Tel Aviv, Israel

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ORGANIZER: Karen Alkalay-Gut,
Adam Fisher and Omri Luzon
CONTACT: gut22@post.tau.ac.il


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THE TEL AVIV EVENTS

In Israel, we held 4 different events throughout the day:

10:00, Donate a Word! Om Saturday morning, we went to Tel Aviv’s beach-esplanade and took pictures of over 100 people, holding word-signs which they created with pens and cardboards, in an attempt to create a huge poem http://100k.org.il/100kpoem2011.php?page=all.

15:00, Book Worm Bookstore: Poetry Reading. With over 15 readers, and an audience of over 50 listeners, we met at Book Worm Bookstore, and held a vibrating poetry reading. Both well known, uprising and aspiring poets from all over Israel read of their finest poetry, with two musical performances by Dana Lotterman of Seven Band and Oded Kahn of Mindless Echoes. It was an amazing reading in one of the most unique book stores in Tel Aviv.

18:00, CafeCafe Coffee Place: Poetry Reading. In the same mindset as the event in Book Worm Bookstore, we held a poetry reading with about 16 readers and an audience of about 45 listeners. This event, somewhat smaller in scale, was a wonderful event with the participation of readers from various organizations such as UCW (Union of Creative Women of Israel).

21:00, Papa’s Restaurant: Closing Event. The closure event was a big poetry reading, with about 18 readers including some of the best Israeli poets, with Rafi Weichert, Rahel Halfi, Karen Alkalay-Gut and many many more, along with a mix of upcoming poets and artists, students and artists. The event ended at about 23:30, with a very tired yet satisfied audience.

Throughout the day we were interviewed on radio shows, talked with reporters and enthusiastic artists and creators, and enjoying a day of wide and amazing poetry in the name of change for good. The entire team who worked on this event were amazing, and it turned out to be one of the biggest poetry events in Tel Aviv, with about 300 participants. For a country where a casual poetry event has barely 20 participants, this was a huge success which was greatly felt by the participants. Thank you all for participating in this wonderful worldwide event, looking forward for next year!

1) http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=250293948349021 : a collaborative poem building on the Tel Aviv promenade from 10am

מאה אלף משוררים – “יש מילים” – השיר של העם

Time
Saturday, September 24 · 10:00am – 12:00pm

Location
טיילת תל אביב

האירוע שיתפתח את אירועי יום השירה “מאה אלף משוררים” ב- 24.9
יתקיים בטיילת בתל אביב בשעה 10 בבוקר כאשר כל אחד מוזמן להביא איתו בריסטול עם מילה אחת בכל שפה שיבחר וביחד ניצור את השיר של העם על מדרכת הטיילת.
האירוע יצולם ויתועד

בואו נפתח את יום השירה הזה ביחד!!!

מפגש – מול בנייני האופרה

תוכנית האירוע 100 אלף משוררים:

10:00-12:00 “יש מילים” בטיילת
12:00-15:00 הפסקת צהריים
15:00-17:00 מרתון הקראת שירה בתולעת ספרים – סניף מזא”ה ת”א.
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=268365796517925
18:00-20:00 “שירה בפארק” בגן מאיר
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=236101606440271
21:00-23:00 אירוע סיום במסעדת פאפאס (הלל הזקן 12, ת”א).
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=108727962568207

נשמח לראותכם!

2) http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=268365796517925 : poetry reading at a well known book-store from 3-5pm

מאה אלף משוררים – מרתון שירה בתולעת ספרים סניף מזא”ה

Time
Saturday, September 24 · 3:00pm – 5:00pm

Location
מזא”ה 7, תל אביב.

