Baltimore, Maryland

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ORGANIZER: Virginia Crawford

CONTACT: crawford.virginia@gmail.com

ORGANIZER: Laura Shovan

CONTACT: editor@littlepatuxentreview.org

 

Baltimore Book Festival

Living Poetry “Flash” Mob

DATE: September 24, 2011
TIME: 12PM
LOCATION: City Lit Stage

Be part of the 100,000 Poets for Change worldwide event! Poets Virginia Crawford and Laura Shovan are hosting a spontaneous poetry composition that you’ll want to try on for size. Attendees wearing Living Poetry Flash tee-shirts will “be arranged” into written on-the-spot, living poems. Tee-shirts can be made at home (instructions at www.authoramok.com) or picked up Friday and Saturday at the CityLit Stage. No tee-shirt? No problem. Flash your poetry prowess by composing a living poem on the spot. Poems will be photographed and posted at the 100,000 Poets for Change website: www.bigbridge.org/100thousandpoetsforchange.

ADDITIONAL BALTIMORE ARCHIVES:  https://www.100tpcmedia.org/index.html

Albuquerque, New Mexico

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ORGANIZER: Zachary Kluckman

CONTACT: zgkluckman@msn.com

Albuquerque Blog for 100 TPC

 

Game Changer Demonstration & Candlelight Reading

 

EVENTS Planned for Sept.24th!

Slam for Change! Wednesday, September 21
7 pm to 10 pm

In partnership with the 100 Thousand Poets for Change project, ABQ Slams will be hosting a special slam for change at Winning Coffee Company (111 Harvard SE). Featuring Marc Marcel as a special guest poet. Competitors are asked to bring at least one poem for competition addressing an area where they feel change is needed.

Living Game Board Demonstration Friday, September 23rd
6 pm to 7 pm

We will be gathering at the Civic Plaza to create a massive chessboard, and filling it with poets and performers. These poets will read poetry in response to the issues and causes that they specifically want to see sustainable change happen for. We will be creating the visual metaphor of the ways in which legislation is passed without our vote, without our consent and in some cases without our knowledge.

Acequia Book Sellers
10:20 am to 5 pm

Acequia Booksellers is hosting an OPEN HOUSE/DROP-IN event highlighting recordings of songwriters, musicians and speakers for social change from the 1930′s on. The event will take place during bookstore hours (10:30-5:00) on Sat. Sept. 24. The impromptu program will include recordings by singers such as Phil Ochs, Woody Guthrie and U. Utah Phillips, as well as speakers like Noam Chomsky. Acequia Booksellers has the best poetry section in New Mexico. Drop by and check us out.

24 Hour Drum Circle
10 am to 10

Drummmers from all walks will join us in creating a non-stop 24 hour drum circle with the Kosmic Trading Post acting as the heart and the drums creating the pulse, the vibrant resonance that reminds us that as long as life goes on, positive growth and sustainable change are possible.

Workshops
10 am to 5 pm

Poets will partner with members of various social change organizations and non-profit groups with a mission to create change in the world. Workshops will be held at the Projects. Presenters from the organizations will speak to the specific challenges and the needs and poets will lead writing prompts in response to these issues, creating a new social dialogue and bringing necessary knowledge to the table.

Candlelight Reading
7 to 9 pm

Poets and musicians will come together for a free concert, bringing together the community in a night of powerful verse and uplifting, conscious music. Presenters from non-profit and social change organizations will speak briefly, offering insight into the struggles, knowledge and hope. After the readings, everyone in attendance will be asked to hold up a candle for a moment of silence in reflection of all the bright lights we’ve lost to wars, genocide, homelessness, violence, drug addiction and more. The causes and issues are many, but so are the hearts and hopes of those who will join us for this event!

Tewa Women United Gathering for Mother Earth Reading

The Tewa Women United will include a reading around the sacred fire as part of the 100 Thousand Poets for Change project.

Santiago de Chile, Chile

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Convocan los poetas: Leo Lobos, José María Memet, Raúl Zurita, Mario Garcia, Anita Montrosis, Christian González, Francisco Véjar, Sergio Ojeda, Sergio Rodríguez, Cecilia Palma, Jaime Huenun, Antonio Arroyo entre otros.

100 poetas chilenos por el Cambio se reunirán en el frontis de la Biblioteca Nacional de Chile, donde extenderán un lienzo con motivo de esta actividad cultural mundial en favor del Cambio el día 24 de septiembre de 2010.

