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Where will you be on September 29?- Join Cosmos Gebremichael-Capetown, South Africa! Natural High, Industry Cafe & Jazz, Culver City, CA! Tswa Mothobe, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe! Don Durito Libreria-Milan, Italy! Emmanuel Ugokwe-Onitsha, Nigeria! Giovanni VADAMOOTOO-Quartier Militaire, Republic of Mauritius!-100 Thousand People for Change are manifesting magnificence worldwide! Join us! It’s time for a change!

09.04.2012

What it means to be an Artist for Change

by Amy Saari

Posted by soundsorceress

I’m excited and honored to be a host for the upcoming One Hundred Thousand Artists for Change in Detroit later this month. But as I start to share what this event is all about, some people may roll their eyes and go, “Oh please; not another one of these hippie music fests that’s all talk and no action. Why don’t you start a soup kitchen and do some REAL helping around this god-forsaken community?”

I know, I know. Those of us who have visions of repeating Woodstock and having an impact on mainstream culture do have a tendency to get caught up in what I call the “musical picnic” part of such events, but that’s because most of us have forgotten what it means to be a live artist, especially now that we’re living in a digital media world where you can get any kind of music any time of the day for free and not think twice about it.

So when I say One Hundred Thousand Artists for Change, I do NOT want us to fall into the trap of thinking this is just an excuse for local artists to spout off or promote themselves so their digital music will fly around the world unhindered. We as artists have to be responsible for how we present events like this…read more

Join Vic Jonez-Dartmouth, MA! Mary Burns- Memphis, TN! Patrice Melnick Grand Coteau, Louisiana! Lee Ballinger- Los Angeles, CA! Christian Holland- Addis Adaba, Ethiopia! Take a deep breath and the tent gets bigger! 100 Thousand Poets for Change. Anything is possible!

When September 29th comes around the planet we will be reading poems for peace and sustainability. 100 Thousand Poets for Change! Join Janice McIntyre – Loose Leaf Poets & Writers-Toronto, Canada! Stephanie Levin-Carrboro, NC! Michele Equality Kaplan-Letters To Occupy-100 Thousand Poets for Change-Brooklyn, NY! Macki XCarl-Fairfax, CA! Ch Bukejov- Naucalpan, México!

Shout out to Efe Paul- Lagos, Nigeria! Dalfre Cantillo y Cristina Atheortoua, Fundacion Sanarte and Alfredo Gonzalez, Sombra del Matarraton, Puerto Colombia, Colombia! Marlene Creates- Portugal Cove, Newfoundland, Canada! Ahmad Mahmoud and Sara Elhassan, Nas With Notepads-Khartoum Sudan! Valerie Fachman, Performers Under Stress -San Francisco, CA! Tell your friends to organize. This is how we tell the world we will not accept war and ecocide as business as usual….100 Thousand Poets for Change!

Check out our new 100 TPC organizers! Join Petr Zakharov President, Udmurt PEN, Ishevsk, Udmurt Republic! Анна Асеева- Irkutsk, Siberia! Semir Colic-Cola-Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina! Bhaskar Roy Barman-Tripura Poetry Society, Agartala, West Tripura India! You can organize in your town. September 29 is the big day. Make it bigger! Whoohoo!!

08.21.2012

Jamaica celebrates the Second Annual Worldwide Event of 100 Thousand Poets and Musicians Striving for Global Change – September 29, 2012

jamRAC – Jamaica Radical Art Collective is collaborating with Poetry Society of Jamaica, Manifesto JA, The Order of The Drum Circle, Drums for Peace, CY Evolution and Independent Voices to present Jamaica Street Dub Vibe on September 29th. This year’s theme is Tell The Children The Truth inspired by the song Winepress from Bob Marley’s Survival album. An excerpt of the song poignantly states ‘I am talking about my freedom and liberty.’

http://www.jamaicans.com/news/jamaicanevents/jamaica-celebrates-the-second-annual-worldwide-eve.shtml

Join Corey Mesler-Memphis, TN! Iva Pejkovic-Zadar, Croatia!
Ruxandra Cesereanu- Cluj, Romania! Hundreds of thousands of artists around the world organize for peace and sustainability. Organize! September 29, 2012!

Look everybody, we have big global plans for 100 Thousand Poets for Change and we’re doing great, even more than great, 650 events in 115 countries so far, awesome, but we have to turn this world around, so we have to do better than awesome!! Now is the time to write to all your friends everywhere and encourage them to organize events on September 29. Have them send me their name and city and I will sign them up. Get off your sofa, step out of your library! Poets are capable of heroic action! Join Rex Rideout and Lucy Long- Bowling Green, Ohio! Charles Cockburn-Malmo, Sweden! Kristine Snodgrass and Jay Snodgrass- Tallahasee, Florida! Diktyo Anagnosis -Nicosia, Cyprus! Spread the word, tweet and share, sign up friends, turn up the volume, raise your voices!

Do you remember when universal literacy was a goal? Join Nora Iliana Esparza Mandujano-Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas, Mexico! Burbujas Del Vanguarte-Mercedes Pompolo- Santiago del Estero, Argentina! and Ricardo Bornez, Colectivo Cultura Indigente-Sala Clamores, Madrid! on September 29, 100 Thousand Poets for Change. Don’t forget! Organize!

Join 100 Thousand Poets for Change organizers Blaq Ice- Chicago, IL! The Protest Poet, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe! And Mujeres Poetas Internacional II friends Gabriella Valera, Poesia e Solidarietà, Trieste, Italy! and Pilar Velez -Miami, Florida! September 29 is going to be awesome! It’s already awesome!! 7 new events confirmed today!