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  artists are invited to set up their wares at 100 Thousand Poets for Change (Official) @ the green salon in santa fe springs (los angeles) california on saturday september 28th. the event begins at 5pm. free to exhibit, free … Continue reading →

ORGANIZER: Michael Reyes CONTACT: michaelreyesx@gmail.com   Photos by Mike Wamungu

ORGANIZERS: Richard Modiano/Antonietta Villamil- Beyond Baroque- Los Angeles, CA CONTACT: RMODIANO@ca.rr.com   Photos by Leanor Johansen

ORGANIZER: Lee Ballinger CONTACT: rockrap@aol.com          

ORGANIZER: V Kali CONTACT: vkaliflowers@gmail.com

Organizer: Jessica Wilson Cardenas Contact: europawynd@gmail.com  

ORGANIZER: Yvonne De La Vega CONTACT:-yvonnedelavega@gmail.com

Organizer: Charles William Contact:  ck_williams@hotmail.com

Lee Ballinger- Los Angeles, California DONE The 100,000 Poets and Musicians radio show will be broadcast to the world on Saturday from noon to 3 PM Pacific Standard Time. Coming to you live from the LA Radio Studio in the … Continue reading →

Organizer: Antonieta Villamil Contact: antonietavillamil@gmail.com Group: 100mil Poetas por El Cambio   INFO EN ESPAÑOL: POESÍA FÉSTIVAL presenta: 100MIL POETAS POR EL CAMBIO TARDE DE POESÍA Y MÚSICA INTERNACIONAL POR LA PAZ SÁBADO, SEPTIEMBRE 24 — 3 a 6 PM … Continue reading →

ORGANIZER: Iris DeAnda CONTACT: evoluxion777@yahoo.com’ Saturday, September 26 at 5:00pm – 9:00pm Eastside Café 5469 N Huntington Dr, El Sereno, California 90032 Join us for the 5th annual           100,000 Poets for Change with Rebeca Lane … Continue reading →

Organizer: Mirna Trpkova Contact: trpkova@yahoo.com

ORGANIZER: Antonieta Villamil-Sept. 28th, 100Mil Poetas Por El Cambio, Beyond Baroque, Los Angeles, CA CONTACT: antonietavillamil@gmail.com

ORGANIZER: Romain Piña CONTACT: nicetys@aol.com Nicetys 100,000 poets 4 change…09/26/15….7pm 21 & over please @ The Amistad Plaza..2nd. Fl. Poets, Comedians, Dancers, Singers, Groups, Raffle’s, Prizes, Food, Drinks, Storytellers & more! If you would like to perform or get a … Continue reading →

ORGANIZER: Jessica Wilson CONTACT: losangelespoetsociety@gmail.com Celebrating 5 years of change…  The moment we stepped together to decide that change was indeed important and it starts within ourselves and expands out into our communities. We are the protectors of the Earth. LAPS … Continue reading →

ORGANIZER: Less Balinger CONTACT: Rockrap@aol.com Sneak preview of LA radio show for 100,000 Poets and Musicians for Change!! On Saturday, poets and musicians gathered at the LA Radio Studio in San Pedro in the Los Angeles Harbor district to record … Continue reading →

Organizer: Paul-Felix Montez Contact: makepeaceday@gmail.com  

ORGANIZER: Lynne Thompson CONTACT: poetess151@earthlink.net

Organizer: Mark Lipman Contact: escalatepeace@yahoo.com 100 Thousand Creatures for Change presents: Create-ure Feature #1: Night of the Living Word Friday, September 25, 2015 Cafe 212 212 Pier Ave. Santa Monica, CA 90405 Open Mic starts at 7PM ***************** 100 Thousand … Continue reading →

ORGANIZER: Jessica Wilson-The NoHo Salon  – September 28th CONTACT: venicesoapboxpoets@gmail.com    I am excited to announce that Bob’s Espresso Bar will be a part of 100 Thousand Poets / Musicians for Change! This is the 2nd year for Bob’s! We … Continue reading →

