empowering colored/brown/black women through performing/visual arts, challenging racism, classism, homophobia, ableism, sexism, ageism, and sizeism, creating decidely colored/black/brown womanspaces, using our voices and our bodies to build bridges and community, live music, verbs, realizing our creative visions, exchanging labor and knowledge, allies, partcipating in ancestor audre's the erotic, making art and bringing it to the people, spoken word, progressive everyday peeps, loving ourselves and each other, getting free and taking you with me
Heroes
combahee river collective, our mothers, audre lorde, hanifah walidah, michelle cliff, urban bush women, pat parker, carmelita tropicana, bell hooks, carrie mae weems, assata shakur, gloria anzaldúa, sweet honey and the rock, octavia butler, nina simone, beah, toshi reagon, kali, staceyann chin, charvela vargas, ms. celie, yasmin hernandez, ntozake shange, frida khalo, elizabeth catlett, jewel gomez, mahina movement, d' lo, we got issues, mango tribe,
About me: rivers of honey is a monthly cabaret featuring women and trans artists of color the first friday of every month @ wow café theatre (59 east 4th street between 2nd avenue and bowery). doors open at 8:00 pm. $10 dollar suggested donation (give what you can) feel free to holla at us if you're interested in performing or getting involved at riversofhoney@gmail.com.
Who I'd like to meet: Performers for Rivers of Honey! We're looking for ruckus makers, melody sharers, critical thinkers, wailers, healers, dissenters, mic wreckers, storytellers, word artists, sculptors, transformers, rumpshakers, soothsayers, transcendental trailblazers, and rainbowmakers.
interested or know someone that would be???
send us a message or hit us up at riversofhoney@gmail.com.
Thank you for your friendship! I look forward to sharing time and space with you soon. You can catch me on Organik B.L.U! To find out more about who we are what we do, click on the flyer! You are Powerfull beyond belief!
Thanxs 4 last nite I really enjoyed the show, it was my first time there & I will most certainly be back..WOW all that poetry & singing..& can't 4get da heat..memorable..lol
Hosted by your friend & brother, Romeo Where: Habibi Lounge 198 Avenue A between 12th St. & 13th St., New York, New York. 10009 When: 9:30pm until 3:00am FREE ADM ALL NITE LONG The VERY BEST of Cuban Music, Salsa Cubana, Rumba, Chachacha, Mambo, Cuban Alternative, Cuban Hip-Hop and much more.
We will be dancing and partying all night long, rain or shine. Viva Cuba, Viva la Musica Cubana!
Remember if you miss us on Thursdays or just can't get enough of "Noche Cubana" You can join us on Mondays for "Noche Cubana After Work" from 5:00pm to 12:00am. Free food and salsa class, ADMISSION IS ALWAYS FREE!
Thank you & Welcome to Noche Cubana #1Cuban Timba-Salsa Dance Party in NEW YORK city ...! MONDAY & THURSDAY are NOCHE CUBANA. for info:www. myspace. com/nochecubana long live cuba, long live the cuban music ...!
Just wanted to reach out and say thank you for the incredible time last night, it was an honor to share the stage with soo many amazing talented women.
Check out Ro's latest single, Gimme Mines on BIGG PREMIERE'S lastest mixtape, Main Event #9. For the past few months, Ro has been working with the Mixtape Champ, BIGG PREMIERE, who is assisting her with her music career. The movement is in progress, so go out and purchase the mixtape, Main Event #9! Hit up the Mixtape Champ, BIGG PREMIERE, at myspace. com/BiggPremiereCD.
Also, come check out Ro's performance at Club Esko on July 22, 2008. Admission is $15 ($5 now, and $10 at the door). Show your support for Ro and Fire Musiq. Be a part of history in the making!
Get in touch with Ro at any of the below contacts.
Thank you so much!!
- Ro
Fire Musiq: Bringing education and motivation to the urban music scene.
just passin through, tryin to keep it poppin this summer, visit ladiesloveladies. com, please come out on June 13 and check out the bmore and nyc pride events...
Because it was for our MOTHERS, I wanted to offer an excerpt of what I wrote for my grandmother, called: Naming Meruca Lambey: An Interview At night everyone told stories. When we slept in my aunt Penny's room, she laid with us. And as I contemplated the length of her prayer and how it would be different from grandma's, her stories wanted us to talk. She asked us, "did anyone ever touch you there?" We were supposed to tell these stories. My brother didn't have any stories to tell, but I had a couple.
As if aware of half-sleep delirium, we told stories before prayer. The stories were always true, and most nights, I would dream of its' continuation, of being strangled, of collapsing walls, of slammed doors, eyes wide shut, the cackles of men, wired rope whipping pavement between bouncing penny loafers, blurred images, falling, then awake.
Since my brother and I are too old to share a bed, I sleep alone and I tell my stories to her. And, to her, I pray. Her version of prayer had often been a dialogue, while stories were confessional, without response, only needing a witness. I sing to her these stories, receiving her ears as she listens. Only during prayer does she seem to respond to me, after I have offered her my stories.
