Habari Gani?
(What's the news?)
KWANZAA is a non-religious...non-heroic Amer*Afrikan GLOBAL COMMUNITY RECOMMITMENT festival of the 1st Fruits of the Harvest!
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26 December - 1 January
On each of the seven days of Kwanzaa, the principles of Unity, Self Determination, Collective Works & Responsibilty, Cooperative Economics, Purpose, Creativity and Faith are celebrated.
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Founded in 1966 by Dr. Maulana Karenga, an African Studies Professor, Kwanzaa has evolved from a small neighborhood celebration during the Civil Rights Movement to become a major holiday celebrated by millions around the globe.
The Nguzo Saba, or Seven Principles of Kwanzaa are used in the teaching of interdisciplinary academic standards as well as in gang intervention and rites of passage programs. The seven defining
prinicples are shared across generations by celebrants who value respectful and moral behavior.
Through the sharing of Kwanzaa folktales and eating specific, traditional cuisine, everyone will learn to teach in Kwanzaa style, to relive the WHO...WHEN...WHAT...WHY...WHERE... and HOW of this agri CULTURAL arts celebration and it's culturally diverse connections!
Traditional African attire will put everyone in the mood to Kreate KISWAHILI KWANZAA Krafts...Share Family Stories...Sing and Dance - ALL in time for KARAMU...The glorious feast of the 1st fruits of the harvest!
... A KUUMBA*KREATIVITY*KOTTILION WITH KWANZAA*KYDZ!...
WHEN: OnGoing Events
WHERE: Holy Community Church
602 Looney Avenue
Memphis, TN 38107
KWANZAA IS...
an Agri * CULTURAL * Arts
REDEDICATION CELEBRATION!
Thursday, December 15, 2005
Tuesday, December 06, 2005
WE ARE 1ONE!
...any community is only as well as it's many...
...any community is only as well as it's few...
...while being only as strong as our weakest...
WE MUST BE BETTER BOLD THAN OUR MEEKEST!
...for the true heart surely dictates ALL that we speaketh...
WE MUST SPEAK OUR TRUTH!
...thus truth teaching...
...as well as truth learning...
are but a small portion of the lessons we ALL WILL LEARN by example.
WE WILL BE better well...
FREELY RELEASING IN RIGHT ORDER THAT UNEQUIVOCAL ABUNDANT RECEPTION!
joyluv
ALLWAYS!
...any community is only as well as it's few...
...while being only as strong as our weakest...
WE MUST BE BETTER BOLD THAN OUR MEEKEST!
...for the true heart surely dictates ALL that we speaketh...
WE MUST SPEAK OUR TRUTH!
...thus truth teaching...
...as well as truth learning...
are but a small portion of the lessons we ALL WILL LEARN by example.
WE WILL BE better well...
FREELY RELEASING IN RIGHT ORDER THAT UNEQUIVOCAL ABUNDANT RECEPTION!
joyluv
ALLWAYS!
Saturday, November 26, 2005
ASANTE SANA * OURSTORIANS * THANK YOU's
...TELLABRATION! has been a globally sanctioned storytelling event for almost two decades...
The Reno - Tahoe events this past week served many purposes for me...In the spirit of those who honor and respect the sanctity of the spoken word...I am proud to have been...and will continue to be an active participant in the preservation & perpetuation of the oral tradtions...
I can never ignore the surge of power felt...we knew we all connected with other people all over the globe this past weekend similarly...Sharing OURstory via Spoken Word...Song & Seminar!
We gathered together on a welcoming peice of healing ground as the sun reached it's highest in the midday sky...
And 'round midnight our unifying circle could not be broken...as we watched the bonfire embers climb so high up in that ethereal blue black velvety starry moonlit riverside sky...
We touched and agreed...we will PROCEED...
WE ALL ANSWERED YES TO THE QUESTION OF CONTINUANCE...WE AGREED TO COMMIT 365 DAYS...ALL WAYS...CELBRATING THE 19 NOVEMBER GLOBAL EVENT...ANNUALLY!
NEW WAYS CAUSING THE LOVE TO STAY!
...still resonating from the magical time spent last week...I have sincere gratitude for...I render unequivocal praise to...
THE GODDESSENCE.......THE UNIVERSE
SHERON' JACKSON.......ULTRA YOUth!
KATIE & KATIE.......DRUM CIRCLE / THE BOTTLE TREE
TOM STILLE.......INTERPRETIVE GARDENS / ELDER FIRE DANCER
MONIQUE MONTEVERDE.......THE RIVER SCHOOL
FARMER TODD RISSONE.......SAGEWIND COMMUNITY GARDEN
LAURA FILLMORE.......WESTERN PEACE & JUSTICE CENTER
STEVE PALMER.......PEACESONG.......UJIMA!
PAUL & BRYAN.......VISUAL ART
CHRIS GOODE.......PEACE, POETRY & SONG
WASHOE COUNTY LIBRARIES
FAITH......IMANIJEWELCRAFT
KIM ELISE.......PEACE, POETRY & SONG
DREAMER'S
LEE DAZEY.......PEACE, POETRY & SONG
JAVA JUNGLE
LAUREL ROBBINS.......BIG MAMA DRUMS
LAWRENCE V. YARBROUGH.......BLACK BOX THEATRE / VISUAL ART
RENO NEWS & REVIEW
DR. VONSTER.......SPOKEN WORD / POETRY
LAURICE C. JOHNSON.......HEALING / CREATIVE MOVEMENT / SONG
WAYLAND FRYE.......ULTRA YOUth!
ANOCHA GHOSHACHANDRA......."ANYAHAM" JEWELRY
MAX ROGERS.......VISUAL ART
EILEEN LUTTRELL.......CALLIGRAPHER
HAJII ACKLIN.......ULTRA YOUth! / PRINTING
BOB COLAIZZI.......CAVEMAN on WHEELS / DRUM CIRCLES
HASANI TABARI.......ULTRA YOUth! / PR
DIANE BLACK.......DRUM CIRCLE / UJIMA!
MISS WANETTA RENAY.......SPOKEN WORD / PEACESONG
CANYON WHITE.......PEACESONG
DAVE MANNING.......STORY SONGS
THE PURPLE LADY.......POETRY
PENELOPE K. POWELL.......ULTRA YOUth! / VISUAL ART
SIR ANTHONY ALAG.......ULTRA YOUth! / UJIMA!