מאה אלף משוררים הוא אירוע בינלאומי אשר ייערך ב-24 לספטמבר. מטרתו היא לקדם את השירה, תוך טיפוח תמיכה בערכי תרבות, אמנות וחינוך.
החל משעה 3 בצהריים ועד 5 בצהריים יתקיים מרתון מקריאי שירה בתולעת ספרים, סניף מזא”ה 7 http://www.bookworm.co.il/

רשימת מקריאים חלקית שאושרה בינתיים:
רועי טרטקובסקי ודארה בארנט – חוקרי שירה מאוניברסיטת תל אביב, החוג לספרות אנגלית.
אנה ליין
גיורא פישר
אורנה ריבלין
יעל כהן
רומאן פילקובסקי
אבישי א. אדנבורג
אורה ניזר

שימו לב לאירועים נוספים ברשימת האירועים של היום:
שירה בפארק – 17:30-20:30 http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=236101606440271
אירוע הסיום בפאפא’ס – 21:00-23:00 http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=108727962568207

3) http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=236101606440271 : readings in the park, from 5.30-8.30pm

מאה אלף משוררים – שירה בפארק

Time
Saturday, September 24 · 5:30pm – 8:30pm

Location
גן מאיר, תל אביב

4) http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=108727962568207 : the closing ceremony, readings at a well known italian restaurant by our nation’s stars from 9pm to 11pm

מאה אלף משוררים בפאפא’ס – אירוע סיום

Time
Saturday, September 24 · 9:00pm – 11:00pm

Location
הלל הזקן 12, תל אביב

מאה אלף משוררים למען שינוי הוא אירוע בינלאומי אשר ייערך ב-24 לספטמבר. מטרתו היא לקדם את השירה, תוך טיפוח תמיכה בערכי תרבות, אמנות וחינוך. האירוע אינו קשור לגל המחאה, אלא מיועד לקידום תרבות ואומנות בישראל ופתוח לכולם.

אירוע הסיום של היום יתקיים במסעדה האיטלקית המקסימה פאפא’ס
http://www.rest.co.il/sites/Default.asp?txtRestID=9125

במהלך הערב יהיו הקראות שירה של פרופ’ קארן אלקלעי גוט, רפי וייכרט, ללי ציפי מיכאלי, שי אריה מזרחי, רחל חלפי, חגית גרוסמן, שלמי חסקי ועוד… הופעות מוזיקליות של דנה לוטרמן ועודד כהן.

נשמח לראותכם!!!

 

1) From 10:00 till 12:00 – Creating the longest poem in Israel on the sidewalk of Tel Aviv’s sea promenade. People are invited to bring their own words on papers, bristols, etc. and place them like a huge puzzle.

2) 15:00-17:00 – Poetry Marathon at Bookworm Book Store, with the following readers:

Roei Tartachovski from Tel Aviv Univeristy

Dara Barnet from Tel Aviv Univeristy

Anna Klein from Reshet Beit radio station

Giyora Fisher

Orna Rivlin

Yael Cohen

Roman Filkovski

Avishai E. Edenburg

Ora Nizer

 

and with musical performances by:

Oded Kahn from the rock band Mindless Echoes

Dana Loterman from the rock band Seven

 

3) 17:30-20:30 – Poetry reading at Gan Meir Park, with the following readers:

Hanita Halevi, the head of ANI (the organization of women creators ) along with representatives of the organization  This list is the still not closed. We are waiting for replies. More on it soon.

 

4) 21:00-23:00 – The closing event of the day at the Pappa’s Restaurant. With the following readers:

Rachel Halfi

Rafi Weichret

Prof. Keren Alkalay Gut

Hagit Grossman

Dr. Noam Reisner from Tel Aviv University

Lali Tzippi Michaeli

Shay Arye Mizrahi

 

and with musical performances by:

Oded Kahn from the rock band Mindless Echoes

Dana Loterman from the rock band Seven

 

Limerick, Ireland

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ORGANIZER: Barney Sheehan,Whitehouse Poets M.C.

CONTACT: whitehousebarlimerick@gmail.com

LINK: www.whitehousebarlimerick.com

LOCATION: White House Bar,Limerick, Ireland

The Whitehouse Bar, 52 O’Connell Street, Limerick, Ireland.

The Whitehouse Poets are looking forward to participating in the 100 THOUSAND POETS FOR CHANGE Global Event on Sept.24th 2011.We will organize our event in The Whitehouse Bar Limerick which has been home of the Whitehouse Poets for 8 years with 401 consecutive Open Mic Sessions .

