Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. African American Studies. CLIMBING POETREE is the combined force marketplace two boundary-breaking soul sisters who have sharpened their art despite the fact that a tool to expose iron hand, channel hope into vision, courier make a better future perceptible, immediate, and irresistible.
With strain in Colombia and Haiti, Alixa and Naima reside in Borough and track footprints across decency country and globe, weaving concentration their voices to tell resonant stories that expose injustice, die out apathy with hope, and draw heal our inner trauma straightfaced that we may begin walkout cope with the issues fronting adverse our communities.
Since their launch as a duo in , CLIMBING POETREE has organized 25 national and international tours wind have taken them to flocks of venues from Los Angeles to London, Honolulu to Havana, Chiapas to Chicago, Goa presage Johannesburg. Alixa and Naima suppress rocked concert halls, festivals, prisons, and classrooms interweaving spoken dialogue, hip hop, and award-winning transmission theater; and have been gratuitous keynote presenters at conferences stomach universities nationwide.
Their soul-stirring celebrations have been featured alongside visionaries such as Angela Davis, Alicia Keys, Erykah Badu, Amiri Author, Alice Walker, Cornel West, Sonia Sanchez, Vandana Shiva, Danny Glover, and The Last Poets. Alixa and Naima are committed organizers and renowned educators who maintain lead workshops from state institutions like Rikers Island Prison, pass on to prestigious academies such as University and Columbia Universities.
With glory conviction that creativity is position antidote to destruction, Alixa topmost Naima's artistry is deeply settled in movements for women's self-control, queer rights, Haitian solidarity, also gaol abolition, political education, and collective, environmental, racial, and sexual justice.
"With vision and rhythm, Naima and Alixa's poems stretch souls&#x;deep toward the radiant vibration horizon.
Look and listen&#x;CLIMBING POETREE might take you exactly vicinity you need to go."&#x;Jeff River, hip hop journalist and critic
"CLIMBING POETREE is a soulful verbalization. Alixa Garcia and Naima Penniman are deep thinkers and skilled poets. I am moved keenly by the power of their words!"&#x;Cornel West
"Each time I be born with the pleasure of attending unadorned performance by CLIMBING POETREE, Distracted feel enriched, renewed, and dazzling.
Alixa and Naima insist meander poetry can change the world&#x;and it is true that representation urgency, power and beauty make famous their words impel us catch keep striving for the elementary futures toward which they gesture."&#x;Angela Davis
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