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Climbing PoeTree- LOVE WILL TRIUMPH- ft. Rising Appalachia & Toshi Reagon [OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO]
12019-10-22T20:44:05-07:00Food and Society Workshop0826c60623ca5f5c8c1eb72fc2e97084d0c44cf8350181The second single off of Climbing PoeTree's INTRINSIC record, “Love Will Triumph”, released on Inauguration Day in response to the 45th, as a timely reminder that love is the strongest force in the universe.
We had the honor or singing this song for the fist time at the Women's March D.C to millions of people across the world.
In conjunction with the release of “Love Will Triumph”, Climbing PoeTree launched a new online platform titled SOLUTION SPOTLIGHT–developed to shed light on solution-oriented groups, actions, and news. This resource-sharing site highlights transformative grassroots actions that people are taking around the world to galvanize change in their communities and environments, and offers tangible opportunities to get involved:
www.solution spotlight.net
“Love Will Triumph” is written and performed by Alixa Garcia & Naima Penniman, featuring Leah Song and Chloe Smith (Rising Appalachia) and Toshi Reagon on vocals. Collaborating musicians include Ganessa James (bass), Allison Miller (drums), Rachel Eckroth (keys), and Alex Nolan (guitar). Produced by Toshi Reagon.
Music Video: starring Emet Vitale-Penniman, Asantewaa Harris, Racquel Norris, and Horus Runako.
Directors: Alixa Garcia & Naima Penniman
Producer: Trey Scott, Three Flames Productions
Co-Director, Editor, Motion Graphics: David Miller, Three Flames Productions
Co-Director and Director of Photography: Keresey Proctor Pearl, Three Flames Productions
Production Assistant: Misha Schmiedecke
THANK YOU to our Asheville, NC fam for coming out and representing throughout the video!
DOWNLOAD MP3: https://climbingpoetree.bandcamp.com/track/love-will-triumph
See Solution Spotlight: https://solutionspotlight.tumblr.com/plain2019-10-22T20:44:06-07:00YouTube2017-01-20T19:25:19.000ZBP-qh4cTrlcClimbing PoeTreeFood and Society Workshop0826c60623ca5f5c8c1eb72fc2e97084d0c44cf8
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12019-10-22T20:45:36-07:00Food and Society Workshop0826c60623ca5f5c8c1eb72fc2e97084d0c44cf8Exploring the garden, and refrainFood and Society Workshop2plain2019-10-22T20:51:26-07:00Food and Society Workshop0826c60623ca5f5c8c1eb72fc2e97084d0c44cf8
12019-10-22T20:46:35-07:00Food and Society Workshop0826c60623ca5f5c8c1eb72fc2e97084d0c44cf8working in the garden, vision of decolonizationFood and Society Workshop2plain2019-10-22T20:51:27-07:00Food and Society Workshop0826c60623ca5f5c8c1eb72fc2e97084d0c44cf8
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12019-10-22T21:41:38-07:00Gardens as spaces for celebrating decolonizing4Three samples from the Penniman sisters help us think about layers of gardensplain2019-10-23T08:42:21-07:00As an academic who studies urban cultivation, I get to spend a lot of time with people talking about their gardens.
This can be pretty interesting, although it can also be pretty prosaic. But I am never happier than when I get to celebrate with people how their gardens make them free. I start this story with the Hamline Free Vegetable Garden, then dig into some layers of what it can mean for gardens to support freedom, even beyond free vegetables: Naima Penniman and Alixa Garcia, the music and spoken word duo Climbing PoeTREE deliver a hard hitting analysis of the contrast between disinvested urban landscapes and the power of gardens to heal in their song and music video collaboration with Toshi Reagon and Rising Appalachia, Love Will Triumph. I include four clips here that highlight the role of the garden, along with their place-animating STITCHED project, which combines clothes meaningful to people from the many places they did workshops stitching story quilts, and which they weave through the broken down landscape to help heal intergenerational and intergroup traumas they sing about: Naima's sister Leah Penniman, widely recognized as one of the country's central food and agriculture justice leaders, and the author of Farming While Black, adds additional layers to this exploration of food production as liberation: [add video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UO34aqr-bE0]
