ORGANIZER: Alina Stefanescu
CONTACT: rainscented@gmail.com
LOCATION: 1pm at Desert Island Supply Co. 5500 1st Ave N, Birmingham, Alabama 35212
FB PAGE: https://www.facebook.com/events/1783844098526149/
DATE AND TIME: Saturday, September 24 at 1 PM – 4 PM
LOCATION: Desert Island Supply Co., 5500 1st Ave N, Birmingham, Alabama 35212
DETAILS:
Join us as we participate in 100 Thousand Poets for Change 2016 and put Alabama on the map of poets who care about social change. Poets will read poems and artists will perform pieces which address social justice issues.
In addition to sharing our hopes for a better world, this will also be a fundraiser for Dynamite Hill-Smithfield Community Land Trust, a community-led non-profit initiative to establish a Community Land Trust centered in the Historic Smithfield Community of Birmingham, Alabama.
More about Dynamite Hill-Smithfield Community Land Trust:
https://www.facebook.com/dynamitehillclt/
Free refreshments, free music, poetry, art, and human beings united to support one another in an event that occurs all over the world on this special day.
More about Dynamite Hill-Smithfield Community Land Trust:
Named in honor of the legacy of social justice. thriving black entrepreneurship and property ownership, and social justice and civil rights activism that came from and protected the community from bombing and attacks. The DH-SCLT, with the sponsorship of Magic City Agriculture Project, ASSATA and other community partners, works to develop permanently affordable housing and home ownership opportunities, remodel existing homes, and build sustainable new construction, to support a sustainable, urban cooperative agribusiness community in Smithfield and provide community educational service centered in urban agriculture and agribusiness, sustainability and social justice.