Projects tagged
Civil Liberties
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Mother’s Power
Read more: Mother’s PowerWhen mothers take to the streets — particularly those from privileged groups — governments take note. The “wall of moms” in Portland has taken up the cause against police violence. Wearing matching shades of white or yellow, the women of…
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Artist Statement
Read more: Artist StatementMine is not Arts for the sake of Arts. It is a revolutionary INSGINA carved into the artistic plaque of my DNA to speak FREEDOM of expression and then freedom after EXPRESSION. The footprints of my revolutionary walk are dipped…
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WE CHANT RESISTANCE!
Read more: WE CHANT RESISTANCE!This special EDition is a revolutionary chant against the menacing cantankerous demonic , satanic COVID 19. And again doubles as a bold and poetic supplication to the great Almighty God to release us off this pandemic bondage. This Edition is…
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Imagining Life after the Ravaging, Virulent COVID-19 Pandemic , A Special Journal.
Read more: Imagining Life after the Ravaging, Virulent COVID-19 Pandemic , A Special Journal.The signature angst of our time was profoundly expressed in the poems submitted for WOMAWORDS Literary Press June 2020 edition, Imaging Life After COVID-19, offering women poets an opportunity to write about their experience of the pandemic and their vision…
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TIME OF THE POET:Second Name of Earth is PEACE.
Read more: TIME OF THE POET:Second Name of Earth is PEACE.MOTHER EARTH is broken from incessant decadent wars carelessly perpetuated by mindless ,vicious political imbeciles. Our natural wealth plundered by greedy ,gluttonous economic dare-devils, imbibing crude oil and fresh blood . Warlord-ism set the suns of our freedom, our earth…
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Global Poetry Response#blacklivesmatter
Read more: Global Poetry Response#blacklivesmatterTo state or chant ‘BLACK LIFE’S MATTER’ is not to say other lives don’t matter, it’s a reminder that four hundred years and counting, black lives didn’t matter enough. Not during the dark era of slave trade and its horrors…
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Artists React to the Pandemic, George Floyd and the Election
Read more: Artists React to the Pandemic, George Floyd and the Election“Artists React to the Pandemic, George Floyd and the Election” Kathy Aoki, Aileen Bassis, Sue Coe, Donna Coleman, Patricia Dahlman, Michael Dal Cerro, Anne Dushanko Dobek, Robyn Ellenbogen, Tim Fite, Robert Geshlider, Todd Hanson and Annakai Hayakawa Geshlider, Cheryl Harper,…
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When Luxury Stores Decorate Their Riot Barricades With Protest Art
Read more: When Luxury Stores Decorate Their Riot Barricades With Protest ArtThree months ago, when New York government officials ordered nonessential businesses closed to slow the spread of coronavirus, high-end retailers sheathed their stores in plywood barriers, as though readying for civil unrest. Did Louis Vuitton and Coach anticipate this human…
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The Scheherazade Project
Read more: The Scheherazade ProjectThe Scheherazade Project is a Performing Arts Non-profit based in Washington DC. Co-founders Lisa Leibow and Julia Alvarez were inspired by Scheherazade in the Arab classic 1001 Nights and created The Scheherazade Project. For more information, our website is https://thescheherazadeproject.org/The-Scheherazade-Project…
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Immigrant Yarn Project
Read more: Immigrant Yarn ProjectThe Immigrant Yarn Project (IYP), organized and created by Cindy Weil was a massive work of public and democratic (crowd-sourced), yarn-based art honoring our immigrant heritage and promoting tolerance, difference, and community. Weil reached out across the state and beyond…