...MEDIATING DISPUTES...
When we were initially welcomed to register in UNR's Extended Studies 40 hour "Beginning Mediation & Conflict Resolution" module, we both agreed after the first two hours how very similar the 7 Steps of Mediation are to the Nguzo Saba, or the 7 Principles of Kwanzaa.
The Nguzo Saba teaches the values of UMOJA / Unity, KUJICHAGULIA / Self Determination, UJIMA / Collective Work & Responsibility, UJAMMA / Cooperative Economics, NIA / Purpose, KUUMBA / Creativity and IMANI / Faith.
Mediation's 7 Steps are one's which guide conflicting parties to AGREE, DETERMINING various reasons why Mediation is the best road to take, parties agree to LISTEN, they commit to IDENTIFY OPTIONS, to RESOLVE ISSUES by taking OWNERSHIP of the PROCESS and to work through each and every phase of the Mediation process IN GOOD FAITH!
The mediator's technique of directive questioning enables conflicting parties toward criteria which promote oneness. When unified thought can be actualized, then parties can be better equipped in framing the issue at hand. We agreed that the statement of individual wants can promote a cohesive plan which can ultimately result in good faith agreement.
We witnessed a qualitative process by which the spirit of community can be formulated through mediation. We recognized that conflict resolution is possible...though our's was a diverse group, we saw and felt the barriers of difference fade away...hour after hour. We attribute this fact to the professional and skillful example of our facilitators and speakers.
...RESOLVING CONFLICTS...
Some of us agreed that conflict can be defined as chaos, confusion, disrespect, miscommunication, an emotional hurdle, a problem in need of solving and even war. Most of us agreed to these various yet similar definitions.
Both Sher'on and I view the Mediation / Conflict Resolution continuing education experience as a very unifying and clarifying experience. We witnessed the building and bonding of true community during those forty hours we shared with strangers.
The entire process was centered in an unquestionable spirit of peace and solidarity. Much like the Nguzo Saba (The 7 Principles of Kwanzaa) promotes preparedness and peace, our mediation training experience reinforced in us the importance of respectful agreement, the signifance of individual self determination, the empowering relevance of responsible collect works, the value of cooperative economics, the power of staying focused on the purpose at hand, the elevating connectiveness of creativity and the unequivocal essentiality of faith...so does good faith mediation promote the much hoped for possibility of resolute peace.
UNDERSTANDING BEGINS WITH COMMUNICATION!
The majority of the participants of the class agreed to register for the second phase of mediation / conflict resolution training...the majority of us have kept in touch. All of us shared feelings of increase for having spent those forty hours learning and teaching and sharing and caring. We both feel blessed.
fran ISHA echols
Sher'on Jackson
Monday, November 27, 2006
Wednesday, November 01, 2006
KOMMUNITY * KWANZAA * KOTTILLION * 2006
WHO:...All Kwanzaans (those who believe in the power of community) within the Greater Reno * Tahoe area...and beyond!
WHAT:...KWANZAA IS AN Agri*CULTURAL*Arts Celebration of the 1st Fruits of the Harvest which offers nonreligious,INTERGENERATIONAL & nonpolitical opportunities to assess, plan, celebrate, evaluate & rededicate...
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1)WHEN:...27 December 06...2-4p
WHERE:...DownTown Library...301 South Center Street
WHAT:...Kwanzaa Krafts & Tales / Celebrating KUJICHAGULIA (Self Determination)
2)WHEN:...28 December 06...5:30-7:30p
WHERE:...NorthWest Reno Library...2325 Robb Drive...
WHAT:...Kwanzaa Krafts & Tales / Celebrating UJIMA (Collective Work & Responsibility)
3)WHEN:...31 December 1p - until...
WHERE:...Sierra Arts Gallery...17 Virginia Street...
WHAT:...Multi*Media INTERDISCIPLINARY Artistic Expose'/Celebrating THE NGUZO SABA (The 7 Principles of Kwanzaa / Unity * Self Determination * Collective Work & Responsibility * Cooperative Economics * Purpose * Creativity * Faith)
4)WHEN:...31 December 5 -7p...
WHERE:...2680 East Ninth Street
WHAT:...Reno / Sparks NAACP
KWANZAA KARAMU (Feast) / Celebrating KUUMBA (Creativity)
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WHY:...So as to better plan our collective work & work our unified plan...
HOW:...We will make manifest our hopes & dreams by...including...though NOT limiting them to...
*Kwanzaa Kweens...*Kwanzaa Kings...*Kwanzaa Kourts...*Ujamaa Boharis...*Kwanzaa Karamus...*Kuumba Arts...*Kwanzaa Kwests...
*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*
HARAMBEE...Let's Pull Together!
^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^
KWANZAA is...
a COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT * EDU * Agri*CULTURAL*Arts PREPAREDNESS CELEBRATION!
HARAMBEE...Let's PULL Together!
RSVP...775.284.9557
Asante Sana...Thank YOU Very Much!
WHAT:...KWANZAA IS AN Agri*CULTURAL*Arts Celebration of the 1st Fruits of the Harvest which offers nonreligious,INTERGENERATIONAL & nonpolitical opportunities to assess, plan, celebrate, evaluate & rededicate...
