naima will perform poetic excerpts from Hurricane Season, and share spoken word from a repertoire of dual-voice poems that challenge listeners to acknowledge their own humanity, dissolve apathy with hope, and help heal inner trauma so that we may begin to cope with issues facing our collectivities.

in Turrets Hall
COA
105 Eden Street
Bar Harbor, ME

Sadly Hurricane Season that was scheduled to take place Saturday at Colby College in Waterville, ME, has been cancelled due to a last minute administrative decision. We are shocked & disappointed!!! Sorry for everyone planning to come, I hope we will have a chance to meet again... New gig at COA Sunday. see details below.

UNITY COLLEGE
Unity Center for the Performing Arts
42 Depot Street
More details coming soon!

BOWDOIN COLLEGE
Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center
More details coming soon!

Afro Latin Soul
Featuring next to Nomadic Massive & San Juan Hill (de Harlem)
at Lambi
4465 St-aurent
$12 Doors open at 21h

Radio Interview on CHOQ.FM

Appearance and feature at EYES WIDE OPEN
3255 St-Jacques West (facing metro Lionnel-Grouix)

this is the opening evening of NDP
18h-20h =30e Noche de poesia
FREEEEEEEEEEEEE
at Le Depanneur Cafe
206 Bernard West (corner Esplanade)

Climbing Poetree will be performing next to many amazing spoken word artists from Toronto and Montreal...
Jahnice, Truth Is, Fabrice Koffy, Kaie Kellough, Andrea Thompson & Abstract Random

Radio Interview on Poesia Libre MTL 102.3

Appearance at KVC Weekly Live Organic Improv
$5 Tickets
Sablo Cafe
50 St-Zotique East (Corner St-Dominique)

HURRICANE SEASON IS TOURING THE NORTHEAST REGION THIS FALL OF ‘09!!!

After a groundbreaking national tour & sold out shows during their summer run at the National Black Theater in Harlem (where audience members returned up to 6 times with people wrapped around their arms!), Climbing PoeTree has embarked on another tour to bring this transformational performance to the Northeast region! See dates below and spread the word!

Hurricane Season has an extended run at the The National Black Theater- Institute of Action Arts in Harlem this summer!!!
From July 10th through August 2nd, Alixa and Naima will perform Hurricane Season Fridays and Saturdays @ 7:30, and Sundays @ 4:00 (July 10, 11, 12, 17, 18, 19, 24, 25, 26, 31, & August 1, 2)!!!

The National Black Theater
2031-33 National Black Theatre Way
a.k.a. Fifth Avenue (Btwn 125th & 126th Streets)
Harlem, NY

more info/tickets call 212.722.3800

Admission: Sliding scale $15-35
PURCHASE TICKETS ONLINE HERE

Climbing PoeTree will be performing as part of Kona Pride Fest
@ the King Kamehameha Kona Beach Hotel Luau Grounds, Kailua Kona. All ages

The afterparty (21 and over) is @ Jackie Rey's Bar, Kailua Kona 9-2am, there will be DJ's all night and a burlesque show 11:30-midnight.

Other events for the weekend include: a drag pagaent (21+) Friday, June 19th, we will crown "Miss Hawaii Island Pride", location is My Bar, Kailua Kona.

Sunday, the 21st will be a Burlesque dinner/booze cruise (21+) on the BodyGlove boat 6-8pm.

Event: First Friday at Ong King Arts Center

Time and Place: Ong King Arts Center, 184 N. King St., Friday, June 5th, 5pm-2am
Art gallery opening 5pm-9pm, Performance 9pm-2am

Cost: 10$ (art opening free)

Who Can Attend: All Ages!

More Info: www.ongking.com see@ongking.com,
ong king: 306-7823, see’s #: 428-3233

CLIMBING POETREE...ASIWOULDSAY...TRAVIS WELLER...MARIA REMOS...CAROL TAWANGA...BIANCA CHAVEZ...T-TYM...MATTY CHAMBERLAIN....QUADRAPHONIX...SHAKTI DANCE MOVEMENT....MICHAEL HAMILTON...THE FOOL TRUTH...TAIMANE GARDNER

FROM ACROSS the UniVerse to briNG minD bending boisterouS beauty into being, yes inDEedOOO its firSt friDay JUnE 5th @ onG King Arts Center. WelCOme summer with asIwouldsay a San Francisco based arts group presenting two amazing artists: One is visuaL artist Travis Weller, the other musician and old friend Maria Remos/songbird. Loving the walls with Art odes are emerging artist: Bianca Chavez and Carol Tagawa. In from Brooklyn to open for Erykah Badu is Climbing Poetree (Alixa & Naima) the most amazing poet duo in the land! Jeffery James has a new groove soul band call T-TYM (tea time). Bringing funky strange performance art is Michael Hamilton as Pan and see with The FooL Truth. Plus SHakti Dance Movement may just droP a dance number in the stew. MATTY ChamberLain starts it, as QUadraphonix finishes us with amazing psycadelic sitar artistry combined with Taimane Gardner’s uke madness. Yes we love this, with u...

Visual ART
FEAUTURE ARTIST: Travis Weller currently resides in San Francisco, CA spending his days drawing, burning screens, cutting stencils, and hand pulling silkscreen prints until his fingers don’t function properly.

This will be a music festival that will feature Grammy Award Winning Artist Erykah Badu with her live band and national recording artist Goapele.
Also Featuring Climbing PoeTree, Kimo James, Nesian Nine, DJ K Salaam NYC + DJ MIN ONE

The Waterfront @ Aloha Tower Marketplace
1 Aloha Tower Drive
Honolulu, HI

tickets on sale at DIG Lifestyles and HonoluluBoxOffice.com

brought to you by DIG Lifestyles and Echelon Entertainment
more info: 808 591 8501

The conference is a student-led effort aimed at challenging legal scholars, NGO leaders, and policy makers to confront the humanitarian crisis at the heart of climate change. Attendees and Panelist will be coming from all over the world, including Jamaica, the Maldives, Geneva, Alaska, Australia, India, Europe, and the U.S. Climbing PoeTree will be performing an excerpt of Hurricane Season during the opening. Click related site for all the details.

University of Washington School of Law
William H. Gates Hall, Seattle, 98195

Registration fees~
GENERAL ADMISSION: $115
STUDENT: $35

FIERCE Night Out!
Spring Concert FEATURING:

MESHELL NDEGEOCELLO
TOSHI REAGON
CLIMBING POETREE
DJ TIKKA MASALA

@ Santos Party House
96 Lafayette Street
NYC, NY

Show starts at 7:30pm SHARP!
ALL AGES SHOW!

$20 Advance Tickets
$25 At the Door

Purchase tickets online HERE before they sell out!

All proceeds benefit FIERCE, a grassroots member-led organization dedicated to the power and leadership of queer youth of color in NYC.

Hurricane Season NYC Premier Show!

as part of The Riverside Theatre's
second annual Cultural Animators Series
"EARTH (H)OURS"

Advanced tickets can be purchased online: CLICK HERE

or call the Box Office: 212-870-6784

The Riverside Theater
Located within The Riverside Church, 91 Claremont Ave at 120th Street

A festival of working class art and resistance dedicated to bringing down the walls that divide those who face injustice from war, racism, and neoliberalism.

In the Red: Revolutions for Our Hearts. Mayworks opening night. An evening of music spoken word, dance and more with LAL, Vox Sambou, MataDanze, Shameless plus from New York City critically acclaimed Climbing PoeTree.

Blue Moon Café
725 Queen Street East

$10-$15 s/s

Roots PoeTree with Hurricane Season Excerpts
@
anitAFRIKA! dub theatre
62 fraser avenue
toronto ontario m6k1y6

phone: 416.434.1823

*come early as space is limited, pay what you can*

anitAFRIKA! dub theatre is a radical arts centre founded on 7 principles of dubpoetry & dubtheatre: the use of rhythm, language, political protext, orality, urgency, integrity, and sacredness as mediums of social change through storytelling. birthed by d'bi.young in spring 2008 during her professional dubtheatre mentorship with visionary dub aatist ahdri zhina mandiela, this movement provides communities with creative resources that facilitate and promote the ideas of accountability and responsibility between the storyteller and the people: the artist as leader and revolushunary keeper of the sacred.

Climbing PoeTree performs at The Big Sur Spirit Garden, an International Arts and Cultural Center located in the Big Sur valley between the Santa Lucia Mountains and the Pacific Ocean.

$15 open

Big Sur Coast Highway-Route 1
Big Sur, CA 93920
(831) 667-1300

Climbing PoeTree performs at UCSC for Engaging Education.

Oakes Learning Center
UCSC
1156 High Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95064

Engaging Education (e²) is a Student-Initiated Outreach and Retention Center for student engagement and academic excellence. It is a supportive and dynamic space for programming that addresses the low rates of recruitment, retention and graduation that historically under resourced communities face within higher education. To build a foundation for students to grow and engage in grassroots organizing, student activism, community building both inside and outside the university, and understanding of legacies of social justice struggles.

HART (Healing ART): A night of self expression, open mic, spoken word
music, art, food, community building & resources

as part of SEXUAL ASSAULT AWARENESS MONTH
Our Stories, Our Lives: Challenging the Myths of Sexual Violence in the LGBTQ Community

-DJ Em-1 & DJ Gavin Roy (from Wild Cat)
- Performances by Climbing Poetree, SKIM, Jade Ross

FREE!

Casa de la Raza Youth Center
601 E. Montecito Street
Santa Barbara, CA 93101

More info: (805) 963-6832 ext. 12

Climbing PoeTree performs @
New York University
Kimmel Center (rm 802)
60 Washington Square South
New York, NY 10012

performance 7 - 8 pm + a 30 minute Q & A

sponsored by The NYU Office of LGBT Student Services and the Center for Multicultural Education & Programs

Event is open to the general public, but if you don't have an NYU ID, you must RSVP to Celiany Rivera crv3@nyu.edu to get on a list in order to bypass security. Thank you!

Join AVERY BROOKS & ALICIA KEYS & guests

to celebrate the launch of
Dr. Barbara Ann Teer's
Institute of Action Arts
41st year!
and the re-institution of the Communication Arts Program Symposiums

Climbing PoeTree will be contributing one poem to this thought provoking and soul stirring evening

National Black Theater
The National Black Theatre
2031-33 National Black Theatre Way
Fifth Avenue (Btwn 125th & 126th Streets)
Harlem, NY 10035

Suggested donation $20 Students $10, EVENT SOLD OUT!!!!

