2008 has not been a joke

We're wrapping up the 08' series of our open mics and ya'll know you are not going to want to miss out on what we have in store this Friday.





We got the one and only- First Wave Poet, community organizer, educator, Youth Speaks Program Manager, and all around "I am down con la gente" GENIUS that is- Josh Healey coming through to share his writing with the masses.




On Being Called a Street Poet

What does that make you, Mr.
Tweed?


A sidewalk poet?

A crosswalk poet?



You label my verse Urban Art

when you fully gentrify me

beyond city borders

what will it be then?



Cul-de-sac Art?

No-mass-transit Art?



I write of people and place,

yes,



I think you restrict

my pen's geography

because you're afraid

what will happen

if I slip through

picket fences

and start to write about



you.


-www. myspace. com/joshuabhealey


Not to mention our first showcase and collab with Bay Area emcees "The Flame Spitaz".


What else could you need? We got poets, some of Oakland's freshest to deathest artists showcasing their work..throw in some more activists, emcees, DJ Dion Decibels leading the get down.





This Friday. Oakland Art Gallery. It's legit.