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		<title>Re-Frame events in Chicago: Communing @ Rumble Arts tonight &amp; tomorrow @ Ctr for New Possibilities!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Headed to Chicago for Night of Insight : Re-Frame: Communing @ Rumble Arts (3413 W North Ave) 7-9pm, &#38; a critical discussion @ the Center for New Possibilities (1505 W Morse Ave) Saturday, 4:30-6:30pm. hope to see you there! Please join Insight Arts as we present our first winter series&#8217; Nights of Insight on Friday, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chinginchen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4837981&amp;post=525&amp;subd=chinginchen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div><strong><em>Headed to Chicago for <a href="http://www.facebook.com/events/306902032681971/">Night of Insight : Re-Frame: Communing</a> @ Rumble Arts (3413 W North Ave) 7-9pm, &amp; a critical discussion @ the Center for New Possibilities (1505 W Morse Ave) Saturday, 4:30-6:30pm. hope to see you there!</em></strong></div>
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<p>Please join Insight Arts as we present our first winter series&#8217; Nights of Insight on Friday, January 20 from 7 to 9 PM at Rumble Arts Center (3413 W North Ave). This is an accessible event.</p>
<p>This month we will be Re-Framing Community (facilitated by Baraka de Soleil) exploring issues and challenges artists face in the creative process. Topics to be explored include community, gender politics and artists&#8217; vulnerabilities. Participants will also get the chance to experience the process of Re-Frame.</p>
<p>Last month artists participating in Re-Frame: A Gathering, a D UNDERBELLY initiative curated by Awilda Rodríguez Lora and Baraka de Soleil, sought to create a communal space for rigorous experimentation and investigation of an expansive performance aesthetic. They offered three unique showings of their process in partnership with Insight Arts, Rumble Arts Center and Links Hall.</p>
<p>Artist participants from Chicago&#8217;s 2011 Re-Frame project:<br />
Victoria Martínez<br />
Ching-In Chen<br />
Iman Crutcher<br />
Michael Johnson<br />
Rebecca Kling<br />
Anansi Knowbody<br />
Sojourner Zenobia Wright<br />
Isaac Fosl Van-Wyke<br />
Eboni Senai Hawkins</p>
<p>We also invite you to join us in Rogers Park on Saturday, January 21 for a critical discussion on Re-Framing Community from 4:30 to 6:30 PM at the Center for New Possibilities (1505 W Morse Ave).</p>
<p>Artist participants, witnesses, co-sponsoring organization affiliates and special guests will be present to engage in fertile dialogue surrounding what it means to re-frame creative process within community. Both events are free of charge.</p>
<p>Insight Arts is a contemporary arts organization dedicated to increasing access to cultural work that supports progressive social change. Our unique organizational model allows us to engage in community based, regional and national work.</p>
<p>D UNDERBELLY is an underground interdisciplinary network of artists of color. For more information about Re-Frame: A Gathering visit reframeagathering.blogspot.com</p>
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		<title>Yael Villafranca&#8217;s 7107 collaborative poetry project</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 09:29:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A collaborative poetry writing opportunity.  I&#8217;m going &#8212; hope to see you there with your words! Ching-In 7107: A Collaborative Poetry Project Welcome to 7107, a collaborative poetry project beginning January 2, 2012. This project is inspired by Ching-In Chen’s Collaborative Manifesto Remix last summer, in which participants wrote poetry from shared generative prompts. I found the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chinginchen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4837981&amp;post=520&amp;subd=chinginchen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>A collaborative poetry writing opportunity.  I&#8217;m going &#8212; hope to see you there with your words! <img src='http://s0.wp.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </div>
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<div><a href="http://7107.tumblr.com" target="_blank">7107: A Collaborative Poetry Project</a></div>
<p>Welcome to 7107, a collaborative poetry project beginning January 2, 2012.<br />
This project is inspired by Ching-In Chen’s <a href="http://chinginchen.wordpress.com/2011/08/03/collaborative-manifesto-remix/" target="_blank">Collaborative Manifesto Remix</a> last summer, in which participants wrote poetry from shared generative prompts. I found the experience of writing in collaboration incredibly inspiring, and as the days went on, full of surprise and amazement at the works that were developing. As someone who has gained so much from the generosity of various communities, I’d like to take my turn, in this small way, by opening a space for collaboration and creative work to happen.<br />
Every day from January 2-18, I’ll post a generative prompt or question. If you’d like to participate, please post your response <em>and</em> a prompt or question for the following day in the comments.<br />
In Ching-In’s words:</p>
<blockquote><p>You can answer in whichever way you are moved to — off-the-cuff, improvisationally, in deep meditation, whichever feels right to you. I’ll ask you within your writing response to braid the words of either another participant or writer/artist (other than yourself) in your writing in some way, to honor the collaborative intent of the project, and to credit that other writer/artist by name at the end of your writing (unless that person would rather remain anonymous).</p></blockquote>
<p>My hope is for each person to bring a spark.</p>
<p>My hope is for each person to open a door or window for another.<br />
Please feel free to invite anyone else who may be interested and direct them to <a href="http://7107.tumblr.com/process" target="_blank">this page</a>. If you have limited internet access, or if the comment system is down, you can send your work and prompt to <a href="mailto:arkipelagirl@gmail.com" target="_blank">arkipelagirl [at] gmail.com</a>, and I’ll post for you when the comments are fixed. Questions and concerns can also be sent via email or the <a href="http://7107.tumblr.com/ask" target="_blank">Ask Box</a>.<br />
I look forward to what we can build together.</p>
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		<title>Re-Frame: A Gathering Weekend in Chicago, Collaborative Poem @ Whistling Fire, Rev @ Home in No More Potlucks!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 08:54:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear ones, At the end of yet-another frantic semester &#38; another year&#8217;s end, am counting my blessings to be a part of the artist &#38; activist communities from which my work is built. I&#8217;m excited to have the opportunity in this post to share some of these communities with you! 1) Re-Frame: A Gathering this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chinginchen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4837981&amp;post=517&amp;subd=chinginchen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong></strong>Dear ones,<br />
At the end of yet-another frantic semester &amp; another year&#8217;s end, am counting my blessings to be a part of the artist &amp; activist communities from which my work is built. I&#8217;m excited to have the opportunity in this post to share some of these communities with you!</p>
<p>1) Re-Frame: A Gathering this weekend in Chicago!</p>
<p>2) Collaborative Poem published on Whistling Fire</p>
<p>3) Revolution Starts at Home interview @ No More Potlucks</p>
<p>*</p>
<p>1) <a title="Re-Frame: A Gathering" href="http://reframeagathering.blogspot.com" target="_blank">Re-Frame: A Gathering</a> this weekend in Chicago!</p>
<p>For the last six weeks, I have had the joy of getting to know eight other artists under the guidance of artist facilitators, <a title="Baraka de Soleil" href="http://www.dunderbelly.com" target="_blank">Baraka de Soleil</a> &amp; <a title="Awilda Rodriguez Lora" href="http://laperformera.org/" target="_blank">Awilda Rodriguez Lora</a>! <strong>I&#8217;ll be one of three featured artists on Friday, December 16, and participating as a supporting artist on Saturday  (the show will also be on Sunday &amp; Monday though I&#8217;ll only be there in spirit, not body).</strong></p>
<p>Re-Frame: A Gathering, a dynamic community project of D UNDERBELLY, offers three unique showings of artists&#8217; process December 16th &#8211; 18th at<a title="Links Hall" href="http://www.linkshall.org/" target="_blank"> Links Hall</a> &amp; a communal event on December 19th* at <a title="Rumble Arts Center" href="http://rumblearts.com/" target="_blank">Rumble Arts Center</a> [3413 W North Avenue] in partnership with<a title="Insight Arts" href="http://insightartsliberation.org/contact.html" target="_blank"> Insight Arts</a>.</p>
<p>Showings:Dec. 16-17 at 8pm &amp; Dec. 18 at 7pm<br />
Links Hall: 3435 N. Sheffield Avenue, Suite 207<br />
Tickets: $12(no food) $15(with food)$25 all three showings.</p>
<p>Communal Event: December 19 at 8pm<br />
Rumble Arts Center: 3413 West North Avenue<br />
Tickets: $12(no food) $15(with food)</p>
<p>Artist Participants:<br />
Victoria Martínez ~ Ching-In Chen ~ Iman Crutcher ~ Michael Johnson ~ Rebecca Kling ~ Anansi Knowbody ~ Sojourner Zenobia Wright ~ Isaac Fosl Van-Wyke ~ Eboni Senai Hawkins</p>
<p>Facilitated by Baraka de Soleil &amp; Awilda Rodriguez Lora<br />
A Project of D UNDERBELLY</p>
<p>More thoughts and information about Re-Frame: A Gathering please visit: reframeagathering.blogspot.com</p>
<p>We also have an online fundraising campaign please support: indiegogo.com/reframeagathering</p>
<p>*the communal event, hosted by Insight Arts in association with Rumble Arts Center, is an accessible space. we specifically want to welcome the physically diverse-ability community to join us at this unique gathering!</p>
<p>RSVP <a href="mailto:reframeagathering@gmail.com">reframeagathering@gmail.com</a> &amp; 787-671-3393</p>
<p>*</p>
<p>2) Collaborative Poem published on Whistling Fire</p>
<p>This past summer, I embarked on a collaborative writing experiment on my blog which combined several of my various writing communities while I was at Millay Colony, and am pleased that the first of the poems that were created from that journey has found a home! You can see <a title="&quot;seven seeds&quot; up at Whistline Fire" href="http://whistlingfire.com/2011/11/29/seven-seeds/" target="_blank">“seven seeds” up at Whistling Fire</a></p>
<p>*</p>
<p>3) Revolution Starts at Home interview @ No More Potlucks</p>
<p><a title="&quot;Accounting for Change&quot;" href="http://nomorepotlucks.org/article/amour-no-18/accounting-change-ching-chen-and-leah-lakshmi-piepzna-samarasinha" target="_blank">“Accounting for Change”</a> – a Revolution Starts at Home interview I did w/Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is in the L&#8217;Amour issue of No More Potlucks here:</p>
<p>Thank you for a beautiful 2011 &amp; looking forward to a brand new year!</p>
<p>Ching-In</p>
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		<title>Revolution Starts @ Home on Tour @ University of Connecticut in Mansfield, available as e-book +Theatrical Jazz Institute Guest Faculty Baraka de Soleil&#8217;s Reframe: a Gathering Call for Artists &amp; Support!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 06:04:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[1) The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Tuesday, November 1, 2011, 7:00 PM &#8211; 9:00 PM  Student Union Theater Storrs, University of Connecticut in Mansfield The extent of the violence affecting our communities is staggering. Nearly one in three women in the United States will experience intimate violence in her lifetime. And while intimate violence affects relationships [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chinginchen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4837981&amp;post=513&amp;subd=chinginchen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<h1><span style="color:#111111;"><span style="font-family:'Palatino Linotype', serif;"><span style="font-size:large;">1) </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#111111;font-family:'Palatino Linotype', serif;font-size:large;">The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence</span></h1>
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<p align="LEFT"><span style="color:#111111;"><span style="font-family:'Palatino Linotype', serif;"><span style="font-size:small;"><strong>Tuesday, November 1, 2011, 7:00 PM &#8211; 9:00 PM </strong></span></span></span></p>