~Collective Hardware -169 Bowery @ Delancey New York New York~

- A Elite artistic gathering to benefit photographer / journalist activist LAYLA LOVE who is challenged with vision-threatening diagnosis of multifocal chroiditis. This is the night to celebrate living art, healing through creation, the room will be alive with an abundance of over 200 images by Love and 20 artists & performers lighting up the room. As well a fashion sow by CHATEAU DE LION , Live Painting by Jorge Casu and Crystal Clarity, dance by Samara Gaev, and after party till 2 am! Live performances by Climbing Poetree, The Countess, and a group show featuring: Becky Yee, Dana Goldburg, MTA.

HOSTED BY: CARON BERNSTEIN, KARLIIN MANN, ANTHONY HADEN-GUEST, LAYLA LOVE, YUKI TANAKA, D FINLEY, SUSAN ANTON, MICHAEL MUSTO, NORMAN REEDUS

Target First Saturdays @ the Brooklyn Museum

Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Auditorium, 3rd floor
THE BROOKLYN MUSEUM
200 Eastern Pkwy, Brooklyn
take the 2 or 3 trains to Eastern Parkway/Brooklyn Museum

Climbing PoeTree
Mango Tribe
Mahina Movement

"Interdisciplinary performance ensemble Mango Tribe, trio Mahina Movement, and spoken word duo Climbing PoeTree each present socially conscious works with poignant melodies, passionate lyrics, and innovative projections in this wide-reaching showcase."

Free tickets (330) available at the Visitor Center at 5 p.m.

Climbing PoeTree performs along with Invincible, Mahina Movement, Joda!, Novice Theory, Ganessa James

PLUS! The Audre Lorde Project's SAFE OUTSIDE THE SYSTEM STEP TEAM!!!

Judson Memorial Church
55 Washington Square S.
NYC on the A/B/C/D/E/F/V/R/W
All Ages, Wheelchair accessible

COST: $15-$50 (no one turned away for lack of funds)

benefit for Audre Lorde Project and
Sylvia Rivera Law Project

An evening of music, poetry, dance, speakers, and award presentations.

In 2008, One Common Unity (OCU) presents the first Annual Common Folk Awards. During the Awards Celebration, OCU will recognize 3 individuals from around the world who are creating peace and lasting sustainable change in their communities through education, arts and/or media.

International Award Recipient:
Andersen Sa (Favella Rising, Brazil)

National Award Recipient:
Climbing PoeTree (Hurricane Season, New York)

Invited Guest Performers Include:
Courtney Dowe, Mikuak Rai, The Young Women's Drumming Empowerment Project, Olu Butterfly, The Cornell West Theory, Ayanna Gregory, Dr. James Gordon, Princess of Controversy, Bomani Armah, Jali-D, Monica McIntyre, Ayasha Upchurch, Luci Murphy, and Brother Ah.

Silent Auction Contributions:
Paintings by: Helina Metaferia, Jean-Jacques Gabriel, Saaku
Gift Certificates by: Flow Yoga Center, Journey Yoga Center, HomeMade Pizza Company, Syracuse Cultural Workers, Yoga Chai

RECEIVE YOUR TICKETS ONLINE TODAY
Tickets $20.00
CLICK related site

Dress Festive
Appetizers & Light Fare provided during the reception by Java Green Eco Café & Bus Boys & Poets

Location:
Peace Mural Foundation Exhibit
3336 M St. NW
Washington D.C. 20007

Alixa and Naima, the acclaimed arts activist duo Climbing PoeTree, present

HURRICANE SEASON:
The Hidden Messages in Water,

a multi-media two-womyn show that interweaves spoken word poetry, sound collage, shadow art, dance, film and animation to explore critical issues facing humanity through the kaleidoscope of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath.

A riveting story about unnatural disaster and a great shift in universal consciousness, HURRICANE SEASON draws vital connections between shared struggles & common solutions in a critical moment in human history.

Rhythmic and uplifting, raw and deeply moving, HURRICANE SEASON seeks not to captivate audiences, but to liberate them.

Through the performance and post-show discussion, HURRICANE SEASON arouses the power of our creative consciousness to transform destruction into solutions that already live amongst us.

NATIONAL TOUR: AUGUST 29 TO DECEMBER 14, 2008

Alixa and Naima will travel throughout the country in a vehicle converted to run on vegetable oil recycled from America’s fast-food addiction.

CHECK OUT THE NEW OFFICIAL HURRICANE SEASON WEBSITE FOR ITINERARY!
www.hurricaneseasontour.com
or contact us to get on the email list for updates

BOOKING & other inquiries: water@climbingpoetree.com

GET INVOLVED in production, booking, promotion, community outreach, or documentation! We look forward to trading magic with you again. water@climbingpoetree.com


HURRICANE SEASON national tour tentative show schedule

Philadelphia, PA 8/29/08
Pittsburgh, PA 9/2/08/08
Cleveland, OH 9/4/08
Yellow Springs/ Cincinnati 9/6-9/7/08
Columbus, OH 9/10/08
Detroit, MI 9/12/08
Ann Arbor, MI 9/14/08
Chicago, IL (Northside) 9/18/08
Chicago, IL (Southside) 9/20/08
Champaign/Urbana, IL 9/24/08
Iowa City, IA 9/27/08
Milwaukee, WI 9/30/08
Madison, WI 10/2/08
Minneapolis, MN 10/4/08
Seattle, WA 10/12/08
Portland, OR 10/16/08
Arcata, CA 10/18/08
Oakland, CA 10/25/08
Berkeley, CA 10/29/08
San Francisco, CA 10/30/08
San Jose, CA 11/2/08
Santa Cruz, CA 11/5/08
Los Angeles, CA 11/8/08
Albuquerque, NM 11/15/08
Austin, TX 11/19/08
Houston, TX 11/22/08
New Orleans 11/26/08
Gulfport/Biloxi, MS 11/29/08
Tallahassee, FL 12/2/08
Atlanta, GA 12/5/08
Asheville, NC 12/9/08
Washington DC 12/13/08

NORTHEAST REGIONAL TOUR
SPRING 2009

stay tuned for show dates!

From the South Bronx –Southern Louisana
Rebuilding Healthy People, Healthy Families And Healthy Communities

Enjoy a wonderful spring night roofstop with...

*Film Screening: “When the Levee’s Broke” & “Jena Six”
*Music by DJ Sabine
*Performance by Climbing Poetree

DONATION $7-10

When the government in place does not respond because I am Black, because I am poor, because I am Brown, because I am an immigrant, because I am a womyn, because I’m Queer, because I am a worker, I do not have to wait. I can create what I have been asking for. Self-Determination begins when people meet their own needs to go beyond survival. Therefore, when the government does not, our needs are not forgotten.
Creating a JUST, Sacred and Sustainable World!

So sorry fam, this event has been canceled due to a tragic double-booking situation on the part of the venue! If you would like updates on DC area shows let us know in the "Contact Us" page.

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Women in the Life Association proudly presents:
A Special Black PRIDE Month Open Mic Celebration

featuring CLIMBING POETREE

in benefit of their upcoming tour "HURRICANE SEASON'

@ THE LOUNGE (formerly Cada Vez)
1438 U Street NW

Suggested donation $10

HOSTED BY STRANGE FROOT
Sign up for Open Mic at the door!

more info: 202-541-9818

Friday: workshop
Saturday: performance

details TBA

Western Washington University | 516 High Street | Bellingham, WA 98225
sponsored by the Social Issues Resource Center

@ the UWM Union
2200 E. Kenwood Blvd.
Milwaukee, WI 53211

sponsored by the Sociocultural Programming Department, the Latino Student Union, Union Programming, the Community Media Project, and the Women's Resource Center

LOOKING THE STORM IN THE EYE:
a week of active reflection on Hurricane Katrina and a community based call and response.

Featuring the first-ever unveiling of Climbing PoeTree's upcoming production "HURRICANE SEASON: The Hidden Messages in Water" a multi-media two-womyn show about unnatural disaster and a great shift in universal consciousness. Alixa and Naima will be performing selections of this work-in-process, interweaving spoken word poetry, sound collage, shadow art, dance, film and animation to explore critical issues facing humanity through the kaleidoscope of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath.

Saturday April 5th at 7:00
Rites and Reason Theatre, 155 Angell St.

LOOKING THE STORM IN THE EYE will culminate in a Folk Thought forum on Sunday April 6th. Alixa and Naima of Climbing PoeTree will host a "solutions cipher" - to cross-pollinate creative strategies for self-determination, and to turn the passion generated in the show into action manifested in the community.

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23rd Annual Empowering Women of Color Conference

“decolonizing creativity:

FIERY WOMYN, FIERCE EXPRESSIONS”

March 8, 2008, 9:30AM-5:30PM

UC Berkeley, MLK Building

Keynote Speaker: Climbing PoeTree

Performances by: Taller Tamboricua, DJ Jeanine Da Feen,

Lakota singer Jenny Ghost Bear, iXalt! And more!

Featuring: Workshops, Vendors, Closing Panel

Registration on-line: ewocc.berkeley.edu

SCHEDULE (subject to change)

8:30a-9:30a: Registration
9:30a-10:10a: Opening Ceremony - Taller Tamboricua
10:10a-10:15a: Transition
10:15a-11:15a: Workshop 1
11:15a-11:20a: Transition
11:20a-12:20p: Workshop 2
12:20p-1:20p: Lunch with DJ Jeanne Da Feen
1:20p-1:35p: Transition – iXalt!
1:35p-2:30p: Keynote - Climbing Poetree
2:30p-2:45p: Transition – Lokota singer Jenny Ghost Bear
2:45p-3:45p: Workshop 3
3:45p-4:00p: Transition - Entertainment with Step Group
4:00p-5:00p: Panel (feat. Climbing PoeTree)
5:00p-5:15p: Closeout and Thank yous
5:15p-5:30p: Closing - Climbing Poetree

Kick-off Event: Equinox

Featuring Student Performers and Taller Tamboricua direct from Puerto Rico

Friday, March 7, 2008

5:30-7PM

Heller Lounge

Sponsored by: Gender Equity Resource Center

Geneq.berkeley.edu



EWOCC is sponsored by: The Graduate Assembly, Women of Color Initiative Project Coordinator, Graduate Women’s Project, Graduate Students’ Minority Project, The Ethnic Studies Fifth Account, Consortium for the Arts at UC Berkeley, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, Luna Bar

Women of Color Resource Center is hosting their annual "Speaking Fierce" International Woman's Day event. Climbing PoeTree will open the program with a 15 minute set at 7 pm. Details:

Women of Color Resource Center Presents
Speaking Fierce
An Evening of Art, Spoken Word, Humor and Music

Thursday, March 6, 2008
Doors at 6:30pm, Program 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Tickets $10-$25
No one turned away for lack of funds
First Congregational Church
2501 Harrison Street @ 27th, Oakland

Bushra Rehman, Brooklyn-Based Pakistani Poet & Co-editor of Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism

Climbing PoeTree, Spoken Word Duo

Special Guest Appearance by Jennifer Johns, R&B World Music Singer

Technological Empowerment & Media Project of Oakland (TEMPO)

Service Women's Action Network (SWAN)

For more info, call 510-444-2700 x305, www.coloredgirls.org

Sponsored by:
Art in Action, BAY-Peace, Colorlines Magazine, Codepink, Courage to Resist, EBASE (East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy), East Bay Peace Action, Global Exchange, Global Women's Fund, National Radio Project, Peace Action West, Rainforest Action Network, Speakout, War Times, The Women's Building, Women's International League of Peace & Freedom (SF Branch)

AN EVENING OF HIP HOP AND POETRY TO CLOSE OUT ISRAELI APARTHEID WEEK (WWW.APARTHEIDWEEK.ORG)

opening with poetry at 8:30
Remi Kanazi and Tahani Salah

hip hop at 9:30
Sabreena Da Witch (Abeer)

http://www.myspace.com/sdawitch
Invincible

http://www.myspace.com/invincilana
Rebel Diaz

http://www.rebeldiaz.com

closing our with Climbing Poetree!

