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GROUND SERIES : JULY
Hello from past CounterPULSE interns, Sarah Ashkin and Brittany Delany! We are the curators of GROUND SERIES - a meeting place for artists to share, research and connect. The events happen each 1st and 2nd Thursday night of the summer at the Temescal Arts Center. To learn more, check out our first blog post on the CounterPULSE website. We want to extend an invitation to the very special CounterPULSE community to join us for GROUND SERIES: JULY. --- July is
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Jul, 2012
The Gold Fish– follow it to the source
Spit on your fingers. Feel it... Taste it... This water sucked from your soft palate has a history. Follow it to the tap, up the pipes, circumvent the morning fog and late spring showers, and find the melting snow pack in the Sierras. Voice 2 Rain Follows the Plow Can you taste the tang of Manifest Destiny? Voice 2 The savage must ever recede before the man of civilization. The square mile which furnishes game to the single family of
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Jun, 2012
GROUND SERIES
The week before I finished my internship with CounterPULSE in May, my collaborator and partner in crime Brittany Delany (also a past intern at CounterPULSE obviously) told me that on a whim she had booked the Temescal Art Center in Oakland for the first and second Thursday nights for the rest of the summer. She looked at me a with bright eyes, and a little embarrassment for her impulsiveness. Brittany and I had just been talking about how
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May, 2012
Sordid Meditations of a Cyborg/Rasquacha Muchacha Cucaracha
Exodus. Last chapter, last verse of Porn a la Mexicana In the end there was La Cucaracha and she was pronounced dead: dead and alive--alive and dead with a bud light. (response to Guillermo Nericcio Garcia's birth of a Latina Bombshell) Everyone has dealt with at least one in their space and some of us have had to deal with being called a roach, a cucaracha, vermin. Rumors of Mexicans and other unwanted pests, infesting and infecting, scurry across the
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May, 2012
News from Tales of Pangu!
Here are some thoughts about this Saturday's performance from Asian American Women Artists Association (AAWAA) about the performance this weekend: "Saturday 5/19 'Tales of Pangu' will sparkle!! If you are at all interested in interdisciplinary performance, multi-media, collaboration and dramatized Asian American history dating back to the early days of 1850, this is the performance for you!!! And a great retrospect of the beginning of hapa marriages and their offspring 'dealing with ... ' America!! Really, exciting adventures played out on
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May, 2012
Samuel Steward links and connections
Phils Tattoo Joynt Okay. Since my first post it has become obvious that I need to make a list of all of the links and connections with Sam Steward that are on the web. The first is this amazing blog that was created by a writer who blogs about Steward's life and his own interests and connections to Steward's life. It is a really interesting project. He says about it... TRIBUTE TO SAM BLOG Tributetosam.com is a beyond-the-grave
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May, 2012
Homo File Begins
Over the past year I’ve been in the research phase for my next Queer history performance project titled Homo File, chronicling the life of Sam Steward, (1907-1994). I will write, create and direct an ensemble of multidisciplinary performers/artists/collaborators in my new Queer history performance project titled Homo File, chronicling the life of Sam Steward, (1907-1994). Steward was a college professor, a
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May, 2012
May Day 2012 on Twitter
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May, 2012
CounterPULSE love at May Day
One of our current artists in residence, Seth Eisen (Eye Zen Art), uncovered a lot of love for CounterPULSE at May Day last night.
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May, 2012
Join us for Our Daily Bread’s “Seeds to Sprouts” youth showcase
http://youtu.be/J1IiEtVIXQQ