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<p align="LEFT"><span style="color:#000099;"><span style="font-family:'Palatino Linotype', serif;"><span style="font-size:small;"><strong>Student Union Theater Storrs, <a href="http://events.wfsb.com/University_of_Connecticut/v218663883.html">University of Connecticut</a></strong></span></span></span><span style="color:#111111;"><span style="font-family:'Palatino Linotype', serif;"><span style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></span><span style="color:#111111;"><span style="font-family:'Palatino Linotype', serif;"><span style="font-size:small;"><em>in</em></span></span></span><span style="color:#111111;"><span style="font-family:'Palatino Linotype', serif;"><span style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></span><span style="color:#000099;"><span style="font-family:'Palatino Linotype', serif;"><span style="font-size:small;"><strong><a href="http://events.wfsb.com/default.aspx?ct=r&amp;type=MCOMM,WFSB%5EMansfield">Mansfield</a></strong></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'Palatino Linotype', serif;">The extent of the violence affecting our communities is staggering. Nearly one in three women in the United States will experience intimate violence in her lifetime. And while intimate violence affects relationships across the sexuality and gender spectrums, the likelihood of isolation and irreparable harm, including death, is even greater within LGBTQI communities. To effectively resist violence out there—in the prison system, on militarized borders, or during other clear encounters with &#8220;the system&#8221;—we must challenge how it is reproduced right where we live. It&#8217;s one thing when the perpetrator is the police, the state, or someone we don&#8217;t know. It&#8217;s quite another when that person is someone we call friend, lover, mentor, trusted ally.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'Palatino Linotype', serif;">Join co-editors, Ching-In Chen, and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha for a presentation and discussion about potentially life-saving alternatives for creating survivor safety while building a movement where no one is left behind.  The presentation will be followed by a booksigning.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'Palatino Linotype', serif;">More information available at: <a href="http://www.womenscenter.uconn.edu/">http://www.womenscenter.uconn.edu</a></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:'Palatino Linotype', serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">2) <span style="color:#000000;"><strong>Revolution Starts at Home ebook is now available!</strong></span></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Palatino Linotype', serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">We just received confirmation from our distributor that the ebook version of Revolution Starts at Home is now available (Kindle, Nook, Kobo, Overdrive, etc). RS@H is South End Press&#8217; first ebook. <img src='http://s0.wp.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />  Here&#8217;s a link to the </span></span></span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Revolution-Starts-Home-Confronting-ebook/dp/B005WK2HFO/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1318968992&amp;sr=8-3" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0000cc;"><span style="font-family:'Palatino Linotype', serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">Kindle</span></span></span></a><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Palatino Linotype', serif;"><span style="font-size:small;"> page. It&#8217;s available on all formats (Nook, Kobo, etc), and will be distributed to libraries primarily through Overdrive.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'Palatino Linotype', serif;">3) <strong>Re-Frame: A Gathering Call for Artists &amp; Support!</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'Palatino Linotype', serif;">This past spring, I had the privilege to work with <a href="http://sharonbridgforth.com/content/theatrical-jazz-aesthetic/theatrical-jazz-institute/theatrical-jazz-institute/" target="_blank">Theatrical Jazz Institute</a>&#8216;s guest faculty Baraka de Soleil in two workshops, N This House &amp; N This Body. I was moved by Baraka&#8217;s instigations to begin again, to hone to what we were really trying to articulate as artists and by the way he thought about collaborations as bringing two artists deeply within their own truth to meet each other in the moment of exchange. Baraka is convening a gathering of artists this fall tin Chicago through <a href="http://www.indiegogo.com/ReFrameAGathering?a=295250&amp;i=addr" target="_blank">Re-Frame: A Gathering</a>, which is <span style="color:#000000;">an initiative of</span><span style="color:#000000;"> </span><span style="color:#000000;"><strong><a href="http://www.dunderbelly.com/" target="_blank">D UNDERBELLY</a></strong></span><span style="color:#000000;">, a network of artists of color, seeking to create a  communal space for rigorous experimentation and investigation of an expansive performance aesthetic.  One that can serve as a model for creative process within community that can adapt and shift to various areas throughout the country &amp;  internationally. Baraka </span>is calling both for interested artists as well as for support to curate this project! Please spread the word &amp; contribute!</span></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear friendlies, This weekend, excited to be participating in &#38;Now Festival of New Writing 2011: Tomorrowland Forever!, a gathering which focuses on innovative/experimental writings, October 13-15 @ University of California, San Diego Where you can find me this weekend below. Also, happy to report that Revolution Starts at Home was selected as one of Feminist [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chinginchen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4837981&amp;post=503&amp;subd=chinginchen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<p><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;">This weekend, excited to be participating in <a href="http://andnowfestival.com/" target="_blank">&amp;Now Festival of New Writing 2011: Tomorrowland Forever!</a>, a gathering which focuses on innovative/experimental writings, October 13-15 @ University of California, San Diego</span></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;">Where you can find me this weekend below.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;">Also, happy to report that <em>Revolution Starts at Home </em>was selected as <a href="http://www.ontheissuesmagazine.com/2011fall/2011fall_books-of-note.php" target="_blank">one of Feminist Press&#8217; top five feminist books to read! </a><br />
