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Crowdsourced creativity, advertising- and algorithm-free. In this installment: Movie Night by Diana Adams How is Your Week Going by Kenya Mahogany Fashaw House of Joy by Regina Fernandez Orchestrating Chaos by Nick Sandys The First Rule by L. George Friday Undetectable Poisons by Jodi Kingsley I Got the Message by Oedipa Maas Bucket List by Kim Smith Mytelka What You Understand by Rakel Helmsdal Stand by for Failure by Mark Hosler 'Coffee Art,' Paired with 'Fourth Ape' by Sabrina Prada Movie NightRepost by Diana Adams; artwork by Mark Parisi. Founder of the award-winning Vermillion Art Gallery and Bar in Seattle, Diana made her first indelible marks in the Pacific Northwest as a fierce proponent of DIY punk-video. How is Your Week Going?Reposted by Kenya Mahogany Fashaw; original video by Alafia. Alafia's interstellar misunderstanding. Click HERE to watch video. Kenya is Co-Founder and the Chief Creative Officer of 5280 Artist Co-Op. She is a Spoken Word artist, actress and playwright. Kenya wrote and directed “Colorism, Breaking The Chains of Complexion” that won 5280 Artist Co-Op their 2018 Henry Award for Best New Play and was also selected to be featured in the 2020 Atlanta Black Theatre Festival. House of Joy by Regina Fernandez Pics from "House of Joy" by Madhuri Shekar, part of The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis' 2022 season. Queer love, magic, ghosts, Brown beauties, femme ferocity, and stage combatin’. All day. Every day. Regina survived recent pandemic-related closures at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival through a regimen of what she calls the good stuff. Orchestrating Chaosby Nick Sandys And mayhem ensues. Techs for RED SUMMER underway at Governors State University. Nick is an award-winning actor, director, educator and fight choreographer based in Chicago. The First Rule Posted by L. George Friday; original post by John deVille. L. George is a National Organizer at United for Peace and Justice; Assistant Director at NC Peace Action and Executive Leadership Team at Move To Amend. Undetectable PoisonsBy Jodi Kingsley ...doing some work for a client on a library event, and discovered that the location has THIS statue out front. Which is clearly of some bro mansplaining something to a nice lady while she is just trying to fucking read her goddamn book already. I hope it's about undetectable poisons. Jodi is a big deal actor on stage and screen in Chicago, and can be seen in the television adaptation of the critically acclaimed graphic novel Paper Girls. I Got the MessageBy Oedipa Maas A fortune teller is stalking me. I mean probably not stalking exactly but when you run into the same person three times in 20 minutes, and they say they are a fortune teller, it feels that way. I was sitting outside a cafe and she came to the planter in front of me, plucked off a green bloom, then startled me. “I’m sorry I startled you.” What she said after that was garbled, and I fled. I went to Target to buy cat food. In Target: there she was in a distant aisle. I went the wrong way from the escalator to the cat food section, and there she was again, by the vitamins. This time she cornered me, and spoke more clearly and audibly. “You are a very powerful woman. Under a generational curse. I have messages for you that I have to tell you. Come with me to the crystals.” She was small, birdy, bony- thin, with the deepest most gravelly voice I’d ever heard emerge from a woman’s throat. I liked her but ran off again. Ten minutes later I saw her again, bLocks away, on my way home to feed the cats. “I have messages for you!” She yelled, chasing after me. I laughed and ditched her easily. I don’t carry cash but if I’d had any I would have given it to her. As long as she promised not to give me any “messages.” Who doesn’t think they are secretly powerful? Who is NOT under a generational curse? To breathe is to be both powerful and under a generational curse. I got the message already. Oedipa is a writer and activist living in New York City. Image used under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. Bucket List By Kim Smith Mytelka. Kim is artistic and executive director for Island ETC (East-End Theatre Company) in Galveston, TX, and seriously, enjoys fabulous views from her bayside villa. What You Understand Stand by for Failure Post by Mark Hosler; trailer by Ryan Worsley. Click HERE to watch trailer for highly anticipated Negativland documentary. "Less a trailer than an entirely new video, 42 years in 2.5 minutes!" - Mark Hosler Mark is best known as one of the founding members of legendary experimental band Negativland. 'Coffee Art,' Paired with 'Fourth Ape' |