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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>This poem was collected and compiled with a modified “exquisite corpse” technique, invented by surrealists in the 1920’s, similar to an old parlor game called Consequences in which players write in turn on a sheet of paper, fold it to conceal part of the writing, and then pass it to the next player for a further contribution. Claudia Alick wandered the crowd with a notebook and invited everyone to write a line. Contributors were instructed to not read the lines before theirs. Handwriting was deciphered as clearly as possible. Case and punctuation were not always retained. The result is a poetic reflection of the people and the space.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Published on Facebook from Christina Krea Gomez </span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">August 6 2018 at 10:28 PM</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Tonight, our comrades, Resistance SF projected a picture of Jessica St. Louis on the Alameda County Administration Building to bring attention to the issue of Inmate Late Night Releases.
Jessica St. Louis, who we said good bye to today, died after being released at 1:25a from Santa Rita County Jail and made to walk 1.9 miles to a closed Dublin BART station to try and get to her loved ones. Just 4 hours later, she was found unresponsive and declared dead outside BART.
Tomorrow, The Young Women's Freedom Center will be joined by Jessica's parents, our sister organization CURYJ and partner orgs, Essie Justice Group, Anti Police-Terror Project, elected officials and women who have also been released in the dead of night to demand an end to late night releases for ALL inmates. Join us at 4p in front of the Alameda County Administration Building Oakland, CA. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">#SayHerName </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">#JessicaStLouis </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">#EndLateNightReleases </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">#ProtectOurSisters </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The sun was shining a bright red from light filtered through smoke. The speakers articulated the current situation and a vision for the future with passion on a microphone. The writers of this poem included the formally incarcerated, social justice activists, community members, politicians, family, friends, journalists, and so many women. People wrote quickly with clarity. This is what they had to say.
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">JUSTICE </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">we fight, we fall, we raise </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We’re determined, we’re dedicated, we’re resilient </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is our medicine </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Collective action is our healing </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We need justice for everyone! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Justice for all </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Justice for Jessica </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Be true to your rights </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Don’t let them take over! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We need a new Sheriff! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Dare to lift up our black women and girls </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">CAN WE LIVE? EVEN THRIVE? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For love and healing </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Because late night release is cruel, deadly, and unusual punishment </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Her death was needless and preventable </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">NEVER AGAIN </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">loving our Sister Jessica </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">outrage in our hearts </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">say her name </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">through our actions </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Your beauty shines like a star </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A love </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">guiding us </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Jessica </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">you are always with us </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Jessica </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and we always with you </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">You deserve so much more and we demand justice </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Jessica’s life means so much to us </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Provide love and support </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">for those who need it most </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I will challenge my masculinity in your Name! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We cannot stop until we are free </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Shut Down Santa Rita Now </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Jessica was the light of the world </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">children are born to the world to be protected by all of us! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Jessica belonged to all of us </span></div>
Claudia Alickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09186610180932113269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13674690.post-49849556895972342982018-07-01T15:46:00.002-04:002018-07-06T20:52:27.618-04:00Families Belong Together Streetpoem<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Families Belong Together Streetpoem</span></b></div>
<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“poetry for the people by the people”</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">By the people at Families Belong Together March </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Compiled and Edited By Claudia Alick</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">June 30, 2018</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This poem was collected and compiled with a modified “exquisite corpse” technique, invented by surrealists in the 1920’s, similar to an old parlor game called Consequences in which players write in turn on a sheet of paper, fold it to conceal part of the writing, and then pass it to the next player for a further contribution. Claudia Alick wandered the crowd with a notebook and invited everyone to write a line. Contributors to the poem wrote in a notebook after viewing a few previous lines. Handwriting was deciphered as clearly as possible. Case and punctuation were not always retained. Some translation included and line breaks by editor. The result is a poetic reflection of the people and the space. Imagine around 110 ten voices reading this poem.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>This poem was written by participants in the <a href="http://abc7news.com/politics/thousands-march-in-sf-for-immigrants-rights/3681549/" target="_blank">Families Belong Together June 30 2018 in San Francisco, CA</a>. Supaman’s <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0jq7jIa34Y" target="_blank">Prayer Loop Song</a> played in the background as people set up tables with resources for all the incoming marchers. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/sfpostersyndicate/" target="_blank">The Poster Syndicate</a> screen printed beautiful images of protest and distributed them for free. A band begin warming up on the steps of the plaza and the thick crowd of enthusiastic marchers were greeted with joyful music. Audience gathered at the base of the steps and went back into the decorative statues and flags on the grounds leading to play areas where children delighted gymnastically on the equipment. The sun shone hot and bright and some listened to speakers sitting on grass under a clear blue sky. Others gathered under the shade of trees. The crowd was several thousand large and came primarily from SF. Some drove in from smaller nearby communities like Sonoma, and others were here on vacation or business from other states. There were many families and a mix of people who go to many public performances of justice like this one and others for whom it was their first time. There were many second generation children of immigrants, as well as white allies, and people new to the United States. A child writes I do not understand, a mother writes about her tears, a friend writes about her history, and a trans person writes about our connected identities, a grandmother writes about her anger, a young man writes about his responsibility, a young woman writes about her legacy. The diversity of the crowd and their clarity of values are a reminder that the terrible things being perpetrated in the name of our country do not have to define us. Our country is the people who live in it and we gathered publicly to stand up for all of us. This is what some had to say.
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">La libertan no se aprisiona,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">la libertad no se doblega,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">el compromiso es libertad</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">[Liberty cannot be caged</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Liberty doesn’t bend</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Compromise is Freedom]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Life is wonder </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">What a wonder his life</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I wonder what in the world left you bereft enough to forget </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">that my fellow human beings incarcerated 2000 children</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">If we have no heart then we have no head</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">If we do heartless there we are headless</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I’m sickened by the madness and unneeded sorrow that is caused by 45 and his administration</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Love, families, children</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">That’s why I’m here</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We must Stop evil</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Loving kindness matters</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Show compassion and understanding</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Why do we consistently have to protect ourselves from moving backwards? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Come to the enlightenment!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We can’t afford to be complacent </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">vote vote vote!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Coming out for the first time in months</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">on the verge of tears at all times </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">filled with hope and fear</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Back again with my best friend</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Somethings cannot be allowed</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And we are here as humans and mothers to say no</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Darkness descendants on the world</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Children cry</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Trump lies</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We resist!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Break down all borders</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Build more bridges</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Fuck Trump</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The end</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This movement kills fascists</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Remember our humanity in this time of our tragedy</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Resist</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">No borders </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">no walls </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">no cages</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">All around the world people got to be free</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We belong together always</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">They should not be happening</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In my lifetime</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We will stop this!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We do care about family values</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Keeping families together!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Family belongs together</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The government is separating the kids from their families</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">No ser humano es ilegal </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">[No human is illegal]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Your government is lying to you!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Children need their families</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We need a compassionate government</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Human dignity and compassion is always the answer</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Kick the bleached blonde bastard out of the White House</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Fascism comes wrapped in the American flag it with the cross around it</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">families unidas, no dividas </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">[Families united not divided]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Love is always the answer</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Dump Trump we need real leaders</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Always love there is no other way</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Humanity, Compassion and Kindness </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">will always trump evil!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Real wealth is for the eye of the lover</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Like a runaway train</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">No we’re not going to stop now</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We’re going to return until the kids are OK</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Red white and blue does not run</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It fights for what’s right</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In the people resides the power that will turn the tides
