Darlene Elias
is a writer and poet from Western Mass. She is a Hawaiian Boricua, Anti Colonial Feminista, who uses literature, poetry, and spoken word to elevate and validate her experience as part of the diaspora living in the U.S. She is the Co Founder of the Writing Sisters, a collective of BIPOC & LGBTQ women who meet twice a month to share and grow their skills as literary artist and have a positive impact in the community. Her vision is to bring the joy of writing to other women like herself. Darlene grew up poor in the barrios of the South Bronx and Holyoke. This is what makes her who she is today. She is currently working on her memoir and a poetry collection.
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Poetic Recovery is a great fit for your orgazation. as your clients, students, or members will have a full understanding of the power of culture through accessing tools that will allow them to help build networks, be heard, and seen: as well as take on challenges facing our communities, our country, and the world in the 21st century.
Poetic Recovery was created to address the damage done by cultural exploitation and appropriation. As the founder of Poetic Recover I have developed alcohol and drug free regular and annual events that encourage healing, recovery, and building community through cultural expression. At Poetic Recovery events, everyone practices interpersonal and cross-cultural communication, critical thinking, problem solving, and writing skills.
Poetic Recovery Seeks Sponsorship or a fee to bring our Annual Poetic Recovery Cultural Healing Event, multiple Poetic Recovery Open Mics, or either to your campus, business, or event. Part of humanity's experience is the conflict of joy and pain. At Poetic Recovery attendees learn to confront past pains together to get to the joy on the other side. While Poetic Recovery was created over 20 years ago it has helped me in my 31 years of recovery and address trauma from foster and adopted homes and society at large. It has allowed me to build connections and partnerships which has greatly impacted the lives of many people in the past that have go on to live healthier and successful lives. When we raise funds we will use the funds to offset cost for low income organizations or residents in low income communities so that everyone can have access to our clinics and workshops.
Virtual Cultural Tools to address challenges facing our communities
1: Newsat11.org A collaborative project by Dj Johnny Juice, The Life Given Emcee, and Maurice “Soulfighter” Taylor to make Hip Hop the news of the streets again. Artists that submit A capella tracks about what’s really going on in their Hood can get their track laced by a customized beat my Johnny Juice of Public Enemy.
2: Poeticrecoveryradio.com Online radio station where independent artists are invited to submit their music to share with people in society looking for messages of healing.
3: Poeticrecovery.us Is a Black owned growing cultural/social media network where artists, business people join to connect, collaborate, promote their work with 30sec vids and their tracks, sell products in the market place, business pages that are created here are given free advertisement on poetic recovery radio collectively all encourage buying local to create and promote local economies.
4: Clinics: Workshops on spoken word, Hip Hop and its elements, crafted as aids to recovery and healing so people can navigate their pain, create connections, and see the impact cultural expression.
Services Cost Frequent
Cultural Healing $5500-$25,000 Individual event
Open Mic $4000 2 times a year
Clinics $5000 - $10,000 2 times a year
Djing $2500 Individual workshop
Breaking $2500 Individual workshop
Graffitti $2500 individual workshop
Poetry Workshop $2500 individual workshop
Basic Audio production $6500 5 workshops
Thank you
Sincerely
Maurice W Taylor
POETIC RECOVERY INC 2025
POETIC RECOVERY OPEN MIC 2003
Ph: 617-297-7405
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Cultural Healing 2024 Recap
CULTURAL HEALING
CULTURAL HEALING will take place on Friday Sept 27th 2024 from 5pm-9pm at ELIAS BROOKINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL 433 Walnut St, Springfield,, MA in the cafeteria. The event will feature Internationally known Dj Johnny Juice Rosado, Award winning M.C, farmer Blessing Diviine, and Springfield, Ma beloved award winning mother and educator, Dr Paula Starnes and other notable artists from across New England. Please click on participants link for bios. CULTURAL HEALING is a family friendly, alcohol and drug free event that bring attendees together to learn about the power of Black culture, the necessity to take back the narrative of our culture to encourage healing. and tools to do that CULTURAL HEALING is an empowering event for those with backgrounds of domestics and social traumatizing adversity that seek good messages to aid them in their healing. You are invited to attend one of the different workshops on "the basic of farming", "messages", and "DeeJaying" and why they are important to our health, building community, and connections. It is my hope attendees will leave with a sense of self validation and connected to a force that feeds the mind, spirit, and eventually lead to community healing and economics success.
CULTURAL HEALING is a program of Poetic Recovery founded and created by long time grassroots cultural activist, Maurice "Soulfighter" Taylor, who is a former abused foster child. This program highlights some of our super powers we posses as people, those powers are togetherness, listening, and being vulnerability. These powers have been forgotten or denied due to social programming from economic oppression, cultural appropriation, economic exploitatiom which has led to isolation and being disconnected from community and given rise to violence, apathy, addiction, alcoholism, and self destructive behaviors which stunts spiritual growth which leaves many filled with agitation and hopelessness. Having a basic understanding of our own power and practicing them increases our spirituality and in turn our individual potential which when connected with other individuals with the same understanding increases our capacity to heal and grow healthier communities. The aim of Cultural Healing is to help people begin that journey free of judgement, full of mutual support, and opportunities to get involved in our cultural that encourage civil engagement.
This event will encourage attendees to tap into their inner power and share it with others, thereby; building communities. When attendees leave the workshops, they will leave with new connections and opportunities to tap into for their own spiritual well and pour into the spiritual well of the whole community via cultural expression. Following CULTURAL HEALING, there will be mini concerts to help raise money for a multimedia studio for the Darryl Lee Jenkins Jr Resource Center to help youth learn audio and video production so they can tell their own stories, control the narrative of their cultural expression to have a positive impact on their communities. Involvement in these events will lead to a sense of accomplishment and a greater sense of self worth.
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