*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*
1)WHEN:...27 December 06...2-4p
WHERE:...DownTown Library...301 South Center Street
WHAT:...Kwanzaa Krafts & Tales / Celebrating KUJICHAGULIA (Self Determination)
2)WHEN:...28 December 06...5:30-7:30p
WHERE:...NorthWest Reno Library...2325 Robb Drive...
WHAT:...Kwanzaa Krafts & Tales / Celebrating UJIMA (Collective Work & Responsibility)
3)WHEN:...31 December 1p - until...
WHERE:...Sierra Arts Gallery...17 Virginia Street...
WHAT:...Multi*Media INTERDISCIPLINARY Artistic Expose'/Celebrating THE NGUZO SABA (The 7 Principles of Kwanzaa / Unity * Self Determination * Collective Work & Responsibility * Cooperative Economics * Purpose * Creativity * Faith)
4)WHEN:...31 December 5 -7p...
WHERE:...2680 East Ninth Street
WHAT:...Reno / Sparks NAACP
KWANZAA KARAMU (Feast) / Celebrating KUUMBA (Creativity)
^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^
WHY:...So as to better plan our collective work & work our unified plan...
HOW:...We will make manifest our hopes & dreams by...including...though NOT limiting them to...
*Kwanzaa Kweens...*Kwanzaa Kings...*Kwanzaa Kourts...*Ujamaa Boharis...*Kwanzaa Karamus...*Kuumba Arts...*Kwanzaa Kwests...
*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*
HARAMBEE...Let's Pull Together!
^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^
KWANZAA is...
a COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT * EDU * Agri*CULTURAL*Arts PREPAREDNESS CELEBRATION!
HARAMBEE...Let's PULL Together!
RSVP...775.284.9557
Asante Sana...Thank YOU Very Much!
Thursday, September 21, 2006
KWANZAA*KYDZ
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WHO.....Kreative KommUnity YOUth!
WHAT:.......Interdisciplinary Performance & Visual Arts Opportunities
ART as EVOLUTION!
Saturdays ~ Sundays
1p~4p
~FOR MORE INFORMATION~
901.562.5071
www.SouthernArtisty.Org/Isha_Echols
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WHO.....Kreative KommUnity YOUth!
WHAT:.......Interdisciplinary Performance & Visual Arts Opportunities
ART as EVOLUTION!
Saturdays ~ Sundays
1p~4p
~FOR MORE INFORMATION~
901.562.5071
www.SouthernArtisty.Org/Isha_Echols
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Tuesday, September 19, 2006
KATRINA...RELIVED!
365 Days...ALL Ways!
WHAT:.......A 60 Minute TV Broadcast featuring "IMAGES of New ORLEANS", Survivor Interviews, "KATRINA*heART"...LIVE*AUDIENCE!
WHEN:.......Thursday, 28 September...8p PST
WHY:........For the sake of PEACE, JUSTICE & HEALING!
HOW:........Through live telecast and call in, the reality of Katrina will be compared to other GLOBAL cataclysms
WHO:........Former and current New Orleans residents, concerned observers and conscious caregivers
WHERE:.......The MEDIA Center / Sierra Nevada Community Access Television
4024 Kietzke Lane
Reno, NV 89502
775.828.1211
...Audience RSVP...PLEASE CONTACT: ultrayouth.ag.arts@gmail.com...Thank YOU!...
an
Ultra YOUth!
Intergenerational
Agri*CULTURAL*Arts
/
With Liberty & Justice for ALL
Collaboration!
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...ENTIRE WORLDS WITHIN WORLDS ENDED...
O Katrina wind's DID blow
As those round that away say...
THEY blew the levy though...
Blamer's blame the progeny of Mother Nature...
Doe's Katrina mourn the reckless killing of 2000 people
Men...Women...Children and more!
O Katrina - do you lament someone's devastation of land mass larger than Great Britain?
Can YOUR's be caring & conscious concern for 100 billion plus Amer*$*Dollars worth of death & destruction?
Are YOU the 1one accountable for the current annual 500 plus Amer*Deaths
Perhaps you are willing and able to repair the 14 billion Amer*$*Dollars in damages accrued year by year THUS far & SINCE...29 August 2005
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WHAT:.......A 60 Minute TV Broadcast featuring "IMAGES of New ORLEANS", Survivor Interviews, "KATRINA*heART"...LIVE*AUDIENCE!
WHEN:.......Thursday, 28 September...8p PST
WHY:........For the sake of PEACE, JUSTICE & HEALING!
HOW:........Through live telecast and call in, the reality of Katrina will be compared to other GLOBAL cataclysms
WHO:........Former and current New Orleans residents, concerned observers and conscious caregivers
WHERE:.......The MEDIA Center / Sierra Nevada Community Access Television
4024 Kietzke Lane
Reno, NV 89502
775.828.1211
...Audience RSVP...PLEASE CONTACT: ultrayouth.ag.arts@gmail.com...Thank YOU!...
an
Ultra YOUth!
Intergenerational
Agri*CULTURAL*Arts
/
With Liberty & Justice for ALL
Collaboration!
*************************************************************************************
...ENTIRE WORLDS WITHIN WORLDS ENDED...
O Katrina wind's DID blow
As those round that away say...
THEY blew the levy though...
Blamer's blame the progeny of Mother Nature...
Doe's Katrina mourn the reckless killing of 2000 people
Men...Women...Children and more!
O Katrina - do you lament someone's devastation of land mass larger than Great Britain?
Can YOUR's be caring & conscious concern for 100 billion plus Amer*$*Dollars worth of death & destruction?