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My Yemini family fled the killing and blood of the war</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Only now to be stranded in banned</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As part of the human race </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I’m here to witness and speak out for the vulnerable </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">for aren’t we all vulnerable at sometime </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We must rise! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We must fight! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We must love</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">No to fascism</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Enough</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Basta ya </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">El pueblo unido</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Jamas sera vencido </span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">[From the left-wing the united nation will not be divided]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Porque vas por los inocentes </span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">[Why do you go for the innocent]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I don’t understand</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Tristesa. Regresion. Odio. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">No mas somos mas </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">[Sadness regression hate. no more. we care more]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We Jewish and Japanese American</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">NEVER AGAIN IS NOW</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Our communities knew enforced incarceration</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We promised them we never let this happen</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">To any people in anyway ever again</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We can do better</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Must do better</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For our children</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For all the children are our children</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And this is our legacy</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As well as our future</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The past must not be repeated</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Honks and screams a car charges through</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But these marches give me hope</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We often forget we’re made of the stuff stars</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I called to my ancestors to tell the truth</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Fuck the white supremacist and get them out of power</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Mothers children Ties to heart</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Keep up the demonstration</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For all of us</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Brown children matter</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As the daughter of immigrants and refugees</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Keep our borders open</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We are all immigrants!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This land was taken away from others who were here first</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Living with love and kindness</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">no human is illegal or property </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">just imagine the children are white</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">imagine white tears rather than my brown gay skin </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">living with justice and kindness in your heart</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Long live Ruth Bader Ginsberg </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Hillary Clinton is the rightful president and she was robbed </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">never forget that </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">lock him up</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I’m here because of my lady</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But surprised I’m not madder</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">March</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Vote</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Change what’s happening </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">lock him up lock him up</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I just keep crying </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I am tired of being powerless </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">we are better than this</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I stand for my ancestors </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">my children and their children</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">All are ONE</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Show up for each other</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Don’t lose hope </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">be the change you envision </span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">empower your community</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Stand up vote to speak out</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I’m so happy to be your ally</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Time for justice is always now</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Love one another</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Without our children our hearts don’t rest </span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">this wicked democracy must be put to rest</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Progress is hard but we fight to make it inevitable</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We are together hand-in-hand and heart to heart</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This event brings up deep emotion </span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">that reminds me how profoundly evil this anti-immigrant movement has become </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and perhaps always been </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Love Lives </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Let Love Live </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Workers of the world unite </span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">we don’t just fight for bread </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">we fight for roses too</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Hope never dies </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">together we will rise</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Fuck this administration and its lawmakers horrible </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">holding racist and ignorant ideologies</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Families belong together </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">San Francisco values need to be spread </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">with love across this nation</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">LOVE</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My hope is with those children who we must represent here today </span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">they are the future of our country</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We have a duty and a promise to embrace those that ask for our protection </span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">the day we abandon that is the day we cease to exist</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In the end we fight we win </span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">there is strength in numbers </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">those numbers are us</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Por que todos aqui y hoy</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Samos parte de una sola goan familia </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">[Because all of us are here today and belong to a bigger family]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We are here for each other and we will win</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Glad to be here too</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Let freedom ring for all humanity </span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">break the chain that binds us all </span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">there to break and cut the red tape</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">At the end of a bleak week </span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">seeing your fierce determined faces gives </span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Butterflies </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">follow them to Freedom</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Together we are better </span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">live through love </span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Feel your center </span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">give in peace</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">All our struggles are connected today </span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">we stand for justice and democracy </span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ortega and Trump Let’s take them to the Dump </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">not our president not our dictator </span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">with more than 285 dead in Nicaragua </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">as a result of state repression of peaceful protest against dictatorship </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Black Lives Matter Nicaraguan Lives Matter </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Immigrant children and their families lives matter</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Don’t give up get up </span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">all families all people all religions coming together</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Love to be free</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Like we all should be</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">With all love [Arabic script]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Beautiful people we are here</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I love you</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It’s time to fight for our children</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">vote out racist and fascist leaders</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I’m here because of immigrants</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And their breaths are just as important as mine</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Today I got my green card </span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">my official stamp of belonging </span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">all I wish is we realized we don’t need a piece of plastic or paper </span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">to know we are worthy and we belong here together</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We must resist to protect the USA </span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">from a corrupt unfit president and administration </span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">America is better than this</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is still America and it will continue to be as long as we stand</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We the people must tear down the wall of hate bigotry racism and evil</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">so that people of peace and love can go through to the light and love</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is bullshit we can’t stand for this any longer </span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">those who care must work together to struggle for what is right</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is not our America </span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">this is not human </span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">we fight for all people </span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">today and every day</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Is there any sound more heart rending than a child calling for his family </span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Let us open our hearts and cast out those who will not</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A lot of people want to come to United States</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A lot of people tired and upset</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Because the president Not help them</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And they say no Arabic people to come to United States</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We need to come here</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">To help the families To eat and have a good life</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We come just to work</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We are good people</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We love all the people</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We are so happy today</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">That so many people come to help</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Mexican Yemen Chilean Grenadian</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Chinese Japanese</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">White American</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Black American</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">All of our queer and trans sisters and brothers</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">All American</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We welcome you into our broken home</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Together we rise against hate and racism</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Community</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Our resistance is powerful</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">#FamiliesBelongTogether #FamiliesBelongTogetherSanFrancisco #FamiliesBelongTogetherSF #AbolishICE #GoodTrouble #Immigration #Resist</span></div>
