Alixa and Naima, the Brooklyn-based, internationally-acclaimed performance duo, Climbing PoeTree, recently completed a national tour with a ground-breaking, multi-media show that obliterates the boundaries between performance and activism. "Hurricane Season: the hidden messages in water" will now spend the summer at the renowned National Black Theater in Harlem, from July 10 through August 2, 2009.
HURRICANE SEASON @ THE NATIONAL BLACK THEATER JULY 10 - AUGUST 2. Fridays and Saturdays @ 7:30, and Sundays @ 4:00 (July 10, 11, 12, 17, 18, 19, 24, 25, 26, 31, & August 1, 2)!!!
Through a tapestry of spoken-word poetry, video projection, dance, shadow art, and a sound collage of personal testimonies, "Hurricane Season" is a two womyn-show 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.
"Hurricane Season" tackles global warming, environmental injustice, policing, prisons, militarization, corporate domination, gentrification, and displacement as they manifest from one gulf to another, with a powerful tale of resistance, resilience, creativity and survival.
Rhythmic and uplifting, revealing and deeply moving, "Hurricane Season" seeks not to captivate audiences, but to liberate them!
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CLIMBING POETREE, short bio: Alixa and Naima make up the tag-team, two-spirited, boundary-breaking artist duo, Climbing PoeTree. With roots in Haiti and Colombia, Alixa and Naima reside in Brooklyn and track footprints across the country and globe on a mission to overcome destruction with creativity. In five self-organized independent tours, Climbing PoeTree has rocked 500 mikes and counting from from Oakland to Atlanta, South Africa to Cuba with artists such as Amiri Baraka, Sonia Sanchez, Nikki Giovanni, Erykah Badu, Alicia Keys, Danny Glover, Jessica Care Moore, The Last Poets, and Dead Prez. They have led workshops in institutions from Cornell University to Riker's Island. And they have painted murals on walls from the Bronx, to Santiago, to Jamaica. Climbing PoeTree uses their art to expose injustice, heal from violence, and make a better future visible, immediate, and irresistible.
Who is Climbing PoeTree?
This 2 minute video, produced by Keith Wasserman, is a snap shot into the work of Alixa and Naima, the Brooklyn-based internationally-acclaimed arts activist duo CLIMBING POETREE. For more info on these inspiring women, log on to www.climbingpoetree.com
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HURRICANE SEASON TOUR Aug 29th- Dec 15th 08'
What can we say, it was incredible! we traveled over 11,000 miles on a bus converted to run on recycled grease from dumpsters across america, with 6 powerful womyn, a bamboo set and a mission. A two year vision come to life! "Hurricane Season: the hidden messages in water" is a post-Katrina performance uprising: a multi-media show and movement strategy that draws vital connections between shared struggles and common solutions in a critical moment in national and global history. Through a tapestry of spoken-word poetry, theater, video projection, 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” disenfranchised communities are experiencing nationwide on a daily basis.
S.T.I.T.C.H.E.D
is a project that grew from the collective need for people to testify to their lived experiences and to confront the misrepresentations in mainstream media.
Since the wake of Hurricane Katrina, we have given our audience participants the opportunity to write part of their story on five-inch cloth squares that we sew together as we journey, creating miles of colorful prayer flags. The ever-growing project is showcased at all Climbing PoeTree shows.
Over the last 15 months, S.T.I.T.C.H.E.D has multiplied and taken on a life of its own. It has filled concert halls, transformed churches, adorned sidewalks, and catalyzed social healing, anti-racism, and creative writing workshops all over the nation. Each patch is someone’s prophecy. These are headlines from people who don’t own a newspaper, manifestos from people without armies, testimonies from people without tribunals, expressions from people with histories and with dreams.
The magic of S.T.I.T.C.H.E.D comes from declaring our truths, and bearing witness to others’. When we recognize ourselves in each other, we begin to dispel the myths that are created to keep us divided. Our goal is nothing short of transforming a culture of cynicism into a culture of caring. This project is one stitch in the patchwork of our collective liberation.
CONTRIBUTE TO S.T.I.T.C.H.E.D!
What's your story? Entries can be written, drawn, stamped, embroidered, stenciled, silk-screened, glued, or printed on a 6” x 6” piece of fabric.
Email us for the address: love@climbingpoetree.com
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ALIXA + NAIMA's debut album AMMUNITION
featuring Francis Phan, Resom Dhac, Subtech, and Siddharthveda on beats, Bryonn Bain, Anjali, Lady Malone, Sparlha Swa and Iyeoka Okoawo on vocals,
has been officially released into the atmosphere!
