Come back soon and when you have time, I want to hear about it all from the words of spoken mouth that spits in vibration that moves the sound to the ears of a hungry listener, painted pictures in the mind like these painted words that will not wash away, but last through a life time if preserved by the people who care enough to make a difference and who don't want to be forgotten.
Come back soon and when you have time, I want to hear about it all from the words of spoken mouth that spits in vibration that moves the sound to the ears of a hungry listener, words that encourage change for the better, words that empower and words of art that fills beauty of painted pictures in the mind like these painted words that will not wash away, but last through a life time if preserved right by the people who care enough to make a difference and who don't want a group of unknown/forgotten people and its art, to be, forgotten.
Tou SaiKo Lee is a spoken word artist, mentor, hip hop emcee and community organizer residing in St. Paul, Minnesota. He teams up with his grandmother Youa Chang who does the traditional Hmong art of kwv txiaj (Hmong Poetry Chanting) to form the group "Fresh Traditions." He has a passion for working with and mentoring youth at schools and community centers across the country. He is also the co-founder of "The H Project" an Arts for Social Change effort of a national music compilation CD to raise awareness about the Human Rights Violations of Hmong people in the jungles of Laos. Along with emerging Hmong teen he created the Blackbird Elements music project for In Progress to give opportunities for upcoming Hip Hop artists to represent their stories and struggles through songs. Lee received the Jerome Foundation Travel Study Grant in 2008 and is a 2009 Intermedia Arts VERVE Spoken Word grant recipient. He organizes an annual Hip Hop event that includes a huge b-boy jam in July called Boom Bap Village to coincide with the Hmong Sports tournaments . In 2008 he was featured in an online video documentary in the New York Times called "Hmong Hip Hop Heritage."
2 comments:
weeeeeee! I'm loving these pics!!!!
:D
awwww. I miss you tou tou!
Come back soon and when you have time, I want to hear about it all from the words of spoken mouth that spits in vibration that moves the sound to the ears of a hungry listener, painted pictures in the mind like these painted words that will not wash away, but last through a life time if preserved by the people who care enough to make a difference and who don't want to be forgotten.
weeeeeee! I'm loving these pics!!!!
:D
awwww. I miss you tou tou!
Come back soon and when you have time, I want to hear about it all from the words of spoken mouth that spits in vibration that moves the sound to the ears of a hungry listener, words that encourage change for the better, words that empower and words of art that fills beauty of painted pictures in the mind like these painted words that will not wash away, but last through a life time if preserved right by the people who care enough to make a difference and who don't want a group of unknown/forgotten people and its art, to be, forgotten.
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