4/15/11 - IAYAALIS exhibits visual artwork @ Art Nouveau

http://www.iayaalis.com/2011/03/41511-iayaalis-exhibits-visual-artwork.html

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Art Nouveau -

"A fresh, lush artistic experience"

Time: Friday, April 15 · 8:30pm - 11:30pm

Location: BB Kings Blues Bar - Nashville Tennessee

152 2nd Avenue North

Nashville, TN

Created By: Mike TheProducer Harris, Winterbourne LaPucelle Jones, Kelly Dion


More Info: "Artisan Walnut", "Sun Baked Terra-Cotta", "Pale Honey", and "Oregano Spice"; All are the colors that describe the palette on which this event is designed. Art Nouveau is where classic-touches and elegant-comfort meet modern-form in order to create a fresh, lush artistic experience like no other. This is not your ordinary poetry set! Art Nouveau is designed to offer an experience like no other in Nashville. Art Nouveau offers live Spoken Word from some of Nashville's best-known and up-and-coming artists. Sit back and relax while you listen to the smooth and funky music of Dan's Damn Band; all while being surrounded by works of art created by local artists. Mix and mingle while you enjoy all that is offered, complimented by a full bar. 3Brothers assures you that this is one event that you don't want to miss! Purchase your tickets today!


for more info
call: 615-482-1029
or email: 3BROTHERSEEP@gmail.com


Purchase tickets at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/
or
call 1-800-838-3006


Part of the proceeds will be donated to The Color of Autism.
This organization is committed to raising public awareness about autism spectrum disorders and devoted to empowering families and lessening their isolation. They are dedicated to ensuring that all people with autism receive appropriate, effective services to maximize their growth potential and to enhance the general public's awareness of autism. Visit them at http://www.thecolorofautism.org/

IAYAALIS performs OFF THE GRID...!!!

IAYAALIS

performs

at the Castle Braid Artist Community venue

on Thursday March 5, 2011 @ 8PM
OFF THE GRID
presents
Women's Month
All Female Hip-Hop Showcase
in NYC!
~an event highlighting Women in Hip-Hop and covered by The Source Magazine~

www.CASTLEBRAID.com/

"Castle Braid is a new housing development with a twist - it has donated the ground floor of its 146-room complex to the Brooklyn Artillery... but in addition will provide residents with art spaces, a library where they can check out community books, a courtyard which will screen films and experimental pieces, a proposed food co-op and farmers market shared with the neighborhood, community classes offered by residents, a shared garden on the roof, and best of all, affordable housing to artists in a rapidly gentrifying area...
The creative masterminds behind the space got involved with the project to see Castle Braid develop with,
rather than against, the community"

~ flavorwire

An Artful Way to Rent Apartments
~The New York Times

In the parking lot behind Castle Braid, a new rental complex in Bushwick, Brooklyn, BMWs and Volvos sit beside murals by local graffiti legends like Jesus Saves and Robots Will Kill.


The luxury cars are something of an anomaly in Bushwick, the working-class neighborhood to the east of Williamsburg that is New York’s current locus of bohemianism. Apartments at Castle Braid, named for a trimmings factory once on the site, have soaking tubs, energy-efficient appliances and Italian cabinetry. Monthly rents range from $1,700, for one-bedrooms, to $3,300 for three-bedrooms, in an area where struggling artists roost in unconverted lofts.


Drawing on Bushwick’s cachet, Castle Braid is being marketed by its developer, Mayer Schwartz, as “a world custom-built to enable the artist,” and is aimed at art lovers willing to pay Williamsburg prices to live in an area sorely lacking in both trees and retail. The graffiti murals were commissioned by Mr. Schwartz as part of Brooklyn Artillery, a six-week art fair/open house last fall that converted the 125 then-vacant apartments into temporary galleries.


The tactic appears to be working on both fronts: only two units remain to be filled, and tenants say they are trying to realize Mr. Schwartz’s vision of an artists’ utopia.


“I relate to Mayer’s desire to create a family of people here,” said Khalil Chishtee, 46, a Pakistani sculptor. Last winter Mr. Chishtee decorated the parking lot gate with a metallic collage based on the novel “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn” — in which the Castle Braid factory figures prominently — after Mr. Schwartz had given him a copy of the book.


Mr. Schwartz, who also developed the Bedford Avenue miniature mall (in a former girdle factory) and the 66-unit Opera House Lofts (in a former German singing hall in Bushwick) is trying to compensate for a lack of local amenities by providing them all in one place.


Castle Braid’s U-shaped layout accommodates a recording studio, a screening room, a gym, a media lab, rentable video equipment and a lending library with more than 1,500 books and 300 DVDs — all cataloged on the building’s private social networking site. Mr. Schwartz plans to install a metal shop, a coffee bar and a ceramics studio complete with a $5,000 kiln.


