FROM THE ARCHIVES: DO YOU TITHE? FUND THE FUTURE YOU WANT TO SEE
This article originally appeared in December of 2009 on Broowaha. It was years before the advent of crowdfunding, but its message is stronger than ever, not only despite but especially given the "fiscal cliff" we're facing the edge of. Yes: not
BOOKSTORES WE LOVE :: Help Keep WORD UP Alive in Washington Heights
Support WORD UP on Indiegogo today! Word Up 4157 Broadway @ 176 Street, Washington Heights, NYC Open Daily, 12-9pm The WORD UP story is an inspiring one. Opened originally in June, 2011 as a 1-month pop-up literature and community space in Washington Heights, it
CALL FOR ACTION : 100TPC :: LIFE IN PRISON FOR A POEM : QATAR
In the last few months, Exit Strata has been working hard to evolve our platform so that it may best support and bring visibility to projects that model the use of creativity in social activism. We've been bringing you organizers
FILM :: HELP ROOFTOP FILMS STAY ON TOP!!!
In 2001, when I had just returned from Philadelphia to find Williamsburg, Brooklyn a very different place than the old Italian neighborhood I'd grown up in, I worried my mother by telling her I was venturing farther into Bushwick than
COCO PROCESS COURSE:: ERIC MEYER’S FUCK THE MUSE: LESSON 3 :: CREATIVE MODES AND CYCLES
In his 1991 lecture on creativity, John Cleese describes two modes of operating: an "open" playful mode, and a "closed" productive more. Creative people, he claims, are simply the people that cultivate the open mode of operating. "We need to be
AWESOME CREATORS :: 100,000 POETS for CHANGE : Sao Paulo, Brasil: SIAMO TUTTI IGUALE, SIAMO TUTTI ROM
Video: Poet Roberto Malini at La Notte de Diritti Umani (The Night of Human Rights) Nostre mantra solito: siamo tutti iguale, siamo tutti Rom Siamo tutti iguale, siamo tutti Rom Siamo tutti iguali, siamo tutti Rom Siamo clandestini, siamo Africani Siamo gay, siamo lesbi, que siamo
AWESOME CREATORS :: 100,000 POETS FOR CHANGE : AN OPEN LETTER from poet Taha Abdel Moniem (Cairo and Assiut, Egypt)
FROM EGYPTIAN POETS TO THE POETS OF THE WORLD || || Des poètes Égyptiens … aux poètes du monde من شعراء مصر إلى شعراء العالم نحن شعراء مصر، نرسل- من قلب القاهرة- صوتنا إلى كافة شعراء وشعوب العالم، دفاعًا عن حرية الإبداع، في
ART :: HELIOPOLIS PRESENTS : CIRCLED THE MAN
"You could say that a reckoning has to be made with the coyote…” Joseph Beuys on I Like America and America Likes Me, 1974 Circled the Man through November 30th Daniel Bozhkov Dineo Seshee Bopape Erkan Özgen and Sener Özmen Ji Hye Yeom Susana
CoCo Process Course:: Eric Meyer's FUCK THE MUSE Creativity Mini-Series : Lesson 1
We recently introduced you to polymathwunderkind Eric Meyer via his TECH/WORD Beautiful, Surprising Culture Battle profile. As this partnership came to fruition, it became a possibility for us to offer Meyer's DIY Creativity-Sparking workshop, FUCK THE MUSE, the first iteration of which
ART :: REFLECTIONS : COLLAGE AND (DE)CONSTRUCTION :: Caits Meissner in Workshop at the Brooklyn Museum
Caits Meissner, always inspiring poet-artist-educator-activist-friend, recently led a collage workshop at the Brooklyn Museum in coordination with the Mickalene Thomas exhibition, Origin of the Universe, [on view through January 20th, 2013]. Here she reflects on her experience as teaching artist in
