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nyc run: HURRICANE SEASON: the hidden messages in water, at The National Black Theater
Alixa and Naima, the Brooklyn-based, internationally-acclaimed performance duo, Climbing PoeTree (www.climbingpoetree.com), recently completed a national tour with a ground-breaking, multi-media show that obliterates the boundaries between performance and activism. "Hurricane Season: the hidden messages in water" is now spending the summer at the renowned National Black Theater in Harlem, from July 10 through August 2, 2009.
Through a tapestry of spoken-word poetry, video projection, dance, shadow art, and a sound collage of personal testimonies, "Hurricane Season" connects the issues that surfaced in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina to the unnatural disasters disenfranchised communities are experiencing nationwide and worldwide on a daily basis.
"Hurricane Season" tackles global warming, environmental injustice, policing, prisons, militarization, corporate domination, gentrification, and displacement as they manifest from one gulf to another, with a powerful tale of resistance, resilience, creativity and survival.
Rhythmic and uplifting, revealing and deeply moving, "Hurricane Season" seeks not to captivate audiences, but to liberate them.
HURRICANE SEASON @ THE NATIONAL BLACK THEATER JULY 10 - AUGUST 2. Fridays and Saturdays @ 7:30, and Sundays @ 4:00 (July 10, 11, 12, 17, 18, 19, 24, 25, 26, 31, & August 1, 2)!!!
A solution-cipher will be part of every Saturday show: a forum that addresses the impacts of the issues surfaced in Hurricane Season on a local level, and illuminates solutions that are already underway. The objective of the solution-cipher is to cross-pollinate creative strategies for self-determination and to turn the passion generated in the show into action manifested in the community. Representatives from local grassroots groups will be featured at the dialog to garner support for their initiatives and give audience members access into local social justice movements.
FOR MORE INFORMATION: about Climbing PoeTree: www.climbingpoetree.com about Hurricane Season: www.hurricaneseasontour.com
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LocationThe National Black Theater
2031 5th Avenue, btwn 125th & 126th
New York, NY 10035
United States
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| Wheelchair Accessible: No |
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