ORGANIZER Donald Kingfisher with Antonietta Villamil and Mark Lipman, September 27th-100TPC/Revolutionary Poets Brigade, Pasadena Library-Los Angeles-CA CONTACT: kingfisher1031@charter.net The poets in the pictures are: (1) CaLokie (guest host) (2) Bryan Story, CaLokie, Patrick Thomas Jeffries (3) CaLokie, Thomas Patrick Jeffries, Barry … Continue reading →

ORGANIZER: Skye Delamey CONTACT: contact@skyedelamey.com

Organizer: Charles Wiliams Contact: ck_williams@hotmail.com

ORGANIZER: Ava Bird CONTACT: ompoem@hotmail.com GET LIBERATED! 100Thousand Poets for Change www.100tpc.org @ Liberation Yoga    www.liberationyoga.com saturday september 27th 2014 6pm 124 S La Brea Av Los Angeles, CA   90036 Featuring: yogi poets/poetry mother mary spanda starbird rex … Continue reading →

ORGANIZER: Ideas Aubrey CONTACT: ideasaubrey@Yahoo.com

ORGANIZER: Less Balinger CONTACT: Rockrap@aol.com

ORGANIZER: Iris DeAnda
CONTACT: evoluxion777@yahoo.com

ORGANIZER: Paula Cantu CONTACT: paulajunecantu@yahoo.com

ORGANIZER: Teresa Mei Chuc CONTACT: teresa.meichuc@goddard.edu Wed., Oct. 23, 2013 at 7:30 p.m. 4344 Degnan Blvd., Los Angeles, CA. “Featured Guest Teresa Mei Chuc will be reading her poetry of war and witness at the World Stage at Leimert Park … Continue reading →

ORGANIZER: Tina Burbank- World Artists’ Initiative Khetanes (WAIK) CONTACT: tinaburbank@gmail.com

ORGANIZER: Romain Piña CONTACT: nicetys@aol.com NOTICE: We are here to make a change once again. Poets, singers, actors, dancers, impersonators, etc. this will take place on 9/28/13…7 pm at the Amistad plaza 6050 s. western ave. l.a. Ca. 90047…2nd fl. … Continue reading →

100 Thousand Musicians and Poets for Change

ORGANIZER: Ross Altman

CONTACT: Greygoosemusic@aol.com

LOCATION:

The Talking Stick Coffee Lounge
1411 Lincoln Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90291
(310) 450-6052

Sunday, September 29, 2013
Time7:00pm until 10:00pm

Description
LA singer-songfighter Ross Altman will host the 2nd annual ‘Sing Out for Change’. He will be joined by some of LA’s finest folk musicians: Carol McArthur, Paul Zollo, Jill Fenimore, The Venice Street Legends, Alex Alejandro Soschin, Dennis Davis, John Keller & Eric J. Charles. $10 Suggested Donation plus a 1-purchase minimum. No one will be turned away.. Please join us.

Two years ago 100 Thousand Poets for Change answered Michael Rothenberg’s call for poets around the world who wanted to lend their voices to a 1-day only reading for peace and sustainability of the planet. Last September 29 his call broadened; so who let the musicians in?

Can music change the world? Plato thought so; he banned them from the Republic. The FBI thought so; they stole Earth First activist Judy Bari’s fiddle—on Bob Dylan’s birthday, May 24, 1990, the day her car was bombed.

Pinochet’s junta thought so; 40 years ago they tortured and killed Chilean folk singer Victor Jara in the Estadio Chile on September 16, 1973, five days after the CIA-backed coup that overthrew President Salvador Allende.

The US State Department thought so; they seized Paul Robeson’s passport in 1950. The House Committee on Un-American Activities thought so; they declared Pete Seeger in contempt and blacklisted him on August 18, 1955 for
refusing to name names.The Grand Ol’ Opry thought so; they fired Hank Williams.

