SAYYIDAH SHARIFA "Katrina" RAHIM

...in this year's time, my heart seeks your's over so many minutes and so many miles...

Seem's much more than 1one year since Katrina...this first anniversary causes me to think on the very special times of OUR lives...prompts me to realize again and again the very essence of appreciation I feel for YOU!

Perhaps I never told you...Your decision to make the move to New Orleans several years ago gave me strength to adopt the proverbial brave heart of SISTAH SOJOURNER when I heeded Reno's call some two years ago. I knew full well you were of strong mantle to travel to the Gulf from Memphis - I never felt that it was easy for you to distance yourself geographically from Mother, Harun...our beautiful baby girls - I knew THEN; however, much better NOW...YOU ARE THAT NEW FRONTIER WOMAN...spiritually willing and dedicatedly able...

Please accept my sincere apology for not communicating with you regularly these past months...PLEASE know, I am fully tested & vested and STILL on the journey - I do not think it remiss of me to consider that you know FULL well the taxing process of reinventing one's self around new places and Oh so many, many new (sometimes smiling) faces...

I have ALL ways considered nothing less than success for us...I OVERSTOOD your being unable to rush immediately back to Memphis after the levies were blown...I still remember EVERY word you shared with me those days, weeks and months after your catastrophic leaving of New Orleans.

From your gift of truth to me, the heART of my children has known power and glory...the posters they made from your words hung predominately at the University of Nevada's Reno CHURCHILL Campus Gallery and at the First United Methodist Reno Church Gallery during the July ART*TOWN sanctioned event..."WHAT ART CIVIL LIBERTIES?"...we collaborated with the ACLU as performers and exhibitors...

Thinking about YOU as I write...I remember as I recall...

It is not new for you and I to work as one per community events...Remember? How about almost twenty years and counting - from BLACK FAMILY REUNIONS, KING HOLIDAYS, KWANZAA, MEMPHIS in MAY, SENIOR CITIZEN CONFERENCES, AFRICA in APRIL, CAMPING EXCURSIONS, BIRTHS, DEATHS...and so, so much more...

I appreciate you being there for me...US!
I appreciate my SAYYIDAH (Learned*Teacher) SHARIFA...
ALL ways loving...FOREVER standing long & strong!

Asante Sana...Thank YOU Very Much!
PEACE & BLESSINGS!

I sincerely love and cherish YOU!

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

This PEACE*PIECE serves as Asante Sana...Thank YOU Very Much missive for ALL the ways WE are 1ONE!

We may ALL agree to the success YOUR involvement fueled per OUR JUNETEENTH CELEBRATIONS...I'd like to personally thank YOU for the UJIMA (Collective Work & Responsibilty)!

Being blessed to ACTIVELY participate in making manifest what many of us deem as our "HOPE*CHEST - HARVEST for the WORLD"- I bear FULL witness! ALL our efforts equate 1ONENESS...AS WE ARE ONE!

OUR work as EDU*ARTS*AgriCULTURALISTS is so very rewarding...as well as it is so very demanding...even sometimes taxing...as it is ABSOLUTELY so very necessary!

Since last some of us celebrated together, there has been JOY as well as PAIN...

*...some of YOU already know of the theft of our donated IRON*CRANE art sculture from within the locked gates of our community gardening site at Paradise Park...

*...some or YOU know too of the HATE*CRIMES against some our very dedicated members and family...incidents involving racist rhetoric written on bright green sticky notes and stuck to vehichular windshields in video monitored parking garages...there too has been slanderous gossip and threats, destruction of property by vandalism & arson...

However, PLEASE know this...

We collectively agree to renounce EVERY LIE ORDAINED BY HATE...touching and agreeing with LOVE*ALLWAYS...as LOVE UNEQUIVOCALLY REPUDIATES ALL HATE!

I am so glad that WE are Lovers...Peace*Providers...The Sons & the Daughters of LIFE...longing to be well & stay on this JOY filled journey!

I am so glad WE ARE 1ONE.

joyluvALLways!

ultrayouth.org

Thank YOU...Asante Sana!

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

Ultra*Culture Ag*Arts CommUniversity

...Intergenerational Culturally diverse & generous * marketplace fosters YOUth!* cooperative economics*

(being a cyberspace auction fundraising ware~sharehouse comprised of donated and consigned goods and services)

...depends upon the care and support of conscious individuals and organizations to perpetuate and sustain our quarter century organization...

Asante sana...thank YOU very much!