With DJ Oja spinning against apartheid all night!
http://www.myspace.com/sunchildproductions


doors at 8pm, all ages
$10

@ The Knitting Factory

74 Leonard St.
Between B'way & Church St.
(1, 9 to Franklin St., A, C, E, N, R to Canal)

Sunday 7pm - Opening Program: “ART is our WEAPON, our MEDICINE, our VOICE, our VISION”

Description:

If creativity is the antidote to destruction, how can art be at the service of progressive movements for peace, justice, and social change? Climbing PoeTree will blend their soul-stirring, fist-raising spoken word performance with a slide-show presentation inspired by their career as arts activists. Audience participants will have an opportunity to contribute their personal manifestos to S.T.I.T.C.H.E.D., a growing tapestry of Stories, Testimonies, Intentions, Truths, Confessions, Healing, Expressions, and Dreams that Alixa and Naima have collected and stitched together from close to 3,000 individuals nationwide since the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

Monday 7pm– Bookmaking workshop


Description:

In this hands-on workshop, participants will create their own hardcover journals from salvaged and recycled materials. Alixa and Naima will show examples of hand-bound books they have created and talk a little about their experiences as arts educators, creating curriculum for at-risk youth and children of incarcerated parents using book making as a tool for healing.

Tuesday 7 pm– Writing workshop “Planting PoeTree”

This workshop will seed poems rooted in our experiences that bear the fruit of our imaginations. Alixa and Naima will take participants on a sensory journey that stimulates memory and activates imagery, and will share some secrets about writing and performing compelling poetry.

Wednesday 7pm – “Stencil Graffiti”

An introduction to street art techniques such as stenciling, wheat pasting, and spray paint, this workshop will create a collaborative mural on plywood.

Thursday – 7pm – “Fashion Statement” silk-screening and stenciling clothing

Bring blank t-shirts, hoodies, and any article of clothing that needs new life! We will be silk-screening (using screens brought by Alixa and Naima from their clothing line) and stenciling (using stencils made in Wednesday’s workshop) on any fabric you bring to the party. This final day will be dedicated to finishing the mural and sharing work from the week, in addition to freshening up your wardrobe!

ALSO THURS, at LA CASA CULTURAL LATINA, 12:00 noon
POETRY IS NOT A LUXURY: a lunch date with Climbing PoeTree

All events are free and open to the public! And will take place in the South Rec room in Allen Hall/Unit One at the U of IL, except the event at La Casa Cultural Latina.

Description of program: Unit One was founded in the early 1970's as an alternative to standard educational models. Many of our courses and extracurricular programs emphasize ideas and activities which students would have little or no exposure to in their standard curriculum, and often challenge established ways of thinking, analyzing, and acting in the world. Guests who have been in residence in the past have played a major role in helping our students become critical thinkers and agents for social change.

Celebrate and defend the legacy of the Black Panther Party:
Drop the charges against the SF-8

NYC, Friday, November 30, 7 pm
Martin Luther King Jr. Labor Center
310 W. 43rd Street (between 8th & 9th Ave.) NYC

Speakers Include:
Gil Noble, respected producer and host of ABC-TV’s Like It Is
Francisco Torres, Harold Taylor and other SF-8 defendants
Soffiyah Elijah, Esq., lawyer on the SF-8 case

Performance by Climbing PoeTree (10 min set)

The San Francisco 8 are eight former “original” Black Panther Party members and active supporters (ages 56 to 72), who were arrested last January in California, New York and Florida on charges related to the 1971 killing of a San Francisco police officer. Some of these men faced virtually identical charges almost 35 years ago—charges that were dropped after it was revealed that police torture had extracted “confessions.”

But that was in 1973. Now that torture has been made acceptable in this country, the case is back on—based on the same flawed evidence.

The judge has released the 6 bail-eligible defendants on bond, suggesting to legal experts that this case is a shaky one. The two defendants who are not eligible for bail, political prisoners Herman Bell and Jalil Muntaqim, have already served more than 34 years in New York state prisons. This new case charges them again with actions for which they are already doing time.

Come welcome home some of the SF-8 defendants and learn more about the case.

For Information Contact: Committee to Free the SF-8 (freethesf8.org), Local 1199 (Michael@1199.org), (Malcolm X Grassroots Movement (mxgm.org)
The Jericho Movement (thejerichomovement.com) or call: (718) 254-8800 or (646) 246-0770

Come support the SF-8—and defend the history of all struggles for justice.

Sponsors so far:
SEIU Local 1199, Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, Center for Constitutional Rights, NYC National Lawyers Guild, Al-Awda, NY State Taskforce for Political Prisoners, the Jericho Movement, Resistance in Brooklyn, Campaign to End the Death Penalty, Pro Libertad, Frances Goldin, Safiya Bukhari-Albert Nuh Washington Foundation, Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Coalition (NYC), Black Panther Commemoration Committee (NY), Malcolm X Commemoration Committee, NYC Anarchist Black Cross, Gabriela Network USA, Friends and Family of Daniel McGowan

an evening of soul-stirring spoken word

with the brooklyn-based,
internationally-acclaimed
soul-sister co-conspiracy

***Climbing PoeTree***

at the Northeast American School of Dance
25 Main Street, 4th floor
Northampton, MA

$10 suggestion donation
all proceeds benefit family trip to Ghana!!!

DAM: 1st Palestinian Hip Hop crew performs in BK!

special guest performances by:

Climbing Poetree (20 min set)
Remi Kanazi
Tahani Salah
Mauricio (Enemy Combatant)
Mazzi (S.O.U.L. Purpose) + Sneakas
DJ K-Salaam
Djs Oja and Vanessa
and more...

doors at 8pm
show at 9pm
$10

@ Southpaw
125 Fifth Ave between Sterling and St. Johns Place
N,Q,R,2,3,4,5 trains to Pacific/Atlantic

@Humboldt State University

brought to you by the Black Student Union
email motherbbn@hotmail.com for more info

Climbing PoeTree performance presentation

in the Kate Buchanan Room
@Humboldt State University
Arcata, CA 95521

more info on the Campus Dialogue on Race click "related site"

The Student Union
Mills College
5000 MacArthur Blvd.
Oakland, CA click "related site" for directions

cost: FREE! and open to the public
The Black Womens Collective will be accepting donations for Katrina survivors.

Sponsored by Queer Melanin and Mujeres Unidas!
Brought to you by the Student Diversity Program

Climbing PoeTree performs alongside a tribe of womyn spillin goddess funk, Orisha songs, sonic vibrations,
fine art, massage, djs, poetry, tantric tea parties, crystal ball dancing, + more!

Check out this amazing line up by clicking "related site"

@the beautiful & historic Women's Building
3543 18th Street
near Valencia, S.F. (3 blocks from Bart)

cost:$15 no one will be turned away for lack of funds
ALL proceeds benefit Casa De Milagros, an orphanage in Cusco, Peru.

check out: www.chandlersky.org

@ The Sandbar

Pepperdine University
24255 Pacific Coast Highway
Malibu, CA 90263

Directions: click "related site"

Climbing PoeTree features at Austin’s monthly queer performance hootenanny.

Delight at the antics of CampCamp's ever-growing list of performers, or arrive ready to fill your own 10-minute slot at this.

8pm sign-up.

@ Bouldin Creek Coffeehouse & Cafe,
1501 S. First, 416-1601.
AUSTIN, TX

Free!

Info: campcampqueers@gmail.com

Climbing PoeTree perform as part of Bioneers by the Bay, an unforgettable weekend of some of the most insightful, inspiring innovators in the realms of sustainable agriculture, social justice, spirituality and the environment-- including Van Jones, Simran Sethi, Naomi Wolf, and John Perkins.

Alixa and Naima will open for Ra Goddess for the early birds at 8:45 in the morning on the main stage, and again to close out the Youth Initiative open mic that begins at 7:30. Check out the website for more info.

CELEBRATING WORKS BY BLACK, LATINO AND BLATINO ARTISTS
OCTOBER 6 – November 3, 2007

@The Bronx Academy of Music and Dance
841 Barretto Street 2nd Floor
Bronx NY 10474

Friday, October 19 - 8pm/ $15

REVOLUTIONARY MUSIC with REBEL DIAZ, CLIMBING POETREE and ABENA KOOMSON

Brace yourself for a powerful dose of music that inspire the body to move and nourish the mind with revolutionary lyrics. The members of Rebel Diaz hail from Santiago, Chile and the South Bronx. They’ve performed in front of 500,000 people at an immigrant rights rally and have continued to serve up their hip-hop laced lyrics to countless audiences. The daring and unapologetic duo, Alixa and Naima, of Climbing PoeTree, spit rhymes and lyrics about love and change the instill cheers and chills. With her pure, powerful voice Abena Koomson, part of the a capella group Saheli, has a solo repertoire rich with resistance and overflowing with heart and soul.