 

Brattleboro, Vermont

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ORGANIZER: Verandah Porche

CONTACT: verandahporche@gmail.com

 

 

YouTube videos for WriteAction Event 9/24/11:

 

Arlene’s Intro:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9hyXV2sexg

 

Verandah & Patty: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUnWB4r6Sa8

 

Megan Buchanan Cherry:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCewRpHThKg

 

Sherri Keefe: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3IHxymbU4A

 

T. Wilson: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJFAGCUS1J4

 

Toni Ortner:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86rp9qz1Ml4

 

Mary Mathias:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4pZ-0j2f0Q

 

Arlene Distler: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKBdWjD4U4s

 

Deidra Razzague: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCCy3EvNca0

 

Susan Bonthron:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Btc3CuS4VOM

 

Lynn Martin:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2l5VPHFKuag

 

Tim Mayo:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPYbeXY02FM

 

Addison Rice: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQDHkfQPqsk

 

Cynthia Hughes & John Crockett: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-30nS3UGPI

 

Deidra on the power of collective thought: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IJ4blvnCq8

 

Jack Wesley: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyXIwq188HU

 

Bill Devlin: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhgNS1Rm-A4

 

Becky Graber: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiMDTuhwoqk

 

Sarah Ellis: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09tFDsQ6_D8

 

Mimi Morton: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nz6WRFEON50

 

Matthew Wright: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVP7ZV5fJZc

 

Mollie Burke: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DDmwUw3XPM

 

Peter Gould: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoleRc_Bwoo

 

Verandah and Emily: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DonsYSOE8K4

 

Finale: Verandah and Patty: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U93-fZaEX_Y

 

Petaluma, California

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ORGANIZER: Geri Digiorno

CONTACT: adageri@aol.com

POETS FOR CHANGE
( A DAY OF CHANGE)

The Perfect Wife-by Geri Digiorno

 

*date: Sept. 24thSaturday
*place: TBA-Petaluma, CA
*time: 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm

* we will have a group shout-out on the street
* make collage’s for change
* read some poetry
* listen to some music
* have some soft drinks and snacks

 

 

Greensboro, North Carolina

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ORGANIZER Alfred Harrell for a Triad Poetry Meetup

http://www.meetup.com/triadpoetry/
in conjunction with 100 THOUSAND POETS FOR CHANGE

CONTACT: triadpoetrymeetup@gmail.com

Rhythms of Words
Social Awareness

100 THOUSAND POETS FOR CHANGE EVENTS

September 24, 2011
6-10 PM
A Free Public Event

Tate Street Coffee House Greensboro,
Choose an issue you feel strongly about and speak on it

Poets/Spoken Word Artist: Choose an issue you feel strongly about and speak on it
Musicians /Singers:( no band with larger than 3 members) let your music speak for change
Storytellers: Create images through story for change
Comedians: Add to your gift of to bring laughter as a healing median for change

If you would like to be scheduled into this program please contact me at
mraharrl@gmail.com
Deadline to be scheduled on program August 20, 2011

Open Mic element intertwined throughout program
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=247150768630486

Poetry “Write In for Change” part of 100 Thousand Poets for Change Project

When: 9.24.11 10am-12noon

12 HOURS OF POETRY IN GREENBORO

Where: Central Library 219 N Church St Greensboro, NC 27401 336-373-3617
http://www.meetup.com/triadpoetry/calendar/

Members of the New Garden Friends Poetry Group will guide writers of all levels in writing and reviewing poems in the Booklovers Coffee Shop.

A public reading will begin about 11:30am.

Poet and fiction writer Valerie Nieman, who publishes with Press 53, will teach a workshop for children.

It takes place from 1-4 at the Witherspoon Art Gallery, and is called Peeking Behind the Mask

–Each day we go about our routine lives, but inside we are superheroes or explorers, pirates or rock stars, hiding our secret identities behind a mask of an unassuming face and daily clothes. With the backdrop of Witherspoon’s current exhibition, “Persona: A Body in Parts,” we’ll explore our own secret identities and “peek behind the mask” of famous folks (real or fictional) to imagine their thoughts and lives. One way to enter this secret world is to write a persona poem – persona meaning mask – in which we give a voice to that alternate identity. Join poet and novelist Valerie Nieman in the Witherspoon lobby for a drop-in poetry experience for all ages. In addition, use a variety of materials to create your own magnificent mask to wear. At 3:00 pm we’ll celebrate with live improvisational jazz and a spoken word sharing.



