Sunday morning. I am thinking about Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, Obama, the Citizens Group That Will Not Forgive Special Privileges for Koreans in Japan (Zaitokukai), over-farming of fish, wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, genocide in Darfur, net neutrality, America’s prison industrial complex, the prisoners at Guantanamo for 8 years now? I’m thinking of all the problems I cannot even name because I can’t remember them all or haven’t learned of them yet. Deforestation, the continuing destruction by oil companies of land and water- especially worse in non-Western countries, young girls being kidnapped and made sex-slaves, people dying of drug overdoses, the complete destruction of the African-American family structure by prison, unemployment, poverty all over the world, the North Korean repression of its people, police brutality, capital punishment, femicide, gender inequalities, Josef Fritzl’s family. (more…)

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Jesus of All Niggers by Eseohe Arhebamen Now Available from Laughing Mouse Press

Laughing Mouse Press is proud to announce the release of Jesus of All Niggers, a collection of poetry by Brooklyn-based poet and performer Eseohe Arhebamen. Jesus of All Niggers collects thirty of Eseohe’s poems from 1998 to 2009, including two image poems. The volume is a half-legal saddle-stitch chapbook with color covers and color illustrations, and is available online from http://laughingmouse.net/books/jesus-of-all-niggers/.

Laughing Mouse Press is a small press that specializes in making art books in a broad sense – books that are art, books for artists, books by artists, books of art – by emerging authors and artists. The Press was founded in 2002 in Minneapolis by Spencer Keralis, and is now based in Littleton, Colorado. Their catalogue features hand-made books and collaborations between poets, graphic designers, photographers, and other literary and visual artists. Several releases are planned for 2010, of which Jesus of All Niggers is the first. View the complete catalogue, as well as event and artist information at http://laughingmouse.net/books/jesus-of-all-niggers/.

Jesus of All Niggers
Eseohe Arhebamen
ISBN: 978-0-9843248-1-1
60 pages, saddle-stitch.
http://laughingmouse.net/books/jesus-of-all-niggers/

Eat Me & Drink Me is an experimental multimedia performance-art, “Butoh-vocal theatre” work being jointly created by Eseohe Arhebamen, Douglas Allen, Jorge Rojas, Wura-Natasha Ogunji and Rosamond S. King.

The photo below is from a scene written by Jorge Rojas.

Project Website (itself an ongoing performance artwork) http://eatmedrink.wordpress.com/

An extension of butoh-vocal theatre workshops held by Edoheart (Eseohe Arhebamen) at New York’s multiple-OBIE award winning Living Theatre, our purpose as an ensemble stems from our multidisciplinary backgrounds in the arts, our united interest in experimental performance art and our own sociopolitical perspectives as persons of “other” categories. An allegory of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, the Eucharist and a reference to a function of celebrity in American mass media culture, Eat Me & Drink Me is a unique performance experience dealing with themes of perception, sacrifice and consumption.
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“Child Labor in Nigeria”

photos from Patrick Amanama

Child labour keeps children out of school. The effects of child labour in any society are poor performance and dropping out of school and exposure to theft, armed robbery, rape and drug abuse. (more…)