February 2012
4 posts
Iyeoka Showcases Her One-Woman Musical in...
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Iyeoka Presents Latest Show in Barcelona, Spain... →
With the unexpected hit “The Yellow Brick Road Song,” picked up by USA Network as a theme song for Fairly Legal, entering a second season this spring, Iyeoka has been invited to perform as a soloist at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain.
I Want To Share My Words With The World
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PMAN Embraces Iyeoka with SAY YES
THE Performing Music Association of Nigeria (PMAN) has identified with the effort of award- winning poet, Iyeoka Ivie Okoawo. The drummer, songstress and poet, who has, in her sojourn in Music projected the image of Nigeria recently paid a courtesy visit to the PMAN office in Lagos after 10 years of playing professional music in Boston and other parts of the world. According to the PMAN...
December 2011
2 posts
CHECK OUT THE LATEST YELLOW BRICK ROAD SONG VIDEO... →
REBIRTH: Featured in video Iyeoka, Jane Fonda →
Watch live streaming video from tedxwomen at livestream.com Lyrics For Literacy A written transcript of Ep.4 of When Women Were Drummers When Women Were Drummers Ep. 4 Presenting at TEDxWOMEN Session…
November 2011
4 posts
Iyeoka joins Pat Mitchell, Jane Fonda, Dr. Oz, and... →
Iyeoka joins Pat Mitchell, Jane Fonda, Dr. Oz, and a strong cast of presenters at TEDxWomen NYC | PRLog.
Iyeoka joins Pat Mitchell, Jane Fonda, Dr. Oz, and... →
Esan Proverbs And Drums Making A Lasting... →
Here are my favorite comments posted the 23rd of September by Ji Hyang “Iyeoka sang a proverb from Nigeria in her native language, so that it sounded brilliant, then translated it afterwards: she who…
“BLINK OF AN EYE” Featured on U-NEON →
CHECK OUT IYEOKA’S Award Winning poem featured in a cross disciplinary media project by DJ/artist Mali Woods. http://www.maliwoods.com/2011/05/blink-of-an-eye/ Here is Mali Woods artist statement on…
September 2011
2 posts
TED FELLOWS GO BIG AT SWALL INSTITUTE →
TED FELLOWS GO BIG AT SWALL INSTITUTE →
7 TED Fellows picked to live in a house near a mountain. See what happens when ideas are pitched and dreams start getting real.
August 2011
1 post
July 2011
1 post
National Poetry Slam Comes to Boston Next Week and...
The National Poetry Slam is coming to Boston/Cambridge this summer from August 9th-13th. On Tuesday the 9th, the preliminary competition kicks off with 72 teams of poets from around the country and globe where the 2011 National Poetry Slam Competition will be held in Central Square, Cambridge, with select events just over the river in Boston. Recording artist/poet Iyeoka has been invited to...
June 2011
6 posts
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TED Global Fellows Meklit Hadero and Iyeoka Ivie...
GOOGLE'S DEVELOPING A MUSIC REGISTRATION PROGRAM...
THE DAILY SWARM | READ FULL STORY below > Bloomberg: Google Inc. (GOOG), creator of the most used Internet search engine, is partnering with the World Intellectual Property Organization to set up a music-registration program for 11 West African countries. WIPO, a United Nations agency, said in a statement that a new Web-based system for the collective management of copyright and...
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Her Crown
She can handle her crown. Twirling with raindrops she sets fire her spiral free hair twisting in midair towards her make a wish rainbow.
May 2011
2 posts
IYEOKA AND THE ROCK BY FUNK TRIBE JOIN THE LA... →
Underground Sun Recording Artist, IYEOKA rocks with her TriBe in LA this month. Iyeoka & The LA Rock by Funk Tribe live at Bardot… Mon, May 23… FREE! Rsvp here: www.itsaschoolnight.com You’ll see…
First LA Shows! →
FIRST LOS ANGELES PERFORMANCE! LIVE WITH THE ROCK BY FUNK TRIBE FEATURING DJ DREZ MONDAY, MAY 23RD @ BARDOT HOLLYWOOD ~ 1737 Vine Street Show starts at 10PM ~ free with rsvp @ itsaschoolnight.com…
April 2011
13 posts
Support Nets For Hope
Subject: Nets for Hope Event-Tickets Now on Sale!Having trouble viewing this email? Click hereSponsorship opportunities are available. Become a sponsor or buy a ticket today! Nets for Hope Annual Fundraiser! This year’s event will be held at the beautiful and historic, Bohemian Caverns/LIV Nightclub at 2001 11th St., NW, inWashington DC.Guy Lambert from WPGC’s 95.5 Big Tigger...