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<p><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;">Ching-In</span></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;"><strong>Asian-American Assemblage Poetics @ &amp;NOW Festival of New Writing 2011: Tomorrowland Forever!</strong></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size:small;"><strong>10-11:15am, Friday, October 14,</strong></span></span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:ArialNarrow-Bold,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:small;"><strong> Theater, Atkinson Hall @ University of California, San Diego</strong></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:ArialNarrowBlack;"><span style="font-size:small;"><strong>Which Selves Built Up from Image: Visual Arts and Asian-American Poetry</strong></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:ArialNarrow,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">Cynthia Arrieu-King, Ching-In Chen, Sueyeun Juliette Lee</span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family:ArialNarrow-Italic,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:small;"><em>A criti-fictional assemblage intervention of collective and collaged Asian American</em></span></span><span style="font-family:ArialNarrow-Italic,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:small;"><em> poetry identities :: space to the many iterations of boundary and territory, exchange and</em></span></span><span style="font-family:ArialNarrow-Italic,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:small;"><em> silence, that are bound together in Asian-American contemporary works</em></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype,serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">Ching-In Chen is the author of </span><span style="font-size:small;"><em>The Heart&#8217;s Traffic</em></span><span style="font-size:small;"> (Arktoi/Red Hen Press, 2009) and the co-editor of </span><span style="font-size:small;"><em>The Revolution Starts At Home: Confronting Intimate Violence In</em></span><span style="font-size:small;"><em>Activist Communities </em></span><span style="font-size:small;">(South End Press, 2011). </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype,serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">Cynthia Arrieu-King is the author of </span><span style="font-size:small;"><em>People are Tiny in Paintings of China</em></span><span style="font-size:small;"> (Octopus Books, 2010) and an assistant professor of creative writing at Stockton College. </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype,serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">Sueyeun Juliette Lee is the author of the poetry collections </span><span style="font-size:small;"><em>That Gorgeous Feeling (</em></span><span style="font-size:small;">Coconut Books) and </span><span style="font-size:small;"><em>Underground National </em></span><span style="font-size:small;">(Factory School) and </span><span style="font-size:small;"><em>MENTAL COMMITMENT ROBOTS</em></span><span style="font-size:small;"> (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs).</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:ArialNarrow-Bold,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:small;"><strong>Boxbaby &#8211; </strong></span></span><span style="font-family:ArialNarrow,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">Allie Moreno</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:ArialNarrow-Italic,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:small;"><em>A reading of work that deals with boxes both real and imaginary as an exploration of identity.</em></span></span></p>
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<p><strong>¡Yahora! Post-Festival Reading in Tijuana</strong></p>
<p>El Grafógrafo, Pasaje Rodriguez<span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype,serif;"><span style="font-size:small;"> &#8211; Avenida Revolución entre/between Calle 3 y 4, al lado/next to Caliente Casino</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype,serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">&amp;Now * ¿Y Ahora? * ¡Ya es hora! * What now? * Now is the time! * And how! * ¿Ahora qué? * ¡Ya es el momento! * ¡Como ya!</span></span></p>
<p>Sunday, October 16, 2011 at 1pm<br />
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El domingo, 16 de october de 2011 a la 1pm</p>
<p>El Grafógrafo, Pasaje Rodríguez<br />
Avenida Revolución entre/between Calle 3 y 4, al lado/next to Caliente Casino<br />
Tijuana, Baja California</p>
<p>YAhora invites you to traverse the border, ignore the border, contemplate the border, read poetry to the border, perform or de-perform the border, and enjoy the mixing of cultures, languages and experiences that the Tijuana-San Diego Metropolitan Zone invites. Co-curated/uncurated by Jen Hofer and John Pluecker and co-sponsored by the bookstore and café El Grafógrafo and cog·nate binational arts collective, YAhora will take place one day after the &amp;Now festival in San Diego ends. YAhora is an opportunity for writers who have come to &amp;Now from all over the U.S. and beyond and fellow writers in Tijuana to connect, to converse, and to learn about each other’s works and worlds.<br />
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YAhora te invita a cruzar la frontera, no hacerle caso a la frontera, contemplar la frontera, leer poesía a la frontera, hacer un performance o un des-performance de la frontera y disfrutar de la mezcla de culturas, idiomas y experiencias que se propicia en la zona metropolitana de Tijuana-San Diego. Co-curado/no-curado por Jen Hofer y John Pluecker y co-patrocinado por la libreria y café El Grafógrafo y el colectivo de arte binacional cog·nate, YAhora se llevará a cabo un día después de que termine el festival &amp;Now en San Diego.YAhora es una oportunidad para que l@s escritores que hayan venido a &amp;Now de todas partes del EEUU y más allá establezcan contactos con escritores de Tijuana para que platiquen y aprendan de las obras y los mundos de los demás.</p>
<p>Scheduled Readers / Lectores Apuntados:</p>
<p>Emily Anderson, Luis Angulo, Abraham Ávila, Tantra Bensko, David Buuck, Amaranta Caballero, René Castillo, Elizabeth Chaney, Ching-In Chen, Jhonnatan Curiel, Vincent Dachy, Miriam Garcia, Corinne Goria, Ian Hatcher, Jen Hofer, Janice Lee, Jennifer Karmin, Courtney Kilian, Lorena Mancilla, Karen Marquez Saucedo, Bruna Mori, Lauren Norton, John Pluecker, Lin Robinson, Amy Sanchez, Isaac Sereno, Laura Vena, Judith Victoria, Frankie Voeltz, Christine Wertheim</p>
<p>More Info / Más Info:</p>
<p>The reading will be held in the Pasaje Rodríguez in Downtown Tijuana. The Pasaje is one of many alleyways in Tijuana&#8217;s central area that were previously dedicated to the sale of tourist souvenirs and Mexican curios to visitors. However, over the last ten years, beginning after 9/11 and continuing with the violence associated with the so-called &#8220;War on Drugs,&#8221; the number of tourists in Tijuana has declined dramatically. Pasaje Rodríguez is one of a number of local spaces that have been reclaimed by artists, writers and culture-makers for public art, gallery spaces, cafés, bookstores, thrift shops and more.<br />
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La lectura se llevará a cabo en el Pasaje Rodríguez en el centro de Tijuana. El Pasaje es un callejón entre muchos en la zona central de Tijuana que antes se usaba para vender souvenirs turísticos y curiosidades mexicanas a los visitantes. Sin embargo, durante los últimos 10 años, empezando después del 11 de septiembre y siguiendo con la violencia asociada con la llamada “Guerra contra las Drogas”, el número de turistas en Tijuana ha disminuído dramáticamente. El Pasaje Rodríguez es uno de varios espacios locales que han sido reclamados por artistas, escritores y creadores de cultura para el arte público, espacios de galería, cafés, librerías, tiendas de segunda y más.</p>