ORGANIZERS: Leo Lobos, José María Memet, Raúl Zurita, Christian Gonzalez, Francisco Vejar, Sergio Ojeda, Sergio Rodriguez, Cecilia Palma, Jaime Huenun, Antonio Arroyo, Elicura Chihuailaf, Mario Garcia Alvarez, Tatyana Cumsille, Giovanni Interdonato, Marcos Navarro, Patricio Criado, and others

Estimated at 100 Chilean poets gather for change in the front of the National Library on 24 September and will, extend the canvas, inviting the media and photographers featured in Chile, to make good records of the activity.

CONTACT: leolobos@gmail.com

Fez, Morocco

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Saturday, September 24 · 4:30pm – 7:30pm

Location: The Location will be disclosed later In Fes!!!

Created By Maktoub Last Knight

Details:

Moroccan poets are Joining other poets around the USA and across the planet, on September 24th, in a demonstration/celebration of poetry to promote serious social, environmental, and political change.

Moroccan,local and other foreign poets and writers will celebrate and promote poetry and the magical word in demonstration/celebration of poetry to promote and address serious and fundemental issues for change.

For more information contact the co-ordinators :
El Habib Louai
Teacher of English in Ezzaytoun Junior High School in Agadir
Comparative Studies Master Student Representative
Conference Organization Committee Member
E-mail: elhabiblouai@yahoo.co.uk
Phone: O6 10 58 31 05.

Mostafa Bakkali Ferchakhi.
Free-lance teacher of English.
General Secretary at the Moroccan Association of Friends of English.
Cultural Activities coordinator.
Email: Knowledge-community@hotmail.com
Tel: +212667515802

Victoria, British Columbia

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ORGANIZER: Richard Olafson and Linda Rogers

CONTACT: ekstasis@islandnet.com

 

 

 

I am challenging the people of Victoria to geurilla poem one another on September 24 and forever after, to write poems in icing on cakes, to chalk sidewalks, to leave poems in pockets, to paint or embroider their clothing with activist poems, to call into radio shows and read poems that encourage positive change, to make poem cards for those we love and admire. All activist poets will be designated honorary assistant poet laureates at The Well on September 24. 7:00pm – 10:00pm.

Download the Press Release for Victoria-BC

 

BACKWORDS AND FORWORD

In the beginning, there was a world
that needed a word and the word
was go(o)d, master of the unbroken
universe, mother of the wheel that
breaks like the poet who sings in his
change like the sea, like children
with begging bowls, begging for new
words to plant in the garden of
good and evil. This is the dialectic
of smash and fix, beautiful verbs;
dirty blood filtered through kidneys,
dirty air wet-cleaned in forests, dirty
deeds transformed by alchemists,
dirty water washing stars, our
clean windows on the firmament,

deaf composers listening with their fingers,
children thinking backword and forword.

This is change as simple as breathing.
Expired, the soul has weight and we
rediscover the lightness of being, only
twenty-one grams: our holy vocation
to catch and release its  mysteries
as the river runs through us, revealing
the word that is love made visible.

In Byzantium, the words for change
are bozuk para, meaning broken money,
and nothing is lost in translation.
Long ago and far away, only hungry
beggars would touch these fractured
alms, but now that we’ve cracked
the world, an enigma engine that
drives itself, everything broken is
holy and we get to pay it forward.

Linda Rogers-Victoria Poet Laureate

Bancroft, Ontario, Canada

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ORGANZER: Kathy Figueroa

CONTACT: fancydaylilies@gmail.com


Hi Folks!

A day devoted to poetry readings and music in Bancroft, Ontario, is currently being planned for Saturday, September 24th, 2011, and an invitation is extended to all poets, songwriters, and musicians to participate in this project. Bancroft will be just one of over 360 communities, in over 85 countries around the world, where poets will be joining together to initiate positive changes in the global community. So far, approximately four hundred and sixty events have been scheduled to take place worldwide. Called, ‘100 Thousand Poets For Change,’ the concept of poets participating and advocating for the common good evolved from an idea that American poet/songwriter/author and editor, Michael Rothenberg, developed to try to make this world a better place via the spoken word.

The schedule for the Bancroft event is as follows:

1. 10:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. – an informal get together for coffee will be held at The Door Next Door Cafe, located on Bridge Street in Bancroft.