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Claudia Alickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09186610180932113269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13674690.post-30196971483182160422018-03-13T14:42:00.000-04:002018-08-11T14:44:05.272-04:00TheaterActionGunControl and Every 28 Hours Plays<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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This transmedia social justice intervention “When The Bullets Strike” by Idris Goodwin from #Every28HoursPlays in support of students standing up against gun violence with the #ProtestPlaysProject #TheatreActionGunControl #Enough #MarchForOurLIves #Every28Hours</div>
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<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Jay Bushman Twitter Account <a data-show-count="false" href="https://twitter.com/WhenTheBullet?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-shadow: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #dd3333; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.2s linear; vertical-align: baseline;">Follow @WhenTheBullet</a></li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Michael Laurino <a href="https://youtu.be/gGYh9fh1HgY" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-shadow: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #dd3333; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.2s linear; vertical-align: baseline;">https://youtu.be/gGYh9fh1HgY</a></li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Bruce A. Lemon Jr, Juanita Chase de Lamont, Joshua Lamont and others. <a href="https://bit.ly/2H4ijz8" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-shadow: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #dd3333; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.2s linear; vertical-align: baseline;">https://bit.ly/2H4ijz8</a></li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ben Yalom Facebook Action <a href="https://bit.ly/2GPMQDi" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-shadow: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #dd3333; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.2s linear; vertical-align: baseline;">https://bit.ly/2GPMQDi</a></li>
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<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">From Aaron Wheeler-Kay . Echo Dance Company <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMFehs1z8Kk" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-shadow: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #dd3333; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.2s linear; vertical-align: baseline;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMFehs1z8Kk</a></li>
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Claudia Alickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09186610180932113269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13674690.post-25568194333723569032018-02-12T19:15:00.000-05:002018-02-19T01:34:34.325-05:00Walkabout New Orleans week 11<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">February 2-12</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Said yes to invitation to witness a flood wall painted, to meet my friends family and stay in her mothers bed and breakfast.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.claibornemansion.com/" target="_blank">Bed and Breakfast is a Mansion</a>!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Participated in <a href="http://www.dandeliondancetheater.org/csueb/" target="_blank">CSU East Bay Dance Bay Inclusive Interdisciplinary Ensemble</a>/<a href="http://www.mondobizarro.org/" target="_blank">Mondo Bizzaro</a> collaboration at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/catapultnola/" target="_blank">Catapult</a>, invitation from Eric Kuper of Dandelion Ensemble </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Took Hadoucane photos</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Witnessed <a href="http://www.noim504.com/about-us/" target="_blank">New Orleans International Muralists</a> at Cohen College Prep</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Dramaturgy with <a href="http://ma-yitheatre.org/" target="_blank">Ma-Yi Theater</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">More Calling Up consulting</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Interviewing for leadership positions</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Lunch with ensemble artist <a href="http://www.rebeccamwase.com/" target="_blank">Rebecca Mwase</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Participating in Mardi Gras with artists Nicole Garneau, Lisa Q Mount, MK Wegman and new friend whom I shall call Velvis </span></div>
Claudia Alickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09186610180932113269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13674690.post-6478227188506569642018-02-01T18:40:00.000-05:002018-02-19T01:34:23.413-05:00Walkabout Detroit week 10<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Jan 26-Feb 1</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Said yes to invitation to witness <a href="https://www.broadwayworld.com/detroit/article/A-Host-Of-Peoples-NEITHER-THERE-NOR-HERE-Opens-This-Friday-20180124" target="_blank">Neither Here Nor There</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Stayed in dirty AirBnb downtown</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Interviewed for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deferred_Action_for_Childhood_Arrivals" target="_blank">DACA </a>Ethnodrama project at CCNY</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Moved to new AirBnb with less dirt and crime and consistent Wifi</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Confirmed new website design for <a href="http://www.every28hoursplays.org/" target="_blank">Every 28 Hours Plays </a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">NetDate with <a href="http://www.ahostofpeople.org/" target="_blank">A Host of People</a> artistic directors Sherrine Azab and Jake Hooker</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Participated in <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/508550786210087/" target="_blank">Puff Puff Pass Open Mic</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Witnessed rehearsal and spoke to <a href="http://www.detroitpublictheatre.org/" target="_blank">Detroit Public Theater</a> producers</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Met with engineer and lawyer going to artificial intelligence conference in New Orleans</span></div>
Claudia Alickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09186610180932113269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13674690.post-6933094803973866832018-01-24T17:38:00.000-05:002018-02-18T17:39:17.081-05:00Walkabout Missoula Week 9<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">January 13-24</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Painting Party</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://alternativemissoula.com/martin-luther-king-jr-day-events-in-missoula/" target="_blank">Missoula MLK</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Research Escape Rooms</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Playwrights birthday party</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BeEhCMCgxN5/?taken-by=claudiaalick" target="_blank">Geoff Pepos</a> studio visit. VR and Digital Arts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ghostlight Project Meeting</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Calling Up consulting sessions</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://claudiaalick.blogspot.com/2018/01/womens-march-missoula-streetpoem.html" target="_blank">Women's March</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z08VzqRqnB4" target="_blank">Tell me I'm wrong</a>: Video Essay</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Hanging with Family</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Performed at Poetry Slam</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Painted</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Made slow video art with Geoff Pepos </span></div>
Claudia Alickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09186610180932113269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13674690.post-24050249208919254162018-01-21T18:34:00.000-05:002018-02-18T17:40:32.639-05:00Women’s March Missoula Streetpoem<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Women’s March Missoula Streetpoem</b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>“poetry for the people by the people”</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>By the people at the Womens March Missoula MT </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Edited By Claudia Alick</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>January 20, 2018</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>From “Dada & Surrealist Art,” by William S. Rubin, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York 1968 Among Surrealist techniques exploiting the mystique of accident was a kind of collective collage of words or images called the cadavre exquis (exquisite corpse). Based on an old parlor game, it was played by several people, each of whom would write a phrase on a sheet of paper, fold the paper to conceal part of it, and pass it on to the next player for his contribution.
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>The technique got its name from results obtained in initial playing, “Le cadavre exquis boira le vin nouveau” (The exquisite corpse will drink the young wine). Other examples are: “The dormitory of friable little girls puts the odious box right” and “The Senegal oyster will eat the tricolor bread.” These poetic fragments were felt to reveal what Nicolas Calas characterized as the “unconscious reality in the personality of the group” resulting from a process of what Ernst called “mental contagion.” At the same time, they represented the transposition of Lautrééamont’s classic verbal collage to a collective level, in effect fulfilling his injunction– frequently cited in Surrealist texts–that “poetry must be made by all and not by one.”</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This poem was written by participants in The Women’s March 2018 in Missoula, MT. The people who wrote this were children and adults of all ages, different genders, White, Native American, Latino, Asian, and Black all bundled in layers against the cold. Some were teachers, social justice advocates, journalists, students, parents, grandparents. I wandered the crowd while my young teen friend documented. Above us was a drone, and along the road people recorded with cameras and phones. The sun was bright as we marched over snow and sidewalk to the park to hear amazing speakers after watching the flash mob dance. Signs said things like OMG WTF GOP, Resistance is Fertile, Stand Up and demand Equality, Make America Great for all Creeds Genders, Incomes and Colors. People wore hand knit “pussy hats”, an artist names ROE gave out handmade vuvla pins, folks passed each other and caught up small town style. The mood was relaxed and enthusiastic. This was no protest. It was a rally for change and an affirmation of the values of this community. This movement is intersectional and so is this poem.
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>Participants of the poem wrote after viewing the previous line. Handwriting was deciphered as clearly as possible. Case and punctuation were not retained. Imagine each line break as a change in voice.