<p>DIRECTIONS FROM LA JOLLA TO THE EVENT IN TIJUANA:<br />
Unfortunately, Sunday bus service from La Jolla to downtown San Diego is not good. The one bus (#30) that makes the trip takes a long route that takes over an hour. However, once you get to central San Diego, the trolley will take you from downtown San Diego to the border in about an hour.</p>
<p>If you are driving, you will drive south on the 5 to San Ysidro. Take Exit 1A toward Camino de la Plaza. Park at one of the many parking lots located in the area. Most cost $15/day and it is an easy trek across by foot and into downtown. If you are not familiar with driving in Tijuana, we would recommend you do not drive across the border. It is much easier to get to downtown Tijuana on foot or by cab then in a car.</p>
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype,serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">Walk across the border. After you cross, you have two options. You can walk to your right, across the Tijuana River and into downtown (about 20 minute walk). Or you can take one of the many taxis available in the area. Take one of the taxis downtown to the Pasaje Rodriguez. The Pasaje is located on Avenida Revolución between 3rd and 4th Streets. It is an alleyway located immediately beside the Caliente Casino on Revolución.</span></span></p>
<p>INDICACIONES PARA LA JOLLA AL EVENTO EN TIJUANA:<br />
Desgraciadamente, hay escaso servicio de camión desde La Jolla hacia el centro de San Diego los domingos. El único camión (#30) que hace ese camino toma una ruta larga que dura más de una hora. Sin embargo, una vez que llegues al centro de San Diego, el trolley te llevará del centro a la frontera en más o menos una hora.</p>
<p>Si vienes manejando, irás hacia el sur en la carretera 5 a San Ysidro. Toma la salida 1A hacia Camino de la Plaza. Estaciónate en uno de los muchos estacionamientos ubicados en la zona. La mayoría cobran $15/día y es una caminata fácil para cruzar la frontera y llegar al centro de Tijuana. Si no estás acostumbrad@ a manejar en Tijuana, recomendamos que no cruces la frontera manejando. Es mucho más fácil llegar al centro de Tijuana cruzando a pie o en taxi que en un coche.</p>
<p>Cruza la frontera caminando. Después de cruzar, tienes dos opciones. Puedes caminar hacia la derecha, cruzando el Río de Tijuana hacia el centro (una caminata de aproximadamente 20 minutos). O puedes tomar un taxi de los muchos que se encuentran en la zona. Toma el taxi al centro, al Pasaje Rodríguez. El Pasaje se ubica en Avenida Revolución entre la 3a y la 4a calle. Es un callejón ubicado inmediatamente al lado del Casino Caliente sobre Avenida Revolución.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagining America in MN &#38; 100 Thousand Poets for Change in MKE! &#160; Landed in Minneapolis to attend the Imagining America conference as a PAGE (Publicly Active Graduate Education) Fellow! Met folks yesterday engaged in arts/community/scholarship in academia. I&#8217;m interested in meeting more folks who are doing interesting community/scholarship &#38; hearing about what are some [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chinginchen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4837981&amp;post=500&amp;subd=chinginchen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<p><span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype,serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">Landed in Minneapolis to attend the Imagining America conference as a PAGE (Publicly Active Graduate Education) Fellow! Met folks yesterday engaged in arts/community/scholarship in academia. I&#8217;m interested in meeting more folks who are doing interesting community/scholarship &amp; hearing about what are some good strategies &amp; what can be left behind. Come to the PAGE panel @ 12:15-1:45pm University of Minnesota &#8211; Coffman Memorial Union 323.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype,serif;"><span style="font-size:small;"><strong>PAGE Panel: Mentorship, Fellowship, and Collective Action </strong></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype,serif;"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="color:#000000;">This panel presentation will highlight the regional and campus-based work of the PAGE Fellows, and address the need for mentorship, fellowship, and collective actions that support graduate education and community engagement nationally. Throughout the 2011-2012 academic year, the PAGE Fellows are working to create and participate in a series of workshops and webinars that aspire to bring Fellows into the research, programming, and larger mission of IA, specifically around a culture of peer mentorship and collaboration. Learn more about the PAGE program and work of the 2011 PAGE Fellows at www.pageia.com. </span>Presenting at this session are the 2011 PAGE Fellows. Moderating the discussion are <span style="color:#000000;"><strong>Adam Bush</strong></span><span style="color:#000000;">, National PAGE Director, doctoral candidate, University of Southern California; and </span><span style="color:#000000;"><strong>A. Wendy Nastasi</strong></span><span style="color:#000000;">, Central New York PAGE Director, doctoral student, Syracuse University. </span></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype,serif;"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="color:#000000;">MILWAUKEE 100 THOUSAND POETS FOR CHANGE POETRY WALK/READING FOR JUSTICE &amp; COMMUNITY ACTION!</span></span></span></p>
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6:30pm-10pm! From Holton Street to Woodland Pattern!</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype,serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">All people are invited to join us for a Poetry Walk/Reading for Justice &amp; Community Action this Saturday as part of a worldwide 100 THOUSAND POETS FOR CHANGE community action event scheduled for September 24, 2011, which will include readings, demonstrations, and concerts happening simultaneously throughout the world in the name of poetry and change. </span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype,serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">In Milwaukee, our goal is to showcase the diverse stories, voices and strategies of our communities in Milwaukee and to continue to build together and dream up the type of street, neighborhood, city, state and world that we want to live in.