Casita Maria Center for Arts and Education

Casita Maria Center for Arts and Education

Presents

The Peace Poets

Come be a part of the movement!

Saturday, November 20th

3:00 – 4:30 pm

FREE!

Come enjoy an afternoon of creativity and performance. Working with students of all ages, the Peace Poets empower youth through fun artistic exercises and encourage youth to express themselves creatively through Spoken Word Poetry and Performance. Teaching youth the power of words and self expression, the Peace Poets have touched the lives of youth around the world.

Casita Maria

928 Simpson St. 6th Floor

Bronx, NY 10459

A Wake

A wake. This mournful gathering was more live than most protests I've ever seen. The people sing and jump. The news says Nestor Kirchner died of a heart attach yesterday. The people say he is as present as ever. I believe the people.

Prohibido Olvidar

Prohibido Olvidar = To Forget is Forbidden... This sign is always in la plaza de mayo in front of the presidential palace. Memory is a tool for justice, forgetting is a tool for impunity. The brutalities of war are facilitated by amnesia. Every Thursday the mothers of the disappeared still march in front of this sign. They've been marching for thirty years... They say justice is slow, but every step toward it is worth taking... We can never forget they say, Never. I wonder where somebody will be disappear tonight? Who has forgotten?

El Che

In the middle of the night people chant socialist slogans at the sky. An ex president has died unexpectedly and the pueblo is in the streets for his wake. The line to get inside is forty blocks line and the plaza is on fire. Effigies of music, burning bonfires in the air. This huge flag with el Che is hoisted up above a chanting crowd. Che is also on the wall inside the presidential palace above he coffin of the deceased...

El Rio

Sebastian gives the thumbs up while chillin next to Azul y Johanna at The River. This young man is unafraid to lift his voice up for any type of joke. Little by little he has begun to also speak up from his sensitive side. Turns out he has many revolutions to say. Last week he asked the teacher if she'd let us come early and stay longer. He's about it.

Circle of Peace

The Circle of Peace in Argentina aka El Rio, The River, where we've been doing workshops using Poetry as a tool to eradicate violence and discrimination in schools. This group of 13 year olds is overflowing with energy. They are like music you can't turn down. I've come to love them. We've come to love each other. And the process of education has begun in the heart... as real education always does.

Week 6

Week 6 of the Peace Poets in South America; we started a circle of peace in Uruguay, it was epic. Keeping the movement growing always, check out the picture below. Peace!!