MARGRET TURNER.......STORYTELLER / WORKSHOP FACILITATOR
CAROL PURROY.......FACILITATOR / AUTHOR / STORYTELLER
DENNIS GROVER......W/ LIBERTY & JUSTICE FOR ALL1
SO...WHETHER FAXING OR PHONING...PLANNING OR PRAYING...COOKING OR DRIVING...HOSTING OR PERFORMING...CHANTING OR JOINING...IT IS ALL SO MUCH LIKE REAL LOVE TO ME!
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TELLABRATION! '05...
* umoja * kujichagulia * ujima * ujamma * nia * kuumba * imani *
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asante sana.......thank YOU!
The Reno - Tahoe events this past week served many purposes for me...In the spirit of those who honor and respect the sanctity of the spoken word...I am proud to have been...and will continue to be an active participant in the preservation & perpetuation of the oral tradtions...
I can never ignore the surge of power felt...we knew we all connected with other people all over the globe this past weekend similarly...Sharing OURstory via Spoken Word...Song & Seminar!
We gathered together on a welcoming peice of healing ground as the sun reached it's highest in the midday sky...
And 'round midnight our unifying circle could not be broken...as we watched the bonfire embers climb so high up in that ethereal blue black velvety starry moonlit riverside sky...
We touched and agreed...we will PROCEED...
WE ALL ANSWERED YES TO THE QUESTION OF CONTINUANCE...WE AGREED TO COMMIT 365 DAYS...ALL WAYS...CELBRATING THE 19 NOVEMBER GLOBAL EVENT...ANNUALLY!
NEW WAYS CAUSING THE LOVE TO STAY!
...still resonating from the magical time spent last week...I have sincere gratitude for...I render unequivocal praise to...
THE GODDESSENCE.......THE UNIVERSE
SHERON' JACKSON.......ULTRA YOUth!
KATIE & KATIE.......DRUM CIRCLE / THE BOTTLE TREE
TOM STILLE.......INTERPRETIVE GARDENS / ELDER FIRE DANCER
MONIQUE MONTEVERDE.......THE RIVER SCHOOL
FARMER TODD RISSONE.......SAGEWIND COMMUNITY GARDEN
LAURA FILLMORE.......WESTERN PEACE & JUSTICE CENTER
STEVE PALMER.......PEACESONG.......UJIMA!
PAUL & BRYAN.......VISUAL ART
CHRIS GOODE.......PEACE, POETRY & SONG
WASHOE COUNTY LIBRARIES
FAITH......IMANIJEWELCRAFT
KIM ELISE.......PEACE, POETRY & SONG
DREAMER'S
LEE DAZEY.......PEACE, POETRY & SONG
JAVA JUNGLE
LAUREL ROBBINS.......BIG MAMA DRUMS
LAWRENCE V. YARBROUGH.......BLACK BOX THEATRE / VISUAL ART
RENO NEWS & REVIEW
DR. VONSTER.......SPOKEN WORD / POETRY
LAURICE C. JOHNSON.......HEALING / CREATIVE MOVEMENT / SONG
WAYLAND FRYE.......ULTRA YOUth!
ANOCHA GHOSHACHANDRA......."ANYAHAM" JEWELRY
MAX ROGERS.......VISUAL ART
EILEEN LUTTRELL.......CALLIGRAPHER
HAJII ACKLIN.......ULTRA YOUth! / PRINTING
BOB COLAIZZI.......CAVEMAN on WHEELS / DRUM CIRCLES
HASANI TABARI.......ULTRA YOUth! / PR
DIANE BLACK.......DRUM CIRCLE / UJIMA!
MISS WANETTA RENAY.......SPOKEN WORD / PEACESONG
CANYON WHITE.......PEACESONG
DAVE MANNING.......STORY SONGS
THE PURPLE LADY.......POETRY
PENELOPE K. POWELL.......ULTRA YOUth! / VISUAL ART
SIR ANTHONY ALAG.......ULTRA YOUth! / UJIMA!
MARGRET TURNER.......STORYTELLER / WORKSHOP FACILITATOR
CAROL PURROY.......FACILITATOR / AUTHOR / STORYTELLER
DENNIS GROVER......W/ LIBERTY & JUSTICE FOR ALL1
SO...WHETHER FAXING OR PHONING...PLANNING OR PRAYING...COOKING OR DRIVING...HOSTING OR PERFORMING...CHANTING OR JOINING...IT IS ALL SO MUCH LIKE REAL LOVE TO ME!
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TELLABRATION! '05...
* umoja * kujichagulia * ujima * ujamma * nia * kuumba * imani *
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asante sana.......thank YOU!
Friday, November 25, 2005
KOGLOMERANT * KINARAS
...an intergenerational, culturally diverse, multi-media / disciplinary arts initiative in specific keeping with THE NGUZO SABA (7 Principles of KWANZAA) as a tested & tried true community empowerment model for PEACE...
...for workshop, exhibition, interview & performance opportunity...
PLEASE CONTACT US:
ultrayouth.ag.arts@gmail.com
ASANTE SANA...THANK YOU!
...for workshop, exhibition, interview & performance opportunity...
PLEASE CONTACT US:
ultrayouth.ag.arts@gmail.com
ASANTE SANA...THANK YOU!
THE BOTTLE TREE
In 1878, Memphis, Tennessee was devastated by a Yellow Fever Epidemic...affected families hung blue medicine bottles on tree limbs near their homes...they were of the mindset that this practice would ward off the evil spirits associated with the plague...
Some hung then...and still hang bottles from family fruit trees...believing, should anyone eat from the tree without the owner's permission, that the protective spirits residing within the bottles would cause the perpetrator's bowels to literally explode!
This practice has it's roots in belief systems yet alive, brought over with captive Africans and perpetuated by many centuries of Amer*Afrikan offspring...generational victims of the horrific Trans Atlantic Slave Trade (beginning in 1502)...
Some thought then and many still say now...the hung bottles recieve voice from the wind...and when water is poured into the bottles, "jes' so" the ancestor's voices are given to speak within the rythm of the wind...seemingly, guiding and protecting all of heART and mind who would but listen and hear...enabling many to remember and too, recall...
movements...
...heART tree of hoME...
...that tree of magic...
...that tree of music...
...that tree of light & lore...
...THAT BOTTLE TREE...
...that tree of memory...
...of life...
...of love...
...of heART...
...THE BOTTLE TREE IS THE TREE OF AMER*AFRIKAN...
