[imc-st.louis] Fwd: 11/1 Benefit for Leonard Peltier & WORD in Motion Inner City School Poetry workshop

[Ben West]

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From: Maria Guadalupe Massey <chingasdaughter at yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 5:10 PM
Subject: (criticalmass) Benefit for Leonard Peltier & WORD in Motion
Inner City School Poetry workshop
To: criticalmass at yahoogroups.com

CORRECTION: This program is from 3:00pm to 6:00pm (not 8pm). Please
forgive the error. Maria

Dia de los Muertos celebration at Saint Louis' Premier Punk Rock
Club The CREEPY CRAWL to benefit Leonard Peltier Legal Defense Fund
& Word in Motion inner city school poetry workshops, November 1,
2008 from 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM, 3524 Washington Avenue in the Grand
Center District, sponsored by Word in Motion. Call 314-776-7049 for
info. (phone at the Creepy is 314-851-0919).Tickets are $10. Some
sign language translating included at performance, with Elizabeth Ann
Smith.

Confluence writer and activist Digger will celebrate the spirits of
the phantasm hour and be our tour guide through this spectral event.
Patrons are welcome to come as skeletons and/or bring photos of
heroes/loved ones they would like to hold up as Guadalupe Sounds
performs a roll call of the dead; they can join in the Death
March/conga line and dance.

The roll call of the dead will sound the names of such worthies as:
Alvina Robideaux (Leonard Peltier's mother), Crazy Horse, Geronimo,
Gwendolyn Brooks, Josephine Baker, Zapata, Benito Juarez, Cesar
Chavez, Malcolm X, Dred Scott, Pedro Duarte, Victoria Dominguez de
Duarte, Pablo Neruda, Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, James Baldwin,
Maurice Malik King, Chris Crisa Branch, and others.

Wayne St. Wayne and CBabi Bayoc will paint "live" model skeletons,
i.e. skeletons with skin/humans for un Desfilo de la muerte, a
parade of the dead.

The death march will include such skeletons as Mexican dancer La
Morena, musician Tom Taylor, artist/performer MArk Triller (a.k.a.
the blue guy), Justin Badger guitarist, James Holtzman
percussionist, and others.

Warrior Poet Hari Sky Campbel, poetics diva Alima Sadaq Afsal of the
East Saint Louis Culture Squad, Digger storyteller
& activist, RAVEN WOLF C. FELTON JENNINGS II (saxophone, flute &
Native American Drumming), Ralph Williams Hip Hop Jazz vocalist, and
the one man riot Paul Stewart with Latin Blues guitarist Peter Wood
will celebrate this communion of spirits. Alima Sadaq Afsal will
honor Katherine Dunham, Miles Davis, and African ancestors; Hari Sky
Campbell will pay tribute to past word warriors, and Paul Stewart
will invoke the lizard king, Jim Morrison.

Copal incense and parts of the altar/OFRENDA supplied by Minerva
Lopez, award winning Dia de los Muertos altar creador from Los
Angeles and St. Louis, Cherokee Street and Belas Artes Saint Louis,
and vice president of the Cherokee Business Incubator, super fan of
El Santo.

Guadalupe Sounds featuring Chingas Daughter (a.k.a. the witch of
words, a.k.a. Maria Guadalupe Massey, a.k.a. warrior poet) and Wayne
Robinson Shelton master percussionist and Juilliard protege will
weave their word and sound magic on Saturday, November 1st, 3:00 PM
to 6:00 PM at the CREEPY CRAWL Nightclub in the Grand Theater
District (two doors down from JAZZ at the Bistro) invoking the
spirits as the phantasm hour begins.
Come enjoy as we commune with the spirits on this Day of the Dead.

Love, peace, poetry,



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Ben West
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