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In early December, Open Buffalo happily welcomed Climbing PoeTree — a dynamic duo of spoken word performers from New York City — for their first visit to Buffalo!

Multimedia artists who’ve spent a decade merging poetry, instrumentals, video art, and rhythmic movement, PoeTree came to town to present a Dec. 3 workshop titled “Art for Movement Building” for Open Buffalo’s 2016 Emerging Leaders class.

Climbing PoeTree consists of Alixa Garcia and Naima Penniman, longtime “soul sisters” whose voices and rhythmic creations have touched justice movements around the globe, in locales such as South Africa, Cuba, the United Kingdom, and Mexico. 

Alixa and Naima kicked off their workshop with a live performance of two dual spoken word pieces inspired by today’s ongoing struggles for racial, gender, economic, and climate justice.

They then led the Emerging Leaders — an eclectic cohort of Buffalo community leaders, grassro