ORGANIZER: Mahnaz Badihian
CONTACT: badihian@gmail.com
San Raphael, California
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Word Up-Washington Heights-New York City, New York
ORGANIZER: Robin Glasswer
CONTACT: robinglasser@yahoo.com
We’re having an open mic this Sat. Sept 24 and anything goes…so come and enchant us with words, music, comedy, art…event will be from 3-7 pm at WORD UP…4157 Broadway @ 176 st….please send this to EVERYONE…this is in connection with 100 Thousand Poets for Change Organizes Largest Poetry Event in History!!
Check out these event photos! 100,000 POETS FOR CHANGE.pdf
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Rock Hill, South Carolina
ORGANIZER: Kim Blum-Hyclak
CONTACT: rhyclak@comporium.net
“Be the change you wish to see in the world” ~ Gandhi That’s the focus of 7 local Rock Hill, SC area poets for Saturday’s 100 Thousand Poets for Change event. We’ll be reading at the local Earth Fare on Cherry Rd. in Rock Hill, 10 – 12 noon. Poems will reflect all sorts of change – personal, environmental, political, spiritual . . . Poets will read their own work as well as work by other poets.
Rhinebeck, New York
Bill Averbach and Bam-Jazz-Charlotte, North Carolina
100 TPC -World Poetry Festival – Los Angeles September 24th
700 Events – 550 Cities – 95 Countries! Poetry is the catalyst, it inspires creative solution, and can only speak truth, it is based in love and compassion for every living thing that has inherited the Breath of Life … Continue reading
Tijeras, New Mexico
ORGANIZER: New Mexico State Poetry Society
CONTACT: aking@nm.net
The New Mexico State Poetry Society is sponsoring the Tijeras Poets Picnic in conjunction with 100 Thousand Poets for change, an open-air affair, at the Tijeras Arts Market with music, performance poetry, open mic, and ART, here is the link http://www.heartlink.com/tijeras with more information,
Tijeras Poets Picnic, an open-air affair
sponsored by New Mexico State Poetry Society
in collaboration with 100 Thousand Poets for Change
Music — Performance Poetry — Open Mic and Art
Saturday, September 24th — 10:30 to 4:ish
The Tijeras Open-Air Arts Market and Just Imagine Gallery & Coffee House
European atmosphere, New Mexican history, Gallery and Arts Market Website
Just off the Tijeras/Cedar Crest exit on I-40, 7 minutes east of Tramway
Google Map to Tijeras Poets Picnic. tel. 505.281.9611
10:30: ”Free Verse in Reverse” — Collaborative Acoustic Ensemble
12:00: Poetry Open Mic Sampler — Sign up for a 5 minute spot (much more later)
12:30: “A Fool for Ya” — Four Featured Poets hosted by Stewart Warren
2:00: Poetry Open Mic hosted by Shirley Blackwell — Sign up for a 5 minute spot
Browse the open-air arts market, visit with friends, savor gourmet coffees, bring a chair and some munchies, sign up for the open mic and enjoy four fabulous Albuquerque poets. “Rock the Mic.”
The Tijeras Arts Market at
Just Imagine Gallery
www.tijerasartsmarket.com
505-281-9611
Good Men Project-Boston (and Worldwide), Massachusetts
Join The Good Men Project and Michael Rothenberg on September 24, 2011 for a global event: 100 Thousand Poets for Change.
Write and Radio and The Good Men Project are joining 100 Thousand Poets for Change for a global event on September 24, 2011. There are 700 scheduled events in 450 cities and 95 countries so far. Join other poets, Good Men, and Good Women around the USA and across the planet, on September 24th, in a demonstration/celebration of poetry and art to promote serious social, environmental, and political change.
The Good Men Project seeks to open up the discussion about what it means to be a man in the 21st century. We think Michael Rothenberg, and the 100 Thousand Poets for Change Movement, are a pretty good example of what that means.