901.562.5071

775.544.6907

uccommuniversity@gmail.com

EMANCIPATION * AGRI * CULTURAL * EDU * ARTS * JOURNAL

Summer 2006

EDUCATOR'S GUIDE
...featuring...
Reproduceable - ART & LESSONS PLANS & FORMS

Assessment & Evaluation Tools * Coloring Pages * Community Gardening & Beautification * Eco^Wise Crafts * Juneteenth Scripts * Constitutionally Your's * Lady Liberty * Buffalo Soldiers * The 4th of July * Art From Recycleables * Sharing OURstory *

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* 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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...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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Ultra YOUth! Agri CULTURAL Arts Cooperative Communiversity
P.O. Box 40754
Reno, NV
89504
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775.284.9557

Artivist ~ Philosophy

My artistic vision is influenced by much and many people, places and events which serve as catalyst to my spirit of creativity. I  relate the artistic pleasure cruise
I live within as directly  influenced by every aspect of my past, my present and my future...

As a child growing up in a pivotal time of  Amer*African struggles for basic civil rights, it was instilled in me by my Elders to observe and listen well. I recognize the basic skill of respectfully paying attention has made manifest in me an inherent love for the dramatically aesthetic. I learned that to SILENT*LISTEN  relates qualitatively to learning, chronocalling and sharing stories.

At a very young age I was encouraged to read...newspapers, the bible...even comics. I was encouraged to write. At first, my writing was vested in keeping steady communication with friends and relatives. By age 8 or 9, I found satisfaction in writing poems and doodling in diaries and the numerous, greatly anticipated sketch pads which I frequently recieved as gifts from relatives and family friends...Those supportive and encouraging complimentary gifts laid the exacting foundation for much of what I incorporate and implement in my many years as an interdisciplinary cultural artivist and educator.

My current arts objectives are rooted in a simplistic goal to pass on to others that which has been passed on to me. I make efforts to do this by being actively involved within cross cultural, intergenerational, interdisciplinary systems which foster opportunities for academic, artistic evolution and social change.

I realize that my initiating commitment to these goals result in organizations as the ULTRA YOUth! Intergenerational Agri CULTURAL Arts COOPERATIVE, chartered in 1985 and currently manifesting in my affiliation with R.E.A.L. (Responsibility, Earth, Art, Learning) an interdisciplinary edu-arts initiative in collaboration Boy's and Girls Clubs of America, TAM (Tn.~Ark.~Miss.) Farms and the Great Basin Food Cooperative.

My long range community empowerment via the ARTS goals are being made manifest in many ways...these two decades as a grassroots artivist has afforded me the realization of dreams actually coming true. Creating models for social change via artistic, educational and entreprenural models  has allowed me active involvement with my beloved people as a caregiver, mentor and as one committed to the preservation and perpetuation of the cultural and ancestral arts. I know that the arts are the most certain inroad to global peace...I  embrace STORYTELLING, in it's many genres as a a powerful medium for teaching, healing and learning. I have been called "...AN EMPOWERING * GRIOT * ECO~ENVIRO COMMUNITY ORGANIZER...". By respectfully involving others in that which I have been fortunate to have passed on to me, I make sincere heARTistic efforts to deserve the compliment.

Sayings & Symbols to Write & to Color!

...an Edu*Arts Alternative Communities Publication...

My several Arts in Education residencies have afforded me many rewarding experiences. The most profound of these is in the witnessing of and to, very talented youth who are students in Washoe County Schools' "ALTERNATIVE PROGRAMS". These hundreds of young people look like any other middle or high school student; however, these particular students may happen to be...Mothers, Fathers, Juvenile Offenders, Run Aways, Homeless, Abuse Victims, Physically or Mentally Challenged, Chemical Abusers, Taggers, Prostitutes, Gang Bangers - the list can go on and on.

My goal when accepting a residency is to offer the student the most enriching opportunity possible as relates to art and Washoe County School's Performance Standards. However rewarding, it is not a "sleeper" job.

In my challenging opportunity to serve them, I in turn challenge them to serve in return.

The plan to publish the works of students from Washoe high, Jan evans Center, McGee Center, 24-7 TLC, Boys & Girls Club and R.E.A.L. (*Responsiblity *Earth *Art *Learning) was initiated in a Washoe High School teacher simply wanting her students to make books to give to elementary school students...

My expanded vision for what proved to become a very well recieved class project evolved, largely due to the inconsistent attendance of the "at risk" student body at Washoe High. I felt the project could be expanded upon by involving other young artists, many of whom are or have been students in Washoe County Schools' alternative programs.

Students were given an assignment to create and draw a positive symbol and write an accompanying postive statement which would be motivating and inspiring to younger students.

I suggested to the students that we make our book one inwhich the younger students could actually color...the idea to include a penmanship block per page was my idea with the goal in mind to foster and perpetuate beautiful writing.

