Agri CULTURAL Art as EVOLUTION!

EDU * ARTS OVERVIEW (CROSS CURRICULAR COLLABORATIONS)

2011-10-21T16:39:00.000-07:00

fran ISHA echols
Ultra Culture Agri*CULTURAL*Arts Communiversity
"iiYAH*ISHA"
Isha.Culture@FaceBook.com
901.562.5071
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ARTIST BIO

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"iiYAH*ISHA" is an award winning theatrical designer, Chautauquan and Agri CULTURAL Artivist whose spoken word and fabric /Eco*Enviro art fosters the ultimate in the intergenerational ancestral tradition...she centers all artistic initiatives within multi-cultural / ancestral focusing as she utilizes interdisciplinary eclectic communication standards to educate, to encourage, to empower, to bless and to heal.

"iiYAH*ISHA" describes herself as an Amer*African Humanist WordsWoman...she is the founding mentor of The ULTRA YOUth! Intergenerational Agri CULTURAL Arts COOPERATIVE COMMUNIVERSITY, 1985.

She travels cross culturally to create & perpetuate community gardens...to share as one of the world's dedicated GRIOT- ARTIVIST...by using the NGUZO SABA (7 Principles of Kwanzaa) as a model for PEACE, JUSTICE and COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT...iiYAH*ISHA has been an arts educator and performer honoring collaborations with...PBS TV, National School Systems, The Southern Artistry Federation, the Memphis Black Arts Alliance , ArtsMemphis and the Memphis Center City Commission's DownTown ALIVE!, and The Nevada Arts Council. For more than two decades, Mama*ISHA proceeds without question or doubt...determined in her heART by the lull of Community Excellence and the ancient axiom~

"WHEN ONE HELPS ONE OTHER...
AT LEAST TWO ARE STRENGTHENED...
ALL THAT WE KEEP...
WE LOSE...
THAT WHICH WE GIVE...
WE HAVE...
AS EVERYTHING WE SHARE...
IS MULTIPLIED!"

Community Artivist, "iiYAH*ISHA" has been fortunate to outsource professionally as storysharer / griot / cultural arts educator / consultant / health and wellness practioner / conflict resolution mediator and considers her life golden...she values unequivocally as her most prized production, Mayasir Aziza, her beautiful, talented, young, wise adult birth daughter!

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INTERDISCIPLINARY CURRICULA

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~UKU~ POETRY
...based upon the 5*7*5 HAIKU 17 syllable formula, this very basic introductory workshop has the involving power to plant the initiating seeds of individualistic command of and love for the Written and Spoken Word!

KINDER*MAJIK!

...an ARTS APPRECIATION * LITERACY awakening for toddlers and preschoolers... Kinder*Majik! is an interdisciplinary developmental continuum which offers enhancement of social and cognitive skills creatively...The Kinder*Majik curriculum includes, though is not limited to:

*Orientation &, Mobility *Gardening *Sign Language *Swahili *Music *Eco~Enviro Art * Crafts *Progressive Play *Story Sharing

MULTIMEDIA * MENTORING
(Freedom of Speech & Public Access...Art as Evolution!)
In the interest of the preservation and perpetuation of civil liberites via storytelling, participants share in the the experience of retrieval and sharing of community histories via the technical intervention of television production!
Serious investors will be able to aquire professional training as producers. Seminars in time management & scheduling, lighting, sound and set design, interviewing techniques. Opportunities to gain proficiency in state of the art digital media computer labs are available.
In a symbionic, Learner / Teacher atmosphere, committed participants are insured "the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances".

KUUMBA THEATRE
Participants will explore the rudiments of drama by enhancing their communication skills through the spiritual vehicles of Improv, Play Reading & Writing and theatrical production...

ARTISTIC CONFLICT RESOLUTION
Exploration of creative means by which disputes can be equitably mediated and ultimately resolved artistically...participants will not only invest in the use of oral and visual artistic aesthetics, musical and dance elements will be incoporated in an interactive continuum of PEACE inducing healing systems which supercede spacial and generational limitations! Art as Evolution!

...CONSTITUTIONALLY YOURS...
(How U.S. Governs)
Students will know what PL108-447 means to U.S. citizens as well as global communities...All participants will know the WHO, WHEN, WHAT and WHY of 17 September and just HOW law impacts CIVIL RIGHTS!

$$$UJAMAA%BOHARI$$$
(Fair Trade * Cooperative * Marketplace)
Students incorporate group planning, writing, math and marketing skills to develop an economically viable Arts CoOp! Participants will be encouraged environmentally by creating their Art~Craft largely from recycleable materials...All will learn that gifts of ENTREPRENURALISM are indeed priceless while coming full circle in FINANCIAL LITERACY...with DOLLARS & CENTS!

COMMUNITY ORIENTATION
and
MOBILITY
(Navigating Your Environment)
Students will increase environmental awareness while enhancing listening and reading skills. Through the utilization of interactory puzzles, games, maps and social activism...all participants will be able to answer the question...Where In The World Are You? A culminating travel path field trip may be taken, with a group nature walk or bus ride....on an exploratory, healing touch, empowering, fact finding excursion!

HAND GAMES and RHYMES FROM ANCIENT TIMES!
(Culturally Creative Movement)
While learning languages, world histories and songs...students while interact via the uplifting power of healing touch and dance! Students will be encouraged in the development of a finale piece which will showcase specific time periods and people.

FOUND SOUNDS:
(Making Natural Music With Tonal Recycleables)
Students experience eclectic recycling by creating musical intruments from found objects...Students will be encouraged to add tonal embellishment to familiar standards and to individual and group favorites...

KWANZAA KYDZ:
(A Behavior Management / Intervention / Tolerance Continuum)
Students will learn to live the NGUZO SABA and earn KWANZAA BUCKS as reward for exampling the essence of the 7 Principles of...Unity, Self Determination, Collective Work & Responsibility, Purpose, Creativity and Faith! This highly interactive community empowerment residency will incorporate individual and group service learning opportunities. Participants will document their progress via multi-media

SWAHILI SYLLABUS
(Kwanzaa Sayings & Songs)
Students will recieve an indepth introduction to the most popular African language from learning to count and saying ABC's...through singing Kwanzaa / English ditties...all together guaranteeing culturally diverse enjoyment! Participants will be excited to showcase their skills in schooland community performances!

~KROSS KULTURAL~
KINTE * KANGA *KWILTS
(Celebrating Diversity w/ Cloth)
Participants will share in the ultimate of cross cultural awareness and investment by designing and fabricating personalized message panels suitable for wearable art and quilts. Students will create individual squares specific to certain cultures of interest and share in the most basic utilitarian art forms from group knotting paper shapes to sewing with needle and thread!

