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Hartford's HURRICANE SEASON: The hidden messages in water
Alixa and Naima, the Brooklyn-based, internationally acclaimed performance duo, Climbing PoeTree (www.climbingpoetree.com), are on tour with a ground-breaking, multi-media show that obliterates the boundaries between performance and activism. Connecticuts's Hurricane Season tour stop will take place at Trinity on Main
69 Main Street in New Britain on Wednesday, October 7th Opening reception 6:00 p.m., showtime 7:00 p.m.
Through a tapestry of spoken-word poetry, video projection, dance, shadow art, and a sound collage of personal testimonies, Hurricane Season connects the issues that surfaced in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina to the unnatural disasters disenfranchised communities are experiencing nationwide and worldwide on a daily basis.
Hurricane Season tackles global warming, environmental injustice, policing, prisons, militarization, corporate domination, gentrification, and displacement as they manifest from one gulf to another, with a powerful tale of resistance, resilience, creativity and survival.
Rhythmic and uplifting, revealing and deeply moving, Hurricane Season seeks not to captivate audiences, but to liberate them.
A solution-cipher is an integral component of every show that features grassroots organizations doing powerful work around the issues surfaced in Hurricane Season on a local level. The objective of the solution-cipher is to cross-pollinate creative strategies for self-determination and to turn the passion generated in the show into action manifested in the community.
Opening Reception: featuring music, art and photography by local artists, tabling organizations, and refreshments. Maurice Robertson and Zoraida Lopez will be exhibiting photography. Margaux Hayes will be performing and Dana Rondel will be reading.
Hurricane Season is touring the nation in a vehicle that runs on recycled vegetable oil. Climbing Poetree embarked on the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina (August 29, 2008) and will hit over 50 cities by the end of 09'
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
about Climbing PoeTree: www.climbingpoetree.com
about Hurricane Season: www.hurricaneseasontour.com
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LocationTrinity on Maine
69 Main Street
New Britain, MA 06051
United States
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