This brave new album is a creative fusion of intense poetics and infectious beats, laced with subliminally sultry melodies. Alixa and Naima's detail-driven narratives take listeners on a journey from the llanos of Colombia to under the covers, the cosmos to the streets of Brooklyn with imagery so thick you can taste, feel, and picture it. Raw, bold, and unclassifiable, AMMUNITION is a collection of poems, prayers, and anthems for a world filled with contradiction, love and struggle.
We are proud to announce, the battle between machine guns and poems has officially begun!
Thank you for adding yourself into the Blacque Widow Doll Movement. Please stay connected...Check our newly built online store and read our bulletins/blogs to keep you informed on the building of our social network/online magazine. It's under construction but you can come check it out.
To Release isn't to forget, not to think about, or ignore. It doesn't leave feelings of anger, jealousy, or regret. It's not about pride and it's not obsessing or dwelling on the past. It's not about giving in or giving up. To let go is to cherish the memories, but to overcome and move on. Letting go is learning and experiencing and growing. To release is to be thankful for the experiences that made you laugh, made you cry, and made you grow. It's about all that you have, all that you had, and all that you will soon gain. Letting go is releasing and having the courage to accept change, and the strength to keep moving. It is realizing that the heart can sometimes be the most potent remedy. To let go is to open a door, and to clear a path and set yourself free---
Climbing PoeTree, remember that it's easy to let go when holding on hurts so bad--so free yourself from all these expectations and just be :-) Hope you find the unity in my new single "Release" feat. JRockA. So come peep the track! Stay creative and stay connected!!
ladies..if you get to read this. lets just say your last album is the anthem of my summer. im talking bout.whether im burning calories on the mill,driving on i-95 with my little tape deck..i had to burn the cd to tape so i could listen to it in my hooptie.haha..or just on an average afternoon wiping the dust off my surfaces at home..i mean..yall are a blessing to me. instilling so much beautiful melodies..and even posessed me to step up and do my own open mics around NYC. ..absolutely enthralled by your beings..hope to cross paths on a city block one of these days in passing.. peace
I’m looking forward to seeing you at the Representando Raices de Resistencia benefit for Huaxtec and HOMEY delegates of the Indigenous Youth Delegations to Guatemala and Palestine. Come enjoy some birria and Palestinian dishes as you listen to live music. Get to buy some dope art by local artists. Talk to the delegates live from Guatemala City. Last but not least, get to see the premier screening of SLINGSHOT: HIP-HOP!!!
In Solidarity, In Joint Struggle!
The event is from 5-10pm at Eastside Arts Alliance located at 2277 International Blvd. Oakland, CA 94606. Email natilllas@gmail.com for questions.
Beautiful Angel ..Thank you for the love .my dear:-) Have a Nice Week,I sure will be in contact again. Thank you so very much for blessing me with your friendship and please know how special you are to me. Have a great new week. Love Ya,Please need your help by take a moment look at the rainforests campaign masterminded or clik on the link then sign up at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1Y8iOnIqHk ,website on http://www.rainforestSOS.org by texting SOS and their email address to 60777*. thank you for the help.God bless. Prince William. ..
Hey we just wanted to stop in and say, Have a great Summer. Thank you for all your support this year. We cannot begin to explain how much it has helped our careers. If it was not for people like you we dont know where we would be. Cheers Makeshift Innocence
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Come support your local Native Delegation to Chiapas!
CasaZapa House Party
678 30th st, Oakland CA
(between MLK & West)
Date: Saturday, June 13
Time: 8:00pm - ?
$3 donation (no one turned away for lack of funds)
Free Food! Cheap drinks!
Spinin: DJ Mixteka, DJ Agana, & Lalo playing cumbias, salsa, hip-hop, reggae, rock en Español and pretty much anything else you can think of...
This delegation is a space of encounter for the Indigenous communities in Chiapas and the Indigenous communities in the California Bay Area to exchange knowledge, culture, histories, and experiences in order to find the connections in the work we are doing as a way to support each other and strengthen our struggles. TELL YOUR FRIENDS!!!!
Climbing PoeTree how are ya, Sharing sum thoughts with ya, keep shining LoVe
Caught up in LoVe, Not the rapid spin of the Earth Busy times continue but Love for all has a priceless worth Things out of our control, nature, people’s thoughts and more Love is all that is needed among earth for not one to be poor. OneLove always……. Peace & Light
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