A KWANZAA PAGEANT!
Kwanzaa ia an agri CULTURAL arts celebration! Through the sharing of Kwanzaa tales and songs, students will learn the who, when, what. where and how of this Amer*African festival and it's multi-cultural connections! Participants will create Kwanzaa specific crafts, stories and dances - all in time for KARAMU...the Feast of the First Fruits of the harvest!

PLANTING THE SEEDS of PEACE!
Using the centering power of Green Gardens as life metaphor, iiYAH ISHA will spark student eco-environmental interest in the art and science of CommUnity. This PREPAREDNESS model will enable all participants to develop creative relationships between agriculture, music and ecology! Earthwise Edu-Arts Journals will be made for daily journal entries or sketches as they plant, maintain and harvest community gardens and interview CommUnity GREEN Elders.

Sharing OURSTORY!
(Beginning Genealogical Research):
Volumes of yarns retrieved from cross cultural research and interviews will encourage students to share personal and community stories as prerequisite to more indepth genealogical investigation! Participants will develop a collage time-line comprised of ancestral charts, original art and photographs.

FROM MEDU-NETER to GRANDE GRAFFITI!
(Cross-Cultural Penmanship)
Students will be increased in the power of the written word by experiencing the stimulation of Petroglyphs, Andinkra and Calligraphy & more! This cross-cultural investment will encourage all participants in the quintessential collaborative beauty of writing and mural art...

PEACE * SING!
(Piecing Commnunity Quilts):
Invest in the most ancient of ancestral arts by quilting incorporate with group singing! Participants will create a community quilt while learning songs that bind!

MUSICAL MIGRATIONS
(Diasporas Musically Defined)
Students learn the songs and stories of global communities via the musical traditions which traveled with them...all participants will be encouraged to focus on their specific ancestral roots...resulting in a unique cross-cultural teaching & learning
interdisciplinary exchange!

TEACHING TOLERANCE:
(Art as Evolution!)
Students will use role play and impromptu theatre to explore and embrace the universal principles of peace! Verbal and non-verbal skills building will insure enjoyment of this interactive model for mediation and values clarification...a socially empowering activity.

ECO * ENVIRONMENTAL EXPRESSION :
(Art From Recycleables):
Students will make art from discards...great for science fair projects as well as costuming! Disciplines embracing math, science and ecology and loads of creativity will instill in participants a life long commitment to Recycle, Reduce, Reuse...

SIGN A SONG!
(Choreographed Communication)
From basic international sign language...to group song signing, this second language opportunity will strengthen the observation and communicative skill of ALL who participate!

COWRIE SHELLS TELL!
(Exploring the Triangular Slave Trade)
With storytelling, oral histories and documentaries as a humanizing mediums, students will learn the historic facts of Africans in America...all participants will incorporate culturally specific visual / fabric art and jewelry crafting as factual reinforcement!

BRAILLE SPELL!
(Tactile Sensitivities)
Broaden student awareness by allowing opportunities for values clarification...participants will learn to overcome challenges by recognizing certain truths...willing participants will incorporate their braille awareness into hands-on art pieces.

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ISHAART...UYIAACC
(Traveling Exhibits)
(Classes & Work Shops & Lectures)

*THE ANKH SERIES *PREPAREDNESS * CELEBRATING THE CLOTH * KONGLOMERANT KINARAS * THE BOTTLE TREE SERIES * UJAMAA BOHARI * ADINKRAART * ALL THE HERBS IN SCRIPTURE * HERBLORE * IIYAH AXYOMZ * WRYTERZ * GRYOZ * TELLABRATION! * SHARING OURSTORY * KWANZAA * JUNETEENTH * A FAMILY REUNION * COMMUNITY QUILTING * GLOBAL GENEALOGICAL GENIOUS *

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Artist Residency
SAMPLE LESSON PLAN
"OWANGALIMA"
(6 to 8 sessions)

OWANGALIMA embodies the soul of community...people's lives...& as they live...& as they share...& as they receive...& as they love...& invest & multiply...& as they plan & as they build the collaborative dream...OWANGALIMA IS ALL THAT CommUnity IS!

* Orientation & Introductions *

Participants will meet the artist during this first visit...

The artist will introduce herself and share her artistic history by involving students in a call & response affirmation...

All participants write a short auto-biographical sketch, including a minimum of 2 school or classroom rules...

The artist will collect student bios and rules, randomly calling students to the podium to introduce themselves and share @ least 1 rule different from any previously given...

All students will be issued Art Journal Pages to be collected upon next visit...

The artist will retain rules & bios for follow-up visit...

* Second Session *

The Artist will querie students as to what happened during their previous session, in the order inwhich things occured, calling on them at random from the retained bios...

Artist will collect student Art Journal Pages...

The Artist will share with students the plan for the day, introducing the story..."OWANGALIMA"

All participants will view film, "OWANGALIMA"(:30)

All participants will be issued art suppies (recycled manila folders, crayons & markers)...

Artist will have students draw images from the story, calling on them by show of hands to discuss terms: COMMUNITY & SELF DETERMINATION...

Artist will issue Art Journal Pages...

* Third Session *

Artist will review previous activity...

Artist will collect Art Journal Pages...

Students will be randomly divided into balanced groups...

From a basket, students will draw character cards...

Each student will be given (:15) time to rehearse with their group...

Artist will visit each group, offering suggestions

Each group will be called up to perform versions of "OWANGALIMA"...

Artist will issue Art Journal Pages...

* Fourth Session *

Artist will collect Art Journal Pages...

Students will view video of previous rehearsal...

Artist and class will discuss PROPS & COSTUMES...

From recycled materials, grouped students will design & construct costumes and props...

Artist will issue Art Journal Pages...

SHOW & TELL REHEARSAL

* Fifth Session *

Students will finish costumes and props as needed...

FULL DRESS REHEARSAL

Art Journal Pages issued...

* GRANDE FINALE *

Art Journal Pages Collected...

Dressed in full costume with props set, grouped students will perform "OWANGALIMA"!
Performances will be taped...

