Summerlynn Burlew
Dedicated, wise, and humble, Summerlynn is interning with Climbing PoeTree and serving as the National Tour Booking Coordinator.
Summerlynn asked that her link be to a page dedicated to freeing her best friend, Jarvis Jay Masters, an African American Buddhist writer living on San Quentin's Death Row. Join the growing international movement seeking to overturn his wrongful conviction.
Sallome Hralima
Sallome is journeying on the Hurricane Season tour watering dreams as the facilitator for Hurricane Season's post-show "solution ciphers"!
Powerful, compassionate, brilliant, Sallome is a village-minded sister from the Brooklyn renaissance dedicated to helping people realize their highest potential.
Lindsay Turner
If it wasn't for Lindsay we would still be sitting outside our studio in New York! Our Master of Grease Guru Lindsay / Pippy / Ilana we love you!
Lindsay is a fire breathing, pumpkin pie making, acro balancing, mcguiveresc, GODDESS!
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Kyla Massey
Kyla is on tour filming the journey for the Hurricane Season documentary. She takes care of sound tech and is the official Hurricane Season dj.
If you ever meet her ask her for a hug!!!
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Rahad Coulter-Stevenson
Talented and versatile actor, Rahad Coulter-Stevenson, is also a budding video editor! He has dedicated many loving hours and his cosmic gift for mixing music and images to the multi-media component of Hurricane Season.
Layla Love Photography
Layla Love has documented much of the birthing process of Hurricane Season, and will be joining us for a stretch of the tour to make visible the magic that only her gifted eyes can immortalize.
"My art exposes our struggles, highlights the warmth of our fiery cores and apologizes for neither. My art tantalizes the senses just as everything borne of woman does. I want to be a spark. Dark days surround us, and yet it only takes one flame to light up a room, one match to burn down a house, one fire to warm many. It is a time for resistance and rebirth." ~ Layla Love
Crystal Clarity
Our genius master artist homegirl Crystal Clarity has carved the most stunning bird stencils you will ever see for Hurricane Season's shadow art. In the style only she can replicate, Crystal's bold and precise curves narrate a story all of their own.
"Flyin over brooklyn bridges with origami wings folded from poetry scribbled rice paper. the world is your canvas WE ARE phenomenal beings capable of creating anything from this life." ~ crystal clarity
Swoon
Because of the one-and-only paper-cutting, print-making, wheat pasting, street art reina SWOON, we have been able to construct our massive set and hand-made instruments! She's donated space in her workshop for us to bring our enormous imagination to life.
. . . & we've been so inspired to build next to her creation space. Swoon's art is intricate, radical, and truly magnificent. check it out!
Sun Sun
Sun ray and star spirit, Francesca Nocera has contributed her animation skills and bamboo carpentry knowledge to the creation of "Hurricane Season." We are grateful for her tireless drive to spread the radiance of her artistry to the far reaches of the universe through her consistent dedication to community, healing, and imagination.
Rita Revere, Glass Artist
Rita Revere and other artists at Revere Glass donated their time and insane skills to blow an enchanted glass bowl gong with a oak poeTree sand-blasted on it's belly. It's the centerpiece of the "cloud chamber," one of three hand-made instruments in Hurricane Season.
Sparlha Swa
Sparlha Swa sings from the place where sounds meets spirit, a soundtrack for the seeker. Born in in the Caribbean, she has lived in 8 states and 3 countries, and has toured in Canada, the UK, Paris, the Netherlands, Japan, Brazil, and all across the US, sharing the stage with Bilal, Fertile Ground, Burnt Sugar, Wumni, Malcolm Jamal Warner, Zion I, Tamar Kali, N'Dea Davenport, Maya Azucena, Martin Luther, Slim Kid (Pharcyde), and Climbing PoeTree! We are blessed to have her original musical compositions featured in Hurricane Season.
Hear Sparlha Swa's melodic medicine on this site's homepage!
Khari Lemuel
Masterful on trumpet, keys, guitar, flute, cello, bass, violin, sitar, and voice, Khari Lemuel is a deeply talented musician, composer, and healer. Lemuel has opened for the likes of Phil Cohran, Meshell Ndgeocello, Issac Hayes and the Legendary Steive Wonder, and we are blessed to have his original musical compositions feature in Hurricane Season!
Abraham Heisler
Abe came through on a hot summer day to film a month of choreography we had created with Sean Edwards and about 10 youth from the Ella Baker school. From Rooftops to Alley ways he captured the dance coming out of their feet! The end product of this shoot will be featured in Hurricane Season, the show.