2. 12:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. – a scheduled poetry reading at the Bancroft Public Library will take place. An, ‘open stage,’ policy will be in effect and everyone is welcome to read either their own work, any poems that have been written by their friends or family members, or a few of their favourite poems by well known authors.

3. 2:45 – 5:00 p.m. – another gathering at The Door Next Door Cafe, this time with live music along with additional poetry. (The cafe closes at 5:00 p.m.)

4. 7:00 p.m. to ? – depending on the number of people who express interest in participating, we could then regroup at another establishment and have an, ‘open mic,’ event with more live music and more poetry!

As well, there are a few poems currently on display at Ashlie’s Books, in Bancroft, and another collection will soon be put on display at the Bancroft Public Library. This latter group will include work by some of the earlier inhabitants of this area, current local residents, and a samples of poetry from other countries.

The main focus of the Bancroft, ‘100 Thousand Poets For Change,’ event will be on the environment, so any poems or original songs that pertain to nature would be especially appreciated.

For more information about this historical event, here’s a link to the, ‘Public Event,’ page for 100 Thousand Poets For Change:

https://www.facebook.com/note.php?saved&&note_id=270788522947950#!/event.php?eid=106999432715571

As well, I’ve set up a page on Facebook for Bancroft:

https://www.facebook.com/note.php?saved&&note_id=270788522947950#!/groups/164740476914270/

(I think that these links might have to be copied & pasted into your browser to work.)

I’ll be posting additional info closer to the date of the event. If anyone has any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact me.

The leaves of the trees turn beautiful colours in the Fall.

A view of the York River on the south side of Bridge Street in lovely downtown Bancroft, Ontario.

This is what the York River looks like from Bridge Street, when looking north.

RUTA 100 Mil Poetas / Poetry Route – by Contra la Violencia, el Arte

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The collective "Against Violence, Art" is organizing 3 actions in Mexico City.

* The collective Contra la Violencia, el Arte (Against Violence, Art), organized  a poetic route (RUTA 100 Mil Poetas por el Cambio: Zócalo-Bellas Artes) through Avenida Madero, a major pedestrian street in Downtown Mexico City. Together with poets and performance artists, activists and citizens, the group will shared poetry, music, and distributed written material.

http://100milpoetasporelcambio.blogspot.com/

 

 

 

 RUTA 100 Mil Poetas por el Cambio: Zócalo-Bellas Artes

 

1a Parada 

Esquina Madero y Monte de Piedad

2a Parada 

Esquina Madero y Motolinía

3a Parada 

Esquina Madero y Gante

 

4a Parada 

Explanada de Bellas Artes

Poetas (haz click en el nombre para leer más)

Aracely Zúñiga

Aram Rodríguez

Carl Titos Barraza

César Espinoza

don palabras pérez

Gloria Saldivar

Guadalupe García-Vasquez

Mar Ruiz

Mariángel Gasca

Pilar Rodríguez Aranda

Shimara Magaly

Raquel Huerta-Nava

Zazil Alaide Collins

luna bizuetto

Bardo Rodol

y otros…

 


Con la participación de los colectivos:

hElementos

  

Alto al Ecocidio

Kallejer@s

Organizado por Contra la violencia, el arte

Contacto: 100milpoetasMexico@groups.facebook.com

Budapest, Hungary

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ORGANIZER: Gabor Gyukics

CONTACT: robagcsikugy@netscape.net

100 ezer költő a változásért” – Budapesten!
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Time
Tomorrow at 3:00pm – Sunday at 1:00am

Location
Műcsarnok
Dózsa György út 37.
Budapest, Hungary

Created By
Nagy Gabriella

2011. szeptember 24-én a világ minden pontján, 95 ország több mint 650 helyszínén tartanak költészeti felolvasást. A 100 Thousand Poets for Change a világ eddigi legnagyobb költészeti eseménye. Magyarországon a budapesti Műcsarnokban 15 órától hajnali 1-ig, tíz órán át több mint száz költő és előadóművész osztja meg műveit a hallgatósággal.

Magyarországon a budapesti Műcsarnok ad otthont a világban első ízben megrendezett, eddigi legnagyobb költészeti eseménynek. Költők, performerek, dalköltők, poetry slam-költők és zenészek verselnek és muzsikálnak tíz órán át, miközben a budapesti helyszín élő kapcsolatban lesz a világ más költészeti rendezvényeinek helyszíneivel is.

