[Antiracism] Climbing PoeTree and Taina Asali in Northampton

[jo comerford]

Friends,

Adele Smith-Penniman has served for years on the AFSC and MLK Day Committees 
-- as part of a life time devoted to justice and peace.  Naima of Climbing 
PoeTree is her daughter.  This evening promises to be utterly remarkable.

Jo


LOVE POEMS AND FREEDOM SONGS
to benefit a homecoming trip to Ghana

Saturday, November 17, 2007
7:30 pm

an evening of soul-stirring spoken word & rebel music

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

***Climbing PoeTree***

& fire-breathing
   puertorriqueña
   poet vocalist

***Taina Asili y La Banda Rebelde***

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

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

we hope to see you there!


>WHO IS CLIMBING POETREE?
>
>Employing art as their weapon, their medicine, their voice, and their 
>vision, Alixa and Naima make up the boundary-breaking arts-activist 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 spoken word 
>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, 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, Toronto to Jamaica. Climbing PoeTree uses art to 
>expose injustice, heal from violence, and make a better future visible, 
>immediate, and irresistible.
>read, see, hear, feel more: http://www.climbingpoetree.com
>
>Who is TAINA ASILI?
>
>Taína Asili carries on the tradition of her ancestors, fusing present and 
>past struggles into one poetic song-voice. She is a puertorriqueña poet, 
>vocalist, visual artist, mother, teacher and activist, currently living, 
>teaching and performing in Albany, NY. Taína carries a fire breathing voice 
>of rage and resistance featuring at open mics, festivals and political 
>events across the country. She weaves resistance, anti-colonialist 
>struggle, love, identity, reclamation of the body, ancestral remembrance, 
>and more into a unique vocalization style infusing poetry and song.
>read, see, hear, feel more: http://www.tainapooet.com
>
>
More info, contact us:

love at climbingpoetree.com

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