FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
The
Unbearables and The Feminist Poets in Low-Cut Blouses Perform
for
Global Event:
100
Thousand Poets for Change
@ A
Gathering of the Tribes
285
E. 3rd Street (between Avenues C and D), NYC
Saturday,
September 29, 7:00 – 10:00 pm
Donation
New York City: The Unbearables (“a drinking group
with a writing problem”) and The Feminist Poets in Low-Cut Blouses (“we live
with the contradictions of feminism”) face off at Lower-East-Side literary
landmark A Gathering of the Tribes on September 29, 2012 at 7:00 pm as part of
the global arts celebration 100 Thousand Poets for Change.
With rants, humor,
avant-garde poetry, and more than a little outrageousness, the two famous New
York City literary clans will face off downtown for a first-time ever
showdown. Poetry legend Bob Holman,
Larissa Shmailo, Ron Kolm, Elizabeth Macklin, Thad Rutkowski, Stephanie Berger,
Patricia Spears Jones, Sparrow, Sarah Sarai, Chavisa Woods, Stephen Boyer, Lee
Ann Brown, Carl Watson, and other noted poets and writers are scheduled to
appear.
September 29 marks the second annual global event of
100 Thousand Poets for Change, a grassroots movement that brings poets,
artists, and musicians together worldwide to call for environmental, social,
and political change within the framework of peace and sustainability. There are nearly 700 events planned worldwide, including:
• The Occupy Wall Street Poetry group
kicks off a weekend of events in New York City with a poetry reading at the
famous St. Mark’s Poetry Project.
• 25 different events in the San
Francisco Bay Area, the birthplace of 100 Thousand Poets for Change, with live
poetry readings by Beat Legend Michael McClure, former US Poet Laureate Robert
Hass, and other major poets.
• Poetry and
peace gatherings are planned in the strife-torn cities of Kabul and Jalalabad,
Afghanistan.
• In Cairo and
Alexandria, Egypt, poets, musicians and mime artists, in response to the
revolution in Egypt and the major changes taking place in the Arab World, will
perform in public spaces.
Events are also scheduled in Albania, Zimbawe,
Serbia, Russia, China, Algeria, Scotland, the Udmurt Republic, Somalia, Mexico,
and over 100 other countries.
Like
Pussy Riot in Russia, The Unbearables and The Feminist Poets in Low-Cut Blouses
believe in freedom of speech and seek a world in which artistic expression is
open and protected, a goal sought by the larger 100 Thousand Poets for Change
organization.
100
Thousand Poets for Change organizers and participants hope through their
actions and events to seize and redirect the political and social dialogue of
the day and turn the narrative of civilization towards peace and
sustainability. Those who want to get involved may visit www.100tpc.org to find an
event near them or sign up to organize an event in their area.
Immediately following September 29th,
all documentation on the 100TPC.org website, which will include specific event
pages with photos, video and other documentation compiled by each city
coordinator, will be preserved by Stanford University in California. Stanford
recognized 100 Thousand Poets for Change in 2011 as an historical event, the
largest poetry reading in history.
About 100 Thousand Poets for
Change
Co-Founder
Michael Rothenberg (walterblue@bigbridge.org)
is a widely known poet,
editor of the online literary magazine
Bigbridge.org and an environmental activist based in Northern California. Terri Carrion is a poet, translator,
photographer, and editor and visual designer for BigBridge.org.
100 Thousand Poets for Change
P.O. Box 870
Guerneville, CA 95446
Phone: (305) 753-4569
Three Girls Media & Marketing Inc.
(408) 871-0377
Emily Sidley, emilysidley@threegirlsmedia.com
Kate Barton, katebarton@threegirlsmedia.com
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