To do our part, we interviewed Michael Rothenberg, who has spearheaded the movement and has been overseeing the organization of the events worldwide. I spoke with Michael on Blog Talk Radio. Listen here!
Elon, North Carolina
In Elon, NC, keeping with the NC desire to address change by getting poetry out into the community in many small ways, too, Claudine Moreau, who teaches astronomy at Elon University, has to meet with parents on Saturday so she … Continue reading
10 Thousand Steps Hungarian Bookstore- New York City, New York
ORGANIZER: Timea Zsedely, PhD
CONTACT: PhD Sztimea@aol.com
CHANGE THE WORLD WITH YOUR WORDS – 100 Thousand Poets for change
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Saturday, September 24 · 4:00pm – 7:00pm
Location
10 Thousand Steps Hungarian Bookstore – 545 E. 12th St. New York, NY 10009
100 THOUSAND POETS FOR CHANGE
IS ORGANIZING A GLOBAL EVENT FOR SEPTEMBER 24th 2011
IS ORGANIZING A GLOBAL EVENT FOR SEPTEMBER 24th 2011
600 Events – 450 Cities – 95 Countries
… Join our event at the 10 Thousand Steps Hungarian Bookstore on September 24th at 4 pm, in a demonstration/celebration of poetry to promote serious social, environmental, and political change.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AC5fWpHUOtQ&feature=share
4- 5.30 pm Reading Poetry in original and translated language (also Hungarian Poetry) in English (poems by John Crowe Ransom, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Kenneth Rexroth, Elizabeth Rivera de Garcia, Elisa A. Taber, Attila Jozsef, George Faludy, Roland F. Udvari, Paul Sohar, etc – Reading by Elisa A. Taber, Elizabeth Rivera de Garcia, Roland F. Udvari, Patrick Albino, Paul Sohar, Vinny Senguttuvan)
5.30 – 7 pm Reading Poetry in original and translated language in Hungarian (Poems by N. Scott Momaday, Jackie Kay, Kaar Kaas Soon, Ales Steger, Chitra Divakaruni, Krisztina Toth, Balint Dobai, Peter Kantor, Istvan Turbuk, Gabor Gyukics, Attila Jozsef, Dezso Tandori, Paul Sohar, etc – reading by Roland F. Udvari, Eszter Pakozdi, Istvan Turbuk, Pal Sohar)
Admission is free.
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We will make a voice record of the reading.
Timea Zsedely
100 TPC New Bedford
Here in New Bedford, the kind folks at Gallery X have donated space in their Frederick Douglass gallery for a 100 Thousand Poets for Change reading. The event will take place on the afternoon of Saturday, 9/24 from 2-5 PM. … Continue reading
Dancing Poetry Festival-San Francisco, California
SAN FRANCISCO EVENT: Poem by Mary Rudge, Poet Laureate of the City of Alameda and International Laureate, “It’s all about Balance” dedicated in the written program to 100 Thousand Poets for Change, will be performed by Dancers of the Pharaohs — with swords on their heads signifying transforming weapons to dance art. Part of the Dancing Poetry Festival at the Florence Gould Theater of The California Palace of The Legion of Honor, September 24, noon to 4 PM, the poem will be read outside before entry for the public at 11:30 AM/ Also onstage will be awards given to publications connecting people: World Poetry 2011 anthology with 205 poets from 65 countries at a World Congress of Poets in Greece (ed. Dr.Dimitris P. Kraniotis) to be received on his behalf by the Consul General of Greece in San Francisco; an anthology of Korean American poets (ed by Chung W. Bae); a book of poems about flowers by an Iranian Poet living in Italy (Novin Afrouz); a 2 volume epic documentation of Bay Area Poets (by Jack Foley).The Festival is presented by Artists Embassy International which has made connections around the world for peace and intercultural understanding and appreciation since 1951 through the universal language of the arts.
The World Stage, Leimert Park, Los Angeles
ORGANIZER: Brittany Humes
CONTACT: b.lee.humes@gmail.com
CHALK SOME CHANGE
Saturday, Sept. 24th 9:00 – 11:00 a.m.