Fellépnek:

Acsai Roland, Akkezdet Phiai (Újonc és Saiid), Ágoston Béla és Eichinger Tibor, Bajtai András, Balázs Imre József, Balla D. Károly, Balla Zsófia, Balogh Attila, Báthori Csaba, Beata Pozitiva, Berka Attila, Bertók László, Béki István, Bíró József, Borbély Szilárd, Borsik Miklós, Bozsik Péter, Buda Ferenc, Can Togay, Csepregi János, Csobánka Zsuzsa, Csoóri Sándor, Dukay Nagy Ádám, Egressy Zoltán, Erdős Virág, Falcsik Mari, Fehér Renátó, Filip Tamás, Garaczi László, Géczi János, Géher István, Géher István László, Gerevich András, Györe Balázs, Győrffy Ákos, Halasi Zoltán, Harkai Vass Éva, Hartay Csaba, Háy János, Imreh András, Jász Attila, Jónás Tamás, Juhász Ferenc, Kalász Márton, Kalász Orsolya, Kántor Péter, Kapecz Zsuzsa, Karafiáth Orsolya, Kele Fodor Ákos, Kemény István, Kemény Lili, Kerber Balázs, Kistamás László, Kozma György, Kőrössi P. József, Krusovszky Dénes, Kukorelly Endre, Ladik Katalin, Lantos László Triceps, Lázár Bence András, Marno János, Matits István, MC Indiana, MC Zeek, Meenakshi Bittner Dóra, Mesterházi Mónika, Mestyán Ádám, Mezey Katalin, Müller Péter Sziámi, Nemes Z. Márió, Nyilas Attila, Oravecz Péter, Pál Dániel Levente, Payer Imre, Peer Krisztián, Petőcz András, Rácz Péter, Rutkai Bori, Sajó László, Sándor András, Schein Gábor, Sergio Ivan Tabeira (E), Simon Márton, Solymosi Bálint, Szabó T. Anna, Szántó T. Gábor, Székelyhidi Zsolt, Szentmártoni János, Szilágyi Ákos, Szijj Ferenc, Szkárosi Endre, Szlukovényi Katalin, Szőcs Petra, Szöllősi Mátyás, Szűgyi Zoltán, Tábor Ádám, Takács Zsuzsa, Takáts Eszter, Tamás Zsuzsa, Tatár Sándor, Tolvaj Zoltán, Tom Bass, Tóth Erzsébet, Turczi István, Turi Tímea, Ughy Szabina, Varga Mátyás, Váradi Péter, Vázsonyi János, Veress Miklós, Víg Mihály, Vörös István, Zalán Tibor, Zelki János, Zilahi Anna, Zsille Gábor

A nagyszabású felolvasást 15 órakor megnyitja: Gulyás Gábor, a Műcsarnok igazgatója!

Bővebb információk:
A 100 ezer költő a változásért saját blogja: http://100ezerkoltoavaltozasert.blog.hu//
A 100 Thousand Poets for Change honlapja: https://100tpc.org/
A 100 ezer költő a változásért a Facebookon: http://www.facebook.com/pages/100-ezer-k%C3%B6lt%C5%91-a-v%C3%A1ltoz%C3%A1s%C3%A9rt/261202083892515
A világesemény a Facebookon: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=106999432715571

Projektvezetők és házigazdák: Bárdos Deák Ágnes, Gyukics Gábor és Nagy Gabriella

Sponsored by Peter Wilhelm Art Center

Helyszín: Műcsarnok / Kunsthalle Budapest – Budapest 1146, Dózsa György út 37. – Tel.: 460-7000

Perth, Australia

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ORGANIZER: Jamie MacQueen

CONTACT: jrmacqueen@hotmail.com

The Perth, Western Australia, event (what?!… just one?!) will be at the Moon Cafe in Northbrige and hosted by the good people from the Perth Poetry Club. There is a great diversity of poets coming along and you can watch it live athttp://www.facebook.com/l/1AQCFy17EAQA4BqtLIm4Bi48IPewubUNLLSOPv-V28ih1lA/www.livestream.com/perthlive on Saturday 24th of September at 2pm WAST (GMT+8). It will be great to see as many poets as possible from around the globe, all contributing to the 100 TPC events

Bangkok, Thailand

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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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgPmNP8Gsh4&feature=related