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype,serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">Area poets and writers &#8212; organized locally by Ching-In Chen, Brenda Cardenas and Chuck Stebelton &#8211;will gather at 6:30pm at the south end of the Holton Street Viaduct Marsupial Bridge (stairs at Van Buren Avenue and Brady Street near Trocadero) and will begin marching at 7:00 p.m. first over the footbridge to the Joshua Glover Memorial Plaque at Booth and Glover Streets, then northeast through Kilbourn Park, north on Bremen St. to Locust St., and west on Locust St. with a stop at the Riverwest Public House (815 E. Locust) before finishing at Woodland Pattern Book Center (720 E. Locust). We will continue the celebration with more readings and the collective writing of a community renga at Woodland Pattern &lt;<a href="http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/5788" target="_blank">http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/5788</a>&gt;.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype,serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">Participating poets include Phyllis Wax, Peter Blewett, Janet Jennerjohn, Dawn Tefft, Jennifer Morales, Ryan Hurley, Carmen Murguia, Dasha Kelly/Still Waters Collective, Eric Disambwa, Joanne Chang, Tom Hibbard, Lane Hall, Janine Arseneau, Carolyn Vargo, Keith Gaustad, Mark Zimmerman, Angie Trudell Vasquez, Margaret Rozga, Robin Christie, Suzanne Rosenblatt, Kimberly Blaeser, Harvey Taylor, Karl Gartung, Ed Werstein, Marilyn Taylor, Susan Firer, Mike Hauser, Roberto Harrison, Doctori Sadisco, ko shin/Bob Hanson, Nikki Wallschlaeger, Jeff Poniewaz &amp; Antler!</span></span></p>
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<div>Tonight&#8217;s installment of our popular salon night for lesbians and their friends presents two outstanding queer artists. Ching-In Chen is author of the poetry collection The Heart’s Traffic and co-editor of Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities. She is a Kundiman and Lambda fellow and part of the Macondo and Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation writing communities. Pidgeon Von Tramp, the alter ego of performance artist Jenny Lowery, is creator of Pidgeon Coop Production, which engages queer performers in inclusive, innovative performance, while raising funds for queer organizations and working toward social justice. DJ SpinNikki will play an eclectic mix of indie, soul, electronic, world music and dance tracks before and after sets. Proceeds benefit the artists and the Women’s Voices Fund.</div>
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		<title>Sharon Bridgforth&#8217;s Theatrical Jazz Institute Showcase this weekend in Chicago!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[dear lovelies, i&#8217;ll be showing a work-in-progress that began in this workshop this spring!  for more information about sharon bridgforth &#38; theatrical jazz, check out the book she co-edited, Experiments in a Jazz Aesthetic: Art, Activism, Academia &#38; the Austin Project: http://sharonbridgforth.com/content/bookscdsdvds/publications/bookscds/experiments-in-a-jazz-aesthetic/ hope to see you if you&#8217;re in the chicago area! xo, ching-in Sharon [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chinginchen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4837981&amp;post=483&amp;subd=chinginchen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<div>i&#8217;ll be showing a work-in-progress that began in this workshop this spring!  for more information about sharon bridgforth &amp; theatrical jazz, check out the book she co-edited, <strong>Experiments in a Jazz Aesthetic: Art, Activism, Academia &amp; the Austin Project: </strong>http://sharonbridgforth.com/content/bookscdsdvds/publications/bookscds/experiments-in-a-jazz-aesthetic/</div>
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<div><strong>Sharon Bridgforth&#8217;s Theatrical Jazz Institute Showcase</strong></div>
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RSVP here: <a href="http://theatricaljazzinstitute.eventbrite.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://theatricaljazzinstitute.eventbrite.com/</a></p>
<p>Click below For More Information about the Theatrical Jazz Aesthetic and the Institute</p>
<p><a href="http://sharonbridgforth.com/content/theatrical-jazz-aesthetic/theatrical-jazz-institute/theatrical-jazz-institute/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://sharonbridgforth.com/content/theatrical-jazz-aesthetic/theatrical-jazz-institute/theatrical-jazz-institute/</a></p>
<p>Friday &amp; Saturday @ 8pm, Sunday at 7pm</p>
<p>From January through April, 2011, Sharon Bridgforth, the 2010-2011 Visiting Multicultural Faculty member facilitated the Theatrical Jazz Institute. Inspired by traditional Jazz methods of training, this Institute was designed for artists interested in learning about the Theatrical Jazz Aesthetic through being in the room with nationally based master Theatrical Jazz Aesthetic practitioners. They visited the Institute, offering public talks, workshops and informal presentations of their work. This performance showcases the work done throughout the Institute’s run in the Spring.</p>
<p>Featuring:<br />
Kundiman for Kin presented by Ching-In Chen<br />
idEnergy crisis presented by Isaac Fosl-Van Wyke<br />
BlackMon presented by Constance Lee<br />
dawn/avanjou presented by Marie Casimir<br />
Little Sister presented by Misty DeBerry</p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 05:51:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Rise Up! Wisconsin Collective Call for Submissions: Anthology showcasing radical and progressive stories and voices from the 2011 Wisconsin Uprising The Rise Up! Wisconsin Collective invites you to submit to an anthology which will give expression to the diverse origins and broad participation in the struggle for Wisconsin’s future. Since Gov. Walker’s assault on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chinginchen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4837981&amp;post=480&amp;subd=chinginchen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype,serif;"><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><strong>Call for Submissions</strong></span></span><span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype,serif;"><strong>: Anthology showcasing radical and progressive stories and voices from the 2011 Wisconsin Uprising</strong></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype,serif;">The Rise Up! Wisconsin Collective invites you to submit to an anthology which will give expression to </span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype,serif;"> the diverse origins and broad participation in the struggle for Wisconsin’s future. Since Gov. Walker’s assault on us all, there has been increased media attention on our state because of the mass protests by organized labor, community groups, and students. Recent attention has turned to the electoral field as recall elections proceed. But very little is being written or published that approaches the politics and history of Wisconsin’s popular uprising through a radical lens. By “radical,” we mean getting at the root of a problem and transforming it into a community we can all participate in and be a part of. It also means viewing the assault by the Republicans and corporations as tied to the restructuring of global capitalism, and the parallel movements for survival by Wisconsin’s marginalized communities. </span></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype,serif;">Our hope is to create an anthology that illuminates the origins of Wisconsin’s popular struggle as a consequence of interlocking grassroots work. We are especially interested in hearing from progressive workers as well as organizers from immigrant, indigenous and communities of color, LGBT, disability and women’s communities. What we hope to show is that this is not just a “union” struggle, in a restrictive sense, but a struggle to redefine progressive politics itself. </span></span><span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype,serif;"></p>
