Listen & Be Heard Weekly Archives

harmless or killers pretty or ugly spinners or swingers big or small tricksters and gods older than christmas weaving past present and future white or black red or brown they’re all eights. they’re all spiders.

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Answering the question of what art is, and whose it is, will take you on a direct route to the heart of a community. Who makes the choices about what cultural activities will take place? Which artists are celebrated and which ones are ignored? The small communities, neighborhoods and tribes, where everyone would have called [...]

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If you’ve taken notice of the campaign signs around town, you’ve probably noticed the www.vallejoisburning.com signs as well. The site claims to be “The Voice of the Unsilent Majority.” While real fires rage in southern California, consuming homes and displacing thousands of people, there’s a fire in the form of foreclosures destroying homes here in [...]

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Sometimes sunny summer plans seem like far away fantasies; what work was woven has been whipped in the wind and worn away. Gatherings of good and gracious people have thinned down to the few who whistle, work and walk in any weather. Vision is the ability to view the veil and the vague but valuable [...]

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What’s Art Got to Do With It?” forum sponsored by Listen & Be Heard, October 4, 2007 at the Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum. Photos by S.N. Jacobson. Listen & Be Heard wants to thank Jim Kern at the Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum for allowing us to hold a forum entitled “What’s Art Got [...]

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What’s art got to do with it? Imagine your life without art. No songs, no pictures, no freedom of movement, no plays, not even television (if you call it art.) What you are imagining is life without Soul. The art we choose to live with and support with our actions and finances represents who we [...]

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Tony’s not quite finished hanging all the framed prints, and in fact there is not even room for them all, but it’s enough already to feel a not-so-subtle change of energy here at Listen & Be Heard Poetry Café. The opening reception for the new exhibition is this Saturday, September 29 from 7-9pm, and it’s [...]

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It’s a human tendency to become complacent when we’re reasonably comfortable. In the minutes that we have between one task and the next, when we pause to have a conversation with another person living, working or otherwise investing in Vallejo, we make remarks about life in the city, talk about the way things are, the [...]

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Making mistakes missing details deterrents to democracy security getting the big picture just right each error costing a thousand years.

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When in a dark warm and cozy cave it’s easy to feel secure and powerful. But when blinking in the hot sun exposed to a mob of feet which might be moved by the mere mention of POETRY to bruise a skinny leg or even squash life out of her, then she retreats to the [...]

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African Lady Print, by Cleven Goudeau, part of new exhibition. Trumpet Player Print, by Cleven Goudeau, part of new exhibition. Lilibeth Helson at Listen & Be Heard Poetry Café, by Cleven Goudeau, part of new exhibition. Foxy Lady Greeting Card The Original Greeting Card that started the whole Line… A Cartoon for Navy Supply Magazine [...]

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I was not able to experience the big picture of the First Annual Listen & Be Heard Marin Street Summer Arts Festival on Saturday August 18, 2007, because I was quite busy most of the day and night inside Listen & Be Heard Poetry Café. But it was very satisfying to look up and down [...]

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All of the pictures in the montage above were taken from the stage of Listen & Be Heard Poetry Café of performing artists who have appeared there to share their poetry, stories, comedy and music with those who would hear them. All of the artists above, and more, will be returning at some time during [...]

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The word has been spreading and people are joining in the plans even as I write this column, about our First Annual L&BH Summer Arts Festival. Since writing about the event last week and inviting artists to join the growing list of vendors who will participate, we have gotten commitments from Jim Cosgrove, photographer, Ric [...]

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Jumping on a moving wagon. Going with the flow. Joining a growing trend. In politics, when a candidate gains a threshold of popularity he becomes even more popular based on his popularity. In the Arts, when the underground starts buzzing, it’s a road sign, pointing the way toward economic development. Whenever we congregate together, to [...]

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