ORGANIZER: Charles Frederickson
CONTACT: charles_frederickson@hotmail.com
by Charles Frederickson and Saknarin Chinayote
650 grassroots poetic events in 455 cities and 95 countries will take place on September 24th to promote environmental, social and political change within the framework of peace and stability. Thailand’s celebration of “100 THOUSAND POETS FOR CHANGE” features gifted favorite son Zakariya Amataya, a native of Bacho District in Narathiwat Province. He is the first Thai Muslim recipient of the South East Asian Writers Award and was the unanimous choice of the jury, who called his non-traditional free verse work “borderless, transcending time and space.” Zakariya has been dubbed a Ginsberg-inspired Sunni hipster poet who suggests: “I am traveling in poetry, Poetry is traveling in me; We are heading to the same destination.”
His adoration for the Beat Generation, Sufi mysticism and French surrealists is reflected by his eclectic choices of respected mentors: Charles Baudelaire, Gregory Corso, Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan and Arthur Rimbaud. Zakariya’s parents and sisters still reside on their humble rubber plantation and although he thinks and writes primarily in Thai, his native language is not Thai but Rumi/Malay, the indigenous first language of the troubled deep South border provinces. He is also fluent in Yawi/Arabic. Many of his poems reflect the turmoil and strife of the region along with the desire for community-based recognition of participatory autonomy.
Some English translation examples:
“I hear peace sobbing
And shouting that resonates
Along sundry roads,
Around the city clock tower,
On dinner tables, in tea shops.”
The Missing
“There must be something in this universe
That has strayed from the dimension of time
Something Columbus and Ulysses missed in their exploration
Something the world’s prophets forgot to preach
Something that vanished between
The black holes of space.”
Epitaph for My Beloved Sidi
“I brewed my hundredth cup of coffee
Lit my thousandth cigarette
The sound of war drums rapidly pounding
The era – the Age of Killing
My cherished motherland,
Gone, vanquished again.”
Dr. Charles Frederickson
(Thailand event organizer)
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100,000 CREATIVE ARTISTS FOR CHANGE
by Charles Frederickson on Friday, September 16, 2011 at 2:25pm
100,000 CREATIVE ARTISTS FOR CHANGE
๑๐๐,๐๐๐ ศิลปินเพื่ออิสรภาพทั่วโลก
WORLDWIDE CELEBRATION – 24 SEPTEMBER 2011
การเฉลิมฉลองทั่วโลก – ๒๔ กันยายน ๒๕๕๔
YouTube Titles/Links
By Mr. Saknarin Chinayote &
Dr. Charles Frederickson
1 PEACE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41NhraYBJ10&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL
2 Our Global Family http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSi1tEOUX9o&feature=related
3 Impressions http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0RMoO-m-kU&feature=related
4 Europe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8AOd2Tp2ew&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL
5 African Insights http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGSMiozpgqo&feature=BFa&list=ULK_HVXAtxLjU&index=5
6 FantAsia http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnKBJHCX1IE&feature=BFa&list=ULK_HVXAtxLjU&index=6
7 Americas&Oceania http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mF9glLPPgdk&feature=BFa&list=ULK_HVXAtxLjU&index=7
8 Pyramid Art http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtV8c_KCcqE&feature=BFa&list=ULK_HVXAtxLjU&index=8
9 Thai poEtpourri http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP1xo1n4Fc8&feature=BFa&list=ULK_HVXAtxLjU&index=9
10 Africa PoeArtry http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IbiE0XHLZU&feature=BFa&list=ULK_HVXAtxLjU&index=10
11 FantAsia Delights PoeArtry http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXT6buxuI8g&feature=BFa&list=ULK_HVXAtxLjU&index=11
12 Americas&Oceania PoeArtry http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERmoCroPRko&feature=BFa&list=ULK_HVXAtxLjU&index=12
13 Europe PoeArtry http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1uTHD-x8ls&feature=BFa&list=ULK_HVXAtxLjU&index=13
14 101 Arabian Sights http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNBFnTriMJo&feature=BFa&list=ULK_HVXAtxLjU&index=14
To join in September’s global celebrations of 100 THOUSAND POETS FOR CHANGE and Peace Corps’ 50th anniversary, Dr. Charles Frederickson and Mr. Saknarin Chinayote proudly present 3 YouTube mini-movies depicting Glad Thaidings. Enjoy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZcKQ4xMqQU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXR-0-0EIZ0&feature=related
100,000 CREATIVE ARTISTS FOR CHANGE
WORLDWIDE CELEBRATION – 24 SEPTEMBER 2011
YouTube Titles/Links
By Mr. Saknarin Chinayote &
Dr. Charles Frederickson
1 PEACE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41NhraYBJ10&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL
2 Our Global Family http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSi1tEOUX9o&feature=related
3 Impressions http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0RMoO-m-kU&feature=related
4 Europe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8AOd2Tp2ew&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL
5 African Insights http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGSMiozpgqo&feature=BFa&list=ULK_HVXAtxLjU&index=5
6 FantAsia http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnKBJHCX1IE&feature=BFa&list=ULK_HVXAtxLjU&index=6
7 Americas&Oceania http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mF9glLPPgdk&feature=BFa&list=ULK_HVXAtxLjU&index=7
8 Pyramid Art http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtV8c_KCcqE&feature=BFa&list=ULK_HVXAtxLjU&index=8
9 Thai poEtpourri http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP1xo1n4Fc8&feature=BFa&list=ULK_HVXAtxLjU&index=9