FEATURED NEWS: AMENAWON "NETS FOR HOPE" MAY 14TH...
featured news: Auction Gala Event The countdown is on to our Nets for Hope gala event. Amenawon Foundation is pleased to announce the 2011 Auction Gala Event, on Saturday May 14, 2011 at U Street’s historical home of jazz and blues, Bohemian Caverns. The event will benefit the health and education fund of Amenawon for a Mosquito Net Drive. The event will include food, live music from TED...
WHEN IYEOKA MET A GIRL →
Let us customize and confess our oppressions. Let us contribute comfort to ourselves as crippled lovers, lost in role playing games & Bad romances inspired by Scenes from the L Word. Let’s just say…
OUR LOVE IS THE MIRACLE →
VERSE: HERE IS THE DAWN THAT RESPONDS TO A SOUL WHO IS BOLDLY SEARCHING ((OOH-OH) REPLACING A STONE THAT WILL HOLD WHEN THE WINDS OVERTHROW THE BREEZE. ((OOH-OH) LET ME BE THE GIRL WHO REMINDS YOU OF…
Iyeoka Loves Frame Drums, BIGTIME. →
IYEOKA: ME LOVE YOU LONGTIME FRAME DRUM. CanALLofYOUpleaseGEToneSOweCANplayOURdrumsONtheBEACH. I think I just found my frame drum SOUL mate. Seriously, I love SHE. And yes, the MOON outside my window…
GOD IS A POET →
She believes in Jesus. She went to Catholic school for 6 years of her childhood. For god’s sake, She spits whiskey in the air and wears rosary beads in her hair. She carries her Holy cross hidden in…
LOST AND FOUND →
It took a moment like this one: Too many hours suffocating. Too many weeks of couch surfing remembering teachings from Uncle, a Lomi teacher I visit in Hawaii. He scolded me for coming to see him…
WHO IS THE ROCK BY FUNK TRIBE? →
Iyeoka Ivie Okoawo 2011© WHO IS THE ROCK BY FUNK TRIBE? 30/30 APRIL IS NATIONAL POETRY MONTH. For this written narrative, the reader may choose to imagine the voice of a familiar or favorite NPR…
TO SMILE IS DISCIPLINE →
Iyeoka Ivie Okoawo 2011© To SMILE is DISCIPLINE. Fourth poem from TED Fellow, poet Iyeoka’s 30/30 Daily post of a poem pledge April 2011. April is Iyeoka’s favorite month. APRIL IS NATIONAL POETRY…
Unbroken →
Iyeoka Ivie Okoawo 2011© Unbroken. 30/30 APRIL IS NATIONAL POETRY MONTH.
There are roses in her garden resting on the foundation of a monolithic illusion.
A fragrance spreads with hope of becoming…
HERE IS OUR PARADISE →
Iyeoka Ivie Okoawo 2011© Here Is Our Paradise. 30/30 APRIL IS NATIONAL POETRY MONTH. And suddenly I flash forward to menopause. Will I have birthed enough children by then? This gift Continue…
Regarding Being Regarded as an “Expert” on Slam →
30/30 Poem SERIES from Ted Fellow, Iyeoka Ivie Okoawo. APRIL IS NATIONAL POETRY MONTH. Poets around the world dedicate 30 days in April for 30/30. New 30/30 from Iyeoka Ivie Okoawo, Regarding Being…
HERE IS OUR PARADISE →
And suddenly I flash forward to menopause. Will I have birthed enough children by then?