Join the The World Stage Anansi Writer’s Workshop poets for a chalk-in of poems advocating change! We’ve got the chalk and poems, or bring your own. Meet outside The World Stage, 4339 Degnan. (North of King Blvd., East of Crenshaw)
Word & Wine Solidarity 100TPC-Miami, Florida
ORGANIZER: Nikki Rodriguez CONTACT: art_is_life111@hotmail.com LOCATIONS: The Electric Pickle 2826 North Miami Ave Miami, FL DATE & TIME: Wednesday, September 21 at 9:00pm – September 22 at 3:00am … Continue reading
Red Bluff, California
ORGANIZER: Trudi Lee Richards
CONTACT: wingedlion@gmail.com
Contact: Trudi Richards FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Tel. 530-757-7576
Email: wingedlion@gmail.com
100 THOUSAND POETS FOR CHANGE
Open Mike Poetry Reading at Red Bluff Park of Study & Reflection
As part of the worldwide initiative “100 Thousand Poets for Change” (https://100tpc.org), the local group Poets for a New Spirituality is hosting an open mike poetry reading at Red Bluff Park of Study and Reflection, on Saturday, Sept. 24, at 7pm. Local poets and members of the public are invited to read poetry or short prose (five minutes max) on the theme the Change – which will include topics of social, environmental, political, spiritual or personal change required for this planet to move toward a Universal Human Nation characterized by peace and sustainability.
The September 24th, marks the largest poetry event in history, with 600 events in 450 cities and 95 countries to date. Poetry demonstrations are being organized in such political hotspots as Madison, Wisconsin and Cairo, Egypt as well as in strife-torn Kabul and Jalalabad.
In the United States over 250 events are planned so far, including protests in North Carolina against cuts in education funding and a demonstration along the Platte River in Nebraska against the planned TransCanada tar sands pipeline.
All events will be documented on the 100 Thousand Poets for Change website, and all documentation will be archived by Stanford University, which has recognized 100 Thousand Poets for Change as an historical event, the largest poetry reading in history.
The Open Mike Poetry Reading for Change will be held at Red Bluff Park, located at 13499 HWY 99E, on the south side of the highway between Salt Creek and Salt Creek Overflow, just east of Hwy. 36 to Mt. Lassen. Use caution when entering and leaving as traffic moves swiftly.
Red Bluff Park of Study and Reflection (http://www.RedBluffPark.org) is part of a worldwide network of parks inspired by the teachings of Silo, spiritual Guide of the Andes. Serving as sanctuaries for all who seek meaning in life, the Parks are beacons of the coming Universal Human Nation.
A New Spirituality…the spirituality that has awakened from its deep sleep to nurture the best aspirations of the human being. – Silo’s Message
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For more information, please call Trudi Richards at 530-757-7576 or send an email to wingedlion@gmail.com.
Muscatine, Iowa
ORGANIZER: Kimberly Dickens
CONTACT: realmpoet1@yahoo.com
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Michael Rothenberg and Terri Carrion, the Editors of Big Bridge Magazine have planned a poetry event designed to encourage global solidarity through the simultaneous world-wide sharing of poetry that promotes political and social change. Muscatine will be participating in this global event. Saturday, September 24 from 230 pm to 5 pm at Musser Public Library there will be a poetry reading and workshop open to the public. It is an open mike concept, so bring your poetry and come prepared to read aloud and workshop your poetry with other local writers. Keep in mind the event is to encourage positive social and political change. Poetry that celebrates the enduring Human spirit and solidarity are welcome. Feel free to come and just listen and chat as well.
http://www.worldwidehippies.com/2011/05/03/100-thousand-poets-for-change/ local poets and poetry enthusiasts … Musser Public Library * potluck of finger foods! |
Joshua Tree, California
ORGANIZER: Steve Brown
CONTACT: publisher@thesunrunner.com
DESCRIPTION: Desert Writers Celebration in solidarity with 100TPC. Event scheduled for Saturday, September 24, from 6 to 9 p.m. The Sun Runner Magazine’s Desert Writers Celebration and Drawn from the Desert Arts Benefit will be held at Tamma’s Magic Mercantile, 55727 29 Palms Highway, (Old Town) Yucca Valley, California. Information: (760)820-1222, or publisher@thesunrunner.com.