...OURSTORY...
...COMMUNITY Sharing / Caring / Protection...
...&...
HISTORICAL * GENEALOGY!
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PLEASE SCHEDULE TO VISIT OUR R.E.A.L.
(* Responsibility * Earth * Art * Learning *)
RENO "INTERGENERATIONAL BOTTLE TREES"
@
PARADISE PARK
&
THE BOY'S & GIRL'S CLUB!
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heARTfelt appreciation to:
*CARROLLTON FARMS
*Davene Kaplan
CITY of RENO / PARKS
* Tom Stille
INTERPRETIVE GARDENS
*Amber Sallaberry
GREAT BASIN FOOD CO-OP
*ULTRA CULTURE AG*ARTS CoOp
Asante Sana.......Thank YOU Very Much!
Monday, November 07, 2005
TELLABRATION! / RIVERSCHOOL SCHEDULE / 19 NOV 05
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* 9:30a-11:45a.......(VENDOR / PRESENTOR) SET-UP
* NOON...............WELCOME!
* 12:30-1:45p........Workshops / Site Tours / QUILTING, STORY, SONG CIRCLES
* 2:00-3:15p........." " " " "
* 3:30-4:45p........." " " " "
* 5:00p-12:00a.......POTLUCK / FEAST / DRUM CIRCLE / FIRESPINNERS / STORYCIRCLES
* 6:30-7:45p.........WORKSHOPS / TOURS
* 8:00-9:15p........." " " " " "
* 9:30-10:45p........" " " " " "
* MIDNIGHT...........CLOSING
************************************************************************************* PLEASE CONTACT US:
www.mayberrybend.com
ultrayouth.ag.arts@gmail.com
ASANTE SANA...THANK YOU!
* 9:30a-11:45a.......(VENDOR / PRESENTOR) SET-UP
* NOON...............WELCOME!
* 12:30-1:45p........Workshops / Site Tours / QUILTING, STORY, SONG CIRCLES
* 2:00-3:15p........." " " " "
* 3:30-4:45p........." " " " "
* 5:00p-12:00a.......POTLUCK / FEAST / DRUM CIRCLE / FIRESPINNERS / STORYCIRCLES
* 6:30-7:45p.........WORKSHOPS / TOURS
* 8:00-9:15p........." " " " " "
* 9:30-10:45p........" " " " " "
* MIDNIGHT...........CLOSING
************************************************************************************* PLEASE CONTACT US:
www.mayberrybend.com
ultrayouth.ag.arts@gmail.com
ASANTE SANA...THANK YOU!
Wednesday, October 26, 2005
TELLABRATIONS! '05 / Commemorative EVENT Journal
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A Collabortive Investment of the FRIENDS of
The ULTRA YOUth! INTERGENERATIONAL Agri CULTURAL Arts COOPERATIVE
&
The RIVER SCHOOL
@
INTERPRETIVE GARDENS
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
...featuring Art, Articles & Announcements...
AD OPTIONS
Alphabetized Listings............................$15.00
Business Card....................................$25.00
1/4 Page.........................................$50.00
1/3 Page.........................................$75.00
1/2 Page.........................................$100.00
Full Page........................................$200.00
Cover..........................................$300.00
PLEASE submit bios, visual renderings, poetry & literary works...
ASANTE SANA!
THANK YOU!
A Collabortive Investment of the FRIENDS of
The ULTRA YOUth! INTERGENERATIONAL Agri CULTURAL Arts COOPERATIVE
&
The RIVER SCHOOL
@
INTERPRETIVE GARDENS
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
...featuring Art, Articles & Announcements...
AD OPTIONS
Alphabetized Listings............................$15.00
Business Card....................................$25.00
1/4 Page.........................................$50.00
1/3 Page.........................................$75.00
1/2 Page.........................................$100.00
Full Page........................................$200.00
Cover..........................................$300.00
PLEASE submit bios, visual renderings, poetry & literary works...
ASANTE SANA!
THANK YOU!
Wednesday, August 31, 2005
...PREPAREDNESS...
(being a community based, environmentally specific, intergenerational survival model)
...INCORPORATING GLOBAL...
^ Acknowledging ^ Belonging ^ Cooperating ^ Discussing ^ Educating ^ Finalizing ^ Guaranteeing ^ Healing ^ Inventing ^ Joining ^ Knowing ^ Loving ^ Manufactoring ^ Noticing ^ Obtaining ^ Purchasing ^ Questioning ^ Recycling ^ Subsisting ^ Tithing ^ Utilizing ^ Vanquishing ^ Winning ^ Yeilding ^ Zooming !
...an A-Z PEACE & JUSTICE model from a survey taken of ULTRA YOUth!...6 - 12 years WISE...
...INCORPORATING GLOBAL...
^ Acknowledging ^ Belonging ^ Cooperating ^ Discussing ^ Educating ^ Finalizing ^ Guaranteeing ^ Healing ^ Inventing ^ Joining ^ Knowing ^ Loving ^ Manufactoring ^ Noticing ^ Obtaining ^ Purchasing ^ Questioning ^ Recycling ^ Subsisting ^ Tithing ^ Utilizing ^ Vanquishing ^ Winning ^ Yeilding ^ Zooming !
...an A-Z PEACE & JUSTICE model from a survey taken of ULTRA YOUth!...6 - 12 years WISE...
Thursday, August 11, 2005
Ultra YOUth! ...since... 1985!
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ULTRA
YOUth!
INTERGENERATIONAL
Agri CULTURAL Arts
COOPERATIVE
COMMUNIVERSITY
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* KNOWLEDGE * UNITY * SERVICE * VOLUNTEERISM * OUTSOURCING * ENTREPRENURALISM *
* LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT * ***********************************************************************************************************************************
...FLEXIBLE ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP OPTIONS & PRIVILEGES
* Student*YOUth! Elders.........................$15.00
* Adults..........................................$25.00
* Family..........................................$50.00
* Gardening & Co-Op Discounts.....................$100.00
* Wholesale Purchasing Options....................$200.00
* Ag*Arts Entreprenural Advocay...................$250.00
* Agency Affiliates & Investors...................$500.00
Ultra
YOUth!