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We should all be feminists</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">although I’m conflicted </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">my mother and I stand up as strong women </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">for all women</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The world needs women to show our viewpoint </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Sandy, gave me a pussy hat </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It’s pink powerful just like my pussy </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and encompasses the whole world </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">in vulvas we will be free </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">smashing the patriarchy one dick at a time </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">loving the matriarchy one vagina at a time </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">we will not be silenced </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">standing in unity to create </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">the future of love </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">an acceptance of all respect for all women </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">not just white women </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">to come together and strength power and equality </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">high time for the rise of the matriarch</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Let’s all meet to draw The future </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">go with the world </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">look or children in the eye </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I march for you today my daughter </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I march for my daughter too </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and with my son to teach a new </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We march for rights for all </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">People everywhere standing tall </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I am here to be inspired by goodness </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I am here because women deserve a voice </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">raise your voice and stomp your feet</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">persist even if your legs are shaking </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My arms are tired from holding protest signs since 1960 </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">women’s rights is civil rights </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">power to the women forever for my daughters… </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The best is yet to come </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">for a future I have yet to create </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">we’re here for love and humanity and the people </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">unleash the dog dogs of democracy </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">be a role model for our Youth </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">supporting my wife </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">taking care of our future</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Meet and fellowship </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">women’s rights, civil rights, human rights together </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I’m just here to document it </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">for future generations </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">they will know a better world </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">para haur valer los derechos de las mujers y que merecamos </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">(translation: we deserve to assert the rights of women)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ban ignorance Not immigrants </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">to be not only allies but accomplices </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I hope for change </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">this is MY Missoula
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Claudia Alickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09186610180932113269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13674690.post-73836904445507547482018-01-12T17:07:00.000-05:002018-02-18T17:07:28.128-05:00Walkabout Missoula Week 8<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">January 5-12</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Designed Calling Up branding</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Chip Thomas conversation </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Hanging with friends</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Skype with director <a href="http://meiannteo.com/" target="_blank">Mei Ann Teo </a></span><br />
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<a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/Bd24uzVgRui/?taken-by=claudiaalick" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Immigrant Post</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://zootownarts.org/" target="_blank">ZooTown</a> Open Mic</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Calling Up anthem confirmed</span><br />
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Claudia Alickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09186610180932113269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13674690.post-86998153744527761472018-01-05T14:52:00.000-05:002018-02-18T14:52:44.358-05:00Walkabout Missoula Week 6- 7 <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Dec 27-Jan 5</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Travel to Missoula Montana to say yes to invitation to my nephews 18 birthday.</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSSvgSVnHhWdYcEXF78o_BH4VmZTiyLfefMSDHzG0aGZzmVn7fhXZGEdMgrf01Pg41Daz5rxaLL8_0oPZdHTNO1A81RSQ5dv4v1qiH5DAf2rR8mO9MbSeI98xM3HgwvW775i2K/s1600/walkabout+Missoula+7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSSvgSVnHhWdYcEXF78o_BH4VmZTiyLfefMSDHzG0aGZzmVn7fhXZGEdMgrf01Pg41Daz5rxaLL8_0oPZdHTNO1A81RSQ5dv4v1qiH5DAf2rR8mO9MbSeI98xM3HgwvW775i2K/s320/walkabout+Missoula+7.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">AirBnb above <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilma_Theatre_(Missoula,_Montana)" target="_blank">The Wilma Theater </a>over a outdoor staging area</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Eddie's Birthday</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Watching <a href="http://www.jumanjimovie.com/site/" target="_blank">Jumanji </a>with the family</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Brunch with artists, family, and friends</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Computer consultation for digital office</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hanging with childhood friend Maggie and family</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">First Night concert to see Gwen and Makenna perform</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Applied for leadership positions around country</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Visited with artist <a href="http://www.hadleyferguson.com/" target="_blank">Hadley Ferguson</a></span><br />
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Claudia Alickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09186610180932113269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13674690.post-38664751037061058572017-12-26T12:33:00.000-05:002018-02-18T13:05:56.812-05:00Walkabout San Francisco Week 6<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Dec 18-25</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Brunch with Elisabeth Beaird of <a href="https://www.circuitnetwork.com/" target="_blank">Circuit Network</a> and <a href="http://kristinawong.com/" target="_blank">Kristina Wong</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Visited Google!</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvsDm3_xLwgavcQopCbqwqFsSPXXP8cBdICKk-z6iaI0IrbQhJ3O6Ixxku0cru1lLiSoOpdCwMmbZhKbyxj3RXnVlbOTklUzXkv1-_Dyw3L37ZPMiXmnP79pewDmmjVovXNbGU/s1600/Walkabout+San+Fransisco+week+6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvsDm3_xLwgavcQopCbqwqFsSPXXP8cBdICKk-z6iaI0IrbQhJ3O6Ixxku0cru1lLiSoOpdCwMmbZhKbyxj3RXnVlbOTklUzXkv1-_Dyw3L37ZPMiXmnP79pewDmmjVovXNbGU/s320/Walkabout+San+Fransisco+week+6.jpg" width="320" /></span></a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Applied for leadership positions in several states</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Visited playwright family!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Decided to include children on my board</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Applied for a fellowship for funding for physidigital performative scores</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Claudia gave me new shoes that I LOVE!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Won second Place at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/berkeleyslam/" target="_blank">Berkeley Poetry Slam</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Moved to supercute AirBnb in Berkeley</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Lunch with artist activist <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Black-Disabled-Art-History-101/dp/1942001576" target="_blank">Leroy Moore</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Saw anthology theatre piece <a href="https://www.mercurynews.com/2017/12/08/review-12-short-plays-raise-big-questions-in-participants-in-berkeley/" target="_blank">Participants</a> with <a href="http://theatrefirst.com/participants/cast-and-creative-teams/" target="_blank">Cherri Miller</a> and Skyler Cooper produced by <a href="http://theatrefirst.com/" target="_blank">Theatre First</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">AirBnb gave me <a href="https://www.webmd.com/allergies/cat-allergies" target="_blank">face rash</a>! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Moved to new AirBnb in Oakland</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Christmas Eve Brunch with friend Tom.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Christmas movies!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Dinner with <a href="http://www.calshakes.org/v4/aboutus/whoweare.html" target="_blank">Eric Ting</a> and <a href="https://meanycenter.org/meiyin-wang" target="_blank">Meiyin Wang</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Built KickStarter campaign for AirBnb and accessibility project</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Traveled to Montana.
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Claudia Alickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09186610180932113269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13674690.post-31640168129347229682017-12-17T18:45:00.000-05:002018-02-17T19:01:03.250-05:00Walkabout San Francisco Week 5<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">December 12-17
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdLwfTRo-Lrv5AZNmlwwqwx1fhCPlpiaOO1bOn6zehgmwpRQEM8fTqPIRchYW_BJRlIk6oeS7A6tC1DunMYO3b9wC5nCB6ybQ6yvwZO2N2KzT2xtGZKIJ9nWVkZ-K3z6EemDY2/s1600/walkabout+SF+week+5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdLwfTRo-Lrv5AZNmlwwqwx1fhCPlpiaOO1bOn6zehgmwpRQEM8fTqPIRchYW_BJRlIk6oeS7A6tC1DunMYO3b9wC5nCB6ybQ6yvwZO2N2KzT2xtGZKIJ9nWVkZ-K3z6EemDY2/s320/walkabout+SF+week+5.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Said yes to invitation from disabled friend Claudia in SF to stay with her to get first person experience of accessibility of the city.
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Got hair done! She is African theater artists, writer and fab hairdresser. This salon has a great vibe!
<a href="http://www.bayareaafricanhairbraiding.com/" target="_blank">http://www.bayareaafricanhairbraiding.com </a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Visited <a href="http://www.prrcsf.org/" target="_blank">The Janet Pomeroy Recreation and Rehabilitation Pool</a> and Holiday Party.
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Attended <a href="http://www.theatrebayarea.org/" target="_blank">Theater Bay Area</a> Holiday Party</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Researched <a href="https://contemporaryperformance.com/2017/12/09/immersive-theater/" target="_blank">Immersive Theater</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Attended <a href="http://www.ensembletheaters.net/" target="_blank">Network of Ensemble Theater's </a> dinner with <a href="https://npnweb.org/" target="_blank">National Performance Network</a> conference attendees</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Said yes to invitation to witness work in Detroit.
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Brunch with Cariel Klein of <a href="https://doubleedgetheatre.org/" target="_blank">Double Edge Theater</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Attended reading of <a href="http://dan-wolf.com/donate/" target="_blank">Curren$y</a> a hip-hop adaptation of Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice by Dan Wolf</span><br />
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Claudia Alickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09186610180932113269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13674690.post-71528773663555359042017-12-10T17:31:00.000-05:002018-02-17T17:41:41.179-05:00Walkabout New York Week 4 and 5<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Dec 1-11</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Continued practice of writing description of work I want to do in world, making up title, researching that title. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Researched title <a href="https://serviceplan.blog/en/2017/02/what-does-a-cultural-strategist-acutally-do/" target="_blank">Cultural Strategist</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Met with <a href="http://www.voxpertise.com/edu/id5.html" target="_blank">Robin Miles</a> and discussed audiobook industry</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Connected with Teaching Artist <a href="http://theworkingtheater.org/staff/" target="_blank">Tricia Patrick</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Met with <a href="https://www.netrootsnation.org/profile/betsy-richards/" target="_blank">Betsy Richards</a> and learned about work of <a href="https://opportunityagenda.org/" target="_blank">Opportunity Agenda</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Went to party with journalists, artists, and those that love them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Received gift of a <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Reconcilers-Vol-1-Erik-Jensen/dp/0615357075" target="_blank">comic book </a>from the artist</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgivJErfQxirrmxmUKmt2C_2eX7HlwIqJV6jG7RZlQfixdoJ21Mm8snzUMRqq7SCUZdvecMHGhHzxnopFbjBOLcbIFYugnSHRCXMbUELFm9wwBKCGig-ap_5NLhVVCvUt17JuL3/s1600/Walkabout+New+York+week+4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="888" data-original-width="1600" height="177" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgivJErfQxirrmxmUKmt2C_2eX7HlwIqJV6jG7RZlQfixdoJ21Mm8snzUMRqq7SCUZdvecMHGhHzxnopFbjBOLcbIFYugnSHRCXMbUELFm9wwBKCGig-ap_5NLhVVCvUt17JuL3/s320/Walkabout+New+York+week+4.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Interview for several jobs</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Applied for grant</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Researched Impact Producing </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Moved to AirBnb in Queens</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Accepted invitation to visit Yale, visit several theaters, participate ina . sound bath, and begin interviewing in person with new equipment but got sick and lost voice and had to cancel plans</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">After more research created digital systems for business card and contact organization</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Scanned paper and reduced by another bag</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Created vision wall for Calling Up!</span></div>