Students will be asked to email final Art Journal entries to:
ultrayouth.ag.arts@gmail.com
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* LESSON PLAN OUTLINE *

RESIDENCY ASSESSMENT:

GOALS:

INTERDISCIPLINARY OBJECTIVES:

CONTENT AREAS:

STANDARDS:

DISCIPLINES:

METHODS of IMPLEMENTATION:

BEHAVIORAL OBJECTIVES:

RESOURCES, EQUIPMENT, MATERIALS & SUPPLIES REQUIRED:

SCHEDULE:

EVALUATIONS:

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Intro to Chautauqua:
(Sharing History And Remembering the Past...SHARP STORIES!)
Students will research and perform character REenactments drawn from historic individuals and events! From the cradle of civilization to global preparedness, participants will develop an eclectic oral and visual timeline with emphasis on costuming, world myths, legends and facts!

~CommUNITY COLLABORATIONS~

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• Bring beauty and respect into our lives
• Innovate new thought patterns
• Knock down racial, geographic, and generational walls
• Preserve our collective memories
• Shape our identities from birth through maturity
• Create wages and enhance the nation's economy
• Nurture skills that help us to excel globally ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
* Centro Cultural Latino de Memphis
* Danza Azteca Quetzalcoatl
* SEEDS of BLESSINGS
* T.A.M. (TN*ARK*MS) Farms
* Reno First UMC
* Rivendel Independent Living Center
* Holy Community UMC, Memphis
* Latino Memphis
* MidSouth Peace & Justice Center
Gandhi*King Conference
* R.E.A.L.
(*Responsibility *Earth *Art *Learning)
* Prayer in America, PBS
* Sierra Arts
* HARAMBEE Radio
* Washoe County Schools
* PBS / KNPB ~TV5
(Prayer In America)
* Bernice Martin Matthews Elementary School
* City of Reno Parks & Recreation
* Great Basin Foods CoOp
* Associated Catholic Charities, Inc.
* TELLABRATION!
* National Federation of Women of Color
* Memphis Museum Systems
* Center for Southern Folklore
* Environmental Protection Agency
(Lead Safe Kids)
* Raymond & Rosa Parks Institute
* Friends for Life
* Jabril World Institute
* Northwest Airlines
* LeMoyne-Owen College
* Memphis Black Arts Alliance
* Memphis Black Reperatory Theatre
(Costume & Set Design)
* Memphis City & Shelby County Schools
* C.O.R.E.
* C.O.R.R.
* Memphis & Shelby County Libraries
* Mid-South Peace & Justice Center
(JustPeace * Issues On Aging)
* National Civil Rights Museum
(S.H.A.R.P. YOUth!~Sharing History And Remembering the Past)
* Shelby State Community College
* Lucille Ewing CHILDREN's MUSEUM
* Memphis in May
(The Beggar of Soutile)
* The Mediation Center
* Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority
* TN, Ark, Miss (TAM) Farms
* Torchlight Institute
* University of Tennessee
* Victorian Village
* Alex Haley Museum
* Heritage Tours, Inc.
(SLAVE HAVEN)
* Be Visible Magazine
(HERbally YOUr's)
* Precious Carge Cultural Exchange
* Greater Memphis Arts Council
* USDA Farmer's Nutrition Program
* International League of Muslim Women
* Mississippi Agricultural CoOp
*USDA Eat 5 a Day Program
* Tn Association for the Preservation & Perpetuation of Storytelling
* Yarnspinners
* Lead Safe Kids
* Black Familty Reunion Inc.
* Children's Museums of America
* Senior Citizen's Services
* 21st Century Leadership Development
* WKNO-TV10
* Gateway Home School
* Sister Clara Muhammad School
* The Power Center, TN
* Women of Achievement, Inc.
* South Memphis Alliance
* Girl Scouts of America
* The MEDIA Center / Sierra Nevada Access TV
* Jack & Jill of America
* Coalition of 100 Black Women
* Institute of Amer-Afrikan Youth
* Jewish Community Center
* Memphis Parks Commission
* Project Spirit
* Sankofa @ University of Memphis
* AgriCENTER INTERNATIONAL
* River of Song, PBS
* Cablevision ~ Memphis
* Memphis Shelby County Health Department
* Southern Christian Leadership Conference
* Washoe County Library System
* Agnes Risley Elementary School
* The Bahias of Reno
* Boy' & Girl's Club Truckee Meadows
* Sagewind Community Garden
* I Can Do Anything Charter High School
* TMCC High School
* The Media Center / SNCAT
* The Bleu Lyon Gallery
* NAACP
* JUNETEENTH INTERNATIONAL
* Association for Creative Moral Education
* African Heritage Leadership Conference
* Blues City Cultural Center
* Neighborhood Mediation Center
* WKNO TV10

CHAUTAUQUA Sharing OURstory via Scholarly REenactment!

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CHAUTAUQUA

...be an active part of...

PRESERVATION & PERPETUATION

THE ORAL TRADITION

~via~

SCHOLARLY REENACTMENT

SPOKENWORD

CREATIVE MOVEMENT

SONG

&
SEMINAR

...CHAUTAUQUA...

THE

GLOBAL

STORYTELLING

CONTINUUM

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Sharing

History

AND

Remembering

the

PAST

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..AUDITION~REHEARSAL~PERFORMANCE~COSTUMING

&
~SEMINAR SCHEDULING~

PLEASE

901.562.5071

Asante' Sana...Thank YOU very much!

CommUniversity ARTIST*MEMBER Registry

2010-03-11T08:56:00.000-08:00

CommUniversity ARTIVIST*Member Registry Form

Date__________

We maintain an all inclusive directory of Artists and Crafts people of ALL artistic disciplines. As a CoOp Member, you have the privilege of being included in the registry!
In order to FULLY benefit from this Artist*Registry, please provide complete information. This information will be made available to the public UNLESS you request otherwise. Please update all entries regularly.

Name____________________________________________________
Address___________________________________________________
Phone(s)___________________________________________________
City, State, Zip______________________________________________
Email______________________________________________________
WebSite(s)__________________________________________________
Agent______________________________________________________
Arts Agencies________________________________________________

SPECIFIC CATEGORIES:

Dance...Film...Folk Art...Instrumental/Vocal Music...Literary Art...
Performance Art...Photography...Theater...Visual Art...Personal Artistic Philosophy...Artistic Goals...

Please submit photos and a chronological resume so that the most qualitative service can be rendered per your membership status and consent.

Indigenous Peoples Literature

2009-09-28T20:26:00.001-07:00

Indigenous Peoples Literature

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Sharing*OURstory

2009-09-20T08:36:00.000-07:00

Do
YOU Know YOUR
Genealogy?
REvisit YOUR Roots...Match Memories...Preserve the Past...Define Destiny
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...begin GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH now...
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"Concerted investment in YOURstory is; to say the least, THE unequivocal PREPAREDNESS Model...Your artifacts, papers, photographs and DNA are priceless commodities!"
iiYAH*ISHA
Cultural OURstorian
*** SCHEDULING GROUPS & INDIVIDUALS...
PERSONALIZED
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***Lectures, Seminars, Information & Referral and Workshops***
***
...contact us at...
SouthernArtistry.org/Isha_Echols
&
901.5625071
~
Memphis, TN
38106
storycorpsgriot.net
"...share YOUR story..."

