[Peace-discuss] Fwd: FW: Climbing PoeTree at Allen Hall

Wed Feb 25 20:00:33 EST 2015

I thought from the title this was a tree with a raven in it,
but it seem that it is more like a wrighting-desk.

On 02/26/2015 06:55 AM, Rachel Storm via Peace-discuss wrote:
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> From: *Storm, Rachel Lauren* <rstorm2 at illinois.edu 
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> Date: Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 2:52 PM
> Subject: FW: Climbing PoeTree at Allen Hall
> To: "rachelstrm at gmail.com <mailto:rachelstrm at gmail.com>" 
> <rachelstrm at gmail.com <mailto:rachelstrm at gmail.com>>
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> *From:*Haber, Laura Gwen
> *Sent:* Wednesday, February 25, 2015 2:52 PM
> *To:* Storm, Rachel Lauren
> *Subject:* Climbing PoeTree at Allen Hall
>
> Climbing PoeTree
> Unit One/Allen Hall Guests-in-Residence
> 2/22-2/26
>
> Poets, performance artists, print makers, video and graphic designers, 
> muralists, and new media architects**
>
>
>       “Climbing PoeTree is a soulful expression. Alixa Garcia and
>       Naima Penniman are deep thinkers and gifted poets. I am moved
>       profoundly by the power of their words!”
>
>
>     ~ Cornel West, philosopher, academic, activist, author
>
>
>       “Each time I have the pleasure of attending a performance by
>       Climbing PoeTree, I feel enriched, renewed, and inspired. Alixa
>       and Naima insist that poetry can change the world — and it is
>       true that the urgency, power and beauty of their words impel us
>       to keep striving for the radical futures toward which they gesture.”
>
>
>     ~Angela Y. Davis, Distinguished Professor Emerita
>     History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies
>     University of California, Santa Cruz
>
> *Climbing PoeTree*is the combined force of two boundary-breaking 
> soul-sisters who have sharpened their art as a tool for popular 
> education, community organizing, and personal transformation. Poets, 
> performance artists, print makers, video and graphic designers, 
> muralists, and new media architects, Alixa Garcia and Naima Penniman 
> create compelling works at the service of their vision for a more just 
> and livable world. Over the last 10 years, Climbing PoeTree has 
> performed for thousands of people across the U.S. and abroad including 
> Mexico, the United Kingdom, South Africa and Cuba. Innovative 
> educators, Garcia and Penniman have led hundreds of workshops in 
> institutions ranging from Columbia University to Rikers Island Prison.
>
> /All events take place at Allen Hall, 1005 W. Gregory Drive, Urbana.
> Free parking is available in the parking garage across the street./*//*
>
> *_Sunday, 2/22_**
> 7pm*- *Pages For The People: Bookmaking Workshop*/(South Rec)/
> In this hands-on workshop, participants will create their own 
> one-of-a-kind hardcover journals from new and salvaged materials. 
> Alixa and Naima will show examples of hand-bound books they have 
> created, and share from their experiences as arts educators creating 
> curricula for children of incarcerated parents using book making as a 
> tool towards healing.
>
> *_Monday, 2/23_**
> 7pm - Art is a Hammer: Reshaping Reality through Cultural 
> Activism//(performance and presentation) */(South Rec)/
> Climbing PoeTree interweaves spoken word, hip hop, pan flute beat 
> boxing, and award-winning multimedia theater to expose injustice, heal 
> from violence, and make a better future visible, immediate, and 
> irresistible. This night combines performance, story-telling, 
> slide-shows, and video to illuminate the powerful symbiosis between 
> art and activism. Alixa and Naima share tactics and strategies from 
> their life's work as cultural workers, illuminating how poetry, eco 
> touring, media-making, solution-sharing, creative interventions, 
> curriculum development and collaborative public art can be used to 
> strengthen our movements for social justice.
>
> *9pm – tea time – informal hang out time in guest apartment *
>
> *_Tuesday, 2/24_**
> 7pm - **Planting PoeTree: Writing Workshop */(South Rec)/
> This 2 part writing workshop seeds poems rooted in our experiences 
> while writing towards the future we desire. Climbing PoeTree will take 
> participants on a multi-sensory journey to stimulate memory and 
> activate imagery. You will also exercise the power of your imagination 
> to envision the change you want to call forth in the world. Come out 
> with 2 unique pieces of writing, and contribute to a group poem 
> generated from our collective wisdom and collaborative power.
>
> *9pm – tea time – informal hang out time in guest apartment *
>
> *_Wednesday, 2/25_**
> 7pm -**PIC 101: Breaking Down The Prison Industrial Complex */(South Rec)/
> The U.S. boasts the largest prison population in the world with 2.2 
> million people behinds bars, and the prison industry is the fastest 
> growing sector of our nation’s economy. Why does our society rely on 
> mass incarceration as a solution to social problems? What would a 
> justice system look like that centralizes healing instead of 
> exacerbating harm? This workshop demystifies the Prison Industrial 
> Complex through embodied social justice games and the Prison Poster 
> Project, a visual cross-section of a prison made up of 47 
> illustrations created by incarcerated artists depicting life inside.
>
> *9pm – tea time – informal hang out time in guest apartment*
>
> *_Thursday, 2/26_**
> 7pm - **Finding our Voice: Stencil-making and Storytelling Workshop 
> */(South Rec)/
> This interactive workshop is all about making a statement! Hashtags, 
> headlines, haikus, slogans, quotes: how can we say so much with so 
> little? We will explore the power of words using S.T.I.T.C.H.E.D., a 
> colorful tapestry of over 10,000 Stories, Testimonies, Intentions, 
> Truths, Confessions, Healing, Expressions, and Dreams hand-written 
> from people across the nation. Participants will interact with and 
> contribute to this ever-growing truth-telling project, and make one 
> of-a-kind stencils broadcasting their own powerful statements. We will 
> create a collective piece of “word art” with our stencils, and you 
> will have the opportunity to tag something of your own! Bring a bag, 
> jacket, t-shirt, or other item you want to transform.
>
>
>
>
> Laura Haber
>
> /Program and Academic Director of Unit One/
>
> *UNIVERSITY HOUSING*|University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
>
> Mail: 70 Allen Hall, MC-050 | Office: 68 Allen Hall
>
> 1005 W. Gregory Drive | Urbana, IL 61801
>
> Phone: (217) 333-8351 <tel:%28217%29%20333-8351> | Direct Line: (217) 
> 244-2317 <tel:%28217%29%20244-2317> | Fax: (217) 265-0222 
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>
> lhaber at illinois.edu 
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