And Vladimir Putin thought so; he had Russian punk band members of Pussy Riot arrested, charged, tried, convicted and sentenced to two years in prison for a song prayer declared to be an “act of hooliganism.”

From Plato to Putin, musicians have been regarded as a danger and threat to change the social order.

We think so too—which is why we have answered poet Michael Rothenberg’s international call to join 100 Thousand Poets for Change he organized in 2011. “Peace & sustainability is a major concern worldwide, and the guiding principle for this global event,” said Michael Rothenberg, Co-Founder of 100 Thousand Poets for Change. “We are in a world where it isn’t just one issue that needs to be addressed. A common ground is built through this global compilation of local stories, which is how we create a true narrative for discourse to inform the future.”

More than 700 events in 115 countries have already been scheduled, including ours. So next Sunday evening walk right in to The Talking Stick, where The Times, They Still Are A-Changing.

100 Thousand Musicians for Change (c) 2013 Grey Goose Music (BMI) All Rights Reserved.

May 16th, 1989, Tiananmen Square. Peng Rong, biology student of Peking University, was a key member of the Beida’s preparatory committee. He initiated a campaign of ‘shaving heads bald’ in protest right before June 4th, and was put in jail after the massacre. He was shown in this photo to conduct hunger strike on the Square while holding a microphone and directing his scout teams. His clothes were painted with a song: ‘We Shall Overcome’

ORGANIZER: KRSKO CONTACT: info@krsko.org WEBSITE: KRSKO

ORGANIZER: Antonieta Villamil CONTACT: antonietavillamil@gmail.com

ORGANIZER: Alison Metalbabe Cohen

CONTACT: destinationanywher@yahoo.com

FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/events/437814239649666/

Alison ‘MetalBabe’ Cohen and TnT Productions have joined forces once again to put on 100 Thousand Musicians for Change at Paladino’s on Saturday, September 28th. Markus Allen Christopher’s band Miss Crazy headlines the show as their 1st Los Angeles appearance before kicking off their tour! Elevensworth starts out the night, followed by Same Vein, and the return of The Hard Way! Showtime, coming to us all the way from Paris, France, will close out the night with a set of super fun rock n’ roll cover songs. In addition to all this, Alison ‘MetalBabe’ Cohen will be celebrating her birthday at this Event! And… If you aren’t in the Los Angeles area, this Event will be Streamed LIVE for all the World to see! So come out and show your support! Or show it from the comfort of your own home. Either way, this is going to be a PARTY!

8pm ELEVENSWORTH
9pm SAME VEIN
10pm THE HARD WAY
11pm MISS CRAZY
12am SHOWTIME

This Event is going to be Live-Streamed for the Entire WORLD to see! Just choose this Event at 8pm PST on 9/28/13 to View!

http://100tpc.org/

Do you want to join other poets, musicians, and artists around the USA
and across the planet in a demonstration/ celebration to promote
serious social and political change?

“What kind of CHANGE are we talking about?”

The first order of change is for poets, writers, musicians, artists, anybody, to actually get together to create and perform, educate and demonstrate, simultaneously, with other communities around the world. This will change how we see our local community and the global community. We have all become incredibly alienated in recent years. We hardly know our neighbors down the street let alone our creative allies who live and share our concerns in other countries. We need to feel this kind of global solidarity. I think it will be empowering.

And of course there is the political/social change that many of us are talking about these days. There is trouble in the world. Wars, ecocide, the lack of affordable medical care, racism, the list goes on. We are only asking that local organize events about change within the guidelines
of peace and sustainability.

It appears that transformation towards a more sustainable world is a major concern and could be a global guiding principle for this event. Peace also seems to be a common cause. War is not sustainable. There is an increasing sense that we need to move forward and stop moving backwards. But I am trying not to be dogmatic. I am hoping that together we can develop our ideas of the “change/transformation” we are looking for as a group, and that each community group will decide their own specific area of focus for change for their particular event.

