Kripmas Karols from Around the World by artists, poets & musicians with disabilities and allies. Throughout 2011 I’ll be asking for more poets, writers and musicians with disabilities to send their poems, songs lyrics, jingles etc to me to make a small pamphlet for the 2011 Holiday season. This is why, how it will work and what I’m looking for:
Why: Every Holiday season (December) mainstream media uses a charity frame to make people give and most of the times it is people who are poor, elderly and people with disabilities that are caught up in this frame with no voice. We have all seen it: “Serving the Homeless!” or “Toys for the Disabled!” And the list\framing goes on. So Poor Magazine & I wants to help in taking back that frame with our own Christmas carols what I call Kripmas Karols. You don’t have to be a person with a disability to be involved with this project but u do need to spit/write some activist lyrics, poems, jingles ect.
What to submit: Original poems, songs, jingles, short stories with an hardcore activist message about the ways we are used as pity and charity during the holiday season. The goal is to flip the pity/charity message with our own Christmas carol, song, poem, story and whatever. Email them to Leroy Moore at kriphopproject@yahoo.com. Although this project will be ongoing there are two deadlines: 1) The end of Jan. 2011 to promote through the Internet to get more artists and (2) September 2011 to go to print for the 2011 Holidays. I will try to send each artist a copy of the small pamphlet. The pamphlet will be used for educating purposes and not for sale. Your rights to your piece stays with you and you can publish your piece elsewhere. I only ask if you do publish your piece elsewhere just to mention it was printed for Krip-Hop Kripmas pamphlet of 2011. With your permission I would like to also post your Krip-Hop Kristmas Karols on social network sites like Face book and MySpace etc.
If you’re down then drop me an email at kriphopproject@yahoo.com Include your name, title of the piece, your email address and date when the piece was written and where are you located. Krip-Hop Kipmas Karol will be an international project and that means artists, writers, poets and musicians with disabilities and allies from around the world are welcome the send in their pieces. To make it simple please only send text no pics.
Leroy Moore Jr.
Founder of Krip-Hop Nation