OUR FUTURE!

2009-09-18T10:46:00.000-07:00

ALL

JUNETEENTH '09 * DownTown ALIVE!

2009-06-10T06:50:00.000-07:00

Ida & Zora

SPEAK!

...relive Memphis lore with past residents...

~IDA B. WELLS~

&
~ZORA NEALE HURSTON~

Southern Tenant Farmer's Union

2009-05-25T17:26:00.000-07:00

http://www.docudharma.com/diary/13739/stfu-by-LoE

365 DAYS*EARTHDAY

2009-04-23T16:57:00.000-07:00

...April 22nd is EARTH*DAY...
Does YOUR's meet the requisite 364 additional days?
...how WELL do YOU Love YOUR Mother?...

~REcycle~REduce~REuse~

...BE an EARTHSAVER...
~PLEASE~
Pass it on!

My cousin Robert Nesta

2009-02-26T13:30:00.000-08:00

MOTHER*LUV!

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1 JUNE 09

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...when WE are blest by design and having OUR way...

~a vessle of reconciliation will be set afloat on rivers of waters~

...in wHOLIstic homage to MaMa Yemanya...

~incrumental talisman in 3threes & 7sevens will drift upon the cascading depths~

...as visualizations &; actualizations make magical manifestions...

~in ALL the SIStahs who are Mothers & Mothers & Daughters of Mothers...

...gathering HARAMBEE style ALLways & forEVER...

i*c*u

MotherSistahWoman...longing distressedly for the ReBorn MOTHER in YOU...I am given recognizability for I see self same forlorn longing withINN me...

YOUr frequent tears ARE libatory release for OUR living birth pain...your tears are cause for alternate,heARTfelt pain & sadness & rage running to & fro in me...

The unfriendly, familiar trepidation worn haggardly within you...makes me know fear recognizeably selfsame w/in me...as I rejoice in BEING better willingly able to lately calibrate unwell energies into those which strengthen my dedicated desire for divine discipline & cognitive powers...WE will walk this ethereally challenging path of prosperity & victory...succeeding in the likeness of NONE other! As we move...increasing results occur...soon we fly...NEVER to die...as we live in the now & everlasting!

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HARVEST*PEACE

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06DEC08

heART's

...Mind~Mine...

~the clay from which life is molded~

Picasa Web Albums - Sher'on - Sistasunderatree

2008-06-27T08:21:00.000-07:00

Picasa Web Albums - Sher'on - Sistasunderatree

Taking good care of my baby brother......!

2008-05-15T11:05:00.000-07:00

Hayyy, my name is Hezekiah and i have a new baby brother. I love to help my mommi take care of him. Right now i'm feeding him his lunch. When he grows up, we will be able to run and play. Today i just like hanging out with my little brother Najee.

Welcome the new addition, Mr. Najee

2008-05-15T11:00:00.000-07:00

Hi, my name is Najee. On this pic i was only a few days old. I'm glad to be here with my big brother.

FAIR TRADE MARKET PLACE

2008-03-06T09:09:00.000-08:00

~Ultra Culture~
~DUNIA ~KIJANI~BOHARI~
*world*GREEN*market*
INTERGENERATIONAL*MULTICULTURAL*INTERNATIONAL

(...FAIR*TRADE...)

...sustainable, original Art & Products & Services from the dedicated
heARTs
of

member Crafts Persons, Artists, Educators & Mentors

WELCOME

to our

INdoor ~ OUTdoor~CyberSpace
FairTrade

...MarketPlace...

MEMBERSHIP GUIDELINES

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~Annual Fee~
$84.00
$7 Monthly Fees
...per individual...
$300.00
$21 Monthly Fees
...business affiliates...
**

~Consignment sales paid by the 15th monthly, minus 10%~

~ Member Vendors are asked to commit to a minimum seven hour site / event volunteer schedule monthly ~
~Member purchases less 10%~

~ Member Artists & Vendors are welcome to participate in all events~

...please call...

901.562.5071
...for FairTrade Participation...
&
...product info...
uccommuniversity@gmail.com

~send self addressed, stamped envelope to~
Ultra*Culture
P.O. Box 3990
Memphis, TN
38173
~FAIR TRADE~
~Moral Responsibility~Environmental Sustainability~
~Social Obligation~Economic Empowerment~

~Asante' sana~
~thank YOU very much!~

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DUNIA (world)
KIJANI (green)
BOHARI (market place)
*
"...bartering balances & blesses..."
www.SouthernArtistry.Org/Isha_ Echols

ISHA*MAXIMS

2007-06-21T08:28:00.000-07:00

i WILL design U safehaven

w/ minarets so far reaching

WE*WILL

soar further than the moon

we will welcome melodies w/ swift eagles & angels who fly

i will compose U a tune

...then...

example for U loving as warm as ancient ovens

...if THAT does not suit U...

i WILL work forEVER

i will WOmaniFEST all things ~ new!

POWER ~ ...the inherent ability to affect & define truth & change & witness that PEACE truth * change be born & made manifest in others...

Are the gifts and talents which YOU embody and sincerely swing attached to heaven blest wings ~ OR ~
Are the talents and gifts YOU embody and swing attached to winding and binding giving to get strings?
What measure a helping hand which stands predominate as selfish inroad to broadcast for some empty form of piss poor praise
Better to give and recieve with a heart*mind for Eloheem flavored things...
Best to recieve with a mind*heart bursting to share...
Blessings cannot be bound in hearsay and psuedo pleasure
Bear FULL witness to just what the REAL ways of love lay up for treasure
By what yard stick scale does your wholistic*charity truely measure?
~

...not every closed eye slumbers...

REVELATION IS GRACE!

Not every farewell indicates departure...

When 1One assists 1One other...at least 2Two are strengthened...ALL that WE keep, WE lose...that which WE give, WE have...as everything WE share is multiplied!

...loneliness may be an emotionally extreme form of suffering...ALL ways allow that halcyon memories of joyful times keep you quiet company...

...violence negatively impacts both culture and heART...

...nothing occurs until something happens...

