The Atlanta Sedition Orchestra

The Campaign to End the Death Penalty (CEDP) is hosting a national tour, "Live From Death Row," featuring the voices of death row prisoners, live from their prison cell. Death sentences de-humanize the condemned, justifying the state-sponsored murder of the poor, the innocent and people of color. Death rows isolate those sentenced to die, denying them human contact and hope for justice. In our "Live From Death Row" tour, the voices of death row prisoners will reach from behind the walls to share their stories of loss, injustice, struggle, and hope for an end to the death penalty.

50 artists organize this event at the Task Force for the homeless. This is an afternoon event with music, spoken word and visual arts.

We helped raise $595 for Task Force!!

http://www.50artists.org/blendandflow

We started this event, despites the snow and frozen roads. No snare drum, but a lot of fun. recordings of some of the songs we performed are at

http://laurent.oget.free.fr/20090301/

From their MySpace page:

Benefit for the Sopo Bike Co-op

This was a pretty amazing event. Lenny, first warm night of the year, our friends of the grateful gluttons krewe and their amazing puppets stepping up as a dance team. http://gratefulgluttons.com/

listen to it http://laurent.oget.free.fr/20090306/ , thanks to the ever so gracious k8t for holding the recording thingy.

March 6 at Lenny's

March 21, at Eyedrum

This event managed to raise about 70% of Eyedrum's rent for the month, and $550 for Twinhead theater! Plus, it was a queer/feminist/body-positive spectacle!

A write-up from the Bad Idea Potluck blog: