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C4G - ONE OF MY OLDEST AGENCY IDEAS - AFFIRMED!

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C4G - ONE OF MY OLDEST AGENCY IDEAS - AFFIRMED!

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After working with many large media co's / ad agencies / ppl with hiring 'power' + access to monetary capital (via my Insights + co-facilitation role @ Project Inkblot), clients UNANIMOUSLY AGREE that if there were (*hint*) a vetted, "diverse" (ugh) database of Creatives avail for hire, THEY WOULD ALL USE THAT RESOURCE!

THIS IS SOMETHING I HAVE ENVISIONED FOR ALMOST A DECADE.

I want to BUILD OUT, WEAVE TOGETHER, FORTIFY, INVITE, + LAUNCH this super-database! As I've envisioned it for years-- a protected quilt (+ searchable database) of our Selves, our Offerings, on our terms.

Then I will MONETIZE this resource so we can pay ourselves for the labor of collecting + [amplifying] + organizing, while CHARGING CORP CLIENTS to get our communities PAID,

while C4G mitigates exploitation of misrepresented storytellers by
serving as a protective council to ensure our folks are TAKEN CARE OF throughout each step of the hiring, prep, production, post-, + payment / aftercare processes.

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CLASS: Arthouse Astrology x The Home School

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CLASS: Arthouse Astrology x The Home School

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so good as always w/ Em! Helped me re-energize my jupiter mercury shit, feel comfy with my expansive collection / poetry practices, and pilot a multisensory, virtual diary layout (photo, sound, video, observations, texts, books, films, art refs, quotes + notes from class, poetry riffs, sensemaking map)

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"Traditional art invites a look. Art that is silent engenders a stare. Silent art allows-at least in principle-no release from attention, because there has never, in principle, been any soliciting of it. A stare is perhaps as far from history, as close to eternity, as contemporary art can get." -- Susan Sontag
What is attention? How do we cultivate a sustained and careful attentiveness in increasingly frenetic times? What does silence have to do with it? In this playful and generative workshop, we'll think about the role of silence, distraction, and attention in these (social) media-heavy times while engaging with thinkers and artists who deal with these themes in intriguing ways. We'll look to our environments, senses, writing practices, and how we read. Throughout the week, we'll consider the work of Susan Sontag, Zadie Smith, Lorna Simpson, Simone Weil, Amiri Baraka, and others. I'll offer several writing exercises for experimentation and play. We'll support one another along the way.

We'll meet via live zoom call (recording available if you can't attend in real-time) on the first Saturday and again after a week of writing, figuring, and engaging with silence(s). You'll receive an email from Emmalea every morning for one week, with PDF readings, viewings, and a writing exercise.
Course Schedule:
Saturday November 14th, 4:30-6:30 pm ET

Saturday November 21st, 4:30 -6:30 pm ET

Platform: Zoom
Tuition: $111 USD

BIO: Emmalea Russo is an artist, writer, and astrologer. Her interdisciplinary work focuses on the intersections of poetry, media, and cosmology. Her books are G(2018) and Wave Archive(2019). Her essays, reviews, and poetry have appeared in Artforum, American Chordata, BOMB, The Brooklyn Rail, Bust, Cosmopolitan, Granta, Gulf Coast, Hyperallergic, Los Angeles Review of Books, SF MOMA's Open Space, and elsewhere. She lives at the Jersey shore. A new chapbook, Great Mineral Silence, is out now. More here.

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PRAYERS AND STARES: SILENCE AND ATTENTION IN ART w/ Emmalea Russo - THE HOME SCHOOL

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"Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer." -- Simone Weil "Traditional art invites a look. Art that is silent engenders a stare. Silent art allows-at least in principle-no release from attention, because there has never, in principle, been any soliciting of it. A stare is

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Make a roux! Make a pho broth! Make buburayam! Make sinigang! Make all the soups and stews and complex simmers desired!

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week 2 attempt

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Reading list, still organizing / adding / growing / cultivating! 

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Reading list, still organizing / adding / growing / cultivating! 

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COMMUNITY BASED RESEARCH

Equality Labs's Community Based Research team produces produce rigorous and relevant evidence to ground and inform public debates around caste, gender, and religious minorities throughtout South Asian and the diaspora. Our team of scholars consist of caste and religious minority researchers have created an emerging community participatory research ecosystem that centers community collaboration by departing from colonizing research methodologies, and adopting indigenous research frames. We are committed to working with multiple stakeholders in our community including community institutions, academia, and individual members to create vital research to create the pathways for caste and gender equity for all.

You can read more about the coverage of our research below.

