Olufur Gunnarsson and Ron Whitehead

The Storm Generation Manifesto

we tip our hats to the lost and the beat

we go our own way

we are the storm generation

we are the fucking storm

we are a new generation of artists

we are poets writers painters sculptors composers musicians singers dancers playwrights filmmakers

we are creative expression

we blow away lies and injustice

we are graphic

we are honest

we tell it like it is

we are fierce

we are brutal

we are compassionate

we are gentle

we are kind

we have soft hearts

we are free

we are spirit

we are sex

we dwell in the realms of the creative imagination

we are the creative imagination

we know that the shortest distance between two points is creative distance

we pay attention to the long forgotten wisdomed voices of the forest

we vanquish the overtly materialistic greedy who intentionally destroy mountains

we honor mountains and oceans and eagles and wolves

we cherish mother earth and all her terrible beauty

we are non-violent spiritual warriors

we are lightning

we are thunder

we are songed poems

we are fearless visionary poets

we have wolf eyes

we are more than the eye of the storm

we are the fucking storm

we refuse

we will not bow down

we will never give up

we are God's open nerve

we are The Storm Generation

The Storm Generation was founded in Iceland in May in the year of our Lord 2008 by Olafur Gunnarsson and Ron Whitehead.

The first Storm Festival will be held in Iceland in 2009. From Iceland and Kentucky the storm will spread and sweep the globe.

A Beat Day at Big Rock - Stora Klopp - Spring tumbles into start of Summer. Beltane brings Poets, Writers and Musicians from around the World to Stora-Klopp (Big Rock) in Iceland on May 3rd for a collective celebration of the Spoken Word and Song hosted by internationally renown Icelandic novelist Olafur Gunnarsson at his farm outside Reykjavik.

Joining Gunnarsson will be Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson, Einar Karason, Sjón, Jonsi, Michael Dean Odin Pollock, Birgitta Jonsdottir, Eileen Myles, Ron Whitehead, Scott Mertz and others yet to be defined as of this posting.

We here at Insomniacathon On-Line! salute all that will be celebrating the seminal art of recount and ribald in this new millennium honoring the forebears who forged the fundamentals of recountable history.

Let the stories be told and the songs be sung lest we leave the moment fade to the mists of the forgotten, fleeting into the nothingness outside of the word.

New & Of Note! - The Pix Are In From Stora Klopp! - Poet, Author and Photographer, Birgitta Jonsdottir, who performed at Stora Klopp, brought her camera and was so kind to pass along these images from A Beat Day at Big Rock -Stora Klopp to us here at Insomniacathon On-Line! Click Here To View her PhotoBook from Stora Klopp!

 

 

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