@ HSU
details TBA

Clmbign PoeTree keynotes at the Resource's Generations national retreat, Making Money Make Change (MMMC).
Celebrating 10 Years of Challenging Wealth Disparity, Creating Justice

October 4-7th, 2007
The Franklinton Center
Whitackers, North Carolina (outside of Raleigh)

Resource Generation is a national organization that works with young people with financial wealth who are supporting and challenging each other to effect progressive social change through the creative, responsible and strategic use of financial and other resources.

Climbing PoeTree performance
@The Salsateria- Rebel Foods
33 Macdonell st.
downtown guelph

Climbing PoeTree workshop earlier that afternoon

all part of
*The 1st annual Guelph Festival of Arts and Human R!ghts*

In the spirit of solidarity, ongoing learning, and collective action,
The "Guelph Festival of Arts and Human Rights" is being organized for Sept. 28-30. We are a grassroots collective organizing with a vast diversity of artists and community members to generate community arts projects that will inspire discussion on human rights and social change.

The festival is envisioned to make these discussions accessible and popularized through the arts and facilitate spaces for voices of under-represented groups and individuals to be expressed through art and for our understanding of human rights to be deepened. Examples of feature projects include: hip hop poetry by toronto artist-revolutionary SPIN, performance by the Climbing poeTree- power duo trekking in from Brooklyn, NY; a series of workshops exploring the meaning of human rights, gender, raciallization, and solidarity; music and spoken word creation, and performance; videomaking; screenprinting; presentation and workshop on visual storytelling by the beehive collective, art displays from the No One Is Illegal immigrant Detainee Art Group; and a series of public videodocumentary screenings.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28

Venue: The Boat, 8pm, 19+
$5-10 sliding scale
or entry with
a Ladyfest Festival Pass ($35 for the festival)

Featuring musical performances by:
Masia One
Climbing PoeTree
Nolan Natasha Pike
Hibou

The Boat is in the heart of Kensington Market, the address is 158
Augusta Avenue.

@ The Savannah Room, 294 College & Spadina

SPOKEN WORD * LIVE MUSIC * ART INSTILATIONS * DIVINE CREATIVITY

featuring the heart beat soul sister spoken word warriors: Climbing PoeTree (www.climbingpoetree.com). Special guests: Broadcast live- Hip Hop/Indie/Rock (www.myspace.com/broadcastlive) and Taina Asili y La Banda Rebelde (www.tainapoet.com) from Albany, NY; Lila Rose – Folk/Reggae/ A’cappella (www.lilarose.ca) and installations by Lover Sun and MataDanZe from Toronto.

Expect the unexpected as your senses and spirit will be filled with creative vibrations and righteous political thought as artists from New York and Toronto unite and unravel an evening of artistic justice and love.

For more information contact

Lila Rose ~ lila@lilarose.ca

Lover Sun ~ ces503@hotmail.com

MataDanZe ~ 416-578-1553

Hosted by Hajile Kalaike & Jason Kinte
Featuring Toronto Poets & Climbing PoeTree

Open mic!

After-party lounge w/DJ Black Lotus

@ Trane Studio 964 Bathurst St.
Toronto, ON

$10 cover

2250 N. High ST Columbus, OH 43201

more info: charlie_fredrick83@yahoo.com

Youth from the Metro Detroit area will come together to discuss and learn how to be better environmental leaders. This year topics will include community-organizing 101, arts and activism, community mapping and civic engagement. During this training youth will have the opportunity to learn about EMEAC field activities and other follow up programs that will take place after the leadership training in the upcoming year.
At University Preparatory Academy 5310 St. Antoine, Detroit

Open to all Metro Area Youth (Middle and High School) *FREE* but space is limited and
registration is required - Call (248) 258-5188 or e-mail domiana.emeac@gmail.com
Parking Available

From more information on this event click here.

@The Greenwich Jazz Club
2442 Gilbert Ave. Cincinnati OH 45206

Climbing PoeTree features at Cincinnati's Best Spoken Word Artist Showcase. The Lyrical Insurrection is a gathering of poets, vocalist, rappers, visual artists, healers, musicians, and crafters blessing the artist space at Cincinnati's Historic Greenwich Jazz Club.

Presented by The Antioch College Womyn Center
Featuring Climbing PoeTree

The Antioch College Womyn Center is a student group established during the women's movement of the 1970's. The goals of the Center are to provide a safe space for women, build a network with area communities in order to provide outreach and educational events, and actively resist all oppression.

Past and present organizers of the Womyn Center have joined forces to create "Beyond Walls, Building Bridges" a weekend conference which includes workshops focusing on racism and identity, alliance building and accountability across race lines, empowerment of women through activism, artistic expression, and natural healing therapies. This two-day event features spoken word and multi-media performances from a diverse collection of performers, intergenerational participants, and renowned facilitators. The weekend promises to be deeply creative, personal, and political. Performances, discussions, and workshops strive to tap into participants lived experiences and self-expression, raise consciousness and foster unity to create real possibilities for re-inventing the world.

This conference will be free and open to the public. Transportation will be provided, reservation deadline: Sept. 11, 2007. Additional funding and sponsorship is welcomed from interested groups.

Contact Amanda Rosemary for more info: goddesshaven360@yahoo.com

Ong King Arts Center
184 N. King St.
on the island of Oahu, in the city of Honolulu in the neighborhood called
Chinatown

Art gallery opening 5pm-9pm, Performance 9pm-2am

Cost: 10$ (art opening free)
Who Can Attend: All Ages!

More Info: www.ongking.com see@ongking.com,
ong king: 306-7823

…..ARTiST KEE KEE ARRIVES FROM MALAYSIA ….SOLSTICE… …..SPARLHA SWA…CLIMBING POETREE…GIINKO MARACHINO/MERCEDES8……QUADROPHONIX…HIP-HOPALYPSE…

FIRST FRIDAY: September 7th at Ong King Arts Center

This month we are blessed with talent flying in from all over the world. Artist KEE KEE bringing her visual seascapes from Malaysia, Jamaica Born Vocalist Sparlha Swa arrives from Boston, International Poetry Team Climbing Poetree comes from the east, and all the way from north shore multi-lingual live music from Solstice. All this mixing with our own Quadraphonix, dance of Giinko Maraschino’s alter identity Mercedes 8, and a theatre pop from Hip-hopALYPSe. Yes, this is artistic abundance of the world, gathering at ong king in our continuing quest to inspire life.

a celebration of female empowerment of women through art, culture and music.

Thursday, September 6th
The O Lounge
Honolulu, HI.
Door opens at 9pm
Tickets are $10 advance $15 at the door

Saturday, September 8th
The King Kamehameha Kona Beach Hotel
Kailua-Kona, HI.
On the Big island of Hawai'i
Doors open at 6pm
Tickets are $21 advance $26 at the door

September 9th
Mulligans on the Blue
Wailea, HI
on the island of Maui
doors open at 4pm
Tickets are $20 advance and $25 at the door.

The Line Up...

Paula Fuga
http://www.myspace.com/paulafuga

Sparlha Swa
http://www.sparlhaswa.com/

Climbing PoeTree
http://www.climbingpoetree.com/

Tempo Valley (on O'ahu)
http://www.myspace.com/tempovalley

The Girlas
http://www.myspace.com/thegirlas

Lawa (on Maui)

& a Special Guest

With a Fashion show by Kealopiko

Read an article at (click related site and look for “Growing Lilikoi”)

Hawaiian Hut
410 Atkinson Drive
(ground level in the Ala Moana Hotel)
Honolulu, 96801
Cost : $3 before 8:30, $5 after

Climbing PoeTree and Sparlha Swa co-feature at First Thursdays, the largest poetry slam in the world (with 650+ in attendance). Each month, the event offers $100 in cash prizes to the winner, and features Hawaii's best performance poets, live musicians, MC's, and live painters. In addition, featured DJ's offer up turntable bliss to keep the night flowing smoothly. Open to all poets and performers.

info@HawaiiSlam.com

2440 South Beretania Street

HURRICANE SEASON COMMEMORATION BENEFIT

On the 2nd anniversary of Hurricane Katrina
we will celebrate REBIRTH & RESURRECTION
in homage to those we lost,
in solidarity with those still wading in the water,
and in honor of the soul survivors of this and all unnatural disasters.

Featuring:

FILM & WORDS by WALIDAH IMARISHA
historian at heart, reporter by (w)right, rebel by reason
(http://web.mac.com/turiyaautry/iWeb/Site/walidah.html)

HIP HOP POETRY by BRYONN BAIN
national slam champion, prison activist, hip-hop artist, poet, author,
actor and educator
(http://www.bryonnbain.com)

ACOUSTIC SOUL by SPARLHA SWA
Jamaican born, internationally known, sounds like Sade, Billie Holiday,
and Joni Mitchell in a three-some
(http://www.sparlhaswa.com)

LYRICAL LIBERATION by RA HENDRIX
a.k.a. Safahri Ra, Hurricane Katrina Survivor, emcee, E.D. of Pangea, and hip hop educator
(http://www.myspace.com/rahendrix)

ROCK OPERA by IMANI UZURI
eclectic, narcotic, ethereal songstress who enchants crowds from
Lincoln Center and the Apollo to Japan, London, and Morroco
(http://www.imaniuzuri.com/)

SPOKEN WORD by CLIMBING POETREE
soul-sister co-conspiracy of acrobatic poets who moonlight as street
artists and infiltrate public schools and prisons with infectious ideas
of how people can shape their own destinies.
(http://www.climbingpoetree.com)

In support of Climbing PoeTree's upcoming production and tour:
"HURRICANE SEASON: the hidden messages in water"
a post-Katrina performance uprising!

@ The Rotunda
4014 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
(http://therotunda.org/)

Cover: sliding scale $10 - $20
No one will be turned away for lack of funds

More on "HURRICANE SEASON: the hidden messages in water"
click related site...

SPREAD THE WORD! CATCH THE FIRE! SEE YOU THERE!

details coming soon, or click

Blackout Arts Collective's
10 year anniversary showcase

@ The Nuyorican Poets Cafe
236 E 3rd Street (btw Aves B & C)
New York, New York 10009

details:

* blackout arts collective
returns with a 7 month performance series
at the world famous nuyorican poet's café!