Claudia Alickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09186610180932113269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13674690.post-26981031027970073092017-11-30T16:03:00.000-05:002018-02-16T17:51:48.359-05:00WalkAbout New York week 3<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Nov 24-30</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Lunch with friend Erica Preston and family</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.ginnyssupperclub.com/" target="_blank">Gospel Brunch</a> in Harlem with playwright <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Loomer" target="_blank">Lisa Loomer</a> and friends</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLdd1LVqn6hGqnRBJSthtNwDm1zMWW3eDKs1uN3SHE5fmxTw3tG5edDX5BdzvJPdTuQDWgVLa-fnCmGIMZQ0OS3C1Eb0eESa_b6IJK9UJ43rFwBpxoZFJCaAYow7_Np1w5L1F-/s1600/Walkabout+New+York+week+3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLdd1LVqn6hGqnRBJSthtNwDm1zMWW3eDKs1uN3SHE5fmxTw3tG5edDX5BdzvJPdTuQDWgVLa-fnCmGIMZQ0OS3C1Eb0eESa_b6IJK9UJ43rFwBpxoZFJCaAYow7_Np1w5L1F-/s320/Walkabout+New+York+week+3.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Moved to new housing in Bed Stuy Brooklyn. Goodbye Graffiti and Hello Peace sign.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ran into <a href="http://www.kristenadele.net/" target="_blank">Kirsten Adele Calhoun</a> and received invite to <a href="http://thebillieholiday.org/" target="_blank">Billie Holiday Theater</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Lunch with director and author <a href="https://www.isaac-klein.com/" target="_blank">Issac Klein</a> and received invite to book opening</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Dinner with artist <a href="http://www.amandabrowder.com/" target="_blank">Amanda Browder</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Dinner with former Smokin Word Productions financial director George Reddick and his partner and had cotton candy foie gras.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Attended <a href="https://www.thebushwickstarr.org/animal-wisdom/" target="_blank">Animal Wisdom at The Bushwick Starr </a>with playwright <a href="https://pwcenter.org/profile/emma-goldman-sherman" target="_blank">Emma Goldman-Sherman</a> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This week I discovered conflict of getting invitations for multiple events at same time. New rule is must say yes to invitation as long as it does not result in no to a different invitation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Had great phone conversation with <a href="https://www.cultureworksphila.org/" target="_blank">CultureWorks Philadelphia</a> and learned about different models of fiscal sponsorship and shared administration. This conversation was brilliant and I realize I should be recording these conversations</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My WalkAbout will include remote visiting of community</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Bought Podcasting equipment. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Named company Calling Up!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Decided to build app or online course </span></div>
Claudia Alickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09186610180932113269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13674690.post-65413169131925910142017-11-23T15:36:00.000-05:002018-02-16T17:50:33.569-05:00WALKABOUT New York Week 2<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Nov 16-23</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I had Korean with <a href="http://www.nyneofuturists.org/ensemble-2/#rob" target="_blank">Rob Neil</a> and attended NY Neofuturist <a href="http://www.nyneofuturists.org/tiw/" target="_blank">Infinite Wrench</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Dinner with theater maker <a href="http://www.tcgcircle.org/2015/06/emerging-in-a-new-era/" target="_blank">Katie Christie</a> founder of <a href="https://voicesunited.org/about-us/" target="_blank">Voices United</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Attended preview and post show discussion of <a href="https://www.thenewgroup.org/downtownraceriot.html" target="_blank">Downtown Race Riot</a> with The New Group</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ran into actor friends at every single show I saw. New York is like a small town. Pictured is <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1567152/" target="_blank">Perri Gaffney</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ate Thai with <a href="https://www.classicsincolor.com/" target="_blank">Classics IN Color</a> Artistic Director Nafeesa Monroe</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Researched AirBnb's in New York</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Set up digital system to organize finances</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Thanksgiving dinner with my brother <a href="http://primarystages.org/espa/instructors/jesse-alick" target="_blank">Jesse Alick</a></span><br />
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Claudia Alickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09186610180932113269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13674690.post-63394616190892705602017-11-16T14:50:00.000-05:002018-02-16T17:51:48.478-05:00WalkAbout New York Week 1<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My first Yes to invitation was with <a href="http://www.tcg.org/EDI/EDIInitiative/EDIInstitute.aspx" target="_blank">The Theater Communications Group Equity Diversity and Inclusion Institute</a>. I facilitated with Gus Schulenberg and Monique Holt.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I attended a concert honoring a late composer at <a href="https://www.publictheater.org/Joes-Pub-at-The-Public/" target="_blank">Joe's Pub at The Public Theater</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I said yes to invitation to see <a href="http://www.mcctheater.org/shows/17-18_season/schoolgirls/index.html" target="_blank">School Girls The African Mean Girls Play</a> with Freedome Bradley-Ballentine Director of Arts Engagement at The Old Globe. The play by By Jocelyn Bioh and Directed by Rebecca Taichman and produced by MCC Theater.
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I participated in the <a href="http://www.tcg.org/Events/FallForumonGovernance.aspx" target="_blank">TCG Fall Forum</a>. There were many sessions on leadership for our field. I also learned more about board cultivation and service.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I attended the <a href="http://www.nyneofuturists.org/neo-gala/" target="_blank">NY NeoFuturist Gala</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I attended opening of <a href="https://www.manhattantheatreclub.com/2017-18-season/actually/" target="_blank">Actually</a> with broadway audience development expert Marcia Pendelton of <a href="http://walktallgirlproductions.com/" target="_blank">Walk Tall Girl Productions</a>. The play by Anna Zielgar with a directed by Lileana Blain-Cruz and assistant directed by Rebecca Martinez and produced at Manhattan Theater Club.
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Claudia Alickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09186610180932113269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13674690.post-60043442473326343672017-11-16T03:31:00.000-05:002018-02-16T17:51:48.439-05:00Claudia WalkAbout <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The day after deciding to call my journey WalkAbout, I begin to worry that my use of the term Walkabout is culture appropriation. </span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Walkabout is a cultural coming of age practice for aboriginal people of Australia.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is the definition I found online “ </span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">to a rite of passage where male Australian Aborigines would undergo a journey during adolescence and live in the wilderness for a period as long as six months. In this practice they would trace the paths, or ‘</i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songlines" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="s1"><b>songlines</b></span></a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">‘, that their people’s ceremonial ancestors took, and imitate, in a fashion, their heroic deeds.</i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> ”</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It’s from Wikipedia which says a lot. Walkabout is rooted in a land and practices and songlines that do not and cannot exist for me.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">However it is the closest term for this project.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I have been exploring my own native heritage and decolonizing practices for the last decade and find it often brings up more questions than answers. That seems appropriate. This Walkabout is an inquiry.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It is a listening tour for what the performance field will need int he next 5 years. It is a search for future leadership.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This WalkAbout is both personal and professional.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I’m speaking to people who work in the intersection of social justice and performance.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The people who envision, empathize, embody, take action.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I’m allowing the universe to guide me to each person I speak to to.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Here are the rules of my WalkAbout</span></div>
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<li class="li1"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I must make an invitation everyday and say yes to an invitation everyday.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>If I can say yes I should do my best unless that “yes” results in a “no” elsewhere.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>These invitation are explicit and implicit.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I am unsure about how to share this journey in the digital word in an authentic manner. My first Yes is to New York and Inclusion, and National Theater Leaders, and Family and old friends and getting my business together. I will launch official communications for this project and my new company in January of 2018. In the meantime, visit my</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><a href="https://www.instagram.com/claudiaalick/" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="s2">Instagram,</span></a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> and </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/ClaudiaChangeMaker/" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="s2">Facebook Fan Page</span></a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">. Follow me here. Search the hash tag #walkabout. Make invitations, below.</span></div>
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Claudia Alickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09186610180932113269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13674690.post-45444854585211846422017-11-09T03:30:00.000-05:002018-02-16T17:51:31.605-05:00Claudia On the Road<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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After packing up my office and my home of ten years I reduce my belongings to 6 bags.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It’s too much stuff but I resolve to reduce it to 3 bags when I’m in New York.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I start with excitement and begin my first day working doing EDI facilitation with theater leaders from around the country.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I attend a conference for several days and learn more about the state of the field and the challenges of my collogues.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The biggest challenge they discuss is finding magical unicorns. Apparently the field need women of color or queer people of color or both that have cultural competency, at least 15 experience working with large budgets, and experience being a leader.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>They are describing me.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I resolve to “highlight my horn”. I just do. Better job of sharing my leadership qualities and capacities online.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I set up meetings, plays to see, and friends to catch up with. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I know how to do a conference and this all feels very familiar. That said I am excited at the openness of eery exchange I am having.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I am not trying to fit people into my plans.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I am listening, learning, and finding out what they are planning. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I decide to call what I am doing WalkAbout.<br />
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—welcome to the #walkabout reports.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>These will come sporadically and will be shared via this blog, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/claudiaalick/" target="_blank">Instagram,</a> and this <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ClaudiaChangeMaker/" target="_blank">Facebook page</a>. Follow me, search the hash tag, make invitations, join the journey! <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div>
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Claudia Alickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09186610180932113269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13674690.post-61133155107558046222017-10-20T03:18:00.000-04:002017-12-13T03:19:01.342-05:00A DARK SKY FULL OF STARS directed by Claudia<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A DARK SKY FULL OF STARS </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">By Don Zolidis </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">with Emily Ota | McKenna Twedt | Jennifer Lanier | Erica Sullivan
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The action of Don’s play A DARK SKY FULL OF STARS concerns Brandon, a young man in and out of trouble with the law, who is shot to death by a rookie cop after a suspicious traffic stop. The perspective of the play shifts to the six people most involved in Brandon’s life from the police officer to his girlfriend to his family and explores the long series of unrelated events that eventually led to his death. Performance times: Wednesday 10/18/17 at 7:30 p.m. | Saturday 10/21 at 1:30 p.m.
