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Thursday, August 16, 2012
Turning 30: Prince's "1999"
Friday, July 20, 2012
Liberated Muse Goes Mobile
Friday, June 15, 2012
Be Sure to Come Check Out Liberated Muse's Return to the @Artomatic
In 2009, Liberated Muse members took to the stage at the Artomatic in promotion of the first anthology in the Liberated Muse series and to showcase the talents of the online network's very talented community members. Fast forward three years and we return!
Tomorrow-- Saturday, June 16 at 2pm on the People's (Orleans) stage at the Artomatic, Liberated Muse members perform for four hours of non-stop entertainment.
The second anthology in the Liberated series-- Betrayal Wears a Pretty Face-- will also be sold with writers from the book reading their pieces.
Featured performers include singers Nia Simmons, Cherie "Kalicoh" Latson, D. Marq and the group 8orMas who will be accompanied by the talented Bangladesh Project out of Baltimore, MD. Singers Teisha Marie and Quineice who were featured in the Liberated Muse showcase at the Artomatic in 2009 return.
Hosted by Liberated Muse's Khadijah "Moon" Ali-Coleman who will also perform during the event, the showcase also will feature poets Serena Wills and Porscha Felicity Coleman who will perform spoken word pieces.
Check out the video below that highlights the 2009 showcase:
Tuesday, June 5, 2012
One Common Unity's ART ESCAPE Features Liberated Muse Members
Enjoy and purchase art by artists:
Greg Slade
J'Nell Jordan
James Terrell
and ArtByLiz
Music by:
Teisha Marie
Quineice
Will Henderson
and D. Marq
Free to attend, but we suggest a donation of $7-$10 to enter. All donations support One Common Unity programming. View flyer for address and time.
Support Independent Artists!
Thursday, May 24, 2012
Monday, May 14, 2012
The Capital Hip Hop Soul Fest All-Star Show May 24th
Join us on Thursday, May 24th as festival director Maceo Thomas presents an evening show featuring some of the top acts to grace the stages of the Capital Hip Hop Soul Fest in past years, including:
Substantial https://www.facebook.com/SubstantialMusic
Ardamus https://www.facebook.com/pages/Ardamus/9764964850
Colie Williams http://www.coliewilliams.com/
Quineice http://www.reverbnation.com/quineice
D. Marq https://www.facebook.com/pages/D-Marq/335402565194
This event is a kick-off event of the monthly Voices of a Movement event produced by One Common Unity. A $10 donation is suggested. All proceeds support programs of One Common Unity. Learn more at https://www.Facebook.com/OneCommonUnity
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
TOMORROW- Screening of FLY BY LIGHT, the Movie
One Common Unity,
Inc. a Washington, DC-based nonprofit presents a screening of its new
documentary “Fly By Light”, directed by award-winning filmmaker Ellie
Walton.
Thursday, May 3, 2012 @ 8pm
Fly By Light Movie Screening, co-presented by Meridian
Hill Pictures
Josephine Butler Center
2437 15th St NW
Washington, DC 20009
In the summer of 2011, 15 high school students from
diverse neighborhoods across Washington, DC were uprooted from the hustle of
inner-city life to beautiful mountain vistas and springs. For many of the
teenagers, this was their first time leaving the concrete confines of the city.
It was also their first time experiencing a hike through the mountains, a swim
in the creek, the feel of a sincere cry, the sound of their song through a
microphone, the touch of a painful bee sting, the rush of fire spinning, and
the smell of sage burning during a Native-American sweat lodge ceremony. It was
a transformational week of boundary-stretching and social-emotional learning,
reflecting the love, struggle, compassion, pain, laughter, and friendship of
their daily lives.
Directed by filmmaker Ellie Walton, the new
documentary film follows the experience of a select group of youth who
participated in this program facilitated by the nonprofit One Common Unity. Both
screenings will feature a works-in-progress screening of the rough cut of the
film, followed by a discussion facilitated by Rajeev “HawaH” Kasat from One
Common Unity.
Screenings of “Fly By Light” kick off the beginning
of the One Common Unity fundraising campaign “IGNITE THE FLIGHT”. To learn more
about One Common Unity, visit OneCommonUnity.org. Email onecommonunity@gmail.com for questions.
Monday, April 30, 2012
Songs for Janie Show an Enjoyable Presentation
Tamara Wellons debuted her new collection of music Songs for Janie this past Friday and Saturday at Joe's Movement Emporium in Mt. Ranier, MD. Inspired by the character Janie from Zora Neale Hurston's book Their Eyes Were Watching God, the show depicted Wellons as the strong Janie, dazzled by the promise of love and freedom.