LOYALTY HAS MUCH TO DO WITH SELF AWARENESS & MUTUAL RESPECT

consciousness ...challenges crassness...scorn & hate

~ choosing is not claiming ~

The POWER of GRACE

~ amazing ~

...guarantees living in the JOYLUV of the ALL...

...ORDER*ORDAINS...

dedicated discipline and discerning diligence

...COURTESY COUNTS!...

The tongue has no power expect that given by heart & mind...

1One who loves cannot hate...1One who hates cannot love!

"FREE FISHING DAY IN RENO"

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OUR FRUITFUL FUTURE!

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GROW in the garden!

...firmly rooted in common * unity...
...of COURSE...
U may say that I ran away...
...but really it is more like i was just pulled & drifted...
Tumbling
Royal & Ragged
Fecund
WOMAN*WEED... that is me...
MUST be have been flowering grown succulant to some-
...haggling eyesore want-needed no more to that BELOVED 1one & those...

WHEN U look
...PLEASE come find me...
I too WANT to be where/ ALL the rows are aligned
...and the bountiful bud breaks welcome beautifully ...
...in the fullness of honored 1st fruit*peace*time...

& the prolific ALL rally & up down line
...though speaking ONLY transparent*truth...
SHARING PRODUCE...DIVINE!

Calling
ALL
Glamoured Global Genealogical Green Garden Growers
...did U know that U are this...
2me?

...a bird roosts in peace on INCLINE VILLAGE stairway...

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...La Paradisa de Ella...

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GLOBAL * GENEALOGICAL * GARDENS

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DOES UR CURRENT VOCATIONAL COMMITMENT, LIFESTYLE, HOBBY, SOCIAL OUTLET, STATUS OFFER U NONRESTRICTIVE SPIRIT EXPANDING AEROBIC RESULT and CONTENTMENT ?
...well...
Community Gardening

DOES!
...we welcome ...
&
invite
YOU to OUR
GREENSPACE
@
Teglia's
PARADISE*PARK

6p...SPIRITUAL*Sundays
scheduled classes
8a...TUTORIAL*Tuesdays
&
3:45p...TUTORIAL * Thursdays
potluck 6:30p...THANKSGIVING*Thursdays
city center
4p ~ 8p...FARMER'S*MARKET*Fridays
9a~1p...R.E.A.L.*Saturday*School
~*~

...please feel free to come as U *R...
...come lend UR qualitative, extraordinary mind, body & spirit to hOUR preparedness*peace &
beautification model...

*Responsibility *Earth *Art *Learning*
Asante Sana...Thank YOU Very Much !

26april07
...if WE were certain that the world would end tomorrow...
WOULD we plant a seed, right into THE paradisayo MOTHER's dark*rich soil THIS very day?

...and once, finally OUR green*space breaks bud & grows & grows...
WILL we gather together OUR aesthetic*plenty and dress a table of succulance for ALL the WORLD's delight?

30april07
WE

as
1one
WILL
ever & ever
REconstitute...REcalibrate
Blest*Time*Honored*Glamoured
WEllness
standing
on the ferTILE paradisayo
PEACE*piece
square
whisper*shouting
ase'
ASE'
!
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...should U perhaps...
come upon
US
WE could be
pleading, prostrate & fallen, forlorn...

WE
could be
bruised & yes bloody & even broken...
WE could be silently suffering
&
...in...
debilatating DISease -
WE could be
ALL alone in UR world's face reality...
WE have ALL told / shown U
...over & over & over ...
"WE just love the lulling life
of
UR aromatic garden*green
COMMUNIVERSITY!"
WOULD U lay UR hands on hOUR battered & infected hand's open heARTs?
Would U speak in URtongue's open love
2

ME
that
day?

WE

r

that

1one

INTRAETHNOGENDAENVIROMULTIECONATIONAL

being

of the

WORLD

!

http.//www.procreo.jp/labo/flower_garden.swf

eARTh * Tales!

2007-04-01T16:04:00.000-07:00

Energy saving

Agri*culture

Reduces waste

Teaches perma*culture

Heals environments!

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Sharing OURstory

17 April 08

THANKSGIVING*THURSDAY

6p~8p

on OUR 38th eARThday

...commemoration...

as the flags of the world unfurl

in mournfilled dedication

flapping

as they do too in this

*U*S*A*

sky

the stars & the bars

...KNOWING...

fully

well

WHY?

The sunshines as the planet cries...and as we ALL die...we ALL cry watching

waiting*world* innocents

...terrified to die...

the true roots

Mother*eARTh*Essence

Diseazed

& cries & cries &

WE*ALL

die

war & anguish & pain & aids & fear & trauma & poverty & ecoli

KNOWING

when

1one

other

dies

...as WE are desensitized to DISeaze as ALL the world's unfurled and bloody flapping, contaminate, guilty flapping flags are as empty worn wagons of disillusioned hope rattling loudly...

do U hEAR the NOise?

...# ~#...

(...I remember...I dream a world...I recall...)

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

INTERGENERATIONAL

* ECOLOGY *

DIALOGUES

*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

ENVIRONMENTAL * ACTIVISM

WHEN?

Thursday, April 17th

6p ~ 8p

Saturday, April 19th...

3p.m. ~ 6p.m.

WHERE?

MEMPHIS BLACK ARTS ALLIANCE

Fire House Academy

985 S. Bellevue

WHAT?

...eARTh * Tales...

COMMUNITY GARDENING & BEAUTIFICATION

(simple stories which bless, empower & heal)

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Be an EARTHSAVER!

Encourage...

Acreage,

RainForests,

Trees,

Harmony!

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

Monday ~ Friday

Eco * Enviro

10a

STORYHOUR

KINDERGARDENING

RSVP

901.948.9522

ultrayouth.ag.arts@gmail.com

HONORING

MOTHER*EARTH

365

days

ALL

ways

SISTAH*WOMEN'S Tales..naming names...

