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ART: putting drug dealers out of business
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Since its founding five years ago, with small budgets and huge hearts, Poetry for the People Baltimore (P4PB) has produced over 30 events, performed at over 100 and has moved thousands with its grass-roots yet sparkling productions. P4PB was inspired by the late great June Jordan.
P4PB Credentials
v Received an award for Best Poetry Cum Theater in the CP's Best Of Baltimore issue
v Been awarded a Baltimore City Arts Grant for the Live Poets Mentor Program and a Maryland State Arts Council Arts In Community Grant for Ladies Verse.
v Initiated the Live Poets Mentor Program pairing community poets with youth interested in writing in order to promote development of the whole person.
v Performed at the Artscape Festival and the African-American Heritage Festival for the past four years.
v Produced two annual events that have become staples in Baltimore's art community: The People's Poetry Awards and Battle uv da Skoolz.
v Been featured on the cover of the Baltimore City Paper, in the LIVE! section of the Baltimore Sun, and in the Examiner.
v Collaborated with many organizations to bring youth-engaging performances and workshops, such as Best Friends Mentor Program, Girls BELIEVE, Youth Warriors, The PAL Center and McDonogh School.
MISSION: Poetry for the People Baltimore seeks to use poetry to heal, develop, and celebrate the greater Baltimore community and beyond.
VISION: Poetry for the People Baltimore (P4PB) sees a world in which poetry is explored in connection with other art forms and its excitingly diverse manifestations are witnessed. The importance of art in our daily lives can be appreciated, and art can enjoy the same esteemed stature as other endeavors, such as science and business. Art can be used holistically as a tool of enrichment. People can express their unique selves and realize their voices are desired and necessary in a world conversation. P4PB believes culture should be in the hands of the people. People can be proactive and supportive and not waiting for art forms to be marketed back to them. We can strive for a world that is safe for humanity. People can realize their creative potential and become unconfined in all aspects of their lives-in their thoughts, their use of resources, their knowledge, and thus their abilities.