The venue was an intimate black box setting which added a theatrical flair to the show which included custom costuming and a dynamic four-piece band led by the incredible Zach Cutler with three remarkable backing vocalists-- including N'ea Posey-- supporting Wellons on lead.
Wellons presents a passionate character-- often serious, sometimes sensual with costume changes that happened almost miraculously with how quickly they occured. With a resident TeaCake as part of the show, the show was an unexpected showcase of disciplines as dance, theater and music all had their place.
Directed and conceptualized by event producer Risikat Okedeyi of Lil SoSo Productions, Songs for Janie is a show worth attending as it will continue to transform and build as a production as it is still in its birthing phase.
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| Tamara Wellons presents a passionate Janie in her "Songs for Janie" |
The venue was an intimate black box setting which added a theatrical flair to the show which included custom costuming and a dynamic four-piece band led by the incredible Zach Cutler with three remarkable backing vocalists-- including N'ea Posey-- supporting Wellons on lead.
Wellons presents a passionate character-- often serious, sometimes sensual with costume changes that happened almost miraculously with how quickly they occured. With a resident TeaCake as part of the show, the show was an unexpected showcase of disciplines as dance, theater and music all had their place.
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| Tamara Wellons and Risikat Okedeyi participate in a talk-back after the show |
Directed and conceptualized by event producer Risikat Okedeyi of Lil SoSo Productions, Songs for Janie is a show worth attending as it will continue to transform and build as a production as it is still in its birthing phase.
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| Riskat Okedeyi (left) with Shonda Goward and Jessica Solomon of The Saartjie Project with vocalist | Quineice |
Poem of the Day: Man of Rivers by Valijeane Jeffers
Man of Rivers (for Quinton Veal)
Let my breath
wash your broad face
pool in your sepia collarbone
anoint your bread
As you taste
catch the crumbled pieces
mixed with tears
hold them tight
in your calloused palms
vows and roads
are etched in water
I float
‘neath southern moons
in your embrace
murmur lust’s syrup and life
near my heartbeat
and I’ll crone swollen,
dripping peaches
sing forever to your soul
And let our cry be ripened by
the dark Mississippi…
My Man of rivers
Copyright Valjeanne Jeffers 2009 all rights reserved
Poem of the Day is a spotlight on Liberated Muse poets found on our site LiberatedMuse.com. This is a celebration of April as National Poetry Month. Find all featured poets on LiberatedMuse.com
Let my breath
wash your broad face
pool in your sepia collarbone
anoint your bread
As you taste
catch the crumbled pieces
mixed with tears
hold them tight
in your calloused palms
vows and roads
are etched in water
I float
‘neath southern moons
in your embrace
murmur lust’s syrup and life
near my heartbeat
and I’ll crone swollen,
dripping peaches
sing forever to your soul
And let our cry be ripened by
the dark Mississippi…
My Man of rivers
Copyright Valjeanne Jeffers 2009 all rights reserved
Poem of the Day is a spotlight on Liberated Muse poets found on our site LiberatedMuse.com. This is a celebration of April as National Poetry Month. Find all featured poets on LiberatedMuse.com
Friday, April 27, 2012
TOMORROW, 4/28/12: Fly By Light Screeing @ Flow Yoga Center
One Common Unity,
Inc. a Washington, DC-based nonprofit presents screenings of its new
documentary “Fly By Light”, directed by award-winning filmmaker Ellie
Walton. In partnership with Flow Yoga
Center and Meridian Hill Pictures, One Common Unity presents “Fly By Light” on two
days for audiences to enjoy:
Saturday, April 28, 2012 @ 8pm
Fly By Light Movie Screening, co-presented by Flow
Yoga Center
Flow Yoga Center
1450 P Street Northwest
Washington, DC
Washington, DC
Suggested Donation: $10-$30
Thursday, May 3, 2012 @ 8pm
Fly By Light Movie Screening, co-presented by Meridian
Hill Pictures
Josephine Butler Center
2437 15th St NW
Washington, DC 20009
Suggested Donation: $10-$30
In the summer of 2011, 15 high school students from
diverse neighborhoods across Washington, DC were uprooted from the hustle of
inner-city life to beautiful mountain vistas and springs. For many of the
teenagers, this was their first time leaving the concrete confines of the city.
It was also their first time experiencing a hike through the mountains, a swim
in the creek, the feel of a sincere cry, the sound of their song through a
microphone, the touch of a painful bee sting, the rush of fire spinning, and
the smell of sage burning during a Native-American sweat lodge ceremony. It was
a transformational week of boundary-stretching and social-emotional learning,
reflecting the love, struggle, compassion, pain, laughter, and friendship of
their daily lives.