Are YOU the 1one accountable for the current annual 500 plus Amer*Deaths
Perhaps you are willing and able to repair the 14 billion Amer*$*Dollars in damages accrued year by year THUS far & SINCE...29 August 2005
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Sunday, September 17, 2006
Evaluating EMANCIPATION Edu*Agri*CULTURAL*Arts Empowerers
...A PRACTICAL FORMULA WITH WHICH TO ASSESS & BEGIN...
WHO
WHO
...are YOU?
...did YOU serve?
...were / are YOUR collaborators?
WHAT
...did YOU serve?
...were / are YOUR collaborators?
WHAT
...are you?
...did YOU do?
...did YOU plan to do?
...will YOU do now?
...was / were YOUR most rewarding experience(s)?
...was / were YOUR most negative experience(s)?
...would YOU change if YOU could?
...did YOU change?
...will YOU change?
WHY
...did YOU plan to do?
...will YOU do now?
...was / were YOUR most rewarding experience(s)?
...was / were YOUR most negative experience(s)?
...would YOU change if YOU could?
...did YOU change?
...will YOU change?
WHY
...did YOU do it?
...would you do it again?
...would you do it again?
...would you not do it again?
WHEN
...did YOU do it?
WHERE
WHERE
...did YOU do it?
...would you do it now?
...would you do it now?
HOW
...did YOU do it?
...are YOU changed?
WOULD
...are YOU changed?
WOULD
...YOU do it again?
...AN EFFECTIVE FORMULA WITH WHICH TO EVALUATE & begin again...
Asant Sana...Thank YOU Very Much!
...AN EFFECTIVE FORMULA WITH WHICH TO EVALUATE & begin again...
Asant Sana...Thank YOU Very Much!
HER*blore
...being genealogically essential... WELL* WOMAN*CENTERED*WORLD ...tales, maxims & rhymes... ...for futuristic merit... ...from soul*spiritwizdom & the most magical of ancient times... including, though never limited to: ~Mayasir & Menelik~ ...Lilac Belle Flower of Northern Afrika... ~ ~JUNETEENTH*TALES~ ...Sharing OURstory...
|
...back to basics...
The WAY Ahead!
ultrayouth@blackplanet.com
Saturday, August 26, 2006
SAYYIDAH SHARIFA "Katrina" RAHIM
...in this year's time, my heart seeks your's over so many minutes and so many miles...
Seem's much more than 1one year since Katrina...this first anniversary causes me to think on the very special times of OUR lives...prompts me to realize again and again the very essence of appreciation I feel for YOU!
Perhaps I never told you...Your decision to make the move to New Orleans several years ago gave me strength to adopt the proverbial brave heart of SISTAH SOJOURNER when I heeded Reno's call some two years ago. I knew full well you were of strong mantle to travel to the Gulf from Memphis - I never felt that it was easy for you to distance yourself geographically from Mother, Harun...our beautiful baby girls - I knew THEN; however, much better NOW...YOU ARE THAT NEW FRONTIER WOMAN...spiritually willing and dedicatedly able...
Please accept my sincere apology for not communicating with you regularly these past months...PLEASE know, I am fully tested & vested and STILL on the journey - I do not think it remiss of me to consider that you know FULL well the taxing process of reinventing one's self around new places and Oh so many, many new (sometimes smiling) faces...
I have ALL ways considered nothing less than success for us...I OVERSTOOD your being unable to rush immediately back to Memphis after the levies were blown...I still remember EVERY word you shared with me those days, weeks and months after your catastrophic leaving of New Orleans.
From your gift of truth to me, the heART of my children has known power and glory...the posters they made from your words hung predominately at the University of Nevada's Reno CHURCHILL Campus Gallery and at the First United Methodist Reno Church Gallery during the July ART*TOWN sanctioned event..."WHAT ART CIVIL LIBERTIES?"...we collaborated with the ACLU as performers and exhibitors...
Thinking about YOU as I write...I remember as I recall...
It is not new for you and I to work as one per community events...Remember? How about almost twenty years and counting - from BLACK FAMILY REUNIONS, KING HOLIDAYS, KWANZAA, MEMPHIS in MAY, SENIOR CITIZEN CONFERENCES, AFRICA in APRIL, CAMPING EXCURSIONS, BIRTHS, DEATHS...and so, so much more...
I appreciate you being there for me...US!
I appreciate my SAYYIDAH (Learned*Teacher) SHARIFA...
ALL ways loving...FOREVER standing long & strong!
Asante Sana...Thank YOU Very Much!
PEACE & BLESSINGS!
I sincerely love and cherish YOU!
Seem's much more than 1one year since Katrina...this first anniversary causes me to think on the very special times of OUR lives...prompts me to realize again and again the very essence of appreciation I feel for YOU!
Perhaps I never told you...Your decision to make the move to New Orleans several years ago gave me strength to adopt the proverbial brave heart of SISTAH SOJOURNER when I heeded Reno's call some two years ago. I knew full well you were of strong mantle to travel to the Gulf from Memphis - I never felt that it was easy for you to distance yourself geographically from Mother, Harun...our beautiful baby girls - I knew THEN; however, much better NOW...YOU ARE THAT NEW FRONTIER WOMAN...spiritually willing and dedicatedly able...