Steve Brown
Publisher/Editor
The Sun Runner
The Magazine of the Real California Desert
PO Box 2171, Joshua Tree, CA 92252 USA
(760)820-1222, Skype: (760)820-5254, Fax: (760)472-0670
www.thesunrunner.com
Digital Editions: http://issuu.com/thesunrunnermagazine
Bellows Falls, Vermont
Border Voices Project-San Diego, California
ORGANIZER: Jack Webb, Director, Border Voices Poetry Project
CONTACT: Jack Webb 619-847-8714 // jackbard1@gmail.com
LATEST ACTION in San Diego!
Poets .. Visionaries .. Musicians .. Photographers
Saturday, Oct. 15th, 5 – 7 p.m.
Cafe Libertalia
3834 Fifth Avenue
San Diego, CA 92103
Co-hosts: Claudia Poquoc & Seretta Martin
I have a confession to make. Confessions can be fun, especially if they’re full of color & pizzazz, & I can promise you mine is …
I’ve received a lot of publicity as the retired Union-Tribune editor who founded the Border Voices project, which sends poets into hundreds of classrooms throughout San Diego. Others know me primarily for my weekly TV show, where I interview Nobel laureates & others about how they write poetry. Or they’ve read some of the 23 books I’ve published.
But none of that is what I really am, & THAT is the confession. What I REALLY am is a rabble-rouser.
For example, I was one of the original, leading organizers of the Vietnam War protests in San Francisco & Berkeley, protests that spread across the nation & toppled a president.
Because of the terrible things I saw at that time, my rabble-rousing has been more cerebral ever since.
Today, we’re in the middle of a new explosion of rebellion, of demands for change, & we need to be a part of it. Civilization is beginning to sing a new song, & it is our song.
But I return to my underlying theme: I saw terrible things occurring around me back in the 1960s, & in other crusades I have been involved in since. People turned on each other, & on their fellow citizens, with contempt & violence.
We cannot let people of hate co-opt the latest movement for creative change.
That is one reason I have promoted poetry in the schools since 1993. By teaching our kids to think for ourselves, we build hope for the future. And poetry is the best way to do that. As the greatest historian of the last 400 years said, poetry & civilization are pretty much the same thing. It was in the songs they sang around their campfires that our ancestors — 100,000 years ago — discovered the dream of civilization.
Today, in this coffee shop, we will listen to poets, with new dreams & new songs, offering competing & exciting visions of the future.
Thank you for joining us.
Jack Webb
FEATURED POETS:
Veronica Spinharney of Occupy San Diego
Sandra Alcosser, award- winning poet of Except by Nature and A Fish to Feed All Hunger, directs the MFA Program in Creative Writing at SDSU each fall and collaborates with scientists through Poets House New York. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, New York Times, Paris Review and Poetry.
Shadab Zeest Hasmi, author of Baker of Tarifa, San Diego Book Award winner 2010, editor of Magee Park Poets anthology, and a teacher in California Poets in the Schools. Originally from Pakistan, Shadab now lives in San Diego and her poems appear in Poetry International Journal and other world-wide publications.
Jack Webb, publisher of 23 books, founder-director of the Border Voices Poetry Project and TV host, whose poems deal with the change that grows in solitude … the geometry of wisdom, and the songs our ancestors sang around campfires, in which they discovered the dream of civilization. They are singing again …
And many more!!!!
100,000 Poets for Change: A Homage
San Diego offers a three-week continuation / permutation / adulatory spinoff on the World Poetry Festival
San Diego’s Border Voices Poetry Project plans a dramatically different twist on the grand poetry celebration involving cities from the United States to Tibet.
