april is national poetry month from the Lit World team repost

30-Second Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCkUxdWacPE

April is National Poetry Month! Join LitWorld, A Global Literacy Organization, in celebrating the power and spirit of words by helping to compose a Global Poem for Change:

The wonderful poet Naomi Shihab Nye got us started with a first line:

I send my words out into the air, listening for yours from everywhere.


What words do you send out into the air?


What words do you listen for?

Celebrate Poetry Month and create a Global Poem for Change with LitWorld!

What comes next?

Submit a line of your own at litworld.org/poem and watch our Poem GROW at litworld.org/poemblog.

We need Your Words to Change Worlds.

Share our announcement and help our poem soar around the world...

back to the roots tour Albany jan 14

Evan Greer from Riot Folk and Spiritchild from Mental Notes

w/ Special Guest Chris Clavin from Ghost Mice & the OUT OF THE BASEMENT FILM FEST!

And a new addition: DJ Truemaster on the 1's and 2's.
...
ABOUT THE BACK TO THE ROOTS TOUR:
rEvolutionary hip hop for justice
queer riot-folk for liberation

Hip-Hop has been gentrified. Folk music has been watered down. Punk rock sold out. Inbthe face of this mainstream betrayal, two of the movement's most dynamic performers have joined forces to take their respective genres BACK TO THE ROOTS, celebrating the role of music in people's resistance to oppression around the word. Evan Greer and spiritchild are revolutionary artists from radically different musical styles who share a common commitment to using their craft as a tool and a weapon in direct support of grassroots struggles for change

LISTEN TO spiritchild:
http://spiritchild.bandcamp.com/
www.myspace.com/spiritchildmentalnotes

LISTEN TO evan greer:
www.riotfolk.org/evan
www.evangreer.org

LISTEN TO chris clavin
www.plan-it-x.com

7-10 dollars sliding scale
baked goods for sale as well

unplugged with spiritchild, bells roar, born in a cent, chris clavin...

Join us for OUT OF THE BASEMENT FILM FEST # 1 (short films put together by Chris Clavin of Ghost Mice/Plan-it-X Records) followed by a rare UNPLUGGED show with a TON of radical artists at the Manifesta Loft in Brooklyn!!

with

Chris Clavin
(of Ghost Mice/Plan-it-X)
on tour from Bloomington, IN!
http://www.plan-it-x.org/artist/chris-clavin/

Evan Greer
(queer Riot-Folk! on tour from Boston!)
http://www.evangreer.org/

spiritchild
(of the hip-hop fusion band Mental Notes)
a-cappella set
http://www.myspace.com/spiritchildmentalnotes

Lauren Measure
(of the Measure (SA))
http://www.themeasuresa.com/

bell's roar
http://www.myspace.com/bellsroar

Born in a Cent
(acoustic set!)
http://borninacent.blogspot.com/

This show is packed out with a bunch of inspirational queer, feminist, and revolutionary artists. Show starts at 8pm and will fill up quick so be sure to get there early!

DEC 4th Sat NYC Back to the roots Tour kick off party

Time
Saturday, December 4 · 8:00pm - 11:00pm
Location The Commons (upstairs)
388 Atlantic Ave
Brooklyn, NY
Created By
Evan Greer, Laila Murad, Spiritchild Mental Notes
More Info movement in motion & the riot-folk! collective present...

MOVEMENT IN MOTION'S 8th B'earthday!
BACK TO THE ROOTS TOUR Kickoff Show!
spiritchild's DARK MATTERS NYC CD Release!


Saturday, December 4th
8pm @ The Commons
388 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn

featuring hip-hop, funk, punk, and folk music from:

spiritchild
www.myspace.com/spiritchildmentalnotes

EVAN GREER OF RIOT-FOLK
www.riotfolk.org

BELL'S ROAR
www.myspace.com/bellsroar

SISTAH MIA
www.myspace.com/sistahmia

NORTH of DIVISION X
www.myspace.com/divisionxrap

+ lots more TBA!

$5 - 10 sliding scale suggested donation.
ALL AGES. Contact: ninoespiritu@gmail.com for more info.

Back to the Roots tour 2010-2011 with Evan Greer