Please accept my sincere apology for not communicating with you regularly these past months...PLEASE know, I am fully tested & vested and STILL on the journey - I do not think it remiss of me to consider that you know FULL well the taxing process of reinventing one's self around new places and Oh so many, many new (sometimes smiling) faces...
I have ALL ways considered nothing less than success for us...I OVERSTOOD your being unable to rush immediately back to Memphis after the levies were blown...I still remember EVERY word you shared with me those days, weeks and months after your catastrophic leaving of New Orleans.
From your gift of truth to me, the heART of my children has known power and glory...the posters they made from your words hung predominately at the University of Nevada's Reno CHURCHILL Campus Gallery and at the First United Methodist Reno Church Gallery during the July ART*TOWN sanctioned event..."WHAT ART CIVIL LIBERTIES?"...we collaborated with the ACLU as performers and exhibitors...
Thinking about YOU as I write...I remember as I recall...
It is not new for you and I to work as one per community events...Remember? How about almost twenty years and counting - from BLACK FAMILY REUNIONS, KING HOLIDAYS, KWANZAA, MEMPHIS in MAY, SENIOR CITIZEN CONFERENCES, AFRICA in APRIL, CAMPING EXCURSIONS, BIRTHS, DEATHS...and so, so much more...
I appreciate you being there for me...US!
I appreciate my SAYYIDAH (Learned*Teacher) SHARIFA...
ALL ways loving...FOREVER standing long & strong!
Asante Sana...Thank YOU Very Much!
PEACE & BLESSINGS!
I sincerely love and cherish YOU!
Monday, July 10, 2006
...of EMANCIPATION CELEBRATIONS..."WHAT ART CIVIL LIBERTIES?"...HATE CRIMES & JUST*PEACE...
This PEACE*PIECE serves as Asante Sana...Thank YOU Very Much missive for ALL the ways WE are 1ONE!
We may ALL agree to the success YOUR involvement fueled per OUR JUNETEENTH CELEBRATIONS...I'd like to personally thank YOU for the UJIMA (Collective Work & Responsibilty)!
Being blessed to ACTIVELY participate in making manifest what many of us deem as our "HOPE*CHEST - HARVEST for the WORLD"- I bear FULL witness! ALL our efforts equate 1ONENESS...AS WE ARE ONE!
OUR work as EDU*ARTS*AgriCULTURALISTS is so very rewarding...as well as it is so very demanding...even sometimes taxing...as it is ABSOLUTELY so very necessary!
Since last some of us celebrated together, there has been JOY as well as PAIN...
*...some of YOU already know of the theft of our donated IRON*CRANE art sculture from within the locked gates of our community gardening site at Paradise Park...
*...some or YOU know too of the HATE*CRIMES against some our very dedicated members and family...incidents involving racist rhetoric written on bright green sticky notes and stuck to vehichular windshields in video monitored parking garages...there too has been slanderous gossip and threats, destruction of property by vandalism & arson...
However, PLEASE know this...
We collectively agree to renounce EVERY LIE ORDAINED BY HATE...touching and agreeing with LOVE*ALLWAYS...as LOVE UNEQUIVOCALLY REPUDIATES ALL HATE!
I am so glad that WE are Lovers...Peace*Providers...The Sons & the Daughters of LIFE...longing to be well & stay on this JOY filled journey!
I am so glad WE ARE 1ONE.
joyluvALLways!
ultrayouth.org
Thank YOU...Asante Sana!
We may ALL agree to the success YOUR involvement fueled per OUR JUNETEENTH CELEBRATIONS...I'd like to personally thank YOU for the UJIMA (Collective Work & Responsibilty)!
Being blessed to ACTIVELY participate in making manifest what many of us deem as our "HOPE*CHEST - HARVEST for the WORLD"- I bear FULL witness! ALL our efforts equate 1ONENESS...AS WE ARE ONE!
OUR work as EDU*ARTS*AgriCULTURALISTS is so very rewarding...as well as it is so very demanding...even sometimes taxing...as it is ABSOLUTELY so very necessary!
Since last some of us celebrated together, there has been JOY as well as PAIN...
*...some of YOU already know of the theft of our donated IRON*CRANE art sculture from within the locked gates of our community gardening site at Paradise Park...
*...some or YOU know too of the HATE*CRIMES against some our very dedicated members and family...incidents involving racist rhetoric written on bright green sticky notes and stuck to vehichular windshields in video monitored parking garages...there too has been slanderous gossip and threats, destruction of property by vandalism & arson...
However, PLEASE know this...
We collectively agree to renounce EVERY LIE ORDAINED BY HATE...touching and agreeing with LOVE*ALLWAYS...as LOVE UNEQUIVOCALLY REPUDIATES ALL HATE!
I am so glad that WE are Lovers...Peace*Providers...The Sons & the Daughters of LIFE...longing to be well & stay on this JOY filled journey!
I am so glad WE ARE 1ONE.
joyluvALLways!
ultrayouth.org
Thank YOU...Asante Sana!
Sunday, July 02, 2006
...KARAMI*BOHARI de WATATOS*UJAMAA...
Ultra*Culture Ag*Arts CommUniversity
...Intergenerational Culturally diverse & generous * marketplace fosters YOUth!* cooperative economics*
(being a cyberspace auction fundraising ware~sharehouse comprised of donated and consigned goods and services)
...depends upon the care and support of conscious individuals and organizations to perpetuate and sustain our quarter century organization...