ART or DIE

an artist showcase to EMPOWER people
of COLOR in the name of expression & justice

every last wednesday of the month @ the nuyorican

CLIMBING POETREE FEATURES IN JULY'S SHOWCASE

blackout arts collective (bac) is a grassroots coalition of artists,
activists and educators working to empower communities of color through the
arts. we use the tools of culture and education to raise awareness and
catalyze action around the critical issues that impact our communities. we
believe in the power of the creative process to transform lives, mobilize
communities, and build a more just society.

the gifts many of us are blessed with are for much more than entertainment,
and to some of us they are the very thing that prevents us from walking
another path. it's more than a craft or talent-- art is a tool of survival.

train directions:
f or v train to 2nd ave
6 train to bleeker st

5th Annual Womyn Warrior/Mujeres Guerreras Ceremony/Celebration

Presenting "Spirit Transcending Gender: Two Spirited Awards"

Celebrating the LGBTTQI & Womyn of Color Communities ability to go beyond the constraints of gender & sexuality and dare to be fully oneself, fully human as their spirit intended. This is a call for unity and for an awakening to spirit that is totally non-denominational & non gender conforming.

Warrior Womyn/ Mujeres Guerreras is dedicating this event to our indigenous ancestors and community all over the world. Casa dedicates the Two Spirit awards to the LGBTQ people of color community, and our allies. Inspired by the indigenous manifestation of gender & Two-Spirit community, that challenges the rigid gender binary view of the world we are inviting you to celebrate with us our ability to transcend gender stereotyping and dare to be fully one-self, fully human as spirit intended.

On July 21st, 2007 Casa Atabex Ache will honor & celebrate powerful activist, organizers, artist, community people and organizations who…..

* Declare that tolerance is not enough & fight for human rights, access to reproductive health, healthcare and ownership of our bodies
* Support the LGBTQ community to go beyond gender roles and move beyond fear & powerlessness to be visible & free no matter what!
* Whose every essence is fighting social justice against violence & oppression

(patriarchy, homophobia, sexism & racism)

* Support the LGBTO community in determining their own lives while creating and shifting the definition of family & marriage.
* Celebrate humanity, refuse to be invisible & are transforming power!
* Are creating justice and liberated spaces, creating FREEDOM!

Join us at
The Brecht Forum
6-10 pm
451 West Street (between Bank & Bethune Streets)

Performances by
Shelley Nicole
Iowan Tribe
Harlem Bombshell
Climbing PoeTree
Samara Gaev
and many, many more……..

453 Main Street Beacon, NY 12508

CLIMBING POETREE will be representing (& performing! see below) at this historic gathering. BE THERE!

The US Social Forum is more than a conference, more than a networking bonanza, more than a reaction to war and repression. The USSF will provide space to build relationships, learn from each other's experiences, share our analysis of the problems our communities face, and bring renewed insight and inspiration. It will help develop leadership and develop consciousness, vision, and strategy needed to realize another world.

The USSF sends a message to other people’s movements around the world that there is an active movement in the US opposing US Policies at home and abroad.

We must declare what we want our world to look like and begin planning the path to get there. A global movement is rising. The USSF is our opportunity to demonstrate to the world Another World is Possible!

Friday:
Poor People's Economic Justice Tent 8:00 pm

Saturday:
Palestinian Solidarity Tent 3:30 pm
Not Your Soldier Party in the Youth Tent 8:00 to 10:00 pm

@ Queens Museum of Art

QMA in association with CINEMAROSA presents the 5th Anniversary edition of our annual event that brings together organizations and individuals for an afternoon of free music, dance, video, dynamic performances, food, art, and activism to celebrate and support the importance and strength of multicultural connections in our New York gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered communities.

3 – 5pm CINEMAROSA –queens only queer film series presents

Global Queerness –A special selection of shorts from around the globe in celebration of Pride month. Presentation Includes: A Girl Named Kai, dir. Kai Ling Xue (Shot in Four Countries); Green Stalk, dir. Desireena Almoradie & Cristina Quisumbing Ramilo (Philipines, USA); Vida Travesti / Travesti Life, dir. Diego Torres (Bolivia); Oh You Pretty Things, dir. Michael Alen (USA), and many more.

5 – 7pm Performance Extravaganza featuring hard-hitting poetry by Dulani and Climbing Poetree, the R&B stylings of Queen GodIs, the “Queen of Magical Illusions” Bernie Brandall, the jazz guitar stylings of Patrick Shephard, solo dance piece by Faye Driscoll, and the passionate Tango of Walter Perez. Plus DJ Ashu Rai (Sholay Productions) will keep the party going, spinning the hottest bhangra, Bollywood, and dance tracks. **Complimentary Light Refreshments will be served.**

Directions (click related site):

featuring:
Yvonne Fly Onakame Etaghene
Jennifer Cedana Armas
Illona Hula dancers
Mahina Movement
Climbing PoeTree
Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai
Ill-literacy
Ngoma
Flo

Music by Djs Oja & Eternal

@ Clemente de Soto Velez Cutural Center
107 suffolk st (between Delancy and Rivington)
3rd floor studio 307 (Afro Brazil Art Capoiera Studio)

MUSIC * POETRY * FOOD * ACTION

*Raising FUNDS for ONE* LOVE's trip to SOUTH AFRICA

*Celebrating MOANA and* OJA's born days

*MOURNING and HONORING*
30th Anniversary of Soweto Children Uprising

One Love South Africa
is an international team of Artist, Educators, Leaders and Activist standing together in action to end AIDS in South Africa.

SUGGESTED DONATION: $15-$ 50

@ The Campus Center
Amherst College

Lineup:
Climbing Poetree
Shae Fiol
Sparlha Swa

Sparlha Swa is a Jamaica-born, Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter and guitarist who has brought her music on tour to Japan, Canada, the UK, Europe and the Caribbean. She is known to sing her audiences to catharsis beyond tears, beyond listening to becoming.

Shae Fiol: A composer, arranger, guitarist, lyricist, song-writer, and vocalist, Shae's music transcends the industry's confines to any particular genre. Her message of love's struggle reaches the hearts and minds of any listener, reminding us of the beauty and pain that co-exist in love and life.

Climbing Poetree, a two-spirited, boundary-breaking artist duo, with roots in Haiti and Colombia, Alixa and Naima have rocked 500 mikes from Oakland to Atlanta, South Africa to Cuba have led workshops @ Cornell University and Riker's Island, using their art to expose injustice, heal from violence, and make a better future visible, immediate, and irresistible .

Event Information:
21+
cover: TBD
music: Soul, Jazz, Spoken Word

Venue Information:
Galapagos Art Space
70 North 6th St.
between Kent and Wythe
Brooklyn, NY 11211
http://www.galapagosartspace.com

Links:
http://www.myspace.com/sparlhaswa.com
http://www.myspace.com/shaefiol
http://www.myspace.com/climbingpoetree

brought to you by
The Feminist Alliance at Vassar College
124 Raymond Ave, Poughkeepsie

details TBA

in the Chapel

hosted by the the global justice project
in the "Cabaret Room" within Vanderslice Hall
@ Boston College
140 Commonwealth Avenue
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467

Cultural Diversity Day

details TBA

What it Means to be Latina/o Symposium at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee on March 29th and 30th, 2007. The goal of the symposium is to extend issues presented in the Milwaukee Public Museum's (MPM) upcoming exhibition titled, "Chicano Now!"

Florida State University at HCB 101

Climbing PoeTree featured presenters @
the 2nd Annual Creating Institutional Change (CIC) conference
hosted by The Diversity Education Program (DEP) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

This year’s keynote speaker is Dr. Michael Eric Dyson who will present a lecture entitled: “Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster.”

There will also be a speech by Julie Chavez Rodríguez (granddaughter of Cesar Chavez) entitled: “Si Se Puede (Yes We Can)”.

Check out the link for more info

TRINITY OF THE HOLY COASTS
brooklyn+detroit+oakland

speakin the truth:
invincible
climbing poeTree
ri ri garcia
tru blu

callin the spirit:
dj black ndalight (soul sistah's kitchen/dream ez/luna lounge)
dj emancipation (soul sistah's kitchen/dream ez/the W)

house of worship:
the house of stormz
1439 105th ave
@ international in oakland

prayer time:
saturday, march 17th, 9 pm

21+
5-10 bucks

7 womyn, 1 love, i night!

CLIMBING POETREE
the brooklyn-based, tag-team, two-spirited, spoken-word duo
blaze it up in the Bay

w/ mind-blowing booty-shaking Detroit-based emcee INVINCIBLE
(http://www.myspace.com/invincible)

& your favorite local creation crew GODDESS ALCHEMY PROJECT
(http://www.goddessalchemyproject.com/)

@ Cell Space
2050 Bryant St
San Francisco, CA

Friday, March 16th, 2007

doors: 8pm
open mic: 8:30-9
features: 9-10:30 pm
dance party w/ dj Delphi: 10:30 till

cover: $5-10 sliding scale

sponsored by Queer Melanin Revolt
Climbing Poetree features with Colored Ink
@ Mills College Student Union
5000 MacArthur Blvd
Oakland

FREE
& open to the public!

details TBA

a community, sustainability/global-warming/cultural stereotype event. Details to come!

summit on Race, Class and the Drug War
a free educaitonal conference
hosted by HSU's N.O.R.M.L.
in the Kate Buchanan Room @HSU
more info:
normlhsu@gmail.com

a performance by Climbing Poetree
a fundraiser for the Campaign to End the Death Penalty

Winds Cafe
2567 N. Kedzie
Chicago, Illinois

tickets $10 ($20 solidarity)

Poetry Slam and Expo @ DEPAUL U

hosted by Brother Mike, the innovative host and poet of Supa Soul Sundays. Climbing PoeTree shares the stage with nationally reknowed poet Kevin Coval (Louder than a Bomb, The Spoken Word Revolution).

10 contestants celected from city wide call will compete for the 2007 Strictly Flow Championships. Climbing PoeTree among the judges!

Come out early and shop for CDs, books and other product from your favorite poets.

DePaul University
2250 North Sheffield Ave (between Fullerton and Webster)
Student Center, Room #314 A+B

(between sponsored by Programs in African and Black Diaspora Studies and Latin American and Latino Studies at DePaul University

general info: STRICTLYFLOW2007@yahoo.com
parking info: 773 325 7275

Music and Poetry
@Soul Vegetarian East
205 E 75th St (Cross Street: Indiana Avenue)
Chicago, IL 60619-2215
(773) 224-0104

This performance event is a fundraiser for yvonne fly onakeme etaghene's first trip to Nigeria since she was 9. She will be offering bushelfulls of her soul alongside her fierce-female-artist posse, blessing the stage and her journey with molten poetry and song.

these sister's will leave you breathless:

yvonne fly onakeme etaghene
Climbing PoeTree
Moana Niumeitolu
Queen GodIs
Chaney Sims

. . .representing on the mic

@ Nightingale Lounge
213 Second Ave @ 13th Street, NY,NY
(NW Corner of 13th St.& 2nd Ave.)
(L,N,Q,R,W,4,5,6 to Union Square/14th,
or L to 1st Avenue)
$5 to 20 (sliding, give what you got)

hosted by fly yvonne, 315-383-9997
www.writeordie.com

The Hip Hop Congress (www.hiphopcongress.com) will host its 2nd Annual Minnesota Summit: “Politics, Globalization and the Hip Hop Generation” from Friday, February 16th through Sunday February 18th, 2007.