2007-03-10T20:52:00.000-08:00

...winifred, surrelda, dovie, alice louise, frances, mayasir...

world*ages
c / u(s)
ever new*being of heART*soul*grace

THEN U were simply mudclothclad Rose Sanders, Esquire

Sauntering beneath the dripping antebellum moss of TOUGALOO -

We'd respectfully gathered in heARTfelt joyluv considerate commemorative REdedication to the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
& when (O)UR vitalizing civil rights voice resounds
even glorious*galactic suns & moons & stars
bow righteously down & down...dutifully obeying
permanently paying justifiable attention & ALL preassessed debt
that I&i&I & U be ethereally at 1one with 1another & order...
centering now & ever in ALL time...LIFTING OUR SELF*SISTERS UP with simple, increasing beginnings as Diane or Beverly or Fran or Attorney Sanders...Time tempered recieving , owning & claiming ...neverending Sistahsojourn as Shamana and IiYAH*ISHA and Mama D'Ufaranza and...Faya*Rose Toure -

26april07

BEING

given the zawadu*gift

MY*NAME

hallelu*JAH

I rejoice in the zawadi*gift

MY*NAME

I appreciate the FREEDOM*GIFT

MY*NAME

I was challeged in reciept of 1other gift

MY*NAME

as I was offered the zawadi*gift

MY*NAME

&
in

I evolved in acceptance of the zawadi*gift

MY*NAME

&
as i travel this hiejira*gift

MY*NAME

I rest in the comfort of the

UNIVERSAL*GODDESSENCE

allowing me

undulant, empyREAL

golden opportunity

in helping me live

MY*NAME!

as i am just of few of the world's Wonder* Women claiming peace & justice...living up to & naming names...everlasting!

*
as unequivocal & forgiving

COMING SOON!

Sharing OURstory.......April, 2007

**~*~*~*~*eARTh * tales*~*~*~*~**

(...I remember, I recall, I dream...a world...)

* intergenerational * ecology * dialogues *

ORAL HISTORY as ENVIRONMENTAL

ACTIVISM
scheduling individual & group interviews & workshops

ultrayouth@blackplanet.com

Asante sana...thank YOU very much!

EARTH*ANGEL*WOMAN
...GODDESSENCE...
Mothah*Sistah*Healer
...WE...

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* CELEBRATION via PARPTICIPATION *

Sharing OURstory
March
2007
* intergenerational * diversity * dialogues *

WHEN:.......Thursdays
1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd, 29th March
7p - 9p

WHERE:.......SNCAT / The Media Center
4024 Kietzke Lane
Reno, NV 89502

WHAT:.......S.H.A.R.P. Stories / Genealogy / Oral History
Sharing History AND Remembering the Past!

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INTERGENERATIONAL DIVERSITY DIALOGUES

2007-01-26T14:26:00.000-08:00

S.H.A.R.P.
(Sharing * History * AND * Remembering the Past)
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...a MULTI*MEDIA...
KOMMUNITY * ARTS * KOLLABORATIVE
* Revisiting OUR Roots * Reading Theatre * Reel Faith * Genealogy Matters * Preparedness Planning * Tolerance Teachings * Sharing OURstory * Group Art Projects * Oral Histories * Information & Referral * Values Clarification *
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CELEBRATING Amer*African HISTORY MONTH
February 6, 13, 20, 27, 2007
6:30p - 8:30p
Exploring, Investing, Designing, Manifesting!
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SNCAT / The Media Center
4024 Kietzke Lane
Reno, Nv 89502
************************************************
RSVP
775.544.6907
Asante Sana...Thank YOU Very Much!

THE ANCESTOR'S BREATH

2007-01-17T06:24:00.000-08:00

BREATHS

Listen more often to things, than to beings,
Listen more often to things than to beings,
'Tis the ancestor's breath when the fire's voice is heard,
'Tis the ancestor's breathin the voice of the waters

Those who have died have never, never left.
The dead are not under the earth.
They are in the rustling trees, They are in the groaning woods,
They are in the crying grass,
They are in the moaning rocks.
The dead are not under the earth.

Those who have died have never, never left.
The dead have a pact with the living.
They are in the woman's breast,
They are in the wailing child,
They are with us in our homes,
They are with us in this crowd.
The dead have a pact with the living.

Listen more often to things than to beings,
Listen more often to things than to beings,
'Tis the ancestor's breath when the fire's voice is heard,
'Tis the ancestor's breath in the voice of the waters.
Birago Diop

ENHANCING ORGANIZATIONAL EFFICIENCY: 101

2006-11-27T16:53:00.000-08:00

...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

KOMMUNITY * KWANZAA * KOTTILLION * 2006

2006-11-01T21:08:00.001-08:00

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!

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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!

KWANZAA*KYDZ

2006-09-21T12:44:00.000-07:00

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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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KATRINA...RELIVED!

2006-09-19T17:45:00.001-07:00

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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Evaluating EMANCIPATION EduAgriCULTURAL*Arts Empowerers

2006-09-17T14:12:00.000-07:00

...A PRACTICAL FORMULA WITH WHICH TO ASSESS & BEGIN...

WHO

...are YOU?
...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 do it?
...would you do it again?

...would you not do it again?

WHEN

...did YOU do it?

WHERE

...did YOU do it?
...would you do it now?

HOW

...did YOU do it?
...are YOU changed?

WOULD

...YOU do it again?

...AN EFFECTIVE FORMULA WITH WHICH TO EVALUATE & begin again...

Asant Sana...Thank YOU Very Much!

HER*blore

2006-09-17T13:09:00.000-07:00

...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

SAYYIDAH SHARIFA "Katrina" RAHIM

2006-08-26T14:14:00.000-07:00

...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!

...of EMANCIPATION CELEBRATIONS..."WHAT ART CIVIL LIBERTIES?"...HATE CRIMES & JUST*PEACE...

2006-07-10T16:13:00.000-07:00

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!

...KARAMIBOHARI de WATATOSUJAMAA...

2006-07-02T14:46:00.000-07:00

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

uccommuniversity@gmail.com

EMANCIPATION * AGRI * CULTURAL * EDU * ARTS * JOURNAL

2006-05-29T13:21:00.000-07:00

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
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...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!

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ultrayouth@blackplanet.com
ultrayouth.ag.arts@gmail.com
ultrayouth.org
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Ultra YOUth! Agri CULTURAL Arts Cooperative Communiversity
P.O. Box 40754
Reno, NV
89504
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775.284.9557

Artivist ~ Philosophy

2006-04-21T06:49:00.000-07:00

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.

Sayings & Symbols to Write & to Color!

2006-02-28T18:01:00.000-08:00

...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

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

ultrayouth.ag.arts@gmail.com

775.544.6907

Asante Sana...Thank YOU Very Much!

R.E.A.L.

2006-01-21T17:48:00.000-08:00

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...KONCERNED*KOMMUNIVERSITY*KONCEPTS...

insuring & confirming
that

ALL

future * generations

WILL*BE

of

Mind*heART

enABLING*WHERE

w/

ALL

Stature * Capacity

2

shARE the FREEland

!
...Responsibilty...
...Earth...
...Art...
...Learning...

