BOOKSTORES WE LOVE :: Help Keep WORD UP Alive in Washington Heights
Support WORD UP on Indiegogo today! Word Up 4157 Broadway @ 176 Street, Washington Heights, NYC Open Daily, 12-9pm The WORD UP story is an inspiring one. Opened originally in June, 2011 as a 1-month pop-up literature and community space in Washington Heights, it
CALL FOR ACTION : 100TPC :: LIFE IN PRISON FOR A POEM : QATAR
In the last few months, Exit Strata has been working hard to evolve our platform so that it may best support and bring visibility to projects that model the use of creativity in social activism. We've been bringing you organizers
COCO PROCESS COURSE:: ERIC MEYER’S FUCK THE MUSE: LESSON 3 :: CREATIVE MODES AND CYCLES
In his 1991 lecture on creativity, John Cleese describes two modes of operating: an "open" playful mode, and a "closed" productive more. Creative people, he claims, are simply the people that cultivate the open mode of operating. "We need to be
AWESOME CREATORS :: 100,000 POETS for CHANGE : Sao Paulo, Brasil: SIAMO TUTTI IGUALE, SIAMO TUTTI ROM
Video: Poet Roberto Malini at La Notte de Diritti Umani (The Night of Human Rights) Nostre mantra solito: siamo tutti iguale, siamo tutti Rom Siamo tutti iguale, siamo tutti Rom Siamo tutti iguali, siamo tutti Rom Siamo clandestini, siamo Africani Siamo gay, siamo lesbi, que siamo
AWESOME CREATORS :: 100,000 POETS FOR CHANGE : AN OPEN LETTER from poet Taha Abdel Moniem (Cairo and Assiut, Egypt)
FROM EGYPTIAN POETS TO THE POETS OF THE WORLD || || Des poètes Égyptiens … aux poètes du monde من شعراء مصر إلى شعراء العالم نحن شعراء مصر، نرسل- من قلب القاهرة- صوتنا إلى كافة شعراء وشعوب العالم، دفاعًا عن حرية الإبداع، في
AWESOME CREATORS :: COMMUNITY ARTS RELIEF AND RECOVERY :: BOB GOLDBERG : MUSICIANS FOR SANDY (NYC)
Does Music Make a Difference? Bob Goldberg (for Exit Strata) Hurricane Sandy spared our neighborhood. No blackouts, no houses lost, a few trees knocked down. We were lucky, and wanted to help. Shelters for evacuees were set up at John Jay High School (families)
AWESOME CREATORS :: 100000 Musicians for Change :: Lee Ballinger's Letter from Los Angeles :: A Change is Gonna Come
Music by 100,000 Musicians for Change participants Ellis Ebakor in Warri, Nigeria and Larry Weiss, Nashville, TN; in collaboration with 100tpc co-founder Michael Rothenberg; Video by 100tpc co-founder Terri Carrion © Rhinestone Cowboy Music Publishing (ASCAP)/Drums of Grace Music (BMI) I asked my students at
FIELD NOTES :: NOW PLAYING ON NIGHTBUS RADIO :: EPISODE 7 : ON THE NAVAJO RESERVATION
We woke up spooning on a bunk bed in Old Orabi, in Hopiland Reservation. There was no funny business with my young travel partner, Brigett, a 19 year old beauty queen from Germany, much to my dismay. But we had
AWESOME CREATORS :: 100,000 POETS FOR CHANGE :: TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO
"It's a new day and a new way
EDITORIAL : THINKING ABOUT ART AT A TIME LIKE THIS
You who are on the road Must have a code that you can live by And so become yourself Because the past is just a good bye Despite the fact that I cannot think of a single person whose life has remained untouched by