10 Africa PoeArtry http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IbiE0XHLZU&feature=BFa&list=ULK_HVXAtxLjU&index=10
11 FantAsia Delights PoeArtry http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXT6buxuI8g&feature=BFa&list=ULK_HVXAtxLjU&index=11
12 Americas&Oceania PoeArtry http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERmoCroPRko&feature=BFa&list=ULK_HVXAtxLjU&index=12
13 Europe PoeArtry http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1uTHD-x8ls&feature=BFa&list=ULK_HVXAtxLjU&index=13
14 101 Arabian Sights http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNBFnTriMJo&feature=BFa&list=ULK_HVXAtxLjU&index=14
[img]https://100tpc.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/2Hess.jpg[/img]
[img]https://100tpc.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/dove.jpg[/img]
On September 24, 2011 a global grassroots event titled 100,000 POETS FOR CHANGE will take place in more than 245 cities and 55 countries worldwide, a Facebook-based project envisioned by Michael Rothenberg. Thailand’s big event, featuring a group exhibition of poets who are also artists, is being coordinated by Dr. Charles Frederickson, with Boaz Zippor serving as Artistic Director and Colin Cheney, Poetry Moderator. Pavida Koolharak and Joyly Kodchaporn will jointly act as Marketing & Public Relations liaisons. Chertsak Vienravi and Saknarin Chinayote will head a group of volunteers helping to organize the local celebration of artistic freedom, more sustainable peaceful coexistence and tolerant multiversity. In addition to original poetry readings and art gallery exhibitions, a discussion panel will consist of noted Thai writers and artists. The featured guest speaker will be Zakariya Amataya, free verse poetry master and winner of SEAwrite 2553, who wrote: “Among flowers, I’m a weed. Among poets, I’m a mute.”
Charles, I’m certainly on board. I know Boaz and Colin and would love to join the crew. All the best!
~Cameron
Well, I see you found your crew Cameron! Good for us!!!
100,000 POETS & ARTISTS FOR PEACEFUL COEXISTENCE – Bangkok, Sept. 24th
.by Charles Frederickson on Saturday, 24 September 2011 at 05:37.To join in September 24th’s global celebrations of 100 THOUSAND POETS FOR CHANGE and Peace Corps’ 50th anniversary, Dr. Charles Frederickson and Mr. Saknarin Chinayote proudly present 3 YouTube mini-movies depicting Glad Thaidings. Enjoy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZcKQ4xMqQU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXR-0-0EIZ0&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgPmNP8Gsh4&feature=related
DREAM FACTORY
Under cover of night
Kissed by darkness
With her bitter swollen lip,
I push open the gate
Of my vivid imagination –
Wide!
There are unseen footprints
Wandering along the
Twisted forbidden path,
From heaven to earth
Searching for paradisiacal Eden,
Tiny white flowers lack fragrance
Guns without bullets
Notched stick but no flames
Only a white dove with broken wing,
There are no lamplights
No luminous firefly flashers
Only dead yellow butterflies,
Lonely footsteps descending underground stairwell
Echo… Hollow Echo…
Escapist lost soul finding itself,
Daybreak shoves its way through haze
Sky-blue earth sunburst dewdrop reflections
Golden dawn sparkle!
By: Zakariya Amataya
Edited by: Dr. Charles Frederickson
ZAKARIYA AMATAYA was the first Thai Muslim recipient of the prestigious South East Asian (SEA) Write Award in 2010, the unanimous choice of the jury, which called his work borderless, traveling across time and space. He has been described as a Ginsberg-inspired free-verse “hipster poet” whose work has been influenced by the Beat Generation, Sufi Mysticism and French surrealists.
650 grassroots poetic events in 455 cities and 95 countries will take place on September 24th to promote environmental, social and political change within the framework of peace and stability. Thailand’s celebration of “100 THOUSAND POETS FOR CHANGE” features gifted favorite son Zakariya Amataya, a native of Bacho District in Narathiwat Province. He is the first Thai Muslim recipient of the South East Asian Writers Award and was the unanimous choice of the jury, who called his non-traditional free verse work “borderless, transcending time and space.” Zakariya has been dubbed a Ginsberg-inspired Sunni hipster poet who suggests: “I am traveling in poetry, Poetry is traveling in me; We are heading to the same destination.”
His adoration for the Beat Generation, Sufi mysticism and French surrealists is reflected by his eclectic choices of respected mentors: Charles Baudelaire, Gregory Corso, Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan and Arthur Rimbaud. Zakariya’s parents and sisters still reside on their humble rubber plantation and although he thinks and writes primarily in Thai, his native language is not Thai but Rumi/Malay, the indigenous first language of the troubled deep South border provinces. He is also fluent in Yawi/Arabic. Many of his poems reflect the turmoil and strife of the region along with the desire for community-based recognition of participatory autonomy. Some English translation examples:
“I hear peace sobbing
And shouting that resonates
Along sundry roads,
Around the city clock tower,
On dinner tables, in tea shops.”
The Missing
“There must be something in this universe
That has strayed from the dimension of time
Something Columbus and Ulysses missed in their exploration
Something the world’s prophets forgot to preach
Something that vanished between
The black holes of space.”
Epitaph for My Beloved Sidi
“I brewed my hundredth cup of coffee
Lit my thousandth cigarette
The sound of war drums rapidly pounding
The era – the Age of Killing
My cherished motherland,
Gone, vanquished again.”
Dr. Charles Frederickson
(Thailand event organizer)