This Friday in Northampton!!!!!!

It’s Our Future!  

Youth Speak Out 

to Save the Environment 

&  the Earth 

 

Friday, November 18,  7-9pm

Northampton Center for the Arts

                                                                                            (17 New South Street--across from Academy of Music)

                 

 

Using poetry, prose, hip-hop rhyming, music (singing a capella, with guitar, etc.), dance, art, video, sculpture, skits, and stand-up comedy, young people between the ages of 8 and 25 are invited to speak out about climate change and other environmental threats, and express their hope and vision for a sustainable valley, nation, and planet. 

** Featured performers will be Smith College senior Novana Venerable and Hampshire College senior Adam Gottleib,
     among four young poets highlighted in the 2007 film “Louder Than a Bomb” about the annual Chicago teen poetry slam.

 

Prizes for every young performer!

                                     Sign up now for a slot!

                                                                                               Open Mic for audience to participate, too!

 

MCs:     John Berkowitz, poet & coordinator of Pioneer Valley Climate Action

                             Savannah Sullivan,  Oberlin '11 and Western Mass. organizer of the

                                                                          Sierra Club's Beyond Coal Campaign

9:15pm:  Dance to

    Goat Boy (students at Pioneer Valley Performing Arts High school)

  Rhythm Inc.  (8-member reggae/hiphop/funk band)                  

 Northampton Center for the Arts  **  Huge dance-floor!   **  Great refreshments (non-alcoholic)!!

 

To Benefit:     Mass. Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal Campaign, 

                                 and Pioneer Valley Climate Action

 

More info:  Pioneer Valley Climate Action  413-625-6374