Asante sana...thank YOU very much!
901.562.5071
775.544.6907
Monday, May 29, 2006
EMANCIPATION * AGRI * CULTURAL * EDU * ARTS * JOURNAL
Summer 2006
EDUCATOR'S GUIDE
...featuring...
Reproduceable - ART & LESSONS PLANS & FORMS
Assessment & Evaluation Tools * Coloring Pages * Community Gardening & Beautification * Eco^Wise Crafts * Juneteenth Scripts * Constitutionally Your's * Lady Liberty * Buffalo Soldiers * The 4th of July * Art From Recycleables * Sharing OURstory *
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
* UJAMAA
(cooperative economics options)
* Alphabetized Listings.....................$15.00 minimum...CoOp Discounts
Elder Memberships
* Business Cards.............................$25.00 minimum...Student Memberships
* 1/4 Page...................................$50.00 minimum...Vendor Privileges
* 1/2 Page...................................$100.00 minimum...CoOp Memberships
* Full Page..................................$200.00 minimum..Purchasing Privileges
* Cover Logo-Listings........................$250.00 minimum..Business Supporters
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
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PAYABLE TO...Sher'on Jackson......please MEMO as,...Ultra YOUth! Ag*Arts CoOP
*************************************************************************************
...PLEASE SUBMIT 3 COPIES OF ORIGINAL ARTWORK...
(...there is a $25.00 fee for ad & renderings design...)
Total numbers of Emancipation * Agri * Edu * Arts COMMEMORATIVE JOURNALS is contingent upon -
the total numbers of supporters, as well as ad sizes.
Proceeds from this EDUCATOR'S GUIDE will support our community gardening & edu*arts*entreprenural / community outreach initiatives...COOPERATIVES WORK!
ASANTE SANA...Thank YOU Very Much!
************************************************************************************
ultrayouth@blackplanet.com
ultrayouth.ag.arts@gmail.com
ultrayouth.org
************************************************************************************
Ultra YOUth! Agri CULTURAL Arts Cooperative Communiversity
P.O. Box 40754
Reno, NV
89504
###
775.284.9557
EDUCATOR'S GUIDE
...featuring...
Reproduceable - ART & LESSONS PLANS & FORMS
Assessment & Evaluation Tools * Coloring Pages * Community Gardening & Beautification * Eco^Wise Crafts * Juneteenth Scripts * Constitutionally Your's * Lady Liberty * Buffalo Soldiers * The 4th of July * Art From Recycleables * Sharing OURstory *
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
* UJAMAA
(cooperative economics options)
* Alphabetized Listings.....................$15.00 minimum...CoOp Discounts
Elder Memberships
* Business Cards.............................$25.00 minimum...Student Memberships
* 1/4 Page...................................$50.00 minimum...Vendor Privileges
* 1/2 Page...................................$100.00 minimum...CoOp Memberships
* Full Page..................................$200.00 minimum..Purchasing Privileges
* Cover Logo-Listings........................$250.00 minimum..Business Supporters
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
*************************************************************************************
PAYABLE TO...Sher'on Jackson......please MEMO as,...Ultra YOUth! Ag*Arts CoOP
*************************************************************************************
...PLEASE SUBMIT 3 COPIES OF ORIGINAL ARTWORK...
(...there is a $25.00 fee for ad & renderings design...)
Total numbers of Emancipation * Agri * Edu * Arts COMMEMORATIVE JOURNALS is contingent upon -
the total numbers of supporters, as well as ad sizes.
Proceeds from this EDUCATOR'S GUIDE will support our community gardening & edu*arts*entreprenural / community outreach initiatives...COOPERATIVES WORK!
ASANTE SANA...Thank YOU Very Much!
************************************************************************************
ultrayouth@blackplanet.com
ultrayouth.ag.arts@gmail.com
ultrayouth.org
************************************************************************************
Ultra YOUth! Agri CULTURAL Arts Cooperative Communiversity
P.O. Box 40754
Reno, NV
89504
###
775.284.9557
Friday, April 21, 2006
Artivist ~ Philosophy
My artistic vision is influenced by much and many people, places and events which serve as catalyst to my spirit of creativity. I relate the artistic pleasure cruise
I live within as directly influenced by every aspect of my past, my present and my future...
As a child growing up in a pivotal time of Amer*African struggles for basic civil rights, it was instilled in me by my Elders to observe and listen well. I recognize the basic skill of respectfully paying attention has made manifest in me an inherent love for the dramatically aesthetic. I learned that to SILENT*LISTEN relates qualitatively to learning, chronocalling and sharing stories.
At a very young age I was encouraged to read...newspapers, the bible...even comics. I was encouraged to write. At first, my writing was vested in keeping steady communication with friends and relatives. By age 8 or 9, I found satisfaction in writing poems and doodling in diaries and the numerous, greatly anticipated sketch pads which I frequently recieved as gifts from relatives and family friends...Those supportive and encouraging complimentary gifts laid the exacting foundation for much of what I incorporate and implement in my many years as an interdisciplinary cultural artivist and educator.
My current arts objectives are rooted in a simplistic goal to pass on to others that which has been passed on to me. I make efforts to do this by being actively involved within cross cultural, intergenerational, interdisciplinary systems which foster opportunities for academic, artistic evolution and social change.