Though some have called his use of art a ploy to sell apartments, Mr. Schwartz says that making a place for people to grow and enjoy themselves far outweighs any financial incentives. “A kiln is not such a big expense if it’s going to make people happy,” he said.


Castle Braid’s marketing director, Taylor Clark, a 25-year-old skateboarder and comedian who lives in another of Mr. Schwartz’s buildings, has organized a 48-Hour Short Film Festival (the winners — both residents — won six months’ rent) and a weekly comedy show with performers like Reggie Watts, who recently toured with Conan O’Brien.


Before committing to a year’s rent on a $2,500-a-month duplex, Helmut Kohli, a Swiss artist, spent weeks wandering the space. One night in February, Mr. Kohli, 49, lit the tree-filled 6,000-square-foot courtyard with 1,500 candles and a six-story torch while a number of tenants, among them a violinist for the New York Philharmonic, played Classical music.


But blurring the line between art gallery and private residences has its perils. In early June, Jinkyung Chong, an installation artist and tenant, received Mr. Schwartz’s blessing to curate a show in the lobby as part of Bushwick Open Studios. That was when a graphic nude photograph by Rafael Fuchs (titled “Nude Megillah #1” and priced at $1,800) disturbed one tenant, a mother of two young children, who eventually removed the work herself, damaging the print. Mr. Fuchs has threatened to sue Mr. Schwartz, claiming the piece is worth over $7,200.


“I told him it was wrong what he’s doing, but that I loved him anyway, as I love the whole world,” Mr. Schwartz said. But he is requiring curators to discuss any provocative art with him beforehand and sign a document stipulating that work found offensive by tenants will be removed within 24 hours.


And Mr. Schwartz admits that the cost of living at Castle Braid is out of the reach of most up-and-coming artists. “It was more intended for mature artists who have gotten somewhere in their careers,” he said.


Not everyone at Castle Braid is an artist. But “because of how we designed it,” Mr. Schwartz said, “we pulled in people who are passionate about art and want to contribute.”


Accordingly, Castle Braid, like a cutting-edge gallery opening in Chelsea, has attracted its share of young people for whom art is often a pretext for socializing. “It’s like a college dorm for me,” Jensen Lee, 20, a recent film school graduate, said in reference to the numerous in-house parties posted on the complex’s self-contained networking site.


“People ask me where I made all my friends,” said Ms. Lee, whose roommate at Castle Braid is Barry Hollywood, a 50-year-old fashion photographer. “I’m like: ‘My building. Aren’t you friends with the people in your building?’ And they’re like, ‘No.’ ”

♥ I Am You Are And Love IS...!!! ♥

the name:
I Am You Are And Love IS...!!!

the name

the queenz - the kingz - the earths - the godz

the sun - the moon - the stars - the odds

like seven or eleven doubled in digital time

the here - the now - the heart - the mind

the wisdom - the womb - the silver dollar - the dime

the worth - the respect - the rep - the rhyme

the hope - the hustle - the hard-knocks - the dues

the prayer to The Most High just make it through

i rise - i fall - i riddle - i reason

the answer - the question - the phases - the seasons

the fake - the waste - the real - the worth

the choice and consequence - the death - the rebirth

the math - the path - the talk - the walk

the hold - the fold - the step outside'a ya' box

the truth is - the truth hurts - but the truth lives

the love will - whenever you ain't - love is

the quiet - the riot the sit-in - the stand

the holy book - the bomb - the bullet - the black man

the whirlwind of garvey - the fro of davis

this middle-finger -whut?!- to any and all haters

the devil - the system - the powers that be

the chase for the paper - the struggle to be free

the power to manifest my own destiny

the birthright - the claim - the name = I.A.Y.A.A.L.IS

I AM - YOU ARE - AND LOVE IS – the name: IAYAALIS

the artist - the hunger - the vision - the drive

the skill - the real - the raw - the shine

the boom - the tic - the voice over the beat

the underground heat - take'n it to the street

the independent - the majors - the sign - the seal

the units - the ratings - the contract - the deal

the hook - the gimmick: "get rich or die!"

the fall of our culture - the televised lie

the wheelz - the spinn'n - the ice - the bling

the envy - the children - the life - the dream

the game - the playa - the fiend - the fix

the hood - the rich - the reality missed

the stasis - the dis-ease - the tension - the bleed

the understand'n behind the smoke'n of trees

the work - the weary - the routine - the bore

the need for balance - the desire for more

the who - the how - the suspense of when

the need to end up better than where i begin

the pennies in the pot - the paycheck - the patience

the test of my every wit - the wait'n

the deep - the keep - the faith - the leap

the victory - the defeat - the strong - the weak

the seed - the message - the birthright claimed

I.A.Y.A.A.L.IS = the name - the word became

I AM - YOU ARE - AND LOVE IS – the name: IAYAALIS

~ IAYAALIS Kali-Ma'at ELOAI / Donalda Antonia Chandler

publishing & copyright: MuthaQueen Cyphr Music

www.IAYAALIS.com

www.youtube.com/IAYAALIS

IAYAALIS performing: "as above - so below"

"As Above - So Below~ As WithIN - So Without~

Everything is EVERYTHING...!"


