Climbing PoeTree

Alixa and Naima, the Brooklyn-based, internationally-acclaimed performance duo, Climbing PoeTree, 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" traveled to over 65 cities across the nation on a little white converted to run on recycled vegetable oil! and spent the summer at the world renowned National Black Theater in Harlem, from July 10 through August 2, 2009.
FOR MORE INFORMATION: www.hurricaneseasontour.com



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Through a tapestry of spoken-word poetry, video projection, dance, shadow art, and a sound collage of personal testimonies, "Hurricane Season" is a two womyn-show 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!



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CLIMBING POETREE, short bio: Alixa and Naima make up the tag-team, two-spirited, boundary-breaking artist duo, Climbing PoeTree. With roots in Haiti and Colombia, Alixa and Naima reside in Brooklyn and track footprints across the country and globe on a mission to overcome destruction with creativity. In five self-organized independent tours, Climbing PoeTree has rocked 500 mikes and counting from from Oakland to Atlanta, South Africa to Cuba with artists such as Amiri Baraka, Sonia Sanchez, Nikki Giovanni, Erykah Badu, Alicia Keys, Danny Glover, Jessica Care Moore, The Last Poets, and Dead Prez. They have led workshops in institutions from Cornell University to Riker's Island. And they have painted murals on walls from the Bronx, to Santiago, to Jamaica. Climbing PoeTree uses their art to expose injustice, heal from violence, and make a better future visible, immediate, and irresistible.



Who is Climbing PoeTree?



This 2 minute video, produced by Keith Wasserman, is a snap shot into the work of Alixa and Naima, the Brooklyn-based internationally-acclaimed arts activist duo CLIMBING POETREE. For more info on these inspiring women, log on to www.climbingpoetree.com
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HURRICANE SEASON TOUR Aug 29th- Dec 15th 08'
What can we say, it was incredible! we traveled over 11,000 miles on a bus converted to run on recycled grease from dumpsters across america, with 6 powerful womyn, a bamboo set and a mission. A two year vision come to life! "Hurricane Season: the hidden messages in water" is a post-Katrina performance uprising: a multi-media show and movement strategy that draws vital connections between shared struggles and common solutions in a critical moment in national and global history. Through a tapestry of spoken-word poetry, theater, 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 on a daily basis.
THE TOUR!!! PHOTOGRAPHY BY LAYLA LOVE



CLICK HERE to view a dope graphic review of the journey with images and testimonies!!!
www.HurricaneSeasonTour.com its official!
IMAGES FROM THE SHOW!



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Stories
TestimoniesIntentions
Truths
ConfessionsHealing
Expressions Dreams
Creating a future by rewriting our
histories



S.T.I.T.C.H.E.D
is a project that grew from the collective need for people to testify to their lived experiences and to confront the misrepresentations in mainstream media.
Since the wake of Hurricane Katrina, we have given our audience participants the opportunity to write part of their story on five-inch cloth squares that we sew together as we journey, creating miles of colorful prayer flags. The ever-growing project is showcased at all Climbing PoeTree shows.
Over the last 15 months, S.T.I.T.C.H.E.D has multiplied and taken on a life of its own. It has filled concert halls, transformed churches, adorned sidewalks, and catalyzed social healing, anti-racism, and creative writing workshops all over the nation. Each patch is someone's prophecy. These are headlines from people who don't own a newspaper, manifestos from people without armies, testimonies from people without tribunals, expressions from people with histories and with dreams.
The magic of S.T.I.T.C.H.E.D comes from declaring our truths, and bearing witness to others'. When we recognize ourselves in each other, we begin to dispel the myths that are created to keep us divided. Our goal is nothing short of transforming a culture of cynicism into a culture of caring. This project is one stitch in the patchwork of our collective liberation.
CONTRIBUTE TO S.T.I.T.C.H.E.D!
What's your story? Entries can be written, drawn, stamped, embroidered, stenciled, silk-screened, glued, or printed on a 6" x 6" piece of fabric.
Email us for the address: love@climbingpoetree.com
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ALIXA + NAIMA's debut album AMMUNITION
featuring Francis Phan, Resom Dhac, Subtech, and Siddharthveda on beats, Bryonn Bain, Anjali, Lady Malone, Sparlha Swa and Iyeoka Okoawo on vocals,
has been officially released into the atmosphere!
This brave new album is a creative fusion of intense poetics and infectious beats, laced with subliminally sultry melodies. Alixa and Naima's detail-driven narratives take listeners on a journey from the llanos of Colombia to under the covers, the cosmos to the streets of Brooklyn with imagery so thick you can taste, feel, and picture it. Raw, bold, and unclassifiable, AMMUNITION is a collection of poems, prayers, and anthems for a world filled with contradiction, love and struggle.
We are proud to announce, the battle between machine guns and poems has officially begun!
Click Here to purchase your copy through CD BABY!
You can also listen to audio clips of all the tracks through our CD Baby site, and write a review! www.cdbaby.com/alixanaima
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FASHION STATEMENT



Alixa + Naima's hand-made, one-of-a-kind, silk-screened clothing linefood clothing and shelter for the body and mind!
visit our website and click on FASHION STATEMENT to view designs and place an order