Caste Abolition and Hindutva

Caste 101: Primer for the Privileged - The Aerogram

What is Hindutva? - The Alliance for Justice and Accountability

The Network of Hindu Nationalist Groups Behind Modi's "Diaspora Diplomacy" - The Intercept

Twitter India: Casteist Trolls - The New York Times

A Dalit Bahujan Guide to Caste in Hindu Scripture - Medium

India's Casteist Rape Culture - Kracktivist

Caste Abolitionist Reading List - Equality Labs

Hindu Fascism: An All American Threat - Common Dreams

South Asian Activism

Islamic Liberation Reading List - Equality Labs

How Brown Girl Solidarity Harms Us - Wear Your Voice

Dalit History Month

Writing Our Own Histories - Why We Need Dalit History Month - Feminism in India

Dalit History Month Is A Love Letter To Our Ancestors - Huffington Post

The Dalit History Month Series - The News Minute

How to Fight a Deadly Caste System - Colorlines

New Series: Dalit History Month - We Are Because He Was - Crunk Feminist Collective

On Ambedkar Jayanti, Dalit History Month rewrites the history of the Marginalized community - Scroll.in

April is Dalit History Month - The Ladies Finger

Internet Freedom and Digital Security

What to Do if You're Being Doxed? - Wired Magazine

We're all connected now, so why is the internet so white and western? - The Guardian

White Nationalists are trying to 'dox' every antifa activist they can - Think Progress

In Trump's America, Black Lives Matter activists grow wary of their smartphones - The Washington Post

Creating Technology by the People, for the People - Interview with Thenmozhi Soundararajan - The Nation

Video: History of Surveillance - Thenmozhi Soundararajan - The Laura Flanders Show

Video: Standing up to Big Brother - Thenmozhi Soundararajan - The Laura Flanders Show

Transformative Justice
From our event: Learning Transformative Justice in South Asian Spaces on July 30, 2020.
Socially Engaged Art

Thenmozhi Soundararajan: Fighting Dalit women's Fight with Art and Activism - The Guardian

South Asian Histories for All

Erasing Caste: The Battle Over California Textbooks and Caste Apartheid - Huffington Post

Hindutva Efforts to Rewrite History in California Schools Failed - The Wire

Caste in India and the Diaspora

I'm A Proud Dalit-American And This Is Why I Marched - Huffington Post

The Black Indians - Outlook India

When Caste Discrimination Comes To The United States - NPR

Dalit Americans: Emerging Activists Emboldened - India Abroad

Where There are Indians, There is Caste: A Reading List on Denial in Diaspora - EPW Engage

When Caste Follows Overseas: Ostracism, Discrimination Among South Asians - The News Minute

Caste in the United States - Scroll.in

Spearheading a Survey of Caste in South Asian Diaspora - Medium

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screening + interview series. C4G virtual portal. filmmaking as divination. screen old works. what would you have done differently? what worked well? what may have seemed like a shit show but was actually a great lesson? what would you like to cultivate in your creation processes moving forward, how, why?

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Eliza Swann's The Alchemical Imagination (8-wk course)

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The Alchemical Imagination
SIGN UP HERE
8 Sessions
90 minutes every Sunday at 4pm PST from October 4th - November 22nd, 2020
$222 - $333 sliding scale
Playbacks of each session are available for later viewing.

Over the course of the "Alchemical Imagination" we will use metaphors derived from ancient alchemy to elucidate deep structures in the creative imagination, using alchemical symbolism as a springboard to expand our own creative capacities. Together, we will look at alchemical texts and images from the healing practices of ancient China and India, the early chemical technologies of ancient Egyptian alchemists, the philosophies of the Islamic alchemists, the astrological symbol system of the Greeks, the Medieval magicians of Europe, C.G. Jung's discovery of alchemy as a basis for transpersonal psychology, and modern alchemical art and literature.

During each session we will look at one alchemical text, one alchemical procedure, and one example of alchemical application in art practice.

Participants will be required to produce an art piece related to alchemical processes each week: this can be writing, drawing, performance or contemplative practice. At the end of seven weeks, we will show one another our work, and exhibit work online on the Golden Dome website.

In the end, we will have an understanding of how to apply methods of alchemical change-work to our creative processes so that we come into contact with our own "philosopher's stone."

We will not be learning the entire history and practice of alchemy, which would take many years, but rather looking at it from select angles to create openings and transformation in our creative lives.

Participants will have access to a shared folder that contains texts and images from each session.

This class is suitable for anyone with any type of creative practice who would like to learn to open it up both physically and metaphorically.

"The Alchemical Imagination" is facilitated by Eliza Swann, and is a condensed version of a class that she teaches at the Pratt Institute.

Eliza Swann is an interdisciplinary artist, intuitive, writer, educator, and community organizer based in Los Angeles and New York.