San Diego’s creativity is inspired by logistical problems similar to those that have delayed Sept. 24 festivities in cities such as Tel Aviv (which cited conflicts with the Sabbath) to Granada, Spain (problems securing a suitable venue).
Our own bardic solution begins with a citywide call for every San Diego resident to put a poem in his or her pocket on the morning of Sept. 24, and then share it with others every day through Saturday, Oct. 15.
On Oct. 15, we will hold a poetry reading featuring some of the area’s top poets. The exact lineup will be announced the week before the reading.
NOTE BENE: The list of those participating in Border Voices festivals since 1993 reads like an artistic “Who’s Who.” That list includes Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz; U.S. poet laureates Kay Ryan, Robert Pinsky, Robert Haas and Billy Collins; filmmaker Michael Moore; Maya Angelou; and dozens of other celebrated artists from around the world.
THE THEME: Border Voices is built on the healing perception that it is through song – through poetry – that our children realize themselves, endure, and thrive.
Top educators have praised Border Voices, noting that test scores soared after intensive poetry workshops in San Diego classrooms.
Border Voices director Jack Webb recently wrote a friend about the benefits of such introspective and poetic writing (Webb has published 22 books):
“I’ve been doing an enormous amount of writing recently, and found it nourishing. An apparent paradox: introspection is both enriching, and a way of avoiding the modern ailment that Dostoevsky identified … turning our Selves into god. A wonderful, unexpected gift.”
It is a gift that Border Voices has been delighted to share with children … and would be delighted to share with all in need, including those-who-shall-not be-named (who take such pleasure in telling others what to do, rather than teaching them how to see reality for themselves).
VISIT Bordervoices.com for links to Border Voices TV shows featuring world-celebrated artists, as well as some delicious poems by San Diego students.
VIEW POETRY AND IMAGES OF SAND DIEGO EVENT PDF.
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Metanoia-Baltimore, Maryland
ORGANIZER: Gail Langstroth CONTACT: gplcampostella@gmail.com On September 24th, 2011 Poets, Writers, Musicians & Dancers MET in Baltimore, Maryland: to Celebrate the Transformative Power of The WORD to Recognize the Possibility for METANOIA* to awaken to how we Think, Speak, Communicate, Write–how we … Continue reading
Manchester, Vermont
ORGANIZER: Consie West CONTACT: omwwind@aol.com DETAILS. This event will take place on Saturday September 24 at 4:30 pm in the Butterfly Garden by the parking lot behind the Northshire Bookstore at 4869 Main Street, Manchester Center Vermont 05255. We are … Continue reading
Marlboro, Vermont
Ames, Iowa
Third Stanza, a group of Ames area poets, is sponsoring a poetry reading at Cafe Diem (323 Main St.) in conjunction with 11 Days of Global Unity, on Monday, September 19 starting at 6:00pm with the music of poet/musician Lee Enslow. At 6:30, several Third Stanza readers will be featured, followed by an open mic for poetry. For other Central Iowa 11 Days events (http://11daysames.org/). Third Stanza is proud to be a part of the 100 Thousand Poets for Change event. Poets from within and without the area are encouraged to come and share their work during the open mic segment.
ORGANIZER: Dan Coffey
CONTACT: dcoffey@iastate.edu
San Francisco Public Library, Excelsior Branch(WPM)
Angelina Llongueras: Excelsior branch of the San Francisco Public Library -4400 Mission Str, San Francisco- (United States) A Workshop on creating a Poetical Dialogue about our concerns for the Planet . ON September 24th At 10 am Excelsior Branch of … Continue reading
Arvada, Colorado
ORGANIZER: Piper Mullins
CONTACT: pipermullins@gmail.com
On September 24th from 1-3pm at the D-note in Arvada there will be a reading featuring a number of Denver poets from 1-3pm. In our “Be the change…” reading, these poets will be voicing their ideas about the direction their words are trying to create in our community and the world.