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an
INTERGENERATIONAL
Interdisciplinary
EDUCATIONAL
* agri CULTURAL arts*
COLLABORATIVE
@
THE Truckee Meadows BOY'S & GIRL'S CLUB
2680 East 9th Street
&
PARADISE PARK COMMUNITY GARDEN
Reno, Nevada

GREAT BASIN CO-OP
271 WONDER

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24 - 7

TLC

RIVENDEL

Independent Living * Green Healing Centres

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...WE are creating an interdisciplinary grassroots, faithbased, service learning eduCULTURALarts model which SHOULD mimic the world in it's entirety...

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MLKjr. Celebrations '06

2006-01-17T09:14:00.000-08:00

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...

Brother MIKE...MLK jr. - "Doc"

2006-01-03T11:53:00.000-08:00

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...

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.

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

Father
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!

A KWANZAA PAGEANT...featuring...KONGLOMERANT KINARAS!

2005-12-15T11:21:00.000-08:00

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!

WE ARE 1ONE!

2005-12-06T11:21:00.000-08:00

...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!

ASANTE SANA * OURSTORIANS * THANK YOU's

2005-11-26T13:46:00.000-08:00

...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!

KOGLOMERANT * KINARAS

2005-11-25T12:20:00.000-08:00

...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!

THE BOTTLE TREE

2005-11-25T11:47:00.000-08:00

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...

Cross cultural interminglings have made the preservation & perpetuation of the spiritual and asthetic appeal of bottle trees so significant that latter day versions of them are recognized as cultural purveyors and visual symbols of ECO*ENVIRO*ARTS
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!

TELLABRATION! / RIVERSCHOOL SCHEDULE / 19 NOV 05

2005-11-07T15:08:00.000-08:00

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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!

TELLABRATIONS! '05 / Commemorative EVENT Journal

2005-10-26T18:57:00.000-07:00

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A Collabortive Investment of the FRIENDS of
The ULTRA YOUth! INTERGENERATIONAL Agri CULTURAL Arts COOPERATIVE
&
The RIVER SCHOOL
@
INTERPRETIVE GARDENS
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...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!

...PREPAREDNESS...

2005-08-31T13:04:00.000-07:00
(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...

Ultra YOUth! ...since... 1985!

2005-08-11T19:26:00.000-07:00

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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...
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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!

BLACK BOX THEATRE

2005-08-02T16:15:00.000-07:00

SOPHISTICATED THEATRE
for the
DISCERNING ADULT!

...presenting...

JEAN * PAUL SARTRE's

1 Act Play

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...NO EXIT...NO EXIT...NO EXIT...NO EXIT...NO EXIT...NO EXIT...
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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
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WITHOUT DOUBT!

2005-07-25T18:45:00.000-07:00

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!

ULTRA YOUth! MENTORS

2005-07-24T12:58:00.000-07:00

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!

...WISHLIST...

2005-07-23T15:20:00.000-07:00

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PLEASE CONTACT US!
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ultrayouth.ag.arts@gmail.com
901.734.6902
P.O.Box 3990, Memphis, TN 38173HARAMBEE...Let's Pull Together!
Thank YOU! Very Much!...
ASANTE SANA!

...PREPAREDNESS...

2005-07-23T14:47:00.000-07:00

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!

2005-07-23T12:16:00.000-07:00

FAIR TRADE
EMANCIPATION EMPOWERMENT
...365 Days...
A L L W A Y S !

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

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...
*
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...
*
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!

ULTRA YOUth! INTERGENERATIONAL Agri CULTURAL Arts COMMUNITY GARDENING & BEAUTIFICATION COLLABORATIVE

2005-06-24T14:27:00.000-07:00

PLAN...PREPARE...PLANT...MAINTAIN...HARVEST...PRESERVE...FEED...EAT...LIVE!
...THE FANNIE LOU HAMER FREEDOM FARMS...

ULTRA*CULTURE AG*ARTS
Intergenerational

Community Garden

VARIOUS SITES
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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ultrayouth.ag.arts@gmail.com
775.544.6907

901.562.5071
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JUNETEENTH...2007

2005-06-15T13:06:00.000-07:00

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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ULTRA YOUth!
INTERGENERATIONAL
Agri CULTURAL Arts
COOPERATIVE
COMMUNIVERSITY

celebrates

JUNETEENTH
Jubilee * Sunday
HONORING
...survivors & descendants of the Middle Passage...
Father's Day
17 June 07
8a & 10a Congregational Services
@
Reno 1st Methodist Church
209 West 1st Street
featuring
...the spoken word offered by...
IiYAH*ISHA
&
Sher'on Jackson
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
JUNETEENTH
19 June 07
Agri*CULTURAL*Arts
Dawn to Dusk
REDEDICATION
Bar*B*Que
potluck
DRUM*CIRCLE
Paradise Park, Reno
~*~
DROP in the BUCKET
...community sustenance service...
23 June07
9a
209 West 1st Street
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23 June 07
R.E.A.L.
*Responsibility *Earth *Art *Learning
^*^
City of Reno
Block Party
12p - 5p
~*~
24 June 07
JUNETEENTH*TALES
@
The HOLLAND Project
hollandreno.blogspot.com
~*~
25 June 07
7p
1st METH*BOOK Club
(Seeing in the Dark)
775.544.6907
renofirstmethodist.org
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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!
(thank YOU very much!)
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JUNETEENTH...144!

2005-06-14T20:09:00.000-07:00

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 144 years ago 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 captives whose ears were privileged to recieve the words of the EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION. Oral Histories document, many hundreds captives 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 terrorism and Jim Crow Laws.

...and so we count 144 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 Enslaved 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 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 FIGHTERS...MARCHING on to even GREATER HEIGHTS of much deserved FREEDOM!

Asante' sana...thank YOU very much!

JUNETEENTH COMMERATIVE PRODUCTS ARE AVAILABLE!

PLEASE CONTACT US...ultrayouth.ag.arts@gmail.com

ASANTE SANA...THANK YOU!

Sharing OURstory...An Oral History Continuum

2005-05-27T11:34:00.000-07:00

"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

...Amazing ASSuMErs...

2005-05-26T14:24:00.000-07:00

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!
We are in well & correct order...being amazed by or with beings who are audacious ASSuMErs is indeed proper ...I refer to those beings who take self propagating ASSuming liberties with disrespect to the personal space and / or time of others...ALTHOUGH THESE BEINGS EXAMPLE THE UTMOST DISrespect as relates to their delusional desire of power and serious issues of contrived control, BE NOT ANGRY WITH THEM...they either know NOT what they do...OR...they do not have an inherent sence of wellness and SELF CONTROL.
Their's is angry madness aplenty!
Bear witness to their tone and their timing...aren't they usually very actively centered in the negative, controlling maelstrom of self?