Golden Om Yoga
Golden OM yoga studio in Bed-Stuy Brooklyn graciously donated their space for us to rehearse our choreography! A beautiful community-driven place of yoga devoted to nurturing the body temple and bringing peace of mind. Placid Bone and Bryonn Bain, comrades eternal. . . Yoga for Life!
National Black Theater
The National Black Theater in Harlem had graciously donated their glorious "Temple" space for the first-ever unveiling of Hurricane Season in its completion. Look forward to Hurricane Season coming home to the National Black Theater for an extended run in 2009.
NBT’s Institute of Action Arts operates from an African context of a spirit culture providing an alternative learning environment offering organizations and individuals, specifically those of African descent born in America, a space to discover, explore, nurture, articulate, address and heal the negative attitudes and emotions blocking freedom of expression.
PPH Community News Production Institute
People’s Production House's Community News Production Institute has contributed their radio broadcasts to a sound collage of Katrina-survivors' testimonies featured in Hurricane Season. CNPI is the nation's only radio news bureau of grassroots community organizers! They produce news that matters to working people, bringing voices of those who are so rarely heard in the media to local and national audiences.
PPH Gulf Coast Project
People’s Production House's Gulf Coast Project has contributed their radio broadcasts to a sound collage of Katrina-surviors' testimonies featured in Hurricane Season. In post-Katrina Louisiana and Mississippi there has been a dramatic void of the voices of those most impacted – communities of color and low income communities. People are still living a veritable nightmare. People’s Production House has been intimately involved in training and reporting projects since the days after the hurricane and have been building relationships and training organizers to make their own media.
proj-ectPRO:JECT
proj-ectPRO:JECT has donated their projector for the duration of the Hurricane Season tour! Their mission is to serve as a training center to develop a new generation of radical media producers - especially young women of color - who will have the vision, skills, resources, and support needed to visualize, represent and document strides toward the liberation of all oppressed people.
National Radio Project "Making Contact"
The National Radio Project's "Making Contact" series has contributed numerous radio broadcasts to Hurricane Season's a sound collages.
"Katrina Uncovers" and "New Orleans Now" are special series of radio programs within the Making Contact series that explore racism, poverty, government misdeeds, militarism, environmental justice, health, immigration, gentrification, corporate profiteering, the role of oil companies before and after Katrina, insular government, FEMA, "Homeland Security" and more. They also include personal stories of survivors trying to rebuild their lives.
Ruckus Society
The Ruckus Society provides environmental, human rights, and social justice organizers with the tools, training, and support needed to achieve their goals.
Adrienne Marie Brown, ED of The Ruckus Society, has offered council in the development of Hurricane's Season's "solution-cipher" facilitation model. The Ruckus Society is also supporting Climbing PoeTree in networking with grassroots groups across the country and sharing strategies for community organizing and direct action.
Green Grease Monkey
Helping to put Hurricane Season on wheels! Patrick Keaney, our very own green grease monkey started a Boston-based company that specializes in converting diesel vehicles to run on recycled vegetable oil (a.k.a. “grease”). Their mission is to make this technology accessible to as many people as possible.
Common Fire
Common Fire is Hurricane Season's fiscal sponsor. Common Fire is committed to empowering people of all walks of life to be powerful forces for justice and sustainability. They strive to support people and places committed to taking a powerful stand for new ways of being in the world.
The Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative
The Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative is a strong ally and supporter of the Hurricane Season tour. EJCC is a diverse, consensus-based group of U.S. environmental justice, climate justice, religious, policy, and advocacy networks working together to promote just and meaningful climate policy. Our mission is to educate and activate the people of North America towards the creation and implementation of just climate policies in both domestic and international contexts.
Center for Whole Communities
Center for Whole Communities generously awarded Hurricane Season with a one-thousand dollar grant towards equipment for the production.
Center for Whole Communities creates a more just, balanced and healthy world by exploring, honoring, and deepening the connections among land, people and community. They are activists in a new land movement that integrates conservation, health, justice, spirit and relationship.
Twenty-first Century Foundation
The Twenty-first Century Foundation generously awarded a five-thousand dollar grant to support Hurricane Season's development and tour.
The mission of the Twenty-First Century Foundation is to facilitate strategic giving for black community change. Specifically, 21CF works with donors to invest in institutions and leaders that solve problems within black communities nationally.
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