Organizer: Amouri Scott Contact: amouriscott@gmail.com

Organizer: Jeffery Martin Contact: anomaly050460@yahoo.com

Organizer: Charles William Contact:  ck_williams@hotmail.com

ORGANIZER: Iris DeAnda

CONTACT: evoluxion777@yahoo.com

Saturday, September 28, 2013
Time7:00pm

Clear 77°F / 55°F
Description
September 28, 2013 marks the third annual global event for 100 Thousand Poets for Change, a grassroots organization that brings communities together to call for environmental, social, and political change within the framework of peace and sustainability. An event that began primarily with poet organizers, 100 Thousand Poets for Change has grown into an interdisciplinary coalition with year round events which includes musicians, dancers, mimes, painters and photographers from around the world.

This is the second year Iris De Anda has organized the El Sereno edition at Eastside Café, representing Los Angeles. This year’s featured poets are:

Jessica Ceballos is a writer who dabbles in music and photography. She’s a volunteer, community advocate, avid traveler, and cultural wanderer. Third generation Southern Californian, jessica has been recognized by the City of Los Angeles for her work bringing literary arts to the community. Aside from being publishes in several journals and reading throughout Southern California, she curates the monthly Great Beyond open reading out of Beyond Baroque and Poesia Para La Gente, a program that brings poetry to the people of the community using non-traditional spaces as venues and the monthly Bluebird Reading series, both out of Avenue 50 Studio in Highland Park.

She’s working on a couple of big projects involving music-sound-science-language, a novel, and a collection of poetry to be out in 2014. www.jessicaceballos.com

Annette Cruz –
Taking her cue from renegades like Anne Sexton and Neal Cassidy, Annette’s work is known for crossing invisible boundaries and stirring controversy, with little regard for norms or conventions. Her poetry has been published in various indie poetry zines such as SIC and Artemis (University of Nottingham Women’s Network Magazine) and blog site Hinchas De Poesia over the years. She’s performed her poetry in various Los Angeles venues ranging from Beyond Baroque in Venice, CA to Timothy Leary’s final birthday party at his home in the Hollywood Hills. You can find a few of her early spoken word recordings on the 1994 T.O.N. Records poetry compilation: Media Slitz. She is also a regular contributor to Our Town El Sereno community magazine and is the Newsletter Editor for the American Mobile Retail Association. She is currently working with Punk Hostage Press on an upcoming collection of poems, prose and memoirs titled Dangerous Intersection: Tales from a N.E.L.A. Half Sister. She resides in the El Sereno neighborhood that borders NorthEast and East Los Angeles with her husband and son.

Iris De Anda

Rebecca Gonzales
Cultivated by the sun and moon peeking past the shoes dangling from the phone lines, Rebecca Gonzales was raised “one block East of El Pino.” Rebecca collects the energy of the streets with the passion of poetry and sweetness of her son’s laughter to find positivity and optimism for the future. As a mother she is humbled as a poet she is obedient, and as a woman she is unapologetic.

Xitlalic Guijosa-Osuna

Karineh Mahdessian learned english by reading nancy drew books and watching married with children. she has a great affinity for really large earrings. she enjoys tacos from highland park taco trucks. she will challenge anyone to a thumbwrestling match. anytime. anyplace. she always has her chess set riding around in the trunk of her car. and she is absolutely in love with haikus.

Luivette Resto was born in Aguas Buenas, Puerto Rico but proudly raised in the Bronx. Her first book of poetry Unfinished Portrait was published in 2008 by Tia Chucha Press and later named a finalist for the 2009 Paterson Poetry Prize. She is also a contributing poetry editor for Kweli Journal, a CantoMundo fellow, and the hostess of a monthly poetry reading series called La Palabra located at Avenue 50 Studio in Los Angeles. Her new book Ascension was published in April 2013 courtesy of Tia Chucha Press.