I realize that my initiating commitment to these goals result in organizations as the ULTRA YOUth! Intergenerational Agri CULTURAL Arts COOPERATIVE, chartered in 1985 and currently manifesting in my affiliation with R.E.A.L. (Responsibility, Earth, Art, Learning) an interdisciplinary edu-arts initiative in collaboration Boy's and Girls Clubs of America, TAM (Tn.~Ark.~Miss.) Farms and the Great Basin Food Cooperative.
My long range community empowerment via the ARTS goals are being made manifest in many ways...these two decades as a grassroots artivist has afforded me the realization of dreams actually coming true. Creating models for social change via artistic, educational and entreprenural models has allowed me active involvement with my beloved people as a caregiver, mentor and as one committed to the preservation and perpetuation of the cultural and ancestral arts. I know that the arts are the most certain inroad to global peace...I embrace STORYTELLING, in it's many genres as a a powerful medium for teaching, healing and learning. I have been called "...AN EMPOWERING * GRIOT * ECO~ENVIRO COMMUNITY ORGANIZER...". By respectfully involving others in that which I have been fortunate to have passed on to me, I make sincere heARTistic efforts to deserve the compliment.
I live within as directly influenced by every aspect of my past, my present and my future...
As a child growing up in a pivotal time of Amer*African struggles for basic civil rights, it was instilled in me by my Elders to observe and listen well. I recognize the basic skill of respectfully paying attention has made manifest in me an inherent love for the dramatically aesthetic. I learned that to SILENT*LISTEN relates qualitatively to learning, chronocalling and sharing stories.
At a very young age I was encouraged to read...newspapers, the bible...even comics. I was encouraged to write. At first, my writing was vested in keeping steady communication with friends and relatives. By age 8 or 9, I found satisfaction in writing poems and doodling in diaries and the numerous, greatly anticipated sketch pads which I frequently recieved as gifts from relatives and family friends...Those supportive and encouraging complimentary gifts laid the exacting foundation for much of what I incorporate and implement in my many years as an interdisciplinary cultural artivist and educator.
My current arts objectives are rooted in a simplistic goal to pass on to others that which has been passed on to me. I make efforts to do this by being actively involved within cross cultural, intergenerational, interdisciplinary systems which foster opportunities for academic, artistic evolution and social change.
I realize that my initiating commitment to these goals result in organizations as the ULTRA YOUth! Intergenerational Agri CULTURAL Arts COOPERATIVE, chartered in 1985 and currently manifesting in my affiliation with R.E.A.L. (Responsibility, Earth, Art, Learning) an interdisciplinary edu-arts initiative in collaboration Boy's and Girls Clubs of America, TAM (Tn.~Ark.~Miss.) Farms and the Great Basin Food Cooperative.
My long range community empowerment via the ARTS goals are being made manifest in many ways...these two decades as a grassroots artivist has afforded me the realization of dreams actually coming true. Creating models for social change via artistic, educational and entreprenural models has allowed me active involvement with my beloved people as a caregiver, mentor and as one committed to the preservation and perpetuation of the cultural and ancestral arts. I know that the arts are the most certain inroad to global peace...I embrace STORYTELLING, in it's many genres as a a powerful medium for teaching, healing and learning. I have been called "...AN EMPOWERING * GRIOT * ECO~ENVIRO COMMUNITY ORGANIZER...". By respectfully involving others in that which I have been fortunate to have passed on to me, I make sincere heARTistic efforts to deserve the compliment.
Tuesday, February 28, 2006
Sayings & Symbols to Write & to Color!
...an Edu*Arts Alternative Communities Publication...
My several Arts in Education residencies have afforded me many rewarding experiences. The most profound of these is in the witnessing of and to, very talented youth who are students in Washoe County Schools' "ALTERNATIVE PROGRAMS". These hundreds of young people look like any other middle or high school student; however, these particular students may happen to be...Mothers, Fathers, Juvenile Offenders, Run Aways, Homeless, Abuse Victims, Physically or Mentally Challenged, Chemical Abusers, Taggers, Prostitutes, Gang Bangers - the list can go on and on.
My goal when accepting a residency is to offer the student the most enriching opportunity possible as relates to art and Washoe County School's Performance Standards. However rewarding, it is not a "sleeper" job.
In my challenging opportunity to serve them, I in turn challenge them to serve in return.
The plan to publish the works of students from Washoe high, Jan evans Center, McGee Center, 24-7 TLC, Boys & Girls Club and R.E.A.L. (*Responsiblity *Earth *Art *Learning) was initiated in a Washoe High School teacher simply wanting her students to make books to give to elementary school students...
My expanded vision for what proved to become a very well recieved class project evolved, largely due to the inconsistent attendance of the "at risk" student body at Washoe High. I felt the project could be expanded upon by involving other young artists, many of whom are or have been students in Washoe County Schools' alternative programs.
Students were given an assignment to create and draw a positive symbol and write an accompanying postive statement which would be motivating and inspiring to younger students.
I suggested to the students that we make our book one inwhich the younger students could actually color...the idea to include a penmanship block per page was my idea with the goal in mind to foster and perpetuate beautiful writing.
* The book will consist of 28 double sided activity pages
* The 'mentoring' book will given to elementary school students at schools, libraries and ALTERNATIVE PROGRAMS.
