Climbing PoeTree

DISCLAIMER: We are so thrilled to be connected to you all, and grateful for all the love folks have been sending through the site!!! Unfortunately, we haven’t been able to give our myspace page as much attention as we would like with all that we’re up to. SO… if you want to get in touch with us immediately, you should email us [email protected] or reach us through our official website www.climbingpoetree.com. Thanks for understanding!Alixa and Naima make up the tag-team, two-spirited, boundary-breaking artist duo, Climbing PoeTree. With roots in Haiti and Colombia, Alixa and Naima reside in Brooklyn and track footprints across the country and globe on a mission to overcome destruction with creativity. In five self-organized independent tours, Climbing PoeTree has rocked 500 mikes and counting from from Oakland to Atlanta, South Africa to Cuba with artists such as Amiri Baraka, Sonia Sanchez, Nikki Giovanni, Danny Glover, Jessica Care Moore, The Last Poets, and Dead Prez. They have led workshops in institutions from Cornell University to Riker’s Island. And they have painted murals on walls from the Bronx, to Santiago, to Jamaica. Climbing PoeTree uses their art to expose injustice, heal from violence, and make a better future visible, immediate, and irresistible.

PHOTOGRAPHY BY www.lovephotography.orgWho is Climbing PoeTree?
This 2 minute video, produced by Keith Wasserman, is a snap shot into the work of Alixa and Naima, the Brooklyn-based internationally-acclaimed arts activist duo CLIMBING POETREE. For more info on these inspiring women, log on to www.climbingpoetree.com----------------------------

UPCOMING
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Stories
TestimoniesIntentions
Truths Confessions
Healing Expressions
Dreams

Creating a future by rewriting our histories

S.T.I.T.C.H.E.D is a project that grew from the collective need for people to testify to their lived experiences and to confront the misrepresentations in mainstream media.
Since the wake of Hurricane Katrina, we have given our audience participants the opportunity to write part of their story on five-inch cloth squares that we sew together as we journey, creating miles of colorful prayer flags. The ever-growing project is showcased at all Climbing PoeTree shows.
Over the last 15 months, S.T.I.T.C.H.E.D has multiplied and taken on a life of its own. It has filled concert halls, transformed churches, adorned sidewalks, and catalyzed social healing, anti-racism, and creative writing workshops all over the nation. Each patch is someone’s prophecy. These are headlines from people who don’t own a newspaper, manifestos from people without armies, testimonies from people without tribunals, expressions from people with histories and with dreams.
The magic of S.T.I.T.C.H.E.D comes from declaring our truths, and bearing witness to others’. When we recognize ourselves in each other, we begin to dispel the myths that are created to keep us divided. Our goal is nothing short of transforming a culture of cynicism into a culture of caring. This project is one stitch in the patchwork of our collective liberation.
CONTRIBUTE TO S.T.I.T.C.H.E.D!
What’s your story? Entries can be written, drawn, stamped, embroidered, stenciled, silk-screened, glued, or printed on a 6” x 6” piece of fabric.
Email us for the address: [email protected]
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ALIXA + NAIMA’s debut album AMMUNITION
featuring Francis Phan, Resom Dhac,
Subtech, and Siddharthveda on beats,
Bryonn Bain, Anjali, Lady Malone,
Sparlha Swa and Iyeoka Okoawo on vocals,
has been officially released into the atmosphere!

This brave new album is a creative fusion of intense poetics and infectious beats, laced with subliminally sultry melodies. Alixa and Naima’s detail-driven narratives take listeners on a journey from the llanos of Colombia to under the covers, the cosmos to the streets of Brooklyn with imagery so thick you can taste, feel, and picture it. Raw, bold, and unclassifiable, AMMUNITION is a collection of poems, prayers, and anthems for a world filled with contradiction, love and struggle.
We are proud to announce,
the battle between machine guns and poems has officially begun!

Click Here to purchase your copy through CD BABY!

You can also listen to audio clips of all the tracks through our CD Baby site,
and write a review! www.cdbaby.com/alixanaima

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FASHION STATEMENT

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