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Green Earth Poets Cafe performs @ Rikers Island Prison Dec 10, 2016

To: Green Earth Poets Cafe Board of Directors

Re: Rikers Island Prison Holiday Poetry Program- Dec 10, 2016

I am pleased to report that Saturday’s poetry program at Rikers Island “No More Silent Voices” was very well received by the inmates of the EMTC facility. Six (6) wonderful artists joined us at the prison to help bring holiday cheer and a phenomenal performance. I wish to thank personally Quindell Evans aka Nuvha Nguvu program director and MC of the program for running a great show. We had four (4) inmates join us and share performing their original poetry. The eight or nine inmates (young men age 18-21) seemed to really enjoy the words of wisdom, performances and appreciation we shared with them. Also we want to thank teaching artist Nicole Najmah Abraham who by the way has a great left handed jump shot. (We were in the gymnasium playing basketball until the inmates came down to the gym, where the show took place). Thank you to our newest member of Green Earth Poets Cafe Devanté Tate aka Black on both sides who is a extraordinary poet, artist and activist. We will be doing great things with Devante. Thank you and appreciation to Poet extraordinaire Midnight aka Tarishi Midnight-Shuler. Tarishi is becoming a regular fixture at Green Earth Poets Cafe and will be a key player and director of Green Earth Poets Theater upon launch. The last kudos goes to the dynamic duo of Poetic Black aka Danyeil Green and Carlos Lavezzari. These two perfomed a collaboration which was powerful and we will be trying to encourage collaborating with them and our poetry theater. So thank you to the artists who came yesterday. Yesterday’s Poetry performance was funded in part by The Alvin and Fanny B. Thalheimer Foundation grant. Pictured Curtis Harris, Devante Tate, Danyiell Green, Carlos Lavezzari , Quindell Evans, and Nicole Najmah Abraham. (Not pictured Tarishia Midnight Shuler).

Faithfully submitted,

Curtis Harris, MPA
Executive Director
Green Earth Poets Cafe
“Helping People Find Their Voice”
www.greenearthpoetscafe.com

 

cc: Board members- Diane McNeil, Tina Callender, Sharon Wedderburn, Zulma Rodriguez, Jeri Baskerville, Genesis Valdez

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Poets and Writers gives Green Earth Poets Cafe Grant 2016

Nov 7, 2016

Dear Curtis Harris,

I am pleased to report that Poets & Writers, Inc. has approved fees for the grant application, which your organization recently submitted. Details of your event are below:

Submission ID 4642
Event Category Poetry
Event Consists Of Workshop
Start Date 2016-10-01
End Date 2017-02-04
Number of Sessions 5
Writer Jherelle Benn

 

Sponsoring Organization Green Earth Poets Cafe
Project Director Curtis Harris

 

Event Site Brownsville Heritage House, 581 Mother Gaston Blvd , New York
Event County NY – Kings

 

Amount provided from P&W $500

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Green Earth Poets Cafe to receive $5,000 DBNA Capacity Building Grant

August 18, 2016
Green Earth Poets Cafe, Inc.

 

Dear Mr. Curtis Harris,
Congratulations! We are pleased to inform you that The DBNA Capacity Building Grant Program has approved a grant to Green Earth Poets Cafe, Inc. in the amount of $5,000 for Youth and Child Programs. (Please note that all fees for the 501(c)3 and certificate of incorporation applications will be deducted from the total grant amount.)
The DBNA Capacity Building Grant Program is interested in the impact our grant award has made on your organization and in the community
We wish you continued success and look forward to hearing about your progress.
Sincerely,
The DBNA Capacity Building Grant Program

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MEC ALUMNUS SLAMS ILLITERACY

October 29, 2015

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In 2013 Medgar Evers College Alumnus Curtis Harris established Green Earth Poets Café in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. A nonprofit organization providing the community with a platform for expression, Green Earth Poets Café is dedicated to using poetry to increase literacy among at-risk youth in Crown Heights, Brownsville, and Bedford-Stuyvesant. Green Earth Poets Café offers three core programs:

·        A community based “Spoken Word Open Mic Poetry Series” which helps to give voice to community concerns

·        “Our Youth Are Slamming,” a workshop currently offered in schools which promotes creative writing, reading, and public speaking using poetry performance techniques

·        “No More Silent Voices,” a poetry program for youth incarcerated at Rikers Island that incorporates creative writing and performance

Green Earth Poets Café is launching Green Earth Poets Theater in the near future to continue to showcase our youth, giving them opportunity and a stage to increase self-esteem, self-expression, and self-confidence using the arts.

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