I requested the support of four Reno Professional Artists in the selection of renderings applicable to these 7seven themes:
*UNITY
*SELF DETERMINATION
*COLLECTIVE WORK & RESPONSIBILTY
*COOPERATIVE ECONOMICS
*PURPOSE
*CREATIVITY
*FAITH
*PURPOSE
*CREATIVITY
*FAITH
Artists, Penelope Powell, Laurence Veome Yarbrough, Sher'on Jackson and Laura Fillmore have offered amazing commitment to this project, largely because the young artists either are, were or remind them of students of theirs.
In order to offset printing costs I am requesting support through advertisement options:
* Alphabetized Listings.................................$15.00
* Business Card..............................................$25.oo
* 1/4 page........................................................$50.00
* 1/2 page........................................................$100.00
* Full Page.......................................................$250.00
* Cover Logo...................................................$500.00
I view this initiative as an intergenerational creative arts grassroots empowerment model. We appreciate all kind consideration.
...please contact us...
P.O.Box 40754
Reno, NV
89504
775.544.6907
Asante Sana...Thank YOU Very Much!
Saturday, January 21, 2006
R.E.A.L.
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thatALLfuture * generationsWILL*BEofMind*heARTenABLING*WHEREw/ALLStature * Capacity2shARE the FREEland!
...Responsibilty...
...Earth...
...Art...
...Learning...
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THE Truckee Meadows BOY'S & GIRL'S CLUB
2680 East 9th Street
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PARADISE PARK COMMUNITY GARDEN
Reno, Nevada
GREAT BASIN CO-OP
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...WE are creating an interdisciplinary grassroots, faithbased, service learning eduCULTURALarts model which SHOULD mimic the world in it's entirety...~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Tuesday, January 17, 2006
MLKjr. Celebrations '06
MONDAY
16 JAN 06
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FREE, FREE, FREE @ LAST!
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1p...9th Street
Boy's & Girl's Club
Truckee Meadows...
PERFORMANCES
featuring...
* MAMA EUFARANZA
* IiYAH ISHA
* LEE DAZEY
* LAURA FILLMORE
* HALEBOPP FILLMORE
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5:30p...Federal Building
PEACE VIGIL...
featuring...SONGS & STATEMENTS per THE MLKjr. LEGACY
...IN MEMORY of the DRUM MAJOR of PEACE & JUSTICE...
16 JAN 06
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FREE, FREE, FREE @ LAST!
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1p...9th Street
Boy's & Girl's Club
Truckee Meadows...
PERFORMANCES
featuring...
* MAMA EUFARANZA
* IiYAH ISHA
* LEE DAZEY
* LAURA FILLMORE
* HALEBOPP FILLMORE
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5:30p...Federal Building
PEACE VIGIL...
featuring...SONGS & STATEMENTS per THE MLKjr. LEGACY
...IN MEMORY of the DRUM MAJOR of PEACE & JUSTICE...
Tuesday, January 03, 2006
Brother MIKE...MLK jr. - "Doc"
Names...what people and things are called...
Often the stages of our lives are best clearly defined by the names we are called during the incrumental cycles of our existence...
Martin Luther King jr. was just like us all...living through the pivotal cycles of his evenful life...sure, his is perhaps the most well recognized voice & image of ANY man born on the planet...Minister King Jr. was and is known and remembered by numerous names...
I am so glad to know many people who knew him...I am glad to have met many of his friends...his collaborators...and even two of his children...
I am somehow glad to have stood on that westward balcony where Martin Luther King's last breath was drawn...the stain of his martyred blood is still faintly visible there...
Often the stages of our lives are best clearly defined by the names we are called during the incrumental cycles of our existence...
It is 39 years ago that Dr. King was assassinated on that world famous balcony of the old Lorraine Motel. I am unaware of any commemorative events being held anywhere in Reno, NV in remembrance of OUR Brother Doctor's life, death and leagacy! Perhaps, I just didn't see any events listed in the local newspapers...not having cable tv or satellite TV, I certainly missed seeing worldwide soundbites about what Memphis and Atlanta pilgrims brought forward to honor the man on the day of his death...
Martin Luther King jr. was just like us all...living through the pivotal cycles of his evenful life...sure, his is perhaps the most well recognized voice & image of ANY man born on the planet...Minister King Jr. was and is known and remembered by numerous names...
I am so glad to know many people who knew him...I am glad to have met many of his friends...his collaborators...and even two of his children...
I am somehow glad to have stood on that westward balcony where Martin Luther King's last breath was drawn...the stain of his martyred blood is still faintly visible there...
Over the many years that I was an integral part of the body of cultural historians whose concerted purpose it was to teach the truth of the Amer*African civil rights movement within the very walls of the National Civil Rights Museum...
Many, many times have I walked through the hotel turned motel turned museum. Whether blocking the pivotal travel path of OURstory for youngsters not quite sure what a "Youth Tour Guide" was really expected to do in this plan for them to be S.H.A.R.P. -
Over many a summer's end, I witnessed the awe inspired wonder of parents, friends and relatives as they witnessed the result of six week's preparation of our children's Edu*CULTURAL*Arts investment in
Sharing
History
AND
Remembering
the
PAST!
I do not doubt that I will always be remembered by someone...as long as someone remembers...or when they think of our times there...or visit there again... or see an image of that place...for that place sealed for me in relationship to them the proverbial, unequivocal DREAM!
Each and every journey through those hallowed halls was a indeed a pilgrimage, spiritual for me.