In Greensboro, at 10:00 AM at the Central branch of the Public Library, the New Garden poetry group will offer an open workshop for any adult or teen interested in writing a poem.

Also check out the Weatherspoon’s Annual Community Day and Triad Poetry Meetup for poetry events in the afternoon at Weatherspoon Art Museum and from 6:00 to 10:00 at Tate Street Coffee House. All events are free.

South Kerry, Ireland

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ORGANIZER: Jack Brae Curtingstall

CONTACT: jackbraecurtingstall@hotmail.com

ack Brae Curtingstall and Clann na Farraige will be presenting an interactive poets’ gathering on Saturday, September 24th, 12 noon to 3pm, at the auditorium of the Carnegie Arts Centre in Kenmare, County Kerry.

Santa Cruz, California

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ORGANIZER: sponsored by Sparring With Beatnik Ghosts

http://www.sparringwithbeatnikghosts.com

CONTACT: dyaryan@gmail.com

LOCATION: Louden Nelson Community Center
301 Center Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95060

Sparring With Beatnik Ghosts will be hosting 100 THOUSAND POETS FOR CHANGE in Santa Cruz, CA on Saturday, September 24 · 1 p.m. @ Louden Nelson Community Center in Santa Cruz (301 Center Street, Room 5) Santa Cruz.

Doors open at 12:30 a.m. (and open mic sign-up at 12:30). Show begins at 1 p.m.. Everyone is invited to this free event!!! Features plus open mic! Sign up for the open mic by emailing dyaryan@gmail.com

Sparring With Beatnik Ghosts will be hosting 100 THOUSAND POETS FOR CHANGE in Santa Cruz, CA on Saturday, September 24 ·1 P.M. (doors open and open mic sign-up at 12:30am) @ Louden Nelson Community Center in Santa Cruz (301 Center Street, Room 5) Santa Cruz. Everyone is invited to this free event!!! Features include Robert Sward, Patria Brown, Fernando D. Castro, Ariel Holden, Ruebi Lynn Jimenez, Charles Kruger, Brian Morrisey, Jim Russo, Mordecai Shapiro and T. Mike Walker. Hosted by Yaryan. Features plus open mic (sign-up at 12:30 a.m. to read a poem or email dyaryan@gmail.com or Facebook email Daniel Yaryan). This event will take place in many cities, at the same time and date, and of course it will be televised. The main website is:https://100tpc.org/ .

 

Iowa City, Iowa

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ORGANIZER: Russell Jaffe Russell Jaffe

CONTACT: russell.jaffe@gmail.com

Are you an Iowa poet? We need you! Myself and the editors of Strange Cage, the small poetry press I’m just getting off the ground, are honored to be sponsoring the Iowa City leg of the 100 Thousand Poets for Change event!

We’re looking for poets from in and around Iowa to:
-Come read at Fair Grounds cafe in Iowa City on the 24th!
-Submit poems for our first-ever compilation, a collection of poets with Iowa connections.

 

The poetry needn’t be themed, however. Please send 3 poems and a bio to strangecage@gmail.com

DEADLINE: SEPTEMBER 15. It’ll be available at the reading and shortly after to all. So please do hurry along.

That’s right. A reading. A book. Join us, won’t you?

Wherever You Are, Planet Earth

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If you live in a town too small, can’t find an event in the place where you live, if the place where you live would prohibit an event like this, if the authorities would lock you up for organizing, please send me a poem and photo of you holding a sign that says 100 THOUSAND POETS FOR CHANGE and the name of the place wherever you are at the time and I’ll add your contribution to our blog.

Seattle, Washington

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ORGANIZER: Paul E. Nelson

CONTACT: pen@splab.org

LINKS: SPLAB!

American Sentences

Organic Poetry

“We intend to have poets Skype in to our open mic, open mic with local poets, a lightning round (lots of haiku-length poems) and other events.”