Directed by filmmaker Ellie Walton, the new
documentary film follows the experience of a select group of youth who
participated in this program facilitated by the nonprofit One Common Unity. Both
screenings will feature a works-in-progress screening of the rough cut of the
film, followed by a discussion facilitated by Rajeev “HawaH” Kasat from One
Common Unity.
Screenings of “Fly By Light” kick off the beginning
of the One Common Unity fundraising campaign “IGNITE THE FLIGHT”. To learn more
about One Common Unity, visit OneCommonUnity.org.
Thursday, April 26, 2012
Poem of the Day: A Day in the Life by Gene Cartwright
Palm prawns prance in tradewind breeze.
Another day in Paradise.
Tropical creatures of the air soar and dive.
Another day in Paradise.
The gods smile and stay their thunder and rain,
to suit rich, tan bodies that rise at dawn,
to plant bare feet in shimmering white sand.
Another day in Paradise.
A boundless view of crystal blue waters.
Sleek, shiny, snow-white yachts anchored nearby,
vessels boasting captains and crews in smart attire.
Servants poised to answer every desire and whim.
French Bordeaux, world cuisine, meals for kings.
A bright, golden sun rules in an azure sky,
above this pleasure paradise—this Garden of Eden;
a Shangri-la worlds away from paupers and beggars,
natural calamities, war and such earthly hell.
Another day in Paradise.
Life seems forever.
Screaming sirens serenade sweltering nights.
Another day in the life.
Random gunfire crackles, signaling the dawn.
Another day in the life.
Well-worn, war zone pathways to school,
littered with human rejects, and their refuse:
blood-dipped needles strewn along the way.
Another day in the life.
Funeral bells toll for young lives gone too soon,
in a place where young hearts dare to dream,
but of only the next heart beat, the next breath.
Shuttered windows, barred doors, cluttered streets.,
children at play under their mothers’ watchful eyes.
Their neighborhoods? Little more than cemeteries,
home to the living, the dead, and the living dead.
Even nature afflicts the afflicted, damns the damned
in this garden of evil in the midst of pure hell.
Another day in the life
One dream realized, another still-born, if at all.
One life ascends to what seems a birthright
of power and success, while another falls
farther into the abyss.
Yet, the dispossessed must cling persistently to hope,
a hope that endures, a hope that rises like leaves
of grass through narrow cracks
in their concrete wasteland.
Though beaten down, the young must also rise
each day, determined that, despite all,
and through their striving,
the dark fate bequeathed them will not repeat…
another day.
__*___
from "Still Dreaming"
a book of poetry by Liberated Muse member Gene Cartwright
Another day in Paradise.
Tropical creatures of the air soar and dive.
Another day in Paradise.
The gods smile and stay their thunder and rain,
to suit rich, tan bodies that rise at dawn,
to plant bare feet in shimmering white sand.
Another day in Paradise.
A boundless view of crystal blue waters.
Sleek, shiny, snow-white yachts anchored nearby,
vessels boasting captains and crews in smart attire.
Servants poised to answer every desire and whim.
French Bordeaux, world cuisine, meals for kings.
A bright, golden sun rules in an azure sky,
above this pleasure paradise—this Garden of Eden;
a Shangri-la worlds away from paupers and beggars,
natural calamities, war and such earthly hell.
Another day in Paradise.
Life seems forever.
Screaming sirens serenade sweltering nights.
Another day in the life.
Random gunfire crackles, signaling the dawn.
Another day in the life.
Well-worn, war zone pathways to school,
littered with human rejects, and their refuse:
blood-dipped needles strewn along the way.
Another day in the life.
Funeral bells toll for young lives gone too soon,
in a place where young hearts dare to dream,
but of only the next heart beat, the next breath.
Shuttered windows, barred doors, cluttered streets.,
children at play under their mothers’ watchful eyes.
Their neighborhoods? Little more than cemeteries,
home to the living, the dead, and the living dead.
Even nature afflicts the afflicted, damns the damned
in this garden of evil in the midst of pure hell.
Another day in the life
One dream realized, another still-born, if at all.
One life ascends to what seems a birthright
of power and success, while another falls
farther into the abyss.
Yet, the dispossessed must cling persistently to hope,
a hope that endures, a hope that rises like leaves
of grass through narrow cracks
in their concrete wasteland.
Though beaten down, the young must also rise
each day, determined that, despite all,
and through their striving,
the dark fate bequeathed them will not repeat…
another day.