From 1619, so very, very many of us have walked this land's path...fully aware of the comparative inadequacies of civil liberty as relates to skin color, religion, gender, language, status, origin and justice...The National Civil Rights Museum's chronologial sequencing of exhibits & OURstory teaches the majesty of the legacy of people unwilling to submit to crimes of hate & injustice!
On that pre- Easter season evening in 1968 my personal rite of passage was indeed being tested and invariably tried true!
I am equally glad to have taken the very enlightening pilgrimage through his boyhood home...We salvaged a mountain-top shaped piece of cement from the regrading work being done on that historic ancestral driveway near downtown Atlanta...
My fellow agri*CULTURAL*activist - "Brother Man" Reverend Ezekiel Bell was one of "Micheal's" partners, they along with others of the faith were young committed clergymen together - "Brother Mike" slept often in "Zeke Bell's" Memphis home...
In 1968 I was 15...
I was in Memphis on Easter holiday when Dr. King was assassinated at the old Lorraine...
I was in a taxi crossing the Tri-Burrough Bridge when the cabbie explained that the unusual traffic jam was due to Malcolm X having just the night before slept at the famous Teresa Hotel ...was just shot at the Audubon Ball Room.
I spoke casually with Attalah Shabazz in the lobby of the Holiday Inn while at the 25th Anniversary of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party in Jackson Mississippi...she and Yolanda King's Performance Arts Troupe mesmerized us - some of us took a break from the scheduled events at Jackson State University and walked across the campus street to the home of Myrlie and Medgar Evers...we stood on the very drive way where he was slain...Attalah spoke personally, lovingly and profoundly a short time later at the Memphis funeral of her "Baba" griot Alex Haley...The old Audubon is now a museum honoring the legacy of Dr. Betty and Imam Malcolm.
I am called by many names..."Baby Girl", "Frances Louise","Lil' Fran", "Miss Boo", "Eboni", "Ms. Ellis", 'Fran Ellis", "Miss Fran", Mrs. fran ellis-echols", "Sister Fran", "Franisha", "Sister ISHA", "Sayyida Isha", Mrs. ISHA"..."IiYAH ISHA" - seems ALL MY LIFE'S RELATIONSHIPS bless me to KNOW my name.
My fellow agri*CULTURAL*activist - "Brother Man" Reverend Ezekiel Bell was one of "Micheal's" partners, they along with others of the faith were young committed clergymen together - "Brother Mike" slept often in "Zeke Bell's" Memphis home...
In 1968 I was 15...
I was in Memphis on Easter holiday when Dr. King was assassinated at the old Lorraine...
I was in a taxi crossing the Tri-Burrough Bridge when the cabbie explained that the unusual traffic jam was due to Malcolm X having just the night before slept at the famous Teresa Hotel ...was just shot at the Audubon Ball Room.
I spoke casually with Attalah Shabazz in the lobby of the Holiday Inn while at the 25th Anniversary of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party in Jackson Mississippi...she and Yolanda King's Performance Arts Troupe mesmerized us - some of us took a break from the scheduled events at Jackson State University and walked across the campus street to the home of Myrlie and Medgar Evers...we stood on the very drive way where he was slain...Attalah spoke personally, lovingly and profoundly a short time later at the Memphis funeral of her "Baba" griot Alex Haley...The old Audubon is now a museum honoring the legacy of Dr. Betty and Imam Malcolm.
I am called by many names..."Baby Girl", "Frances Louise","Lil' Fran", "Miss Boo", "Eboni", "Ms. Ellis", 'Fran Ellis", "Miss Fran", Mrs. fran ellis-echols", "Sister Fran", "Franisha", "Sister ISHA", "Sayyida Isha", Mrs. ISHA"..."IiYAH ISHA" - seems ALL MY LIFE'S RELATIONSHIPS bless me to KNOW my name.
When the National Civil Rights Museum opened in 1991, some of us had been ad hoc tour guides at the Lorraine Motel since 1968...the people always came...carloads, busloads, riding bikes, walking...although it was often unsafe...the people always came! I recall telling the S.H.A.R.P. youth tour guides, "They would have come even if he'd met his end at a roadside Mickey D's..."
I could see the pride in their eyes as I complimented and praised their research and rehearsal results...
The Baileys were premier among Memphis' post WWII Amer*African entreprenuers. Although Mr. Bailey was affiliated with Kemmons Wilson's Holiday Inn Motels, Mrs. Lorraine Bailey worked hard alongside her husband to have a nice place for her people during the days of Jim Crow and Boss Crump's machine.
Personal stories...names...Civil Rights Stories...the people and events which effect and cause us to be who and what we are...they are ALL our's to remember and to celebrate...as they are ALL our's to cherish as well as our's to share...
Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King, Jr.
NOBEL PEACE PRIZE RECIPIENT
Man Amongst Men
Husband
Personal stories...names...Civil Rights Stories...the people and events which effect and cause us to be who and what we are...they are ALL our's to remember and to celebrate...as they are ALL our's to cherish as well as our's to share...
Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King, Jr.
NOBEL PEACE PRIZE RECIPIENT
Man Amongst Men
Husband
Father
DRUM MAJOR for PEACE & CIVIL LIBERTY
1929 - April 4,1968
Your service is much appreciated...I remember as I recall!
DRUM MAJOR for PEACE & CIVIL LIBERTY
1929 - April 4,1968
Your service is much appreciated...I remember as I recall!
ASANTE SANA - Thank YOU Very Much!
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