SATURDAY, February 17th:
“Reclaiming the Story: Art to Change the World” Workshop by Climbing PoeTree, 10:30 am on Concordia College Campus

8 pm - Midnight, Centrum Hip Hop Jam feat. Brother Ali, The C.O.R.E., Alex Schein, Kanser, Culture Shock Camp, Climbing PoeTree and more ($15 w/out Reg.)

Check out the link for more info on the conference!

Crystal Clarity's
CUTS FOR FREEDOM

One night exhibition, dance party, performances, goodies, and good vibrations!

Incredible artwork by Crystal Clarity (myspace.com/phenostar)

Performances by: Climbing PoeTree, Fly Etaghene, Piper Anderson, & Baron

DJ Selly and Metaphysic on the turntables

@ Sputnik
262 Taafee place
btw Dekalb and Willoughby
G to Classon
http://www.barsputnik.com/

$5 before 10
$10 after

3rd Annual Prisoners Justice Film Festival 07

Thursday February 8th to Sunday February 11th, 2007
William Doo Auditorium, University of Toronto
45 Wilcocks Street, New College
www.pjac.org
All screenings are Pay-What-You-Can
Event is Wheelchair Accessible

prisonersjusticefilmfest@yahoo.ca

Come and join what has quickly become a central space in Toronto to discuss and learn more about issues relevant to prisons and their effects on all of us.

As always the festival will include discussion panels made up of people affected by the prison industry and opportunities to meet other people working for real justice and prison abolition.

Sunday February 11th
1:00-3:00pm

CREATING THE REVOLUTION: A PRISONERS' RIGHTS ART WORKSHOP WITH CLIMBING POETREE

Sunday February 11th
9:00-10:00pm Closing Ceremonies - Featuring Climbing PoeTree

contact Syrus for more info: Syrus_Ware@ago.net

FEATURING PERFORMANCE BY CLIMBING POETREE!!!!
Performance by other local artists
Information about prison related campaigns

Toronto Women's Bookstore
73 Harbord, near Spadina

@ Punch's Alley (the on-campus pub on the 1st floor of the Lulu
Chow Wang Student Center)

106 Central Street, Wellesley, MA 02481

more info, contact:
Sumita Dharma C. & The Wellesley Review
schakrab@wellesley.edu

Climbing PoeTree features
First Fridays @ Nubian Heritage
2037 5th Ave. at the corner of 126th St.
$5 to get in
212-427-8999

Climbing PoeTree will be opening for:

"Going Nowhere"

the debut shadow puppet collaboration between Erik Ruin and Morgan F.P. Andrews.

A dozen short scenes framed within a question:
"If you had to give up all of your senses, except one, which would you keep?"
Things are not as they seem to be...

A song from Three Penny Opera and stories by John Cage offer glimpses at the lives of undercover pirates, daydreaming butterflies, flag-burning patriots, and the linguistically tortured wife of a former New England mayor.

@ ABC no RIO
156 Rivington St
btwn Sufolk and Clinton
NY, New York 10002

donation to get in

PASSING WORDS
-Intergenerational reflections
on the cares of today's young women-

-A FIRST-EVER Benefit Production for PASWORD & Project AWARE!-

The Theatre at Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center
12 Vassar Street
Poughkeepsie, NY, 12601

Reserve seats in advance by calling (845) 486-4571

Featuring the youth of PASWORD/Project AWARE 2006
with Guest Performances By:

Lady Prema, Poet-Performer

Joan Henry, Vocalist

ReadNex Poetry Squad, Spoken Word

Climbing Poetree, Spoken Word duo

JoAnn Feigenheimer, Essayist

For more information:
Mill Street Loft
(845) 471-7477

Poetry and Activism
A workshop in revolutionary writing.
Facilitated by Alixa and Naima
w/special guest Victorio Reyes

@The Social Justice Center
33 Central Ave 434-4037

Alisa Sikelianos opening
for Climbing PoeTree
"98.6 Degrees of Separation"
at Harriet Tubman Free School
Schuyler and Broad St.
suggested adm. $5 followed by a dance party with live DJ
organized by students of HTFS.
Call 518-462-3402 for info

The 2006 SSDP International Conference
Georgetown University Law Center

120 E. Burlington Street
319.351.9529

200 S. Summit Street
donations will be collected at the door.

@Caffe Paradiso, 801 S. Lincoln, Urbana
Sponsored by La Casa de Cultura, U of Illinois

This event is gonna be HOT!!! for all them womyn lovin womyn, for men who love womyn, for all who love womyn- come to this event and get your heart bumpin!!!

co-sponsored by P.O.W.-W.O.W.(Performers or Writers for Women on Women issues)

@ Scents of Sensation Bath and Body Shop
745 E 75th street,
Chicago

WE'LL BE HERE, DOING A SHORT 10 MINUTE SET, BUT WE'RE NOT FEATURING. BUT COME THROUGH IF YOU CAN, WE'LL HAVE S.T.I.T.C.H.E.D. AND OUR PRODUCT, AND WOULD LOVE TO SEE YOU!

It’s Not Just A Party, It’s An Event ... Supa Soul Sunday @ Funky Buddha Lounge 728 W. Grand Chicago Il From 9p-11p Experience open mic performances from The nation’s hottest poets, vocalists, comedians. Musicians and MC’s Hosted by The SOuL Brothers: Kevin D. Lofton and Brother Mike Live Funk Jazz HipHop by Soul Peopole From 11p – 2am Dance your ass off to the most versatile Dj in the world Supa Man aka Mark FullaFlava (Hip-Hop, Rock, Salsa, soul, Pop, Reggae, Underground) Featuring Film Afro Film Presentations by Brother Mike $6 Chocolate Martinis All Night Ladies Free B4 10p – Men $5 Open mic Performers Free (List closes @ 9:30 PM) www.enfullaffectmarketing.com www.funkybuddha.com

@ the American Indian Center of Chicago,
1630 W. Wilson, Chicago, IL
Climbing PoeTree perform with Kay Barrett (www.kaybarrett.net)
damage: $5-10
all-ages

more info, contact leslie 773 797 9500

Climbing PoeTree features
at a new freedom forum for the artist
hosted by Brother Mike
@ Third World Cafe
1301 E. 53rd St.
$5 * space is limited, so arrive early

@The Greenwich Jazz Club
2442 Gilbert Ave. Cincinnati OH 45206

Climbing PoeTree features at Cincinnati's Best Spoken Word Artist Showcase. The Lyrical Insurrection is a gathering of poets, vocalist, rappers, visual artists, healers, musicians, and crafters blessing the artist space at at Cincinnati's Historic Greenwich Jazz Club.

Slammin’ on Main
Open Mic, Climbing PoeTree feature, and Stop the Violence Slam
at Catskeller in the Tangeman University Center (2766 UC MainStreet)
more info, contact Jennie F. Wright dba.Black Budda’fly, wrightj3@uc.edu email, 513-556-1303 phone

Climbing PoeTree perform with Eris Dyson and Psychodeliqate and more!
at C-Space: a West-side community center for interaction, social programs, and political action. $5 cover.
on Clark and W. 44th
216-631-2233

“Our Story: Connecting the Threads of Cooperative Experience”
Climbing PoeTree workshop Saturday, Nov. 4th, 4:50pm- 6:20pm
Climbing PoeTree performance Saturday, Nov. 4th, 10:30 pm

@ Dream New Orleans - The New Orleans Renaissance Society presents a weekly open-mic Spoken Soul Session featuring poetry, jazz, hip-hop and soul.
311 Decatur St., first floor, 982-0922

crazy pachanga with WandKrudas, of the Cuban feminist hip hop group Las Krudas, climbing poeTree, the BK-based 2-tongue tandem tag team 2 spirit spoken word duo, and Middle East to the Midwest MC prophet Invincible!!!

at The Rhizome Collective, a model for urban sustainability and a center for community organizing based out of a warehouse on the East Side of Austin, Texas. 300 Allen St. 512.385.3695

DON'T COME !!!!! DON'T COME!!!!!!

918 W. 12th St. (12th & Lamar)
Austin, TX 78703
Tel: 512-472-2785
bookwoman@austin.rr.com
512-472-2785

Tuesday, October, 24th, 7pm
³Soul Sisters² an evening of spoken word featuring
Heather Christain (LA), P.O.W. (TX)
and Climbing PoeTree (NY)

The Bill: Heather Christian/Los Angeles
Climbing PoeTree/New York
Poet on Watch/Austin

P.O.W. is a published writer, media literacy educator, DJ and music producer. A renaissance woman, P.O.W (aka Angela Williamston) is the founder of the Media Arts & Literacy Institute here in Austin, Tx. Her book + CD combination, Poet On Watch: The Spoken Word Project,is a collection of writings that weave together poetry, interviews, photography & commentary. The Spoken Word Project CD is sizzling with wide-eyed optimism, robust heart felt bass lines and dreamlike lyrical melodies! To learn about her new projects please vist www.poetonwatch.com.