March 2011
6 posts
Link →
read my poems to your children. drink whiskey for me. play your trumpet on the rooftop bring a choir up there Make sure a fat guy waves his arms in the air like Mr. Fiddler on the roof. SING with …
my honest compass →
my honest compass ©2011, new poetry lyrics from TED Fellow, poet Iyeoka Ivie Okoawo. i pull the pale indigo sky from my honest compass. i trust destination to deliver me to the fullest path. parallel roads drift into what I now know as this place. symptoms of heart predict i will still be here tomorrow. true.
i am at the center →
I Am At The Center, poem by Iyeoka Ivie Okoawo 2011© Ted Fellow. Inspired.
it is my face in the mirror.
it is my bronze lipstick in my right hand. Continue reading →
Iyeoka's “This Time Around” is nominated for a...
The IMA Vox Pop poll is now open… “This Time Around” is nominated in The 10th Independent Music Awards. All nominated materials were sent to the judges, and IMA will announce the results on Tuesday, March 29th. The IMA Vox Pop poll is now open. Voting in this fan-determined portion of The IMAs will continue through July 11 VOTE HERE AND PASS IT ON!Thanks for your support of...
Cover Me With Willows →
All day she feels the oil spill in her water. Mixing tide and seasons, The muck moans a mighty cry. Lonely of life the ocean whispers a song to the sea-bird asking her wings to stand on land for a …
the color of our time →
The Color of Our Time: A poem for Gabrielle Bouliane July 24 1966-January 29 2010 from Iyeoka Ivie Okoawo our time was like brilliant orange/big sister, little sister time/our time was like regroup…
February 2011
4 posts
let it collide →
too many of us will walk away from it too many of us will feel it caught in the rain too many will collide accidentally too many will matter to us Too many will experience a day that never came….
EXCLUSIVE NEW VIDEO: SIMPLY FALLING
A NEW VIDEO FROM TED FELLOW IYEOKA Iyeoka performs Simply Falling from her album SAY YES.Iyeoka Okoawo, a Nigerian American poet, a recording artist, and a 2010 TED Global Fellowwill present an 18-minute unplugged performance accompanied by her music group the Rock by Funk TriBe.TEDxBU event begins Feb 26th from 1 to 5 p.m. in the College of General Studies Jacob Sleeper AuditoriumTwisted Logic...
One Month Until Spring. Hang in there.
January 2011
4 posts
A Familiar Theme Song To TED on FAIRLY LEGAL
The ‘Wizard of Oz’ theme on FAIRLY LEGAL Posted on January 18, 2011 by iyeoka FAIRLY LEGAL, the latest addition to USA Network’s “Characters Welcome” line-up, premieres January 20 and centers on Kate Reed (Sarah Shahi“Alias,” “Life,” “The L-Word ), a former lawyer turned mediator who can find the solution to any problem–at least in her professional life. Regarding the character Kate...
The ‘Wizard of Oz’ theme on FAIRLY LEGAL
The ‘Wizard of Oz’ theme on FAIRLY LEGALPosted on January 18, 2011 by iyeokaFAIRLY LEGAL, the latest addition to USA Network’s “Characters Welcome” line-up, premieres January 20 and centers on Kate Reed (Sarah Shahi“Alias,” “Life,” “The L-Word ), a former lawyer turned mediator who can find the solution to any problem–at least in her professional life.Regarding the character Kate Reed a...
EXCLUSIVE Interview with UnderDaRock.com
January 10th, 2011 | Posted by UnderDaRock | Iyeoka Ivie Okoawo Exclusive InterviewIyeoka Ivie Okoawo known as Iyeoka is a talented sister based on the west coast. She is a poet/singer/writer and more. Iyeoka just released a hot album that we had the opportunity to enjoy.read more…
Drive.
Drive.Turn the key.Do whatever the green lightstaught you to do.Do it withthe hazard lights on.Become a 4- way flasher.See the blue bookvalue for miracles.Watch happiness coastforward on the breakdown lane.See loneliness pulledoff to the side of the road.See sign flashing:DRIVER IN PROGRESSTake home the warningto make peace withthe unusual conditionsup ahead.Clear a way for the accidents.Drive.See...
November 2010
3 posts
Amenawon Foundation Newsletter: "Spreading a...
“Spreading a Message of Hope” Volume 1, No. 1, Fall 2010 Dear Amenawon Foundation supporter, On behalf of the Amenawon Foundation board, please join me in celebrating the inaugural issue of our quarterly newsletter! We will be sending you news and features to update you on the exciting work of the Foundation. This past August, Board Vice-Chair, Georgia and I returned from a trip to...