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Claudia Alickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09186610180932113269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13674690.post-51235952464363820962017-10-09T03:24:00.000-04:002017-12-13T03:24:31.808-05:00Indigenous Peoples Day <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Congratulations on our first official Indigenous Peoples Day Celebrations. When we brainstormed this event over a year ago over burritos Brook Colley, Supaman, Alma Alvarez and I could never have imagined the community coming together so strongly. Thank you to all our Indigenous leaders, community members, and OSF employees who volunteered their time and gave so freely of their ideas to help the event. Thanks also to the generous donor and SOU support for the free t-shirts for the Walker students, free salmon bake, tickets for Off the Rails, and hosting for Indigenous guests. The celebration kicked off Sunday, Oct. 8 with Brent Florendo, Dancing Spirit and Supaman in an extended Green Show and continued with activities at Walker grade school, SOU, and OSF on Monday, Oct. 9. Thank you to leadership from Heather Carlton, Kenneth Ramos and everyone who worked on this. The Salmon Bake and Social in the SOU Courtyard from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. was followed by a Decolonizing Plays Workshop in the SOU Rogue River Room led by Lily Gladstone and Claudia Alick. The Decolonization Celebration took place that evening featuring Felica McNair, Wocus Bay Singers, Phoenix Sigalove, City Councilman Dennis Slatterly, David West, Brook Colley, Lupe Sims, Marjorie Trueblood Gambol, Supaman and Dan Wanpepah. Thanks to Green Show staff for their great support. Closing out the day was a special performance of “Off the Rails” by Native American writer Randy Reinholz at 8 p.m. in the Angus Bowmer Theatre. Several youth groups attended events, audience development brought in groups, shared a meal, and connected them to tickets. OSF’s new dedication to the people of Tekelma and Shasta Peoples was deeply appreciated by the community. Congratulations to all for a successful event.</span></div>
Claudia Alickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09186610180932113269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13674690.post-20991652179587665312017-09-09T21:22:00.000-04:002017-12-12T21:25:00.080-05:00Claudia Alick leaving The Oregon Shakespeare Festival<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I am writing to let you know of a significant change in our senior artistic leadership at OSF. After ten years of extraordinary service, Claudia Alick will be leaving the Festival at the end of the current season. Claudia is pursuing more social justice focused and national leadership opportunities, and we have been thinking about new and different structures in terms of community engagement that might serve OSF as we move into the future. Claudia will continue to oversee several projects in the next seven weeks as well as sharing with us all that she learned about our community engagement efforts as I contemplate new structures.
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Claudia wanted me to share with all of you: "I have loved my time here at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. I'm excited to expand on the amazing work I've learned to do here with you all. "
I can safely say that much of the success of my first decade as artistic director has lived in the amazing taste and vision and dynamic leadership of Claudia Alick, from her energizing programming of the Green Show to the many, many community events that she has made happen alongside so many of you. We are looking forward to continued future collaboration. I hope that you will join me in thanking Claudia for all she has given our company and wishing her an extraordinarily bright future.
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Warmly,<br />
Bill<br />
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bill rauch<br />
artistic director<br />
oregon shakespeare festival<br />
he/him/his</div>
Claudia Alickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09186610180932113269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13674690.post-17002728588033838762017-08-13T03:38:00.000-04:002017-08-14T03:53:52.096-04:00Standing for Equality Streetpoem<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Standing for Equality Streetpoem</span></b></div>
<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“poetry for the people by the people”</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">By the people at Standing for Equality</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Edited By Claudia Alick</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">From “Dada and Surrealist Art,” by William S. Rubin, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York 1968 </span></b><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Among Surrealist techniques exploiting the mystique of accident was a kind of collective collage of words or images called the cadavre exquis (exquisite corpse). Based on an old parlor game, it was played by several people, each of whom would write a phrase on a sheet of paper, fold the paper to conceal part of it, and pass it on to the next player for his contribution</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The technique got its name from results obtained in initial playing, “Le cadavre exquis boira le vin nouveau” (The exquisite corpse will drink the young wine)... These poetic fragments were felt to reveal what Nicolas Calas characterized as the “unconscious reality in the personality of the group” resulting from a process of what Ernst called “mental contagion.” At the same time, they represented the transposition of Lautrééamont’s classic verbal collage to a collective level, in effect fulfilling his injunction– frequently cited in Surrealist texts–that “poetry must be made by all and not by one.”</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Note: </b><i>This poem was written by the children and adults at Standing for Equality, a vigil on the Ashland Plaza. The event was organized by an 18 year old white woman with no experience organizing for racial justice in Southern Oregon. She heard about the mass gathering of white nationalists carrying torches chanting for white supremacy in Charlottesville Virginia. For her this was a wake up call. That evening she made a Facebook event that said “Racism is still alive and prevalent. It's time for us to stand together. Be brave. Stand against racism. Stand and pray together. Stand up with our brothers and sisters of all ethnicities and colors. Being silent isn't helping the ones who are being oppressed. We need to let our voices be heard.” 117 RSVP’d attending and 255 RSVP’d interested. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>The Plaza was full and the crowd accurately reflected <a href="https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/ashlandcityoregon/RHI805210" target="_blank">the demographics of Ashland</a>. The event was improvised and the young organizer’s friends asked a few sitting elderly people to move so she could stand on the concrete bench to address the crowd. There was no electricity for the microphone and amp she brought so people spoke as loudly as they could and the crowd huddled close. She told us of how she came to pull us all together and how surprised so many had shown up. Her remarks were sincere, unrehearsed, inspiring, uninformed, and full of lengthy pauses. A white woman approached the organizer while she was speaking to tell her about about something she should be saying. She spoke low and the rest of the crowd could not hear. The organizer stopped speaking to the crowd, to listen to the woman before finishing up her remarks.