Eliza received a BA in Painting from the San Francisco Art Institute, and an MFA from Central St. Martins in London. She has trained in hypnotherapy at the Isis Centre in England. Additionally, she has trained with a number of teachers in energy healing, Western Mystery traditions, Vedic cosmology and ancestral healing.

Eliza has exhibited her artwork internationally, most recently at the University of California Santa Cruz (Santa Cruz, CA), and the Women's Center for Creative Work (Los Angeles, CA). She has received grants from The Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs and PEN America.

Eliza has guest lectured at UCLA, the Hammer Museum, the San Francisco Art Institute, Central St Martins, Cal Arts, the Dia Museum, the New School and many more venues and is currently a Visiting Professor at Pratt Institute.

Eliza has contributed critical writing to BOMB, Arthur, Contemporary Art Review LA, and Perfect Wave Magazines. Her book "The Anatomy of the Aura" was released by St. Martin's Press in April 2020.

Eliza is the founder of The Golden Dome School, a curatorial and educational platform that studies intersections of art, metaphysics and ecology.

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The Alchemical Imagination 8-Week Course with Eliza Swann

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The Alchemical Imagination SIGN UP HERE 8 Sessions90 minutes every Sunday at 4pm PST from October 4th - November 22nd, 2020$222 - $333 sliding scalePlaybacks of each session are available for later viewing.

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Veronica Gonzalez Peña's Whose Story Is It, Anyway? : POV, Voice and the question of form following content (or the other way around)

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In this seminar we will view, discuss, illustrate and then investigate questions around POV & Voice, in order to better navigate our position in relation to the chorus of possibilities in each story, and how deeply each of our authorial choices changes the form of that story. Through various concrete examples from film and prose, as well as a close look at our own work, we will discuss how inextricably formal questions are interrelated with content. The content of our work is given shape, is given life, by and through the formal decisions we make, beginning with POV. At the center of this workshop is the question: Who gets to tell the story, and why?

Additionally, we will explore strategies for creating the distance necessary to critically examine voice in our own work so as to be able to maintain an evaluative eye in relation to the POV, and thus the story as a whole.

We will also dip into mise en scène, the unreliable narrator, and the uncanny.

With readings by Juan Rulfo, Clarice Lispector, H.D., Amparo Davila, and more & classic POV films such as Rashomon, and The Seventh Seal.

5 sessions. There will be time at the end of each workshop to look at our own work either through group work, or peer review & the final session will be a very hands on examination of your work, with much thought given to the continued expansion of your writing practice using the tools we've developed together.

Work in Synch: 5 sessions, $222 USD.

You will experience:

Five Two-Hour Live Zoom Sessions (Oct 10, 17, 24 & 31, Nov 7 )

The Final session will be a time to closely examine your work

TIME: 1-3 pm EST

● Remote connectivity:

○ Google Group access for community and sharing support

○ Peer review at the end of each session

BIO: Veronica Gonzalez Peña is a writer and filmmaker. In 2006 she founded rockypoint Press ( http://rockypointpress.net), a series of artist/writer collaborative prints, books, and films. Her first novel, twin time: or how death befell me, was published by semiotext(e) and was awarded the 2008 Aztlán Literary Prize. Lynne Tillman calls her second novel, The Sad Passions(semiotext(e), 2013), "honest and riveting," and Francisco Goldman hailed it, "a beautiful and moving choral tale of isolation, love, damage, and intimate struggles." Veronica's book/pamphlet on the Mexican Drug War, So Far From God, was included as part of the semiotext(e) exhibition in the 2014 Whitney Biennial. Her film CORDELIA, a contemporary King Lear - told through the POV of the cast away daughter - stars Michel Auder and features Pat Steir, Douglas Gordon and Alice Weiner. Her latest film Pat Steir: Artist is an intimate film that functions like a first person novel, with a circular narrative and a slow reveal of self. She is currently working on a film about Lawrence Weiner

Pat Steir: Artist is available to stream on Apple TV, Google Play, Prime Video, and Vimeo On Demand.

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Whose Story Is It, Anyway? : POV, Voice and the question of form following content (or the other way around) - In Sync w/ Veronica Gonzalez Peña - THE HOME SCHOOL

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Personal Timeline -- Jezz Chung's Bio Writing Exercise

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Personal Timeline -- Jezz Chung's Bio Writing Exercise

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This is kinda where I left off before dropping out of NYU

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Themes / focuses from organizing the courses I took while in my grad program

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Transform Finance's institute app questions

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Transform Finance's institute app questions

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they/them/theirs (+ her/hers for now. don't really love she for me!)

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episodic script i'm writing. i want to integrate this work into my phd.