We’ll celebrate this planet-wide event at SPLAB, an intergenerational spokenword Performance, Resource and Outreach Center in Seattle, with no less than ten hours of poetry featuring Suquamish native Cedar Sigo in his return to Seattle. Stalwarts of the Seattle literary community, Judith Roche, Carolyne Wright, Frances McCue, Jourdan Keith, Larry Matsuda, Carletta Carrington Wilson, Eugenia Toledo and others will be featured reading work that seeks to instill peace, sustainability, justice and mercy in a world desperately in need of all that at this critical time in history. The event starts at 11:30AM on 9.24.11.

SPLAB is an intergenerational spokenword  Performance, Resource and Outreach center dedicated to Poetry, Story-telling, Conversation, Debate, Consciousness and Building community through shared experience of the spoken and written word.
Based in the most diverse zip code in the U.S., 98118, it is housed in the former Columbia School at 3651 S Edmunds. It’s close to light rail and there is parking on-site. Please get in touch with Paul is you are interested in hosting a portion of the event. ” write: pen@splab.org

Atlanta, Georgia

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ORGANIZER: Laura Carter and  Puma Navarro

CONTACT: laurachristinecarter@gmail.com

Poets for Change: Atlanta edition

Time
Saturday, September 24 at 9:00pm – September 25 at 12:00am

Location
Highland Ballroom
644 N Highland Ave
Atlanta, Georgia

100 Thousand Poets for change is a worldwide event taking place in hundreds of cities on September 24th. The Atlanta edition will feature readings from Molly Brodak, Bruce Covey, Lyndsey Cohen, Gina Myers, and Seth Parker as well as music by Lacuna M. Comedians Michael Humphrey and Josh Harris will each do standup sets and there will also be a belly dancing performance. We’ll have a chapbook for sale featuring work from over 30 poets and illustrations from local Atlanta artist Erin Bassett (Plastic Aztecs). There will also be an art auction featuring work from other local artists. All proceeds go to benefit a hospitality-based community center that will be based in East Atlanta, and will focus on at-risk youth.

 

There will also be free food, and the Ballroom has an excellent bar with beverages that might interest you.

Hope to see you there!

21 +

Doors at 8:30 pm

$7 suggested donation at the door.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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SEVERAL EVENTS IN PHILLY:

EVENTS IN TANDEM

ORGANIZER: Jack Krick

CONTACT: jkrick@gmail.com

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ORGANIZER: Frank Sherlock

CONTACT: Frank.Sherlock@gmail.com.

DESCRIPTION: I’m organizing a PACE (Poet Activist Community Extension) action for September 24 as part of 100,000 Poets for Change- a worldwide demonstration/celebration of poetry to promote social and political transformations. Past PACE actions have played out as roving street performances and poem distributions from the Gallery to the Ben Franklin Parkway.. For more about PACE, see the statement for the Nonsite Collectivehttp://www.nonsitecollective.org/node/813

Buffalo, New York

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Organizer: David Landrey
Contact: chaosbewitched@yahoo.com

Listen to Think Twice Radio show on 100 Thousand Poets for Change

http://www.thinktwiceradio.com/celeste-lawson/audio/110831a.mp3

Conversations with key and often unheard voices from the arts and cultural community of the Niagara Region with Celeste Lawson, artist, arts advocate and arts administrator.

ADDITIONAL BUFFALO ARCHIVE: https://www.100tpcmedia.org/index.html

 

Woodstock, New York

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ORGANIZERS: Andy Clausen and Shiv Mirabito

CONTACT: woodstock108@hotmail.com

Shivastan Press presents
100 Thousand Poets for Change Sunset Bonfire & Potluck
6pm until ?
Please join the Woodstock mountain poetry revolution with a backyard bonfire, informal reading & potluck.
Please bring poems, snacks & drinks to share.
more info 845 679 8777*
www.shivastan.org
Shivastan Poetry Ashram
6 Hillcrest Ave (in the back)
Woodstock, New York

100 thousand poets for change potluck bonfire* 9.24.11 — with Taargüs Pascal Taargüs, Jeremey Gaustad, Daniel Gentile and Saeger Rubinstein.