<p>Ideas for submissions could include:</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype,serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">first-person accounts</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype,serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">testimonials</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype,serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">sticker designs</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype,serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">stencils</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype,serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">interviews</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype,serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">photographs</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype,serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">oral histories</span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype,serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">Please send submissions and a short bio including contact information (name, email, or the best way to contact you) in Word or PDF as well as within the body of the text to: </span></span><span style="color:#000080;"><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><a href="mailto:riseupwi@gmail.com"><span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype,serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">riseupwi@gmail.com</span></span></a></span></span><span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype,serif;"><span style="font-size:small;"> Please p</span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype,serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">ut “Rise Up! Wisconsin Anthology submission + [your last name]” in the subject line. </span></span></span></p>
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<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype,serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">* We recommend keeping your submissions to under 10 pages – please contact us if you intend to submit something larger.</span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype,serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">* We accept previously published work, but preference will be given to voices that have fewer resources for having their voice in print. </span></span></p>
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Please forward this call to those you think would be interested!</span><br />
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		<description><![CDATA[dear lovely ones, gratitude for your energies, your sharings, your generosities, your uglies, your little and expansive bitters, your writing through the nights, your browns, your beauties, your afternoon slumbers, your bruises, your breakfast mornings, your laughs, your solitudes and of course, of course, your words. For those of you who showed up every day, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chinginchen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4837981&amp;post=471&amp;subd=chinginchen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<pre><span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype,serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">dear lovely ones,</span></span>

<span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype,serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">gratitude for your energies, your sharings, your
generosities, your uglies, your little and expansive bitters,
your writing through the nights, your browns, your
beauties, your afternoon slumbers, your bruises, your
breakfast mornings, your laughs, your solitudes and of
course, of course, your words. For those of you who
showed up every day, for those who were able to make it
for one day, and for those of us who occupy that sliding
space in-between, thank you. I'm leaving millay colony
this morning with you tucked in my backpocket. </span></span>

<span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype,serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">For this last post, I want to say, I hope this is not the last
time we write and create in the path together and I hope
to see your collaborations out in the world &amp; in the street!</span></span>

<span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype,serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">As Bushra says, “and wouldn’t you feel lucky in all this magic?”</span></span>
<span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype,serif;"><span style="font-size:small;"> Thank you. &lt;3!</span></span>
<span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype,serif;"><span style="font-size:small;"> *</span></span>
<span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype,serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">today, onlookers meant to write this poem</span></span>
<span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype,serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">waking up to trumpet vine world.</span></span>

<span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype,serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">You can be proper body, even people who question</span></span>
<span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype,serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">the nation. I am sick, I don't want</span></span>
<span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype,serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">their eyes heard, only trains platinum</span></span>
<span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype,serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">in their grammar. We every trickster peel</span></span>
<span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype,serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">upstream night that do not know shame. </span></span>