Heather Christian is a wordsmith whose poems are born out of adversity. Each piece is an audio presentation from a moment in her life and which incorporates her unique style and personality. Growing up in the ghetto, self-esteem issues, faith in God, love lost and found, rape, marriage, divorce, or living with a disability, it doesn't matter, Heather covers it all and then some. Heather quickly became a staple in the slam poetry arena. A member of the Œ03 & Œ04 Sacramento Slam Team, which took the # 1 spot in the Battle of the Bay Competition, she has also competed with her team on the National level. Visit quarbrown.com for more info.
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Open mic, community cipher, and Climbing PoeTree feature
hosted by Houston's local poetic powerhouse, Shai (of Starving Poets, Inc.)
@ Mocha Life Cafe
4812 Almeda Rd.
Houston, TX

Climbing PoeTree and Invincible rock UHD's Wilmhelmia Auditorium on the 3rd floor. 1 Main Street, Houston, TX, 77002
The show is 6 to 9, we're up at 7:45.

more info hit up Angel, 832 889 9988

LadyFest San Anto, Texas is a community-driven music and media arts festival organized by women. Our mission is to provide a forum celebrating, showcasing, and encouraging the artistic, organizational and political talents of women and girls. The participatory women-centered festival features bands, artists, media mavens, filmmakers, workshops, panel discussions, and more.

www.ladyfestsatx.org
www.myspace.com/ladyfestsatx

Line up for Saturday:

Silverlined Tragedy, San Antonio, Texas
Yoshimoto, San Antonio, Texas
Reader, San Antonio, Texas
Oonce Oonce, San Francisco, California
Climbing PoeTree, Brooklyn, New York
When: 9:00P
Where: Ruta Maya On The Riverwalk
107 East Martin, San Antonio, TX, 78205

as part of week of resistencia colombiana en miami.
@ FIU (University Park Campus)
11200 SW 8th St, Green Library Room 220, Miami
Sponsored by: Women’s Studies, Latin American & Caribbean Center,
Colombian Studies Institute, FIU Colombian Student Association

for details contact john luna at aquamono@riseup.net

28 NE 54th St
Miami, FL 33137
(305) 756-1205

"Veye Yo is a pressure group which was established to defend the Haitian
Refugee Center, to disseminate the issues of the Center, to take
its struggles to the street and before public opinion, to make
officials know what is going on," explained Farah Juste, a
prominent Haitian protest singer, Miami community activist, and
former HRC board member.

LOUDER THAN A BOMB: Panel on Hip Hop and Activism

At the
Radisson Hotel & Suites
Austin-Town Lake
111 Cesar Chavez
Austin, TX 78701

Climbing PoeTree performance
At the
Radisson Hotel & Suites
Austin-Town Lake
111 Cesar Chavez
Austin, TX 78701

Grand Opening Sunday October 15, 3-6 PM
Thanks to so many of you who have helped make this model green building and housing co-op possible --
we are thrilled to finally throw the doors open and celebrate!

Join us from 3-5PM for:

* tours of the building (the most environmentally repsonsible in the Eastern US),
* guided walks through the surrounding woods (protected by the Dutchess Land Conservancy)
* booths with information about some of the different non-profit organizations serving the local region,
* information for how you too can "green" your home and NY State incentives to help you,
* and cider donuts, pears and other goodies from the harvest of our local farms.

At 5pm please stay for an inspiring performance and presentation including:

* activist and author Julia Butterfly,
* spoken word duo, Climbing PoeTree,
* and music with Adam Snyder.

Climbing PoeTree workshops @ SKETCH
Toronto Art Studio for Street Youth

co-featuring Climbing PoeTree and Toronto Poets (TorontoPoets.com)
w/Dj Black Lotus
@ Trane Studio 964 Bathurst St.
Hosted by Black Lotus Media, $7

workshop/performance, Feminist Political Action Class

Climbing PoeTree features with Debbie Young and Lila Rose
followed by Radio Nomads
$5-10 sliding scale
@ the TRANE STUDIO Jazz Lounge
964 Bathurst St., Toronto, Canada
416.913.8197

afternoon party for womyn
with DJs CALALO & OLGA T,
and free food for yo’ soul
@ The Oasis, 135 12th Street, Oakland.
$8 General Admission, 21 & over
Climbing PoeTree features at 3:00 pm!

WIP/TBA

Workshop and performance by Climbing PoeTree
@ CELLspace, 2050 Bryant Street, San Francisco.

Climbing PoeTree features w/ People's Puppet Theatre, Native American soul by Seventh Generation Rise, and local grindcore en espanol band Masacre
510 South First Street San Jose, CA

Workshop and performance series by Climbing PoeTree

@ Galeria de la Raza - 2857 24th Street, San Francisco.
FREE to the PUBLIC
Email info@galeriadelaraza.org
or call 415-826-8009 to RESERVE your space.

Fifth annual “Pinta Tu Propio Mundo” (Paint Your Own World)
featuring Climbing PoeTree and Avotcja. Hosted by Leticia Hernández,
@ Galería de la Raza, 2857 24th Street @ Bryant, San Francisco
TICKETS:$8.00 - $12.00 sliding scale/Galería members $6.00
INFO: (415) 826-8009

queer melanin revolt confronting white supremacy!
WIP/TBA

with hosts Mo Betta and GhettoProphet
at Eastside Arts Alliance, 2857 International Blvd (@25th Ave)

Featuring the poetry of t'ai freedom ford
hosted by Climbing PoeTree, $8
at the Western Peachtree Plaza, Downtown Atlanta

Featuring Alixa & Naima: Climbing PoeTree
Hosted by t'ai freedom ford, $8
at the Western Peachtree Plaza, Downtown Atlanta

An Evening of Grown Folks Poetry, $8
Hosted by t'ai freedom ford (www.taifreedomford.com)
Featuring a sneak peek of Alixa & Naima: Climbing PoeTree
at the Western Peachtree Plaza, Downtown Atlanta

Girls in the Night presents…
National Pride for Women who Love Women
at the Western Peachtree Plaza, Downtown Atlanta

Femme-Nomen-Nal Poetry Line-Up below

Friday, 9/29/06
afternoon workshop and evening performance by Climbing PoeTree
as part of the Gender, Art and Activism Series
MORE INFO: bayer@hws.edu

388 Broadway, Albany, NY 12210
show w/ Broadcast Live!!!
check out myspace.com/broadcastlive

@ the xxodus café
401.351.0353
276 Westminster St, Providence

OSMANY PAREDES 5–7 PM
ALIXA AND NAIMA 9 PM
OVEOUS MAXIMUS 10PM
JESSICA CARE MOORE 11 PM

SoundSession'06 is New England's premier summer music festival in Rhode Island's capital city. A multi-stage, genre defying event, the festival is produced by the Providence Black Repertory Company in collaboration with the City of Providence Department of Art, Culture & Tourism. It is a transcultural celebration reflecting the dynamic vitality of the new "American" city.

"Style Factory” hosted by Dyalekt and Euphamism, hip hop showcase and freestyle competition pack the Old Office at The Knitting Factory. Climbing Poetree showcase @ 10 pm. $7, $5 with flyer

Call all survivors, churches , and organizations
let us stand with brothers and sisters here from the gulf who are yet fighting to stabilize their lives.

We will be at the historic House of the Lord Church, where the Rev. Daughtrey is the pastor

415 Atlantic Ave. Brooklyn N.Y.

Approx. five blocks from
LIRR Flatbush Ave Station
downtown Brooklyn

“BYTETHIS Spoken Word Series.”
Featured poets, followed by open mic.
@Beans and Bytes Café
4200 Woodward Ave, Detroit
(313) 833-9870
Admission: $5

climbing poeTree rocks canada! stay tuned for show dates

The theme of the 8th annual Allied Media Conference is "From Truth To Power... because being right is not enough." In other words, if you want to use media to build grassroots power and advance social justice, this is the place for you. The AMC will feature hands on workshops, panels with some of the most visionary independent media organizers, dope music performances and a bowling party. For the full conference schedule and to register, visit the AMC website at http://www.amc2006.org

come out and celebrate the release of
Alixa & Naima’s debut album
A M M U N I T I O N

WHERE: The Lucky Cat
245 Grand Street (between Driggs & Roebling)
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
tel: (718) 782-0437

WHEN: Friday, JUNE 16th 2006


TIME: 8-9pm: GROOVES by DJ T’ai boogie, sunset in the garden
9-11:30pm: PERFORMANCES hosted by Celena Glenn
11:30-12:30am: LIVE BANDS and open CIPHER
12:30-4am: DANCE PARTY w/ DJ Ayden, DJ Kyla, & Subtech

Performances by AMMUNITION Collaborators
& other DANG FLY singers, poets, emcees, and musicians
(including Bryonn Bain, Iyeoka Okoawo, Sparlha Swa, The Durty Nanas, Safahri Ra, Jie Song, Diallo, Ishmael, & Providence)

FASHION STATEMENT (Alixa and Naima’s hand-made silk screened, one-of-a-kind evolutionary clothing AVAILABLE FOR SALE)

ARTWORK by Alixa, Naima and Crystal Clarity on display

DOOR: 5 bucks
cop the album for $10

Diane Moser’s Composers Big Band
FREESTYLE

"Freestyle" a jazz/spoken word/video collaboration featuring Diane Moser's Composers Big Band special guests include: Guest Composers Russ Vines and Turntablist Chad Moser; Spoken Word Artists “Climbing Poetree”, Alixa & Naima; Rap Artist Paloiy; Vocalist Teresa Rivera; Actor David Wohl; Video DJ Schiller Desgrottes; Photographer Dennis Connors; Line Up a video by Nora Ligorano and Marshall Reese; Guest Saxophonist Julian Buchanan.

There will be a pre-concert discussion with the composers at 7:30PM thanks to funding provided by Meet The Composers’ Creative Connections Program. Audience members will also have the chance to speak with the composers and performers after the concert, at a reception.
Sponsored in part through Meet The Composer’s Creative Connections program.

Come celebrate the release of NEXUS MAGAZINE issue #4 with us! There will be:
-Free food
-Free entertainment including:
• Community Against Hate (w/ Maurice Soulfighter Taylor, The BBoi Allstars, Climbing PoeTree, Third Eye)
• DJ Gibbs
• A talk on hip-hop by Professor Nitasha Sharma (Amherst College)
• Open Mic Poetry Slam
-And, of course, free magazines!

Fine Arts Center - Lobby
UMass Amherst Campus

check back for details!

Organized by WESPREP (Wesleyan Prisoner Resource Center and Education Project) out of Wesleyan College. Climbing poeTree will be performing as part of the 2nd annual Prison Symposium.

The 7th annual Rock Against Racism will feature the best
underground hip-hop, reggae and world beats on one stage. Join these
conscious musicians, spoken word artists and speakers as we demand an
end to racist drug policies that disproportionately lock up Blacks and
Latinos. Featuring the revolutionary reggae of Culture and world beats
of Tony Vacca and World Rhythms, as well as an all-star lineup of
underground hip-hop, including Akir, Hasan Salaam, Final Outlaw,
Rodstarz, the area's own Readnex Poetry Squad and Alpha Faktion, and
Spirit Child with Movement in Motion. Hear inspiring poets spit their
wisdom with the womyn of Climbing PoeTree and the New Paltz Slam Team.
Powerful speakers include those formerly incarcerated under
harsh drug penalties, and those who have devoted their lives to
speaking out against this injustice. The event is free and open to the public,
with food and merchandise vendors, organizations and activist
opportunities.

following March for Peace, Justice and Democracy (noon)
hosted by the Young Communist League, 235 West 23rd street, 2nd floor, NY, NY

hosted by Chris Slaughter at Brownstone Books, 409 Lewis Ave at Decatur,
7:30 workshop 8:00 open mike 8:30 features- climbing poeTree and yvonne "Fly" etaghene

Working To Unify Afrikans Throughout The Diaspora

MEDGAR EVERS COLLEGE
Film & Culture Series
http://www.mec.cuny.edu/filmandcultureseries

Presents The:

'Community Cultural Extravaganza!'