Then she asked if anyone in the crowd wanted to speak. Before she could call on anyone, a middle aged white man stood up on the concrete bench and began explaining how the issues could be addressed by voting. Someone from the crowd said “Let’s hear a person of color. We hear enough white men.” I affirmed with a loud hum. People in the crowd nodded and shouted affirmation. He responded jokingly “Am I experiencing Bias? Can’t I ask people to vote?” </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>The crowd was clearly calling for a speaker of color. The organizer had a song she wanted to sing with the audience and she began introducing it. A white man approached the organizer while she was speaking to let her know about something she should be saying, speaking low so the rest of the crowd could not hear. She stopped speaking to the crowd to listen to the man. Someone from the crowd called that she should skip the song and go to the speakers. That someone was me. She stepped down gracefully from the bench welcoming the director of Equity Directory and Inclusion from the University who was followed by dozens of speakers. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>The speakers were local leaders and community members, people of color, white people, young people and elderly people. They shared cogent framings of the issue, problematic reductions of the issues, a desire to stop violence, acknowledging intersectionality, different approaches to solutions, personal testimonials, and fierce repudiations of white supremacy in all aspects of our society. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>Those further back in the crowd where they couldn’t hear the speakers, chatted about political candidates and shared stories of what brought them there. Children played with toys and read books. One young man handed out flyers with the poem “The Great Colossus” and a picture of The Statue of Liberty. From the far edge of the plaza several police cadets watched the event. The young woman had gone to them to ask for help for getting electricity for the unpermitted ad-hoc event. They had not been able to help and regretted it. I thanked them for allowing the event to take place without interruption. They said “It’s Free Speech.” The vigil ended with kudos for the organizer, electric candles and selfies under a setting sun. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i> Participants of the poem wrote after viewing only the previous line. Handwriting was deciphered as clearly as possible. Case and punctuation were retained for most part.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In the future we see change</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We are here tonight to make that change </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">in order for everyone to feel safe change is necessary </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">knowing that one love unites us helps scrape off the rough edges </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">in order to make the smooth happening </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">people need to see</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">What's in front of them</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Pay attention…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Allowing us to grow</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">To be enough</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">To be loved</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Again and again and again</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Stand up. Now</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Resist</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Hope</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Do not give up</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Spread your wings of hope</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Love is the revolution</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Again and again and again</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Never to end</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Always beginning flowing growing</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Pushing a hunger to right</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">To fight </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">To move and change ourselves others </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">what is and what could be</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is us!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And we must recognize our silence only builds the wall of hatred higher</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">That which needs facing must be faced</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Time for us to come together to support the diversity and multiculturalism strength of our nation</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And the foundations of democracy</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Time for us to have the courage to see ourselves</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Our own racism</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Our own addiction to comfort that harms others</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I wouldn't be standing here today</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">If not for my dad who served in WWII in England. He taught me love</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We see the light from above</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I believe in peace and love</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Keep showing up</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Land for all</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Freedom for all </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Life for all</span></div>
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Claudia Alickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09186610180932113269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13674690.post-838069381852866702017-06-26T22:22:00.000-04:002018-01-01T22:24:06.554-05:00OSF Juneteenth 2017<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Congrats to everyone for a great planning process, community collaborations, educations, and exceeding our fundraising goals for 2017. Great job reflecting on our past, feeding our present, and investing in our future. For Us By Us! what a joyful celebration.
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br />The Juneteenth MustReadAloud participatory reading event on June 18th was an introspective, uplifting, and deeply moving success—a truly meaningful way to kick of the OSF Juneteenth 2017 festivities! Over the course of 90 minutes, 46 individuals sat together in a circle and collectively conjured this unique event into existence as one-by-one participants raised a hand when it felt the right time to read their chosen piece next. What resulted was a one-of-a-kind collage of over 30 distinct voices: poems and literary excerpts by black writers, chosen and ordered by our collective group instinct, shared aloud without discussion or judgement. We are already looking forward to the next MustReadAloud iteration, the Festival Noon on July 26th: “What’s Past is Dialogue...: A participatory read-aloud exploring texts that challenge standard historical narratives.” Attached is the program for the event. Several donors and board members remarked they were grateful to be able to do something to participate in Juneteenth. Kudos to Marc Friedman, Bernardo Mazon, Amrita Ramanan, Lue Douthit, and the other members of the MustReadAloud team.
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Juneteenth MUSTREADALOUD director Marc Friedman :</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/OSFCulturalConnections/videos/1319974518118569">https://www.facebook.com/OSFCulturalConnections/videos/1319974518118569</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The 2017 Juneteenth Celebration was held on Monday, June 19. After several months of meetings discussing local and national history, the impact of our Juneteenth Celebration, and community partners all fueled with delicious NW Pizza generously donated from a local black business owner. The variety show was directed by a team of company members Nemuna Ceesay, JaMeeka Holloway-Burrell, Samantha White, and Roberta Inscho-Cox, with the theme, “For Us, By Us.” The 75 min program was a celebration of joy and resiliency as expressed through spoken word, dance, music, hip hop, visual art and theatre excerpts, including contributions from former Summer Seminar scholarship awardees.
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The bricks were full of audience in the 95+ degree weather. Company and community members alike were proud to support the message that hosts Nate and Asia Mark raised in a resounding refrain, “We are Anti-Racist and Pro-Black in Ashland!” Many audience members came out in support wearing Black Lives Matter T-Shirts. Artists and community decorated fans, Racial Equity Coalition and Vision Quilt joined us tabeling. Vision Quilt created special pieces specifically for Juneteenth. Former Peeps joined us to volunteer for the day and remind us of why we love this program. Thanks also audience development for the creation of these Juneteenth videos. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Performer and Co-director Nemuna Ceesay<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">:</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/OSFCulturalConnections/videos/vb.254965111286187/1310671875715500/?type=2&theater" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/OSFCulturalConnections/videos/vb.254965111286187/1310671875715500/?type=2&theater </a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Performer and Co-director</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span>Roberta Inscho-Cox:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/OSFCulturalConnections/videos/1309556745827013">https://www.facebook.com/OSFCulturalConnections/videos/1309556745827013</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Performer and Co-director</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span>JaMeeka Holloway-Burrell:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/OSFCulturalConnections/videos/1302552859860735">https://www.facebook.com/OSFCulturalConnections/videos/1302552859860735</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Performer and Co-director</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span>Samantha White:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/OSFCulturalConnections/videos/1306540336128654">https://www.facebook.com/OSFCulturalConnections/videos/1306540336128654</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Performer and Organizer Lakia Soloman:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/OSFCulturalConnections/videos/1324845274298160">https://www.facebook.com/OSFCulturalConnections/videos/1324845274298160</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Performer and Choreographer Christopher Young: </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/OSFCulturalConnections/videos/1322653644517323">https://www.facebook.com/OSFCulturalConnections/videos/1322653644517323</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Producer and Performer Claudia Alick:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/OSFCulturalConnections/videos/1327815117334509">https://www.facebook.com/OSFCulturalConnections/videos/1327815117334509</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Performances were devised, choreographed, arranged, and performed by many Company members all of whom we would love to thank: MC's The Marks: Nate Mark, Asia Mark; Christopher Henry Young, Briawna Jackson, Grace Pruitt, Lakia Solomon, Kimberly Scott, Garrett Allen, Tatiana Lofton, Stephen Michael Spencer, Christian Bufford, Christiana Clark, Britney Simpson, Daniela Cobb, Julian Remulla, Cedric Lamar, Kent Wilson, J. Oconer Navarro, Reed Bentley, Katherine Gosnell, Casandra Lopez, Eunice Hong, Jessica Ko, Maisey, VIVIS, Lauren Modica, and UNIVERSES. Also thanks to Big thanks to Julie Simon and Edwin Cancel our ASL interpreters for the event. An extra special thank you goes out to DJ ECAST (aka Estefani Castro), who provided all the musical underscoring and pre- and post-show music when DJ Gemineye had a family emergency. A warm and heartfelt thank you is due to all of the innumerable, invaluable volunteers we setting up, hosting, providing sunscreen, handing out fans, and keeping the day full of joy. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Afterwards we gathered in Carpenter Hall for an abundant BBQ organized by Tyrone Wilson and his team. Thanks for the set up, cooking, and cleaning Kyle Strait, Darcy Danielson, Amanda Sager, Brent Hinkley, Tamra Mathias, David Kelly, Andrew Beyer, Dick Sweet, Kimberly Barry, Maria DeWeerdt, Alejandra Escalante, Maria DeWeerdt, Laura Coe, Karen Standefer, Amy MacLennan, Lakia Solomon, Rodney Gardiner, Christian Bufford ,Marissa Stewart ,Elisa Spahn, Kate Vogt, Laurena Mullins, Claudia Alick, Shaun Taylor-Corbett, Ana Marie Robinson, Julie Simon, Maria DeWeerdt, Jim Wolf-Pitzer, Emily Inget, Adam and Cheri Sperber, Michelle Cruz, Nancy Crist-Dwyer, Deb Dryden, Katherine Gosnell, Tamra Mathias, Vinecia Coleman, Jim Wolf-Pizor, Kate Vogt, Jenna Bruce, Joanna Wheeler-Niemann, Shaun Taylor-Corbett, Morgan Lindsay, and Emily Ota!
