Video: please watch this video w/footage from the 10th annual Life is Living Festival. It features interviews w/founders of the fest, participants, and people enjoying themselves. This past yr I got to participate by giving to the festival as a planner of the book zone in collaboration w/ Emily Butterfly leader of the kids zone. Shout out to Hodari B. Davis, Joan Osato , all the zone leaders, and all the folks who come! U want to be involved in the 11th?
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Here are “some” of the flyers for this weekend’s Life is Living Fest. There will be dance, skateboarding, free breakfast, book zone, kids zone, teen zone, poetry, welding, activities, and more. Come through if you’re in the Bay. Flyers designed by Nick James.
Facebook invite for General event
Facebook invite for Kids Zone/ Book Zone
Website for Life is Living
Last year’s video:
Life is Living 2016
2014 Life is Living Fest
this year i’ll be participating in the fest for the 2nd time as the organizer of the Book Zone, which coincides with Emily Butterfly’s “Kids Zone”. Bring your children to do activities , hear story time, and just chill. RSVP HERE
This is the 7th portrait that I’ve done for Chapter 510 , an Oakland based organization that works with young people to foster love for writing, reading, and literacy. Each year for the past 3-4 years they have asked me to paint one or more of Oakland youth who have become Oakland’s poet laureate and this project is in collaboration with the Oakland Public Library and Youth Speaks in San Francisco. Check out the original below. And this Friday if you’re in Oakland please go to Chapter 510 to see this young lady read among others, and Ch 510 will be releasing a new book!
Check out the 510 Journal which features the poetry of youth from the many programs that Chapter 510 holds to encourage and support creative writing in this city.