Tuesday, April 25, 2006

7:00PM

'Celebrating The PAN AFRIKAN WORLD'
‘Our Struggle, Our Success, Our Afrikan Way’

Medgar Evers College
Founders Auditorium
1650 Bedford Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11225

Art Presentation/Installation
Short films, Performances, Readings, Poetry,
Political Presentations, Dance, Monologues
Community Marketplace, Award Presentations,
$$$150.00+ Gift Give-Aways and more...

Featuring:

Kahlil Almustafa, Alixa & Naima, Autum Asante,
Yvonne Onakeme Etaghene, Daren Kufere Lyons,
Kid Lucky (Nu Voices), Masauko, Metu, Desiree Gordon,
Yolanda Sangweni, Smooth Da Huslter, Sudani, ‘SOL SAX’,
United G's, & MUCH MUCH MORE!!!!!

Short Film Screenings:

'God Bless America' (3mins.)
By Ruben Gonzalez and Renata Gangemi
From the war to police brutality, to the contradictions of being
a person of color in the U.S.. Featuring Mariposa

'Africa' (90sec.)
By Alrick Brown

'Stolen Moments' (26mins.)
By Shaka King

'Clockwork' (6mins.)
By Shaka King

'The Battle For America' (3mins.)
By Alrick Brown
An email response to the "War on Terror" brought to life with diverse faces.
The subject was "Get Up, Stand Up." Written by Max Skolnik, a Jewish kid
from New York now living and working for a non-profit in Washington DC.

Tourism and More Tourism (15 mins.)
An inside look at the beautiful island of Jamaica and one of it's
most famous sons, Bob Marley.
With an intimate presentation on Jamaica.
By Jose Richards, Sons and Daughters of Jamaica.

'Oxtail' (20mins.)
By Antonia March and Jacqueline McKinley
From the writers of the Bernie Mac show, "A comedy for anyone
who believes in love...with a little assistance". Xavier sublty avoids
eating his girlfriend's meal out of fear thatshe might be adding "roots"
to her recipes.


AND AN ALLIANCE PARTNER SCREENING SPECIAL:

A Preview of the Imagenation REVOLUTION Awards and Concert
at the Apollo on June 2nd get your tickets
NOW by going to www.imagenation.us

&

'The Bet' (4 min.),
Dir., Charles Stone
Two-time travelers journey back into the depths
of the past in order to settle a personal wager.
The outcome will change the world, as we know it.
Charles Stone is the director of True, Drumline,
Paid in Full and Mr. 3000.


PLUS

'STATE OF THE COMMUNITY'
ADDRESS BY:
Dr. Sam Anderson
Author Of
'The Black Holocaust for Beginners'
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0863161782/103-0491771-6438256?v=glance&n=283155


Doors open at 6:15PM
Seating is on a first come basis

OPEN MIC HOSTED BY 'Mo Parle' Revolutionary MC'
BEGINS AT 6:30 P.M.

$40 Prize Package To The Livest Poet

Film & Culture series program begins
at 7:00pm sharp!

ADMISSION IS FREE!

Take the #2, 3, 4 or 5 train to the Franklin Ave. stop.
The auditorium is between Crown & Montgomery Sts.

Seating is first come first serve to guarantee
seating RSVP by email miles@mec.cuny.edu
with your name and number of guests or call 718-270-6096

RSVP's WILL BE ENTERED IN TO A SPECIAL PRIZE DRAWING
(See Below)


Please Bring A Picture ID

PLAN TO NETWORK WITH PEOPLE MAKING THINGS HAPPEN!!

hosted by Floetry,
in the "Cabaret Room" within Vanderslice Hall, Boston College

Angela Davis and Climbing Poetree along with other wonderful artists from "The We Tha Sets Us Free" 2005 compilation will come together for a Justice Now fundrasing effort at the Nathan Cumming Foundation. Justice Now is a non-profit organization founded in 2000. They push hard for prison abolition while advocating for better health care and conditions for prisoners in Californias two largest womens prisons. They prioritize the leadership of prisoners, and offer interns the opportunity to work and meet with women inside prisons to learn first hand about prisoners human struggles as well as the policy implications of state sponsored violence.

Kick off for conference: Race, Privilege, and Cultural Competence: Creating Inclusive Communities in a Post-Katrina World, University of Iowa

Pyle Center, University Campus, U of Wisconsin

Red Gym, U of Wisconsin

New York's hottest emcees, singers, poets, photographers, and filmmakers participate in a benefit to rebuild a school destroyed in Hurricane Katrina's aftermath. On Saturday, March 4, 2006, some of the most talented performers and artists in New York will come together to galvanize fundraising efforts and generate awareness for Kuumba Academy at Manhattan's M1-5 Bar for Kuumba's Family Reunion: A Benefit Concert. With back to back performances by more than 20 artists, breathtaking slideshow images illuminating the club's walls, and more than 300 benefit-goers in attendance, this event is sure to be one of the best shows in New York this year.

Campus Center, Multi-Purpose Room (community event!)/ contact kc859@bard.edu or call 857 204 9924 for more information

Sliding Scale Donation $2-$8, 50% proceeds go to support the Albany Free School

sponsored by OLAA (Organization of Latin American Affairs). Event will take place in the Cabaret Room, Vanderslice Hall (next to Corcoran Commons Dining Hall)

check here for updates on Dec 5th Boston appearance...

Youth workshop on poetry and power!

West Lecture Hall, Franklin Patterson Hall

hosted by Students for a Sensible Drug Policy at the Memorial Union, URI.

at The Underground, located in the basement of Faunce House on the Main Campus (Faunce Arch at the intersection of Waterman and Brown St.). The event is open to the public and is free.

Also showcasing youth dance/hiphop performers from Broad St. Studios in Providence!

The stage is open to writers, poets, rappers, comedians, professor's, ranters, and ravers; come down and keep the oral tradition alive! Sign-up list at 7pm, show starts at 7:30pm. NO SMOKING. $4

Poetry performance and workshop with high school students at MATCH.

Feminist Activist of Maryland (F.A.M), Univ. of Maryland College Park
Stamp Student Center, Margaret Union, Brent Room

$5 admission. 
Hosted by the Sound Poets and Hueman Prophets

open mic sign-ups are from 6:30 - 7:30pm, show 7:30pm - 10:00pm
first come first served for signups (you have to be present) 
$5 admission (pays the features, slam winners & Nationals registration/certification fees). 
Home of the DC/Baltimore Slam Team. 
Hosted by DC/Baltimore Slammaster Delrica Andrews
For more information, contact slammaster@dcslam.com

Baltimore's only combined radical bookstore and fair-trade coffehouse

hosted by: Droopy the Broke Baller, signups start around 7:30pm
FREE ADMISSION, fmi: droopy@brokeballer.com

details TBA

details TBA

$10 sliding scale, no one turned away for lack of funds.
Phone: 216.721.1055

Download a flier @:
http://www.clevelandspace.org/alixaandnaima.pdf

details TBA

check for updates!

Hosted by Upsidedown Culture and H.O.P.E. (Helping Our Prisoners Elevate). Benefit for H.O.P.E. and Rob Los Rigos. Suggested donation $5. 313-803-2665

featuring
Alixa and Naima
Invincible
Sterling Toles
(live electronics)
Erik Ruin
(puppets)

details TBA

The MisEducation of Hip Hop is a two part event sponsored the ConcernedBlackStudents of DePaul University to explore 'whats really good' with the hip hop industry. From its inception to current day projects, what does it all mean? Who is behind the record labels? What goes into glamorized music videos? Where do we all fit in?

the discussion:

DePaul University
Schmidt Academic Center
2320 North Kenmore
Room 100
5:30pm

the concert:

DePaul University
Student Center
2250 North Sheffield
Room 120
8:30pm

All events are open to the public! the discussion is free, the concert asks donations.

$5 Cover/ Free for with POW-WOW Membership/ Doors open 6:30 PM/ 7 - 8 PM Audience Participation Poetry Slam (We give you the words, you right a poem and slam it out)/ 8PM Feature Performer/ 8:30 - 10 PM Open Mic/ 10 - 12 PM Music and Dance w/ DJ Wilma

Graduate class in the Interdisciplinary Arts Program. Sorry this event is not open to the public.

live event with dee-jays and some of U of I's most talented spoken word artists opening for climbing poeTree

hosted by Joe Mirabella, contact 319-621-8558

hosted by Mike the Poet, no cover

hosted by George McDonalds, $5 cover

$5, open slam hosted by Mayda Del Vale, Mollie Angelheart, & Natalie Patterson, show starts at 8:00 pm, info: 818 939 7248

Open Mic' Every Tuesday/ Admission is free except for Slam Nights/ And, there's still free parking

Hosted by Ratpack Slim

every Saturday Live Jazz Open Mic and Art hosted by Def Poet Paul Mabon, no cover, contact: 773 425 5302

(323) 660-4540

$3, hosted by BessKepp, contact: besskepp@aol.com

Sign-ups: 7:30, All ages before 9pm./ $90 Cash Prizes/ $7 door, $5 students/ Hosts: Charles Ellik, dani eurynome & Friends/ Live Music: 3 Blind Mice/ Contact: voluptuary@hotmail.com

510 601-5550 OR 510 301-9872

Dedicated to the San Jose Killer PD w/ Hegotistic, donation $5-10

Hosted by Flo Real, open mic and featured poets, $5 cover all ages, food and drinks available all night

First Wednesday Poetry Night, (510) 836-5282

Poetry Express hosted by Marc State

BENEFIT FOR WOMEN IN PRISON/ Justice Now presents an evening of performances by progressive musicians and poets appearing in the CD The We That Sets Us Free. Come out to support women in prison and their allies to build a compassionate world without prisons.

Performers include Sistas in the Pit, Invincible, Tru Bloo, Tré Vasquez, Piper Anderson, Climbing PoeTree, and Maria Poblet.

$10 - $25 sliding scale, No one turned away for lack of funds

Benefit for Katrina Survivors
w/ Hegotistic, Angel Luna, and Cornelius Jones