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Climbing poeTree Tour (workshop)

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. In 7 self-organized grassroots tours, Alixa and Naima have rocked 500 mikes and counting from New Orleans to Johannesburg, led workshops in institutions from Cornell University to Riker's Island, and they have painted murals on walls from the Bronx to Santiago de Cuba. Recognizing art as their weapon, medicine, voice, and vision, Alixa and Naima create to expose injustice, heal from violence, and make a better future visible, immediate, and irresistible.

How can we transform our creative powers into meaningful change in our communities?

In this interactive workshop that will combine story-telling, slide-shows, creative writing, and poetic outbursts, the Brooklyn-based duo will share tactics and strategies on how art and cultural work can be used at the service of our visions for a more just and sustainable world. Be prepared to share struggles and solutions from your own communities, and to get creative, imaginative, and inspired!