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Joining hundreds of events around the world!!!

“The first order of change is for poets, writers, musicians, artists, anybody, to actually get together to create and perform, educate and demonstrate, simultaneously, with other communities around the world. This will change how we see our local community and the global community. We have all become incredibly alienated in recent years. We hardly know our neighbors down the street let alone our creative allies who live and share our concerns in other countries. We need to feel this kind of global solidarity. I think it will be empowering.”

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ORGANIZER: Henry Drew-Flight School CONTACT: hankmg@gmail.com

ORGANIZER: Lee Ballinger/Mike Stark CONTACT: rockrap@aol.com

ORGANIZER: Jessica Wilson-The NoHo Salon CONTACT: venicesoapboxpoets@gmail.com   North Hollywood (NoHo) PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE (Subject to Change) Time Performer 2pm Welcome from the NoHo Salon (Radomir Luza and Jessica Wilson, hosts) 215 Radomir Vojtech Luza 230 Judy Barrat, Beverly Collins 245 … Continue reading →

Organizer: Mark Lipman-Revolutionary Poets Brigade, Los Angeles Contact: escalatepeace@yahoo.com 100,000 Poets for Change Revolutionary Poets Brigade – Los Angeles presents a poetry panel POETRY AND REVOLUTION The Momentum Within the Movement Featuring: Isaac Sundiata, Rex Butters, Dee Allen, Ernest Rosenthal, … Continue reading →

Organizer:Romain Piña Contact: nicetys@aol.com Co-Sponsor: Solid Truth Entertainment JOIN NICETYS POETRY N Motion Lounge together with 100 thousand poets for change, let your poetic voices be heard. On this day all of the poets around the world will unite, trying … Continue reading →

Organizer: Alison “MetalBabe” Cohen Contact: destinationanywher@yahoo.com   Alison  “MetalBabe” Cohen, has been living and breathing rock-n-roll since she went to her first rock concert at age 11.  Read more….Alison MetalBabe Cohen Bio Rob Chevelle on Liberty vs. Freedom On 9/29/12 … Continue reading →

Organizer: Franklin I. Sims Contact: Los Angeles, CA FranklinSims@gmail.com

Organizer: Iris DeAnda Contact: evoluxion777@yahoo.com Location: @ Eastside Cafe 5469 Huntington Dr N Los Angeles, CA 90032.

Organizer: Jared Black Spinach Birdsong Contact: blackspinach@hotmail.com At “The Last Book Store” in Downtown Los Angeles. Location: Los Angeles, CA. 453 S. SPRING ST. 90015 Hosted By: Tendai Nyachoto Lee Ballinger Jared Birdsong

Organizer: Jessica DeMuro Contact: Jessica@demuro.com Website: http://www.jessicademuro.com

Organizer: Skye Delamey Contact: contact@skyedelamey.com WEBSITE: www.skyedelamey.com YOUTUBE: youtube.com/skyedelamey

http://laradiostudio.com/audio/ForChange.mp3 On September 29th, the LA Radio Studio (http://laradiostudio.com) will open its doors and turn on its Stickam feed (http://www.stickam.com/laradiostudio) to co-host with “Rock & Rap Confidential” (http://rockrap.com), an “on air” webcast as part of the 100,000 Musicians & Poets … Continue reading →

Rockrap- Los Angeles, CA rockrap@aol.com The Ultimate Song is a half hour DVD made by Rock A Mole (rhymes with guacamole) Productions out of Los Angeles. It explores the role of music in the struggle to end poverty. The Ultimate … Continue reading →

Organizer: Paul Zollo Contact: Paulzollo@sbcglobal.net

Organizer: Antonieta Villamil Contact: antonietavillamil@gmail.com

Organizer: Richard Modiano and Jessica Wilson, Beyond Baroque Contact: info@beyondbaroque.org