As always the work would be impossible without the Community Productions staff. Thanks to Ben Cobb, Jess Carr, Cassie Fetty, Noah Strong, Paul, Nick, Alex, and Spencer.
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">PRESS RELEASE: </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.osfashland.org/en/press-room/press-releases/juneteenth-2017.aspx">https://www.osfashland.org/en/press-room/press-releases/juneteenth-2017.aspx</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">PRESS: <a href="http://ktvl.com/news/local/osf-celebrates-juneteenth-holiday-with-special-performance" target="_blank">http://ktvl.com/news/local/osf-celebrates-juneteenth-holiday-with-special-performance </a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">PHOTO ALBUM: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pg/OSFJuneteenth/photos/?tab=album&album_id=778413078986274" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/pg/OSFJuneteenth/photos/?tab=album&album_id=778413078986274</a></span><br />
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Claudia Alickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09186610180932113269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13674690.post-7776460271381141532017-06-12T16:19:00.000-04:002017-06-12T16:19:13.922-04:00From a Shakespeare Lover<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">We work with Shakespeare because his words and scenarios
allow us reflect upon humanity.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">They allow
us to better understand ourselves and the world we are in together.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I
write this not as part of my official position of community producer at the Oregon
Shakespeare Festival.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I write this as a
Shakespeare Lover who was discovering the meaning behind the metaphor in a Montanan
high-school.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">A #ShakespeareLover peaking
behind the curtain at The Folger Shakespeare library, my arms full of the lover’s
laundry, working wardrobe.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">A #ShakespeareLover
embodying priests, nurses, maids and royalty at the Washington Shakespeare
Company and The Shakespeare Theater in our nation’s capital. A Shakespeare Lover
geeking out on Dr. Who, Star Trek, and so many songs all referencing and
remixing Shakespeare.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I write this as a
lover of Shakespeare, one of many in our country.</span></div>
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theater group on Sunday in response to mounting criticism. Soon after, Bank of
America pulled its sponsorship of the play but will retain its funding of the
theater. </a></span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/06/12/trump-like-julius-caesar-assassinated-in-new-york-play-delta-bank-of-america-pull-funding/?utm_term=.36d2e33686d6" target="_blank">“No matter what your political stance may be,the graphic staging of ‘Julius Caesar’ at this summer’s Free Shakespeare in thePark does not reflect Delta Air Lines’ values,” Delta said in a statementSunday night. “Their artistic and creative direction crossed the line on thestandards of good taste. We have notified them of our decision to end oursponsorship as the official airline of the Public Theater effective immediately.” </a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">After reading about this incident I did 15
minutes of Googling and discovered many examples of Shakespeare productions
with characters that resembled contemporary politicians and essays from all
sides using Shakespeare to interpret politicians through the lens of Shakespeare’s
characters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I also discovered that in
<a href="http://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Delta-Sponsored-2012-Guthrie-Theater-Season-Which-Featured-Obama-Inspired-Julius-Caesar-20170612" target="_blank">2012 there was a production of Julius Caesar with clear Obama references thatwas sponsored by Delta.</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt;">The original complaint is<a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/2017/6/12/15780692/julius-caesar-shakespeare-in-park-trump-public-theater-outrage" target="_blank"> full of hypocrisy andcomes from a polarized position defending Trump</a>. I am not critiquing being
pro-Trump here, simply highlighting that the complaint is hypocritical and
unfounded. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt;">There is no need to defend
our President being reflected upon through the lens of Shakespeare.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt;">Especially in this play, about the inefficacy
of violence as a solution.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt;">Julius Caesar
is a tragedy not an instruction manual. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt;">Delta and the Bank of America’s decision to defund is is a
dangerous one. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt;">It threatens our ability
to do what theater is supposed to do and what Shakespeare is so great at. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt;">This feels like a decision made too quickly
without all the information and from a place of fear from the corporations. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt;">I’d love to take this opportunity to dialog with all #ShakespeareLovers
and ask them to dialog with these corporations.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt;">
</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt;">I appreciate a strong stance on values and this production of Shakespeare
contains the values that Delta states as core values.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt;">The production has integrity, the act of
theater making requires perseverance, and I suspect the honesty in the production
is what is triggering some people into an extreme dishonest response. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt;">Let’s encourage Delta and Bank of America to
act with integrity, embrace diverse people, thinking and styles, be courageous
and optimistic, and listen to their customer base when we say We LOVE
Shakespeare, we respect this production, and they need to make a better decision.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt;">I am not suggesting a boycott, however we as consumers
make decisions about where we invest based <a href="https://www.delta.com/content/dam/delta-www/pdfs/policy/delta-rules-of-the-road.pdf" target="_blank">on shared values</a>.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt;">These corporations
are acting against the values of #ShakespeareLovers and we must address it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Hundreds of theater makers gathering at Portland Center Stage raising their hearts in solidarity of our Islamic community and standing up against injustice at the TCG Conference.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The heart action above was inspired by the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/AshlandMLKDay/" target="_blank">Martin Luther King Celebration</a> in Ashland, Oregon in January of 2017. Ashland High-school students led by junior Grace Pruitt created a list of steps to safely intervene when witnessing instances of public harassment. The were inspired by Maeril author of <a href="http://maeril.tumblr.com/post/149669302551/hi-everyone-this-is-an-illustrated-guide-i-made" target="_blank">What to do if you are witnessing Islamophobic harassment</a>. We put hearts on the back of them and distributed them widely to the audience. The big hearts were colored in by grade school students. After the variety show a number of us marched to the plaza, listened to a broadcast of the "I Have a Dream Speech", and had this picture taken.</span><br />
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The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Portland_train_attack" target="_blank">2017 Portland train attack</a> occurred on May 26, 2017, when a man attacked </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">two teenage girls </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">shouting anti-Muslim and racial epithets </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">fatally stabbing Ricky John Best, Taliesin Myrddin Namkai-Meche Fletcher and injuring Micah David-Cole on a MAX Light Rail train in Portland, Oregon when they stepped in to intervene. </span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Taliesin Myrddin Namkai-Meche Fletcher was from Ashland. Our community as deeply affected. I asked the <a href="http://www.tcg.org/Default.aspx?TabID=1614" target="_blank">TCG Conference </a>organizers, the Portland host committee, <a href="https://theghostlightproject.com/" target="_blank">The Ghostlight Project</a>, and Artists against Islamophobia and anti-immigrant bias what we might do as a national theater community and the following heart action was devised. We raised our hearts in solidarity.</span><br />
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Claudia Alickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09186610180932113269noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13674690.post-86171978587463980852017-05-08T02:16:00.000-04:002017-06-13T02:16:55.559-04:00Hip Hop Poetry Open Mic with Bryce Monroe<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">OSF's third Hip Hop Poetry Open Mic of the year </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">featured Bryce Monroe and his one man show <a href="http://www.brycemonroe.com/media/" target="_blank">The Lower Frequencies</a> with poetry and monologues inspired by contemporary events and Ralph Ellison's The Invisible Man. Members of the community performed songs, poems and stories. Enjoy highlights below.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bryce Monroe is the Edward Poole Lay Fellow and alum of Amherst College where he first developed his transformative one-man-show, The Lower Frequencies, as a part of his Senior-Honors Thesis. Since graduating Cum Laude, Bryce has had the privilege of sharing this work on a number of stages including a series at the North Carolina Stage Company in partnership with the Immediate Theatre Project to benefit the Equal Justice Initiative. Bryce is a student of his craft, an activist in the community, and aspires to create work that transcends culture and engages audiences across the globe.</span></div>
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