__*___
from "Still Dreaming"
a book of poetry by Liberated Muse member Gene Cartwright
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Poem of the Day: Square Peg by Khadijah "Moon" Ali-Coleman
Square Peg
my people
no disrespect
but I suspect
I trespass on who you be
you cling to security
of a singularity
that does not
define me
that does not even see
who I be
KAC (c)2008
Poem of the Day is a spotlight on Liberated Muse poets found on our site LiberatedMuse.com. This is a celebration of April as National Poetry Month. Find all featured poets on LiberatedMuse.com
my people
no disrespect
but I suspect
I trespass on who you be
you cling to security
of a singularity
that does not
define me
that does not even see
who I be
KAC (c)2008
Poem of the Day is a spotlight on Liberated Muse poets found on our site LiberatedMuse.com. This is a celebration of April as National Poetry Month. Find all featured poets on LiberatedMuse.com
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Poem of the Day: Cicadas and I by Sandy Hoar
CICADAS AND I
It will be hot today
But now, it is almost chilly
Ok for sitting with a cup of coffee
Cicada stillness
No wind
Clear, leaves sharply outlined
Blue morning glories interwoven in the rose-of-sharon
I should pull down those dead oak branches
Lilies blooming beside the roses
The weeds higher than the tomatoes
Asters, lilies, and ornamental grass
Pull the eye along the basil and parsley,
the marjoram and mint
Poke weed--better remove before a dog decides to nibble
So still-- the squirrels and birds sleeping late this morning
The dogs running, checking each distant truck
For now
The cicadas and I
Sit and see
The end of summer
It will be hot today
For now
Still, clear, chilly
The squirrels and birds sleeping late
For now
The cicadas and I
Sit and see
The end of summer
-Sandy Hoar
8/30/11
It will be hot today
But now, it is almost chilly
Ok for sitting with a cup of coffee
Cicada stillness
No wind
Clear, leaves sharply outlined
Blue morning glories interwoven in the rose-of-sharon
I should pull down those dead oak branches
Lilies blooming beside the roses
The weeds higher than the tomatoes
Asters, lilies, and ornamental grass
Pull the eye along the basil and parsley,
the marjoram and mint
Poke weed--better remove before a dog decides to nibble
So still-- the squirrels and birds sleeping late this morning
The dogs running, checking each distant truck
For now
The cicadas and I
Sit and see
The end of summer
It will be hot today
For now
Still, clear, chilly
The squirrels and birds sleeping late
For now
The cicadas and I
Sit and see
The end of summer
-Sandy Hoar
8/30/11
Monday, April 23, 2012
Poem of the Day: The Out of Water Xperiemce by Femi The DriFish
Poem of the Day is a spotlight on Liberated Muse poets found on our site LiberatedMuse.com. This is a celebration of April as National Poetry Month. Find all featured poets on LiberatedMuse.com
Friday, April 20, 2012
Poem of the Day: Trayvon Martin-Never Again Yo- Hip Hop Poetry by Kamal Imani
Poem of the Day is a spotlight on Liberated Muse poets found on our site LiberatedMuse.com. This is a celebration of April as National Poetry Month. Find all featured poets on LiberatedMuse.com
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Poem of the Day: I Am That Nigger by Spoken Word
Poem of the Day is a spotlight on Liberated Muse poets found on our site LiberatedMuse.com. This is a celebration of April as National Poetry Month. Find all featured poets on LiberatedMuse.com
Get Your Ticket to See Tamara Wellons' 'Songs for Janie'
What better concept than to bring to life the story of Janie, the beloved character from Zora Neale Hurston's classic novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God"? Tamara Wellons does it next week in the debut of her song collection in a unique musical theatrical presentation. Learn more by watching the video. Get your $10 ticket here.
The Carcass of Saartjie Baartman
A firestorm ensued after Swedish-Afro artist Makode Linde made a performance-cake at World
art day, Moderna Museet Stockholm 2012. IAA (International Association
of Art) of Sweden arranges World Art Day with a focus on censorship and
freedom of speech. Makode Linde presented his work depicting the woman known as the Hottentot Venus-- Saartjie Baartman--with the intention of bringing awareness to the still rampant practice of female mutilation. To add injury to insult for some, Linde even went further, in honor of his sculptures that depict grotesque depictions of Baartman that resemble American classic images of offensive sambo figures with the black skin and clown-like painted lips, to paint his own face and use it as the "head" of a cake that was baked in the form of Baartman. Then, as participants in the event cut the cake, Linde cried out in misery as participants cut into the vaginal area of the cake figure, howling as if they were, in fact, cutting him. Watch below for yourself and answer the question-- is this art or something else? Whatever you decide, it can not be denied that the ensuing laughter that you can hear in the background is, in fact, quite disturbing to witness. Read more on this story here.
Here is Linde's response to the firestorm:
Here is Linde's response to the firestorm:
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