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Catalyst University Gets AFFECTED!

Southwest Michigan First’s popular Catalyst University returns for its second year at the end of January. Tickets are already sold out, and you should have one. But if you don’t, please see how Kinetic Affect is helping to set it off anyway. That way, you know what you’re getting into next year! This is the promotional video…

Michigan Poem LIVE with MUSIC

Recently, Kinetic Affect performed the Michigan Poem live featuring music by artist Nick Lobel at the W. K. Kellogg Foundation. It’s just a raw video of the performance and well worth taking a look! Commissioned and inspired by the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, “the Michigan poem” is the Kinetic Affect homage to the state that raised them. Take…

The SOuL Project Caught on Video!

It has been underway for months and it is already producing some extremely powerful stuff. Some SOuL Project participants in the Calhoun County area were given the opportunity to perform at the W. K. Kellogg Foundation in December of 2011. Take a look at some powerful footage from the experience. One student’s name is Felipe….

What an Honor

Southwest Michigan First has reached out to Kinetic Affect and included Kirk Latimer in the inaugural group of First 50 emerging and established leaders in the area. It is their endeavor to create “interdisciplinary leadership” in the area, and its powerful. Learn more about this FIRST experience. It is an honor to be acknowledged as among the top emerging leaders…

Lighting Hope Pictures and Video

See the powerful images and a short clip from a one-of-a-kind event held in Traverse City and sponsored by Addiction Treatment Services. (Kinetic Affect outside in the elements on the Civic Center Amphitheater in Traverse City) The event took place on the evening of September 30th in the middle of the rain, wind and cold. Kinetic Affect…

Lighting Hope with Addiction Treatment Services

Kinetic Affect and Addiction Treatment Services are working closely together to create a memorable and powerful vigil to celebrate and remember those on the road to recovery…in beautiful Traverse City. Addiction Treatment Services is a powerful organization dedicated to helping people down the road to recovery. And on September 30 at 7pm in Traverse City, Addiction…

The MICHIGAN Poem

The MICHIGAN POEM has now gone LIVE! Commissioned and inspired by the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, “the Michigan poem” is the Kinetic Affect homage to the state that raised them. Want to hear it and see it in action? It’s here now. NEWS UPDATE: Please check out this article written on Kinetic Affect and our new Michigan poem…

New KA Video Channel LAUNCHES!

Kinetic Affect has been so busy doing so much that we rarely take the time to show you what we’re doing. Not anymore. We have just launched our new Vimeo video channel to upload and showcase our work in a way we’ve never done before. The video channel is at http://vimeo.com/channels/kineticaffect and it won’t just feature prettily packaged…

The SOuL project UPDATE

Thanks in large part to the W. K. Kellogg Foundation and the Battle Creek Community Foundation, the SOuL Project is finally taking off. Beginning October 5 at Summit Pointe’s virtual learning center, the Calhoun County Juvenile Home and the Urban League of Battle Creek, Speak It Forward’s SOuL project will begin to change the lives of…

Changing Lives with Titan’s Speak

Thanks to so much support, our work is growing and transforming and changing people’s lives, including our own. See how our workshops and performances are AFFECTING students at the treatment facility Lakeside Academy. We certainly wish we could show you the impact this work is having on every student, but we must keep the youth…
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Hi, I graduated from high school at Kalamazoo Central 3 years ago…I just wanted to let you know that lately, whenever I need something empowering, I listen to your words. Since graduating I’ve moved to New York and I’ve been sharing your words and stories here and you’ve got many fans here now. I hope you’re both doing well, and I just wanted to tell you how much I appreciate you.

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Bridin Clements

…I was at Lakeside Academy and attended the classes that were put on by Speak It Forward. I loved and appreciated what you did for me and my fellow peers. It has been almost a year and a half since I left and I’m doing much better now. The things you taught me I still use to this day. Thank you.

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Karla Nusly

I still wear my shirt from your first performance downtown Kalamazoo. Circa 2006 or so… You guys are the TRUTH!!!

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Michael J Write, Grammy Award Winning Singer/Song Writer

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