INTERGENERATIONAL
Agri CULTURAL Arts
COOPERATIVE
COMMUNIVERSITY
MEMBER
*COLLABORATIONS & INITIATIVES*
^ Ag*Art as Evolution................Values Clarification Classes & Workshops
^ Answering for YOU..................Entreprenural Agentry & Management
^ Community Gardening & Beautification.....Intergenerational Edu*Arts Preparedness
^ Eldersponse........................Oral History, Visitation, Support Services
^ Fannie Lou Hamer FREEDOM FARMS.....Agri-Consciousness via Community Gardening
^ Fish & Loaves Mitzvah..............Charitable Feeding Network
^ Griotz & Riterz....................Sharing OURstory & Edu-Tainment
^ Kadisha*Touch......................UNITY*DRUM & Creative Movement Circle
^ KUUMBA*Theatre.....................Leadership Development via Improvisation
^ R.E.A.L............................Responsibility, Earth, Art, Learning
^ RITES of PEACEAGE...............Mentoring, Service Learning Continuum
^ SPIRITWIZDOM.........................Mediation & Counseling
^ Ultra Communications...............Mass Media, Public Relations & Publishing
^ Ultra Earthscapes..................Eco*Enviro Preparedness & Design
^ Ultra*heARTz.......................Artist advocacy, Information & Referral
^ Ultra HERbz........................Agri-Arts Entreprenural Initiatives
^ Ultra Holistics....................Home Health & Healing WELLNESS Care
^ Ultra Information, Research & Referral.....Community Resources Network
^ Ultra Tutorial.....................Assessment, Alternative Academic Empowerment
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* ALL memberships are regarded as individual...
* Individual member contracts are agreed upon based on individual member goals and abilities...
* In-kind support and volunteer support services are regarded equally to dollar investment...
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
RECOGNIZING...ENCOURAGING...MANIFESTING
the
VERY BEST of YOU...in YOUth!
uccommuniversity@gmail.com
P.O. Box 3990
Memphis, TN
38173
ASANTE SANA...thank YOU very much!
ULTRA
YOUth!
INTERGENERATIONAL
Agri CULTURAL Arts
COOPERATIVE
COMMUNIVERSITY
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* KNOWLEDGE * UNITY * SERVICE * VOLUNTEERISM * OUTSOURCING * ENTREPRENURALISM *
* LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT * ***********************************************************************************************************************************
...FLEXIBLE ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP OPTIONS & PRIVILEGES
* Student*YOUth! Elders.........................$15.00
* Adults..........................................$25.00
* Family..........................................$50.00
* Gardening & Co-Op Discounts.....................$100.00
* Wholesale Purchasing Options....................$200.00
* Ag*Arts Entreprenural Advocay...................$250.00
* Agency Affiliates & Investors...................$500.00
Ultra
YOUth!
INTERGENERATIONAL
Agri CULTURAL Arts
COOPERATIVE
COMMUNIVERSITY
MEMBER
*COLLABORATIONS & INITIATIVES*
^ Ag*Art as Evolution................Values Clarification Classes & Workshops
^ Answering for YOU..................Entreprenural Agentry & Management
^ Community Gardening & Beautification.....Intergenerational Edu*Arts Preparedness
^ Eldersponse........................Oral History, Visitation, Support Services
^ Fannie Lou Hamer FREEDOM FARMS.....Agri-Consciousness via Community Gardening
^ Fish & Loaves Mitzvah..............Charitable Feeding Network
^ Griotz & Riterz....................Sharing OURstory & Edu-Tainment
^ Kadisha*Touch......................UNITY*DRUM & Creative Movement Circle
^ KUUMBA*Theatre.....................Leadership Development via Improvisation
^ R.E.A.L............................Responsibility, Earth, Art, Learning
^ RITES of PEACEAGE...............Mentoring, Service Learning Continuum
^ SPIRITWIZDOM.........................Mediation & Counseling
^ Ultra Communications...............Mass Media, Public Relations & Publishing
^ Ultra Earthscapes..................Eco*Enviro Preparedness & Design
^ Ultra*heARTz.......................Artist advocacy, Information & Referral
^ Ultra HERbz........................Agri-Arts Entreprenural Initiatives
^ Ultra Holistics....................Home Health & Healing WELLNESS Care
^ Ultra Information, Research & Referral.....Community Resources Network
^ Ultra Tutorial.....................Assessment, Alternative Academic Empowerment
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
* ALL memberships are regarded as individual...
* Individual member contracts are agreed upon based on individual member goals and abilities...
* In-kind support and volunteer support services are regarded equally to dollar investment...
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
RECOGNIZING...ENCOURAGING...MANIFESTING
the
VERY BEST of YOU...in YOUth!
uccommuniversity@gmail.com
P.O. Box 3990
Memphis, TN
38173
ASANTE SANA...thank YOU very much!
Tuesday, August 02, 2005
BLACK BOX THEATRE
SOPHISTICATED THEATRE
for the
DISCERNING ADULT!
...presenting...
JEAN * PAUL SARTRE's
1 Act Play
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
...NO EXIT...NO EXIT...NO EXIT...NO EXIT...NO EXIT...NO EXIT...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
directed by... LAURENCE VEOUME YARBROUGH
(Cast of Characters)
VALET....................Laurence V. Yarbrough
GARCIN...................Dale Fast
ESTELLE..................Rachel Jessee
INEZ.....................Sher'on Jackson
SPECIAL THANKS TO:
Chad & Amy Sorg....................The Bleulion Artspace & Gallery
Grant Wesley.......................Photograher
ISHA Echols........................Costuming / Set Consultation
Ryan Ostler........................Carpenter / Set Construction
Zach Gallery.......................General Assistance
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^FOR BOOKING / INVESTMENT INFORMATION...PLEASE CONTACT US:
Ultrayouth.ag.arts@gmail.com
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
for the
DISCERNING ADULT!
...presenting...
JEAN * PAUL SARTRE's
1 Act Play
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
...NO EXIT...NO EXIT...NO EXIT...NO EXIT...NO EXIT...NO EXIT...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
directed by... LAURENCE VEOUME YARBROUGH
(Cast of Characters)
VALET....................Laurence V. Yarbrough
GARCIN...................Dale Fast
ESTELLE..................Rachel Jessee
INEZ.....................Sher'on Jackson
SPECIAL THANKS TO:
Chad & Amy Sorg....................The Bleulion Artspace & Gallery
Grant Wesley.......................Photograher
ISHA Echols........................Costuming / Set Consultation
Ryan Ostler........................Carpenter / Set Construction
Zach Gallery.......................General Assistance
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^FOR BOOKING / INVESTMENT INFORMATION...PLEASE CONTACT US:
Ultrayouth.ag.arts@gmail.com
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Monday, July 25, 2005
WITHOUT DOUBT!
One's PEACE / POWER is without doubt rooted in One's adherence / submission to THE GODDESSENCE within the eternal...to 0ne's born witness in the ORDAINING ORDER of the ALL...to one's RESPECTFUL RELATIVITY to one other's very being...to one's ability to CONTROL by ALLOWING...to BEGIN by ENDING...to END by BEGINNING...by the beneficent DIVINITY of LOVE EVERLASTING..."THY WILL BE DONE."
ONCE CHOSEN...OBTAINED!
ONCE CHOSEN...OBTAINED!
Sunday, July 24, 2005
ULTRA YOUth! MENTORS
MENTOR - ... a wise...a trusted counselor / teacher...1 who serves & leads by righteous / sincere example...
NEEDED!
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...ULTRA YOUth!...
...TEEN MENTORS...
...AGENCY MENTORS...
...COMMUNITY MENTORS...
...PARENT MENTORS...
...ELDER MENTORS...
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WHEN 1 HELPS 1 OTHER...
AT LEAST 2 ARE STRENGTHENED...
ALL THAT WE KEEP...
WE LOSE...
THAT WHICH WE GIVE...
WE HAVE...
AS EVERTHING HONORABLY SHARED...
IS UNEQUIVOCALLY MULTIPLIED!
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The giving of gifts can be measured in any number of ways...whether you give time, money, advice, property...or even kind consideration...IT IS ALL WELL & AS ONE!
We sincerely honor and respect the magnificent ways inwhich our ULTRA YOUth!
MENTORS have enriched us down through these many years...PEACE & BLESSINGS!
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Asante Sana...Thank YOU! for sharing with us-
ultrayouth.ag.arts@gmail.com
JOY EVERLASTING!
NEEDED!
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...ULTRA YOUth!...
...TEEN MENTORS...
...AGENCY MENTORS...
...COMMUNITY MENTORS...
...PARENT MENTORS...
...ELDER MENTORS...
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WHEN 1 HELPS 1 OTHER...
AT LEAST 2 ARE STRENGTHENED...
ALL THAT WE KEEP...
WE LOSE...
THAT WHICH WE GIVE...
WE HAVE...
AS EVERTHING HONORABLY SHARED...
IS UNEQUIVOCALLY MULTIPLIED!
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The giving of gifts can be measured in any number of ways...whether you give time, money, advice, property...or even kind consideration...IT IS ALL WELL & AS ONE!
We sincerely honor and respect the magnificent ways inwhich our ULTRA YOUth!
MENTORS have enriched us down through these many years...PEACE & BLESSINGS!
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
Asante Sana...Thank YOU! for sharing with us-
ultrayouth.ag.arts@gmail.com
JOY EVERLASTING!
Saturday, July 23, 2005
...WISHLIST...
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P.O.Box 3990, Memphis, TN 38173HARAMBEE...Let's Pull Together!
Thank YOU! Very Much!...
ASANTE SANA!
...PREPAREDNESS...
Preparedness:
...the state of being PREPARED...to be READY...to be ABLE...to be WILLING...to ADJUST...to PROVIDE...to PROCURE as suitable, as to SURVIVE...to be at PEACE or at WAR...to be WEll...to SHARE...to KNOW...to ACT accordingly ALL ways!
NGUZO SABA...THE 7 PRINCIPLES of KWANZAA!
FAIR TRADE
EMANCIPATION EMPOWERMENT
...365 Days...
A L L W A Y S !
EMANCIPATION EMPOWERMENT
...365 Days...
A L L W A Y S !
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I. UMOJA~MEMBER ACCOUNTABILITY~(Unity)
...to strive for...to maintain unity in our family, community, nation, and race...
*II. KUJICHAGULIA~INFORMATION & REFERRAL~(Self-Determination)...to define ourselves...create for ourselves...to speak for ourselves instead of being defined, named, created and spoken for by others...
*III. UJIMA~ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILTY~
(Collective Work & Responsibility)
...to build & maintain our community together...to make our sister's & brother's issues ours...to solve ALL concerns TOGETHER...
*IV. UJAMAA~COOPERATIVE ENTREPRENURALISM~
(Cooperative Economics)
...to create, build & maintain entrepreneurial venues together...to profit from them as one...
*V. NIA~FAIR CONSUMERISM~
(Purpose)
...to make as our collective vocation...the preservation &perpetuation of our community in order to restore ALL people to their ancestral greatness...
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VI. KUUMBA~CULTURAL PRESERVATION~
(Creativity)...to do ALL-ways as much as we can...in ANY way we can...in order to leave our community more beautiful, peaceful and just than we inherited it...
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VII. IMANI~SPIRITUAL DIVERSITY~(Faith)
...to KNOW within our hearts...that our people...our parents...our teachers...our leaders are pre-destined in the victory of this righteous struggle...
*HARAMBEE...Let's Pull Together!
Friday, June 24, 2005
ULTRA YOUth! INTERGENERATIONAL Agri CULTURAL Arts COMMUNITY GARDENING & BEAUTIFICATION COLLABORATIVE
PLAN...PREPARE...PLANT...MAINTAIN...HARVEST...PRESERVE...FEED...EAT...LIVE!
...THE FANNIE LOU HAMER FREEDOM FARMS...
...THE FANNIE LOU HAMER FREEDOM FARMS...
ULTRA*CULTURE AG*ARTS
Intergenerational
Community Garden
@
VARIOUS SITES
Saturdays...1p - 4p
Saturdays...1p - 4p
WEEKDAYS...as scheduled
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R.E.A.L.
(*Responsibility *Earth *Art *Learning*)
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...UPCOMING EVENTS...
* Hoop House Construction
* Garden Art
* Harvest Celebrations / Open House
Edu*Art Projects
"L.A.W.S."
Land *Air *Water *Sunshine
* Interdisciplinary
SATURDAY * SCHOOL
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"...maybe we'll there to share the land...that they'll be giving away...when we ALL live together..."
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775.544.6907
R.E.A.L.
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...UPCOMING EVENTS...
* Hoop House Construction
* Garden Art
* Harvest Celebrations / Open House
Edu*Art Projects
"L.A.W.S."
Land *Air *Water *Sunshine
* Interdisciplinary
SATURDAY * SCHOOL
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"...maybe we'll there to share the land...that they'll be giving away...when we ALL live together..."
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Wednesday, June 15, 2005
JUNETEENTH...2007
WE BELIEVE in the RESURRECTION
...such divine genealogical order...
when they stole U Father, Brother, Husband...they stole us
&
WE!
WE ARE PROGENY OF DIVINE*DIASPORA
...jes' like the DIS*EAZE of capture is as nothing when laid 'side a enslavement...
WE ARE UNIFIED IN THE RESURRECTION
...same ol' GOD*WILL...them baldhead dog maken we cullum new name...
WE ARE SELF*DETERMINED IN THE RESURRECTION
...ALL ways new memory come long side ALL old...
WE ARE COLLECTIVE WORKERS IN THE RESURRECTION
...naming our chirren by the light of the harvest moon...
WE ARE ECONOMICALLY COOPERATIVE IN THE RESURRECTION
...praying down the true roots old & faded culture, remixing that with the new...
WE ARE PURPOSEFILLED IN THE RESURRECTION
...knowing in born witness, cain't no parent be no child...
WE ARE CREATIVE IN THE RESURRECTION
...ol' stank Massa say them mangy back porch dogs do better learning than We...
WE ARE FULL of FAITH IN THE RESURRECTION
...jes/ me a WE linger lil' lil' bit longer 'round larnin's doe...
WE ARE PROGENY OF DIVINE DIASPORA
...passing on the precious true roots knowledge, centered in the ALL with love & heART ear to hear & listen...
WE ARE UNIFIED IN THE RESURRECTION
...we name hOUR chirren in the voice of the ancestor, on the day of the weak, in the seasons of time, in the years & years, & years, & years, & years, & years & years of some enslaver's symbionic bondage...
WE ARE SELF DETERMINED IN THE RESURRECTION
...on that longtime gone, gone presentime coming Day of JU-JU-JUBILEE...
WE ARE COLLECTIVE WORKERS IN THE RESURRECTION
...check out how we be rejoicing in new heART FATHER"S DAY * JUNETEENTH celebration...
WE ARE ECONOMICALLY COOPERATIVE IN THE RESURRECTION
...them true roots soldiers made them baldheads read us listenin' to what they was fear in lettin' us know to write...
WE ARE FULL OF PURPOSE IN THE RESURRECTION
...allala time knowing WE peoples is 1one...
WE ARE CREATIVE IN THE RESURRECTION
...trusting & believing & knowing...
WE ARE FILLED WITH FAITH IN THE RESURRECTION
...as WE are the essence of the beauty of ALL beings Afrikan, free in the GODWILL, and blessed to be at least THIS Black...
...as WE are the Resurrection which surely cometh in the mourning...
...and YOU & I dear heART...
IN TIME"S DIVINE FULLNESS
scratchd out FREEDOM'S map on the plantation cabin slaveship flo'
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INTERGENERATIONAL
Agri CULTURAL Arts
COOPERATIVE
COMMUNIVERSITY
celebrates
JUNETEENTHJubilee * Sunday
HONORING...survivors & descendants of the Middle Passage...Father's Day17 June 078a & 10a Congregational Services@Reno 1st Methodist Church209 West 1st Streetfeaturing...the spoken word offered by...IiYAH*ISHA&Sher'on Jackson~*~*~*~*~*~*~*JUNETEENTH19 June 07Agri*CULTURAL*ArtsDawn to DuskREDEDICATIONBar*B*QuepotluckDRUM*CIRCLEParadise Park, Reno~*~DROP in the BUCKET...community sustenance service...23 June079a209 West 1st Street~*~23 June 07R.E.A.L.*Responsibility *Earth *Art *Learning^*^City of RenoBlock Party12p - 5p~*~24 June 07JUNETEENTH*TALES@The HOLLAND Projecthollandreno.blogspot.com~*~25 June 077p1st METH*BOOK Club(Seeing in the Dark)775.544.6907renofirstmethodist.org*~*~*~*~*~*~*~PREVIOUS CELEBRATIONS
BUFFALO SOLDIERS
...heroes & heroines unsung...
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FRIDAY
16 JUNE 06
Boy's & Girl's Girl's Club, Truckee Meadows
2680 E 9th St.
4p ASSEMBLY
(...arts & crafts...stories & songs...genealogy...)
SHARING OurStory!
Intergenerational JUNETEENTH Tales
BUFFALO SOLDIER TALES
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SUNDAY
18 JUNETEENTH 06
10:00a
209 West First Street
(HONORING PATRIARCHS, FATHERS, BROTHERS via FREEDOM SONGS & PRAYERS)
775.322.4564
www.RenoFirstMethodist.org
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MONDAY
19 JUNETEENTH 06
2:00 - 4p
DOWN TOWN Reno Library
301 S. Center Street
AUDITORIUM
(gospel...world music...jazz...blues...soul food...genealogy...oral histories...)
INTERGENERATIONAL AFTERNOON OF MAKING COMMUNITY ART, CHAUTAUQUA & SONGS of FREEDOM!
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19 JUNETEENTH 06
REDEDICATION CEREMONY
17 S. Virginia
SIERRA ARTS GALLERY
6:00 - 8p
*** CULTURAL Marketplace * SOULFUL Tastings * ORAL History * SILENT Auction * ART & Entertainment * GENEALOGICAL Investment * FAMILY Reunion * Sharing OURstory ***
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CELEBRATING THE VERY BEST OF YOU IN YOUth!
P.O. Box 40754, 89504
ultrayouth.org
775.544.6907
ultrayouth@blackplanet.com
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ASANTE SANA!
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Tuesday, June 14, 2005
JUNETEENTH
JUNETEENTH...an Amer-Afrikan Liberation Celebration...festivities are held on the 19th of JUNE...but for these past few years...celebrations are held throughout the month, if not through the year...This HOLY DAY commerates GENERAL GORDON GRANGER'S announcement of AFRIKAN SLAVERY's official end in these UNITED STATES...Supported in this dangerous task (assigned by A. Lincoln) by regiments of YANKEE SOLDIERS of COLOR...they went 'way down south in Dixie'...up to the very gates of plantations and concentration camps often very, very far off the main thoroughfares...their assignment was to read the EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION to the illiterate captives...in the presence of the captors who generally regarded any one of Afrikan descent as PROPERTY... often at gun point...The declaration was made in Texas more than two years after the President delivered the speech (1 January 1863) inwhich he enforced legislation which freed ALL captive and enslaved people in the United States and all rebellious territories...
