Living Word Festival short documentary

Living Word Festival from Christopher San Agustin on Vimeo.
Via iLL-Lit

Jay Smooth's poem for youth voters

Jay Smooth is the best vlogger in the game and he comes through again here. He's makin the point that a ridiculous Diddy blog (that I refuse to post) was. And that is: Don't get fooled by this "Obama's ahead bullshit." The Repulicans are banking on Dems not turning out as a result. Don't get complacent!!

It reminds me of a poem Bamu did some years ago, which said something like "Our children are gonna wonder why we weren't out throwing rocks in the street, why we didn't just up and leave." In this case, we don't even need the rocks- just the ballot (for now). Don't sleep on this family.

Living Word Festival kicks off this weekend!

Living Word Festival 2008

RACE IS FICTION
A 10 Day Festival curated by Marc Bamuthi Joseph

Schedule for Weekend 1
OCTOBER 17, 2008
10am
Museum of the African Diaspora, SF MoMA, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
685 Mission Street (at Third), San Francisco
Workshops and performances co-hosted by
Youth Speaks, SF Green Festival, Global Exchange, and Grind for the Green.
FREE (Registration is Now Closed to the Public)


12:30pm
Yerba Buena Gardens
760 Howard Street, San Francisco
Lunchtime outdoor concert with Goapele, Urban Word NYC and Kev Choice Ensemble FREE

OCTOBER 18
11am-5pm
red black and GREEN
Environmental Caucus and Concert at deFremery Park (aka Little Bobby Hutton Park)
1651 Adeline Street
Oakland, CA
FREE

Featuring the 2nd annual Estria's Invitational Living Word Graffiti Battle, Bamboo Architecture, a lowrider bike demo with Scraper Bikes, a skateboard expo presented by Hood Games, and a free outdoor musical concert featuring the Bay Area's own iLL-Literacy & Los Rakas and special guest Mos Def.

Living Word article in the Oakland Tribune