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Alixa and Naima, the Brooklyn-based, internationally-acclaimed performance duo, Climbing PoeTree, has take their boundary breaking and award winning "Hurricane Season: the hidden messages in water" to over 65 cities across the nation on a little white bus converted to run on recycled vegetable oil and covering over 11,000 miles across the country in 5 months! Hurricane Season spent the summer of 09' at the world renowned National Black Theater in Harlem, presented in the reputable Newark Symphony Hall and has since been traveling as an excerpted performance across the nation in colleges, conferences, festivals and high schools. hurricane Season's video and animation won best director and best vision at the 2009 Reel Sistas Film festival in NYC. Climbing Poetree is currently working with 7 incredible educators to transform Hurricane Season into a multimedia, multidisciplinary curriculum for High School and College students, bringing a new pedagogy into the classroom.

WWW.HURRICANESEASONTOUR.COM and click on Curriculum for more info

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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!

MORE: WWW.HURRICANESEASONTOUR.COM

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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 Erykah Badu, Alicia Keys, Amiri Baraka, Sonia Sanchez, Alice Walker, Nikki Giovanni, 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.

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WHO IS CLIMBING POETREE?

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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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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.

Click Here to purchase your copy through CD BABY!..

General Info

  • Genre: Freestyle / Hip Hop / Lyrical

    Location Brooklyn, Co

    Profile Views: 122734

    Last Login: 12/2/2012

    Member Since 3/24/2006

    Website www.climbingpoetree.com

    Record Label Climbing PoeTree

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

    ........ .. 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" traveled to over 65 cities across the nation on a little white converted to run on recycled vegetable oil! and spent the summer at the world renowned National Black Theater in Harlem, from July 10 through August 2, 2009. .. FOR MORE INFORMATION: ..www.hurricaneseasontour.com.. .. ---------------- .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 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! .. ----------------.. ...... .... 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.. ..----------------------------........ ........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. .. THE TOUR!!! ..PHOTOGRAPHY BY ..LAYLA LOVE...... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .... .. ..CLICK HERE.. to view a dope graphic review of the journey with images and testimonies!!! .. ..www.HurricaneSeasonTour.com.. its official! .. IMAGES FROM THE SHOW! .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .... ....----------------------------........ .. ...... ..S..tories ....T..estimonies..I..ntentions ....T..ruths ..C..onfessions....H..ealing ..E..xpressions.. ..D..reams.. ...... ....Creating a future by rewriting our histories...... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ......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.... ..----------------------------.. ........ ....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! ........ Click Here to purchase your copy through ..CD BABY!...... You can also listen to audio clips of all the tracks through our CD Baby site, ..and write a review! ..www.cdbaby.com/alixanaima...... ....----------------------------........ ....FASHION STATEMENT...... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .... .. ........Alixa + Naima's hand-made, one-of-a-kind, silk-screened clothing line..food clothing and shelter for the body and mind!........ visit our website and click on ..FASHION STATEMENT.... to view designs and place an order............ .. .. ................................................ .. .. .. .. ..

  • Members

    Alixa Garcia and Naima Penniman.... backed by a crew of ancestors, homegirls, and a tribe of creative warriors...

  • Influences

    earth, wind, fire, water, spirit, sparlha, sonia sanchez, crystal, zap mama, francesca, frida kahlo, iyeoka, wumni, fly etaghene, jessica care moore, mae jackson, amina baraka, abuelita, harriet tubman, bryonn bain, audre lorde, celena, ceelo, invincible, lauryn hill, kahlil almustafa, queen godis, micah lee, me'shell, t'ai freedom, fannie lou hammer

  • Sounds Like

    machine guns marrying rain drops

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