<span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype,serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">Leave me humid</span></span></pre>
<p><span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype,serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">born without the proper</span></span></p>
<pre><span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype,serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">name loved to night.</span></span>

*
<span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype,serif;"><span style="font-size:small;"><strong>Promptings for your writings:</strong></span></span>

“<span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype,serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">I feel sad and dehumanized when viewed in terms of my
utility instead of who I truly am.” - <a href="http://soyeoncho.com/installation/1" target="_blank">Soyeon Cho</a>

</span></span> <a href="http://chinginchen.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/soyeon-cho_451.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-473" title="Soyeon-Cho_45" src="http://chinginchen.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/soyeon-cho_451.jpg?w=300&#038;h=199" alt="" width="300" height="199" /></a>

<span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype,serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">*
Improv Everywhere: <span style="text-align:center; display: block;"><a href="http://chinginchen.wordpress.com/2011/08/25/8-25-11-how-to-offer-gratitude-collaborative-generating-to-infinity-and-beyond/"><img src="http://img.youtube.com/vi/RwEYYI-AGWs/2.jpg" alt="" /></a></span></span></span></pre>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype,serif;">*</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype,serif;">  …. And you,</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype,serif;">who cannot keep still, who can never</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype,serif;">look back, where will you go next?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype,serif;">How will I find you?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype,serif;">Can you feel the world pull </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype,serif;">apart, the seams loosen?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype,serif;">What, tell me, will keep it whole, </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype,serif;">if not you? if not me?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype,serif;">Send a postcard, picture, tell me</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype,serif;">how you’ve been.</span></p>
<pre> <span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype,serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">- <a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/240040" target="_blank">Blas Falconer (who was born on this day), from “Dear Friend”</a></span></span>

*

“<span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype,serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">The J. Paul Getty Museum’s iconic statue of Aphrodite
was quietly escorted back to Sicily by Italian police, ending
a decades-long dispute over an object whose craftsmanship,
importance, and controversial origins have been likened to
the Parthenon marbles in the British Museum.” ~ LA Times,
March 23 2011
(via Carol Gomez)
</span></span>*</pre>
<p><span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype,serif;">Two more prompts (I’m sad this is ending. Thank you again,</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype,serif;">Ching-In and all who have participated!):</span></p>
<pre></pre>
<p><span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype,serif;">*Frida’s Corset:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype,serif;"><img class="alignnone" title="Frida" src="http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/CORSET1.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="389" /></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype,serif;">*</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype,serif;">Wasteland Documentary Trailer</span></p>
<span style="text-align:center; display: block;"><a href="http://chinginchen.wordpress.com/2011/08/25/8-25-11-how-to-offer-gratitude-collaborative-generating-to-infinity-and-beyond/"><img src="http://img.youtube.com/vi/sNlwh8vT2NU/2.jpg" alt="" /></a></span>
<p><span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype,serif;">(via Rachelle Cruz)</span></p>
<p>*</p>
<p><span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype,serif;">1) what are the sounds of respect / beauty / sharing?<br />
2) is all writing collaborative writing… </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype,serif;">(via Hari Malagayo Alluri)</span></p>
<p>*</p>
<p><span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype,serif;"><span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype,serif;">and my prompt!<br />
especially the last part which I’ve been living and loving. . </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype,serif;"><span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype,serif;"><span style="text-align:center; display: block;"><a href="http://chinginchen.wordpress.com/2011/08/25/8-25-11-how-to-offer-gratitude-collaborative-generating-to-infinity-and-beyond/"><img src="http://img.youtube.com/vi/vX1CvW38cHA/2.jpg" alt="" /></a></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype,serif;"><span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype,serif;">(via Bushra Rehman)</span></span></p>
<p>*</p>
<p><span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype,serif;">come morning walls melt – Clarissa Rojas</span></p>
<p>the drum: <span style="text-align:center; display: block;"><a href="http://chinginchen.wordpress.com/2011/08/25/8-25-11-how-to-offer-gratitude-collaborative-generating-to-infinity-and-beyond/"><img src="http://img.youtube.com/vi/gXkdDhGgoJk/2.jpg" alt="" /></a></span></p>
<p>(via Clarissa Rojas)</p>
<p>*</p>
<p><span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype,serif;">In honor of our sacred space here, my prompt today has to</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype,serif;">do with spaces of art that face challenges and find ways to</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype,serif;">survive. This is a trailer from the documentary,</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype,serif;">“Unfinished Spaces,” on the National Schools of Art in Cuba. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype,serif;"><a href="http://www.unfinishedspaces.com/trailer.html">http://www.unfinishedspaces.com/trailer.html</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype,serif;">(via Evangeline Ganaden)</span></p>
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