Kind light /Բարի լույս*to you, dear neighbors, artists, collaborators, community partners, co-conspirators, supporters of arts in Skid Row and of doodles without borders,
*the morning greeting in Armenian translates as “kind light” (բարի լույս [baree looys])
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UPCOMING in and near SKID ROW, June 2023
Some neighborhood events, celebrations, and parties to join
TODAY, Sat, June 10, 10am-4pm: June Jubilee: A Celebration of Black Excellence @ LA Central Library (630 W 5th St)
This Sunday, June 11th, 11am and on: LA Pride Parade at and near Hollywood/ Highland
Fri, June 16, 11am-2pm: C’mon Sing by Urban Voices @ 5th/San Pedro!
Fri, June 16, 7pm: MOVIE NIGHT at Skid Tow Museum (250 S Broadway)
Mon, Jun 19, 1-5pm: JUNETEENTH CELEBRATION @ Skid Row Museum (250 S Broadway) by Sir Oliver Productions
Thur, June 22, 10:30am-12noon: Creative Writing monthly workshop at Skid Row Museum, with Ivy @ Skid Row History Museum and Archive (250 S. Broadway). If you are interested, please reply to let us know.
Sun, June 25, 7pm: “We Shall be Known” by Street Symphony @ Inner City Arts (720 Kohler St)
Fri, June 30, 5-7:30: OPEN MIC w Silkiie & Hayk @ Skid Row Museum
Printable/Online Monthly Skid Row Calendar of some arts and community activities here.
ONGOING
Thur-Sat, 2-5pm: Cosmology and Community: Networks of Liberation – exhibit by community curator Charles Porter, who makes connections between Africa, Black diasporan heritage, his own family history in New Jersey’s Porterville, and Skid Row neighborhood. On exhibit at Skid Row Museum (250 S. Broadway) through July 2023.
MARK YOUR CALENDAR
1) Friday July 7, 7pm: Screening of UCEPP’s Oral History Project.
Screening/discussion with the youth who were involved with UCEPP’s Youth Program in 2010.
2) Thur, July 13, 2pm: Ray Lewis is back with Ase Ase Drummers @ San Julian Park!
THOUGHTS ALOUD
Pro-Community work is always inherently anti-capitalist
What do Pride Month, Juneteenth, and Father’s Day have in common for Doodles without Borders?
They are all reasons to celebrate and center community, liberation, and ancestry, to support each other, and to connect to one another.
Which to us are an inseparable part of the road of disassembling capitalism, white supremacy, heteropatriarchy, imperialism, and colonialism. It is important to articulate these systems, because they will do everything to use their silent hegemony to co-opt and swallow the most sincere celebration or community strengthening work. But even for the work that is co-opted and swallowed, any community-centering action can and must be described for what it is: community labor that is inherently and always anti-capitalist, being stolen and violated by capitalist institutions (because capitalist institutions only function by means of stealing and violence, whether overt and well masked).
doodles without borders (dwb)
NEW DAY AND TIME: Weekly doodles without borders “How dare you!” community arts table at General Jeff ( formerly Gladys) Park has switched to Wednesdays, 5:30-7pm. At dwb art is the glue to collectively strengthen community, make local, diasporan, and global connections, and disassemble white supremacy, capitalism, imperialism and patriarchy.
dwb ONLINE UPDATES
1) Doodles without Borders (dwb) is now on Instagram / Facebook. Social media is still not dwb’s strong suit 🙂
2) There is also now a monthly dwb Skid Row Community & Arts Calendar. If you do community strengthening work in Skid Row and know of an event/meeting that should be on there, please share.
3) Latest addition – dwb wishlist! You can find it here: bit.ly/dwbwishlist
Why support storage of Skid Row artist work?
Support Artwork Storage as a Human Right (and Collective Responsibility)
A shameless plug asking for your support of Community Arts Depot, a sister project addressing the vital need for artwork storage and access focused on Skid Row neighborhood members and residents.
To donate to the campaign click HERE!
A twist on our Quote of the Month rubric, this time a quote mash-up 🙂
Quote-MASH UP of the month:
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You can see the full dwb newsletter #18 here.
Community Artivism 