IAYAALIS performs: "as above so below"
@ Sound Therapy 2010 Mardi Gras Party

Happy People Network Event @ 12th & Porter

IAYAALIS performs THIS FRIDAY...!!!

IAYAALIS
performs THIS FRIDAY...! October 1st, 2010 @ 7pm

Happy People Network presents:

Cobalt Blue -&- Authentic Spoken Word
@ 12th & Porter = $10

Contemporary urban poetry and reggae unite
as some of the city's most recognized poets and the graceful Cobalt Blue create
a medley of thought provoking expressions!
Don't miss it!

Poetry lovers, live music enthusiasts, international music lovers, you are in for a treat!

Music provided by Cobalt Blue!
Featuring exclusive performances by:
IAYAALIS, Christina, Jahbu, and D-Revolution!

IAYAALIS = THIS THURSDAY! = 08/26/2010

IAYAALIS

@

NOT ON THE RADIO
~All Female Show~

*** THIS THURSDAY! ***
August 26th, 2010

PEARL Fusion Restro
204 Commerce Street
Nashville TN 37201

$5

open mic: 9-10
spoken word & live music

*** IAYAALIS performs @ 10:30 PM ***

06/26/2010 - The Black Poetry Cafe 2010 Poetry Fest

IAYAALIS
@
The Black Poetry Cafe 2010 Poetry Fest
6/26/2010

what an Amazing evening...!
i definitely feel honored and extremely grateful
to have had the opportunity to be a part of such a positive event.
:)
~i.

FRI 5/14/10 = IAYAALIS performs Sound Therapy

IAYAALIS
performs...

Sound Therapy = Payin Homage To The Female Emcee

FRIDAY MAY 14th, 2010 @ The Sports Page

419 Union Street Nashville, TN 37219

THIS FRIDAY
Sound Therapy
will be honoring the FEMALE EMCEES. POETS, AND SINGERS out there
with featured performances by:
Day, Finess Da Boss, Alyshia, Sumer D aka Lyric Jordan, Aphro-Pik,
IAYAALIS,
Cole Jonique, Sweets, FEDEX, Tasha T., and more for your listening pleasure.

We will also feature performances from
TRUTH, Jazzy, T.Y., and The Nashville Slam Team...

Special guest Dee Jays:
ART, Ginsu, & Mattatat will join A-7, TRON, & Magnetic on the turntables...

"Two Floors-Two Sounds"
Great Specials on Food & Liquor

FREE / NO COVER CHARGE - TIPS & DONATIONS ARE ACCEPTED.

PLEASE BE SURE TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE KITCHEN & BAR
SO THAT WE MAY KEEP THIS GREAT EVENT "FREE..."

21 & Up - NO EXCEPTIONS...

THIS FRIDAY = May 14th - !!!

The Sports Page
419 Union Street

Nashville, TN 37219

9pm - 2am...

IAYAALIS performs for EarthMatters Fundaraiser 4/21/10

IAYAALIS
performs for Earth Matters Fundraiser
Wednesday, April 21st, 2010

hope to see you there...!
~i.

IAYAALIS performs 02/12/10

IAYAALIS
performs @ 7:30PM
with Nashville Flipside at Nashville Center Stage
on Friday, Feb 12th 2010

...hope to see you there!

IAYAALIS performs @ The SFPC Saturday 4/18/09

IAYAALIS performs
at The Soul Food Poetry Cafe event
Saturday April 18th, 2009 @ 8pm

The Soul Food Poetry Cafe event
is held at the Calvin Atchinson Community Center
located 3900 Clifton Avenue
cover = $5

SPOKEN REVOLUTION - (((click & cite)))

The Black Authors Network (BAN) Literary Talk Show on BlogTalkRadio aired a Black History Poetry Jam - “Spoken Revolution” - hosted by Haiti Bluez
on February 14th, 2009.
I was invited to participate and offer my creative work as a spokenword artist and I feel extremely honored to have been a part of this event. I totally enjoyed the experience.

Find more music like this on The IAYAAVERSE

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Join us each Monday and Wednesday night for the most stimulating and empowering conversation on the planet. We welcome callers to the show to share their Gifts of Knowledge.

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02/14/09 = IAYAALIS performs LIVE spokenword TONIGHT online...!

02/14/2009 = IAYAALIS performs LIVE spokenword TONIGHT online...!