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Gaia Resurrect is an Asheville NC based feminist, humanist, green productions company/women's collective/spoken word and hip hop crew. At the core of the crew known as Gaia Resurrect are dynamic duo Ylem and Nina Marie, two young, inspired lyricists who unabashedly fuse poetry and rap, creating goddess-inspired, organic hip hop. Their performance is unique and lively, blessed from the beginning by "prayerformance" rituals that develop organically into poetics, and flow seamlessly into soul-stirring song and rigoddessdamndiculous rhyme. Their performance is truthful, unapologetic, entertaining, and above all, healing.
The Gaia Resurrect Company is a green productions company, hosting diverse, community-centered performance arts events featuring female dancers, poets, musicians and visual artists. Gaia Rez works out of the public school system, universities, environmental organizations, dance studios, farmers markets and festivals offering hip hop shows, workshops, potlucks, dance classes as well as a developing line of ital foods and teas.
Gaia Rez was conceived by EmmaLeigh Stickney and Jaclynn Weinke in the summer of '05 with the production of the fist Gaia show, entitled Gaia Resurrect: An Evening of All-Female Talent. The proceeds went to Our Voice, a local rape crisis/prevention center. The two hour poetry, song and dance performance was followed by several talented female DJ's, live art, a dance party and fire spinners.
Since '05, many spoken word events have been thrown in the name of Gaia Resurrect, sometimes in collaboration with Catalyst Productions.
These days, Gaia Rez is in transition since Ylem is away from home (traveling in latin america. currecntly Puerto Rico).
Please check out our gallery "epic gaia momemts" to get an idea of the productions we have produced, promoted and performed in. all graphic design by Ylem.
Poets Nina Marie and Ah'B can be caught occasionally at the Courtyard Gallery open mic on Thursdays in Asheville. Watch for the crew praising goddesses, and sometimes gods, in the streets and on the porches of Asheville and in the woods of Appalachia. Mountains, valleys, streams, sun, it's summertime at home and we're singin Gaia's praises. To contact Ylem please see her personal site.
Having recorded and performed in California and Asheville, NC, Ylem and Nina have created a name for themselves through their unique performance and event production. There are also working on recording projects out of San Francisco, California, and are open to collaboration with beat makers, vocalists, and MC's. Their soul-stirring, powerful poetics (not to mention their ill rhymes) speak of faith in the survival of humanity through educating and empowering the people. At its core, Gaia Resurrect represents celebration. Celebration of life and all things vibrant, of diversity, of the divine feminine, of victory over the darkness that is threatening to consume our world. "We got the counter-spell"
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