It is well documented...on New Year's Eve...31 January1862...Large numbers of free and runaway Amer*Afrikans in the Northern United States gathered...Those 1st Emancipation Parties were held usually in churches...and we now celebrate Juneteenth in a time honored tradition which connects us to those who anxiously, though patiently awaited Lincoln's reading of the PROCLAMATION...it was 1st transmitted over the then state of art communication system...the telegraph...print media, being non-electronic took a second though very viable seat...enabling General Granger to formally and literally introduce freedom to many captives in Dixie..."You are free!"
That is to say, hundreds of thousands of the captive's ears were privileged to finally hear the freedom framing words of the EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION. Oral Histories document, many hundreds held in bondage were never made aware of THE JUBILEE. Many resistant captors simply refused to set the captives free...many plantations were inaccessible to the troups or were never visited.
IGNORANCE NOT BEING BLISS...it is documented, hundreds were never told of their new legal status, many lived long lives in forced captivity. Many died being isolated, remaining illiterate, being forcibly bound by economic and legal systems which justified systematic oppression by virtue of rancid terrorism and Jim Crow Laws.
...and so we count down the years of "FREEDOM"...and we celebrate JUNETEENTH as the victory of REVELATION...the blessing of TENACITY...the joy of LOVE SUPREME!
This year...it will be excellent for us all to consider giving concerted thanks, praise and honor to those bold free beings who rode with Granger...The Free and Captive Freedom Fighters of Color...THOSE AMER*AFRIKAN SOLDIERS...those future BUFFALO SOLDIERS...those ANCESTORS whose courage, strength and valor caused the UNITED STATES to finally know victory in the bloodiest war possibly of all time...the CIVIL WAR.
On 1 January 1980, JUNETEENTH became an official state holiday in Texas...due to the legislative persistence of State Representative, Al Edwards...Consequently, people of Afrikan descent...and others...celebrate globally the 1st state recognized FREEDOM CELEBRATION...We strive by process and example to follow the suit of Representative Al Edwards...to cause JUNETEENTH to be fully sanctioned as a UNITED STATES of AMERICA NATIONAL (HOLY) HOLIDAY.
We are so very blessed, as JUNETEENTH increases in it's recognition as a historically viable GLOBAL FREEDOM CELEBRATION...We commit to celebrate not only during the month of June...The ULTRA YOUth! INTERGENERATIONAL Agri CULTURAL Arts COOPERATIVE COMMUNIVERSITY dedicatedly commits to respectfully celebrate ALL FREEDOMS for ALL COMMUNITIES...ALL WAYS!
IT IS IN EXACTING WELLORDER...We must give respectful HONOR to the dedicatedly courageous CIVIL RIGHTS MARCH made by GENERAL GRANGER and his COMRADES in ARMS...THOSE AMER*AFRIKAN SOLDIERS OF GLORY...THE UNEQUIVOCAL FREEDOM FIGHTERS...that unsung battalion of JUSTICE SEEKERS / MAKERS whose heroic trek ended only when THE RECONSTRUCTION ACT was rescended by PRESIDENT ABRAHAM LINCOLN's successor...Vice President Johnson ...WE must celebrate JUNETEENTH...no matter our race, color or creed...as we have open opportunity to be the NEW DAY FREEDOM FIGHTERS...MARCHING on to even GREATER HEIGHTS of much deserved LIBERATION!
Asante' sana...thank YOU very much!
It is well documented...on New Year's Eve...31 January1862...Large numbers of free and runaway Amer*Afrikans in the Northern United States gathered...Those 1st Emancipation Parties were held usually in churches...and we now celebrate Juneteenth in a time honored tradition which connects us to those who anxiously, though patiently awaited Lincoln's reading of the PROCLAMATION...it was 1st transmitted over the then state of art communication system...the telegraph...print media, being non-electronic took a second though very viable seat...enabling General Granger to formally and literally introduce freedom to many captives in Dixie..."You are free!"
That is to say, hundreds of thousands of the captive's ears were privileged to finally hear the freedom framing words of the EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION. Oral Histories document, many hundreds held in bondage were never made aware of THE JUBILEE. Many resistant captors simply refused to set the captives free...many plantations were inaccessible to the troups or were never visited.
IGNORANCE NOT BEING BLISS...it is documented, hundreds were never told of their new legal status, many lived long lives in forced captivity. Many died being isolated, remaining illiterate, being forcibly bound by economic and legal systems which justified systematic oppression by virtue of rancid terrorism and Jim Crow Laws.
...and so we count down the years of "FREEDOM"...and we celebrate JUNETEENTH as the victory of REVELATION...the blessing of TENACITY...the joy of LOVE SUPREME!
This year...it will be excellent for us all to consider giving concerted thanks, praise and honor to those bold free beings who rode with Granger...The Free and Captive Freedom Fighters of Color...THOSE AMER*AFRIKAN SOLDIERS...those future BUFFALO SOLDIERS...those ANCESTORS whose courage, strength and valor caused the UNITED STATES to finally know victory in the bloodiest war possibly of all time...the CIVIL WAR.
On 1 January 1980, JUNETEENTH became an official state holiday in Texas...due to the legislative persistence of State Representative, Al Edwards...Consequently, people of Afrikan descent...and others...celebrate globally the 1st state recognized FREEDOM CELEBRATION...We strive by process and example to follow the suit of Representative Al Edwards...to cause JUNETEENTH to be fully sanctioned as a UNITED STATES of AMERICA NATIONAL (HOLY) HOLIDAY.
We are so very blessed, as JUNETEENTH increases in it's recognition as a historically viable GLOBAL FREEDOM CELEBRATION...We commit to celebrate not only during the month of June...The ULTRA YOUth! INTERGENERATIONAL Agri CULTURAL Arts COOPERATIVE COMMUNIVERSITY dedicatedly commits to respectfully celebrate ALL FREEDOMS for ALL COMMUNITIES...ALL WAYS!
IT IS IN EXACTING WELLORDER...We must give respectful HONOR to the dedicatedly courageous CIVIL RIGHTS MARCH made by GENERAL GRANGER and his COMRADES in ARMS...THOSE AMER*AFRIKAN SOLDIERS OF GLORY...THE UNEQUIVOCAL FREEDOM FIGHTERS...that unsung battalion of JUSTICE SEEKERS / MAKERS whose heroic trek ended only when THE RECONSTRUCTION ACT was rescended by PRESIDENT ABRAHAM LINCOLN's successor...Vice President Johnson ...WE must celebrate JUNETEENTH...no matter our race, color or creed...as we have open opportunity to be the NEW DAY FREEDOM FIGHTERS...MARCHING on to even GREATER HEIGHTS of much deserved LIBERATION!
