This weekend, I had a chance to catch up with my dear friend Dr. Kitche Magak, a community development consultant in Kisumu, Kenya. A few years ago, we produced “BrooKenya!—a intercontinental grassroots soap opera” with 150 residents in Brooklyn, New York, where I live, and Kisumu. The project was designed to develop direct relationships between [...]

Please join me at my new weblog called WorldEnsemble—the art of global community.
WorldEnsemble refers to my web of friends and acquaintances, some of whom I’ve yet to meet. Each of you brings a unique voice to this diffuse assembly of people and ideas—each of you, in your own way, is healing the wounds of the [...]

Wake Up Everybody hit the charts in the US back in 1975. Over the last 30+ years, this call to arms for social change has been covered by many a musician—a testament to the chord this song strikes with generation after generation.
My favorite is this video of a young woman calling herself olehead08 on YouTube. [...]

by Yvonne Holmes, with Donna Whiteman
We left for Washington, D.C. on a cold, snowy morning the Sunday before the inauguration. It would be easy to say that this was how our trek began to see the 44th President of the United States sworn into office. But, like most Americans, I know that this journey began [...]

Dear Friends,
In this time of turning, I contemplate the miracles of last year.
It began with saving some lives in Kenya.
As you may recall, back in 2002 Kitche Magak and I agreed to ‘create community through performance across borders local and global’. With scores of residents in Brooklyn, New York and Kisumu, Kenya, we built BrooKenya!—a [...]