Brooklyn's own Planet Ubiquity is on HOT97. Yes you heard right. Their song "King Of Rock" will be played everyday from 9:30am to 9:45am. We need people to text 75759 and request to hear more Planet Ubiquity. To hear more of their tracks check out www.myspace.com/theplanetu
Now, don't get me wrong. This does not mean that I am supporting the republican party. We know, in faith, who will win in November 2008.
It was a beautiful Sunday in Bed-Stuy, I was walking down the street, and I noticed this poster.... and I thought, "For Real!!"
Whoever will be the president of the United States of America (no more Bush, that's for sure), Real talk, it will be very interesting to see what and how it will affect our everyday lives.
Many of us are waiting for a new person to take the place, and see some obvious changes. But is that all we can do? just wait? Do we really really need to have a new president to see a change?
We are fighting to increase the budget for education in NYC. But is school the only place for kids to be educated?
NO!
New government may have a plan to decrease the crime rate, or keep our streets cleaner. But do we need to wait for someone to make it happen?
NO!!!
We can start with a little things ... like connect kids in the hood with many organizations that are available, such as "The Stoop", "The Lower East Side Girl's Club", "Urban Word", and many more. Or there is an easier solution, PUT YOUR TRASH IN THE GARBAGE CAN, they are on every corner, if you haven't noticed!!!
My point is... we don't have to wait for a change.
So Live! Arts own, Fly Lady Di will be hosting a HUGE ART SHOW called FRESH PRODUCE on MAY 7th At the GALLERY BAR. This is sure to be the pre-summer art JUMP OFF so come out and check her new work and Live! performances from Honey Larochelle, Igmar Thomas and the Cypher, and DJ MELO - X on the 1's and 2's!
“A woman needs an income and a room of her own to write fiction.” [& music & poetry & plays & dance...] -Virgina Woolf
Upon this So Live! road I have been blessed to meet very talented and hardworking artists. Caitlin Meissner and Yarrow Lutz are two of those artists. Independently they are each their own powerhouse of professional artistry so any time they come together it is FIRE!
This Thursday will be the second installment of a much needed and much appreciated series dedicated to women called BK HOUSE PARTY:
What is it?
A once-a-month get down, Brooklyn House Party features performances by established and emerging women artists and performers. By creating an intentional safe space for women to create and audiences to participate, this series encourages marginalized voices to experiment with material, reach new listeners, and build community for opportunity that extends beyond the one-night-engagement. Developed and curated by Hopscotch & Concrete Productions, founded by multi-genre artists Caitlin Meissner and Yarrow Lutz (of Lady OsoFly), this live experience supports the need for women to create more "rooms of their own." We promise you magic.
Come out with the ladies of So Live! Arts and support this movement. This is one of the "firsts" -- so, get down with the get down!!!!
The performing artists are a phenomenal mixture of talent all with obvious professional artistry -- most definitely So Live! To find out more information check out their website www.myspace.com/bkhouseparty -- yo! Don't sleep on their party mix!
Pratt Institute will host activist, writer, philosopher, and teacher Angela Davis as Scholar in Residence for Spring 2008 on Tuesday, April 22 and Wednesday, April 23. As part of her residency, Davis will participate in a series of events that are free and open to the public.
Davis will give a keynote address titled "Identifying Racism in the Era of Neoliberalism" at 7 PM on Tuesday, April 22 following a 5 PM screening of The Farm: Angola. On April 23 Davis will participate in roundtable discussion "Urban Artists and the Politics of Visibility" with New York-based artists Dread Scott, Hank Willis Thomas, Alain "KET" Mariduea, and Amy Sananman. All events are to be held in Memorial Auditorium on Pratt's Brooklyn Campus. Admission will be offered on a first-come-first-served basis.
Davis was associated with the Blank Panther Party and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Educated at the Frankfurt School, Davis first came to national attention when she was placed on the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Ten Most Wanted List on false charges, driven underground, arrested, and incarcerated for 16 months. While in prison, she wrote brilliant articles and became the focus of the international solidarity movement -the "Free Angela Davis" campaign-which brought about her acquittal.
Davis ran for U.S. Vice President under the Communist Party ticket in 1980, and in 1997 helped found Critical Resistance, a national organization dedicated to dismantling the prison-industrial complex.
Today, she holds the University of California Presidential Chair in African American and Feminist Studies in the History of Consciousness Department at the Santa Cruz campus. She is the author of eight acclaimed books, including The Autobiography of Angela Davis, Are Prisons Obsolete?, and Abolition Democracy: Beyond Empire, Prisons, and Torture.
Her residency is sponsored by the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences; the Department of English and Humanities; and the Initiative for Art, Community, and Social Change with support from the Office of the Provost, the Critical and Visual Studies Program, and the Pratt Film Society.
So Live! Arts will now be an official sponsor for the Trust Your Struggle Tour. We are proud and excited to be a part of this dynamic movement.
The Trust Your Struggle Collective is a group of visual artists, educators, and friends dedicated to social justice and community activism through the medium of visual art. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City they work in conjunction with several other collectives and groups to produce art exhibits and community based events. In the year of 2006 the collective completed a tour in which they painted political and socially conscious murals throughout parts of Latin America. The tour, entitled Trust Your Hustle Mural tour was a 2 month long traveling mural project based on developing and painting murals in communities that they felt were misrepresented, repressed, and forgotten by the majority. The collective is currently preparing to create a national U.S. tour based on this model. The 2008 Trust Your Hustle Mural tour will take place from July to August. It will begin in Brooklyn, New York and travel through Philadelphia, Atlanta, New Orleans, San Antonio, Albuquerque, Phoenix, and Seattle. The tour will end in San Francisco, California with a culminating exhibition at the Galeriade La Raza.
The Trust Your Struggle Collective believes in working with groups that are striving to make a positive change in their environment. In a larger sense, the tour is an exchange of culture, visual art, and political education. All murals are created in collaboration with local artists, cultural centers, youth, activists, or graffiti collectives. The 2006 tour took the crew through the countries of Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua.
An integral part of the mural tour is to help facilitate mural/art workshops or participate on speaking panels in the communities where the mural is to be painted. This way the group is not only developing and painting the mural with members of the community, but also showing those communities that the tour goes further than just painting, it is an experience in the human connection through the arts. Trust Your Struggle Collective has facilitated workshops and participated on panels at: Virginia Tech University, Trinity College in Connecticut, University of the Arts in Boston, and CasadeArtesana and University of San Carlos, both in Guatemala.