* The book will consist of 28 double sided activity pages

* The 'mentoring' book will given to elementary school students at schools, libraries and ALTERNATIVE PROGRAMS.

I requested the support of four Reno Professional Artists in the selection of renderings applicable to these 7seven themes:

*UNITY

*SELF DETERMINATION

*COLLECTIVE WORK & RESPONSIBILTY

*COOPERATIVE ECONOMICS
*PURPOSE
*CREATIVITY
*FAITH

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.

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...KONCERNED*KOMMUNIVERSITY*KONCEPTS...

insuring & confirming
that

ALL

future * generations

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of

Mind*heART

enABLING*WHERE

w/

ALL

Stature * Capacity

2

shARE the FREEland

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

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INTERGENERATIONAL
Interdisciplinary
EDUCATIONAL
* agri CULTURAL arts*
COLLABORATIVE
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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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...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

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"

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!

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!

...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

...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

...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

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

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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

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www.mayberrybend.com
ultrayouth.ag.arts@gmail.com

ASANTE SANA...THANK YOU!

TELLABRATIONS! '05 / Commemorative EVENT Journal

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A Collabortive Investment of the FRIENDS of
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The RIVER SCHOOL
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ASANTE SANA!
THANK YOU!

...PREPAREDNESS...

(being a community based, environmentally specific, intergenerational survival model)
...INCORPORATING GLOBAL...

^ Acknowledging ^ Belonging ^ Cooperating ^ Discussing ^ Educating ^ Finalizing ^ Guaranteeing ^ Healing ^ Inventing ^ Joining ^ Knowing ^ Loving ^ Manufactoring ^ Noticing ^ Obtaining ^ Purchasing ^ Questioning ^ Recycling ^ Subsisting ^ Tithing ^ Utilizing ^ Vanquishing ^ Winning ^ Yeilding ^ Zooming !

...an A-Z PEACE & JUSTICE model from a survey taken of ULTRA YOUth!...6 - 12 years WISE...

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

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ULTRA
YOUth!
INTERGENERATIONAL
Agri CULTURAL Arts
COOPERATIVE
COMMUNIVERSITY

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* KNOWLEDGE * UNITY * SERVICE * VOLUNTEERISM * OUTSOURCING * ENTREPRENURALISM *
* LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT * ***********************************************************************************************************************************

...FLEXIBLE ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP OPTIONS & PRIVILEGES
* Student*YOUth! Elders.........................$15.00
* Adults..........................................$25.00
* Family..........................................$50.00
* Gardening & Co-Op Discounts.....................$100.00
* Wholesale Purchasing Options....................$200.00
* Ag*Arts Entreprenural Advocay...................$250.00
* Agency Affiliates & Investors...................$500.00

Ultra
YOUth!
INTERGENERATIONAL
Agri CULTURAL Arts
COOPERATIVE
COMMUNIVERSITY

MEMBER
*COLLABORATIONS & INITIATIVES*

^ Ag*Art as Evolution................Values Clarification Classes & Workshops
^ Answering for YOU..................Entreprenural Agentry & Management
^ Community Gardening & Beautification.....Intergenerational Edu*Arts Preparedness
^ Eldersponse........................Oral History, Visitation, Support Services
^ Fannie Lou Hamer FREEDOM FARMS.....Agri-Consciousness via Community Gardening
^ Fish & Loaves Mitzvah..............Charitable Feeding Network
^ Griotz & Riterz....................Sharing OURstory & Edu-Tainment
^ Kadisha*Touch......................UNITY*DRUM & Creative Movement Circle
^ KUUMBA*Theatre.....................Leadership Development via Improvisation
^ R.E.A.L............................Responsibility, Earth, Art, Learning
^ RITES of PEACEAGE...............Mentoring, Service Learning Continuum
^ SPIRITWIZDOM.........................Mediation & Counseling
^ Ultra Communications...............Mass Media, Public Relations & Publishing
^ Ultra Earthscapes..................Eco*Enviro Preparedness & Design
^ Ultra*heARTz.......................Artist advocacy, Information & Referral
^ Ultra HERbz........................Agri-Arts Entreprenural Initiatives
^ Ultra Holistics....................Home Health & Healing WELLNESS Care
^ Ultra Information, Research & Referral.....Community Resources Network
^ Ultra Tutorial.....................Assessment, Alternative Academic Empowerment

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* ALL memberships are regarded as individual...

* Individual member contracts are agreed upon based on individual member goals and abilities...

* In-kind support and volunteer support services are regarded equally to dollar investment...
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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

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!

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!