Asante' sana...thank YOU very much!
Friday, May 27, 2005
Sharing OURstory...An Oral History Continuum
"LISTENING IS AN ACT OF LOVE!" |
* an oral history audio / visual / narrative record which preserves & perpetuates personal, and family stories as well as cultural similarities & diversities *
* recording is done in homes, schools, libraries, churches, at festivals and in AV studios at the Memphis Black Arts Alliance's Fire House Academy *
* Emailed initiating digital responses are respectfully welcomed *
* any and all who care are welcome to participate *
* Participants younger than 18 years will require documented parental consent *
* all interviews are scheduled per the peace of groups & individuals *
* select stories will be qualitatively aired via community access & archived with your permission in the Library of Congress, the University of Memphis' Special Collections Department, the Memphis Public Library History Department and / or the National Museum of African American History for genealogical and cultural research in regional, national and international repositories *
Memphis Black Arts Alliance's Sharing*OURstory...an affiliate initiative with StoryCorps Griot
...365 Days...
ALL WAYS!
...in honor of...
MATRIARCHS, SISTERS, MOTHERS...
PATRIARCHS, FATHERS, BROTHERS...
ART as EVOLUTION!
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...please answer these 7 initiating questions...
* Who are you?
* What are you?
* When were you born?
* Why is being a part of this oral history continuum important to you?
* Where have you traveled to?
* Will you describe experiences which have enabled you to balance spiritually?
* How does your life compare to / differ from the experiences of your Mother / Father?
ADDITIONAL QUERY CATEGORIES:
(...7 questions per category...)
* School Days * Maturation Tales * War & Peace * Social Rituals * Mourning Tales * Dollars & Cents * eARTh Tales * Global Garnens *
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RELEASE of INFORMATION
I fully understand that the Sharing*OURstory oral history project is a not for profit, educational, voluntary preservationist initiative.
I agree to allow my image, voice and words to be used in the production of community access television
PLEASE CONTACT US AT:
mbaa.isha@gmail.com
memphisblackartsalliance.org
storycorpsgriot.net
Thursday, May 26, 2005
...Amazing ASSuMErs...
15 December 07 ...amazingly...we are so often given to ask ourselves... ...WHY? ...why are we yet and still so deeply affected...painfully wounded ~ all because of some much less than stellar choices we make ~ or have sometimes made in our past? Everyone has made unwise choices at some point in life ~ some of us have made poor choices many times more than a time or two... Often, we are grossly submerged in fear and doubt...there are all types of loveless lack which leave us unable to think clearly about choices and consequences... Everyone wishes and hopes...perhaps everyone can recall having planned haphazardly, TRUSTING IN SOME SHABBY COURSE OF ACTION or someone ~ centered in nothingness... ...and so, we are again & again wounded by & IN the seemingly ever reverberating, debilitating, scathing abuses and trials... You may readily recall being victimized by some repeated attack, being subject to some disrespectful violent NOISE ~ often we are mere witness to the abuse which others are receiving...the witnessing is wounding as we care... Some of us choose not to be incessantly affected by violence ~ no one should desire to be in earshot of words or acts of war... Peace IS possible...even the desire for peace has healing power... Perhaps if we are given opportunity to lay rest on some platform of comfort, even some borrowed bed ~ even temporary comfort supersedes none... COMFORT hold a valuable place ~ even within melancholy... Praying for GRACE invariably affords us that welcoming peace inducing space...that proverbial eye within the oftentimes raging storm...that halcyon spot of prosperity... That warm and fuzzy ocean of love! |
...as you slither by...WE see you bound in your haphazard assumption...focus sharply~ the muddled & cracking lens of your petty & self centered mad mind's eye...
...am representative of the ALL in ALL...
that smooth sailing passerby whose loving heART would pledge compassion & would much rather walk the tenacious path of PEACE...Please do not awaken the wanting rest war guarantor...better that WE are unchallenged...best as we exist in the above...so much more wholistic than submission to the much of entrapment which slimevily consumes and drags ALL love beneath...
I do not apologize for being borne in the strength...as I am but 1ONE with the unwilling walkers of terresta's winding, binding & ultimately uplifting labyrinth!
Should 1one whose lips drip lies ever be compelled to seek audience with IMEMINE...and lay forth some nappy naped carpet upon which in their supposed play power seek to find me on ANY day...better that they prepare for US in this concerted way...be certain that the path that WE choose to walk upon... be of straight and upright tread bordered by gold in vermillion!
...and if upon any road WE choose to tread...buttress it well for WE walk not in dread...and be of right order and fastlystead...as IMEMINE slow drag renounce ALL drama...OUR crown cocked on the mountaintop of this here natty*dread heart*head...
Come full circle now...as we do not walk on eggs...unless of course WE choose to give exercise to the thick as a brick stiff timbers of OUR legs...and it is OUR's to decide the result of the request ASSuMEr's complainingly spanks...for holler back 1one's of ass kissing doubt...WE most definitely & simply ain't!
So - when you come...do not forget to pad...the pus filled fragments of your carrion reptilian bodiless parts - not to mention the gangrenous spot which houses your empty heart!
...the FINISHER!
They arrive unexpectedly...& if expected, they generally arrive late...IF they arrive AT ALL! They require too much unwarranted attention...they call, or come or write incessantly, compulsively...usually talking long on issues of little relevance to whatever is REALLY the real deal...They make statements via Email, fax and phone...the messages they leave tend to be very needy (indication of lack) and SELF centered...focusing with huge profundity in the ME...seldom (if ever) in the WE...They presume w/out trepidation...They truly deserve NO dedicated attention@ALL!
IF 1one riskily considers the much less than credible agendas of the AMAZING ASSuMErs, the risk taker submits head & heart 1st to beings who operate from an overweening spirit of FEAR & DIS* EAZE...the risk takers are guaranteed only CUPS NOT FULL or NURTURING but PERPETUALLY EMPTY & DEBILITATING...though brimming w/ the ever depressing & lingering residue of malice, distain and often contempt...Real folk just call themHATERZ!...ONCE CHOSEN...OBTAINED!...NOW......WHODOYOULOVE?
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