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 them
HATERZ!
...
ONCE CHOSEN...OBTAINED!
...NOW...
...
WHO
DO
YOU
LOVE?

ULTRA YOUth! OVERSTANDS...

2004-12-10T16:59:00.000-08:00

Because we fully comit to being a unified body...we strive not ceasingly to be ever diligent in our quest for GLOBAL PEACE & JUSTICE! We are the ULTRA YOUth! INTERGENERATIONAL Agri CULTURAL Arts Cooperative COMMUNIVERSITY!

HISTORY
For more than two decades we have existed as an Intergenerational Agri CULTURAL Arts Cooperative, providing educational as well as entreprenural options for member youth, their families and the community at large. ULTRA YOUth! has grown to be a globally affiliated, multi-tasking activism continuum.

PURPOSE
This community service body has remained committed to assisting in the preparation of youth...ALL people for satisfying, productive and rewarding lives. Our cooperative sees the all encompassing benefits associated with intergenerational, ecological / environmental investment and networking.
Sharing initiatives involving worldwide extended family members are instrumental in the reinforcement of age old concepts TRUE COMMUNITY!

GOALS
We strive diligently to structure an ever present, strong MENTORING SUPPORT SYSTEM. We are active in obtaining and maintaining facilities which foster safe and life enhancing economic,educational and recreational opportunities! We are focused in all our efforts to create entrepreneurial and educational opportunities for all.

ULTRA YOUth! teaches both practical and philosophical lessons in socio-economic arenas as artists and Peace Advocates for global tolerance and community empowerment!

The ULTRA YOUth! credo speaks to it's predominate mission...INTERGENERATIONAL ACTIVISM, COMMUNITY, SERVICE, VOLUNTEERISM and LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT!

As we have learned from many schools of order and consciousness...We rely on SELF centered in the omnipotence of HIGHER POWER...THE GODWILL FLOURISHES! We have actualized the sheer power of UNITY...from our very beginnings...it IS the power of that self same unifying energy which has caused and empowered us to align with andn and respond to the Power of Right Order in ALL which is rooted in PEACE & JUSTICE!

We are 1st...We are last...We are honored...We are scorned...We are FREE...We are enslaved...We are liberal...We are liberators...We are men...We are women...We are boys & girls...We are educated...We are illiterate...though not ignorant...We are the poor and the rich...as our standards for wealth are not based upon the dictates of the world's gold standards...We are the weak and the strong...WE are YOU...YOU are WE and WE are 1!

We embrace and nuture environmental concerns...this planet is our starship...we must enjoy and be well in the journey which it provides!

The ULTRA INTERGENERATIONAL Agri CULTURAL Arts COOPERATIVE COMMUNIVERSITY is undeniably dedicated in the areas of: THE 7 PRINCIPLES of KWANZAA (Nguzo Saba)...Peaceful & Just Mediation...Fair & Equitable Sharing & Referral of Information...Community Gardening & Beautification...Environmental Activism...Artist Advocacy...Cooperative Economics...Creativity...Harmonious UNITY...Collective Work & Responsibility...Agri CULTURAL Arts...

Agri CULTURAL Art as EVOLUTION!

EDU * ARTS OVERVIEW (CROSS CURRICULAR COLLABORATIONS)

~CommUNITY COLLABORATIONS~

CHAUTAUQUA Sharing OURstory via Scholarly REenactment!

CommUniversity ARTIST*MEMBER Registry

Indigenous Peoples Literature

Sharing*OURstory

OUR FUTURE!

JUNETEENTH '09 * DownTown ALIVE!

Southern Tenant Farmer's Union

365 DAYS*EARTHDAY

My cousin Robert Nesta

MOTHER*LUV!

HARVEST*PEACE

Picasa Web Albums - Sher'on - Sistasunderatree

Taking good care of my baby brother......!

Welcome the new addition, Mr. Najee

FAIR TRADE MARKET PLACE

ISHA*MAXIMS

"FREE FISHING DAY IN RENO"

OUR FRUITFUL FUTURE!

...a bird roosts in peace on INCLINE VILLAGE stairway...

...La Paradisa de Ella...

GLOBAL * GENEALOGICAL * GARDENS

eARTh * Tales!

SISTAH*WOMEN'S Tales..naming names...

INTERGENERATIONAL DIVERSITY DIALOGUES

THE ANCESTOR'S BREATH

ENHANCING ORGANIZATIONAL EFFICIENCY: 101

KOMMUNITY * KWANZAA * KOTTILLION * 2006

KWANZAA*KYDZ

KATRINA...RELIVED!

Evaluating EMANCIPATION Edu*Agri*CULTURAL*Arts Empowerers

HER*blore

SAYYIDAH SHARIFA "Katrina" RAHIM

...of EMANCIPATION CELEBRATIONS..."WHAT ART CIVIL LIBERTIES?"...HATE CRIMES & JUST*PEACE...

...KARAMI*BOHARI de WATATOS*UJAMAA...

EMANCIPATION * AGRI * CULTURAL * EDU * ARTS * JOURNAL

Artivist ~ Philosophy

Sayings & Symbols to Write & to Color!

R.E.A.L.

MLKjr. Celebrations '06

Brother MIKE...MLK jr. - "Doc"

A KWANZAA PAGEANT...featuring...KONGLOMERANT KINARAS!

WE ARE 1ONE!

ASANTE SANA * OURSTORIANS * THANK YOU's

KOGLOMERANT * KINARAS

THE BOTTLE TREE

TELLABRATION! / RIVERSCHOOL SCHEDULE / 19 NOV 05

TELLABRATIONS! '05 / Commemorative EVENT Journal

...PREPAREDNESS...

Ultra YOUth! ...since... 1985!

BLACK BOX THEATRE

WITHOUT DOUBT!

ULTRA YOUth! MENTORS

...WISHLIST...

...PREPAREDNESS...

NGUZO SABA...THE 7 PRINCIPLES of KWANZAA!

ULTRA YOUth! INTERGENERATIONAL Agri CULTURAL Arts COMMUNITY GARDENING & BEAUTIFICATION COLLABORATIVE

JUNETEENTH...2007

JUNETEENTH...144!

Sharing OURstory...An Oral History Continuum

...Amazing ASSuMErs...

ULTRA YOUth! OVERSTANDS...

Evaluating EMANCIPATION EduAgriCULTURAL*Arts Empowerers

...KARAMIBOHARI de WATATOSUJAMAA...