Smokin' Word Production
Represent! Press Release

PRESS RELEASE
December, 2003

On December 15th at 7 PM at the Laila Lounge in Williamsburg,
Brooklyn, Smokin' Word, one of the most exciting hip-hop and spoken
word-based companies around, will be hosting a very special
fundraising event featuring the debut of our newest venture, the
Smokin' Word album, Brooklyn to Harlem: Upward Movement. The evening
will also feature exciting performances from poets and musicians-- performers
you've seen on Russell Simmons' Def Poetry Jam, at venues
like The Nuyorican Poets Café, the Bowery Poetry Bar, Bar 13, and
more! and that's not all! A portion of the proceeds for this special
event will go to Body Positive, a nonprofit community service
organization dedicated to providing a self-help model of HIV/AIDS
education, information, and support (see www.bodypos.org for more details).

Represent!
Monday December 15
Laila Lounge
7pm. $10 w/flyer!
$15 w/out. For more info email smokin@smokinword.com
113 N-7 street. (between Berry and Wythe) Brooklyn, NY
L Train to the first stop in Brooklyn, Bedford Ave.
Walk 3 blocks down

This is going to be an amazing event, and we'd like you to be a part
of it. The doors open at 7PM and it's only $10 to walk in the door.
Some lucky winners will receive a complimentary copy of Brooklyn to
Harlem, or if you buy a copy (for $10) you can walk in the door for
half price! During the event, we'll be having a raffle for some
amazing prizes and gift packages. Prizes include tickets to the amazing
off-broadway show "The Exonerated", A $50 gift bag from Ricky's, 5 hours of free
studio time with Smokin' Word's Music Supervisor, and free tickets to a
hip-hop show at The Bowery Poetry Club. Wow! Raffle tickets are just $1
a piece at the event.

Rest assured, your donations will be going not only towards the
launch of this album, or just for this special event. In fact, your
dollars will continue to be used in exciting upcoming projects for
the entire 2004 Smokin' Word season and they'll be going to aid the
first community-based organization dedicated to assisting newly-
diagnosed HIV positive individuals and their lovers, partners,
caregivers, families, and friends. Your donations will also help
make Smokin' Word's entire 2004 season a success.

Based in the heart of Brooklyn, Smokin' Word Production is a non-profit
company of actors, writers, musicians, recording artists,
performance poets, and visual artists, dedicated to entertaining and
educating the public with quality works through the facilitation of
live performance, recorded works, and published materials. You may
have already seen Smokin' Word artists and productions in festivals
like The NYC Hip-Hop Theatre Festival and the Chashama Oasis
Festival, or in the performances of critically acclaimed works like
Claudia Alick's Six Hits, an evening of short works including the
controversial "Sick Rhymes," hailed as "intensely moving"
and "powerful" by Backstage.com. You can see Six Hits again when an
extended version premieres in The Downtown Urban Theatre Festival in
the spring of 2004.

For more info contact:
George Reddick
Director of Financial and Administrative Affairs
george@smokinword.com
877.882.3315
Smokin Word Production

www.smokinword.com - www.lailalounge.com