Bronx Voices is looking for your help

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Bronx Voices is a group of performers, poets, songwriters, rappers, singers, actors, teachers and whomever else we can drag onto the stage. It started with something one of my fellow profs, D.L. Anderson, called the Poetry Jam in a room at the South Bronx campus of the College of New Rochelle. I contributed a poem and then got chatting with D.L. about how to make the voices of the students we were teaching, and their mind-boggling stories, heard in public.I'd already thought about putting together an anthology of their work when D.L. mentioned the same thing to me. We got together with a few of them to discuss D.L.'s vision of a performance piece and, well, Bronx Voices was born.

Our first performance, a fundraiser, is coming up (download the flyer) at 7:30 PM on December 9th at the Arc Light Theater in Manhattan, and I'd love to see anybody local at our show. We're dirt poor, like most new and struggling organizations and we need some seed money besides mine and D.L.'s, especially since neither of us have a lot of dough to go around.D.L.'s daughter just started college and well, I'm a freelancer and an adjunct. Right now we're doing this purely for love, and out of the belief that the people we're working with need to be heard.

If you can't come, but you're interested in donating, we're also accepting Paypal donations. The address for Paypal donations is ink_inc AT mindspring DOT com. But we'd really like to see you sitting in a seat at the Arc Light come December 9th.

Thanks all!

Lee Kottner