Kind day /Բարի oր* to you, dear neighbors, artists, collaborators, community partners, co-conspirators, supporters of arts in Skid Row and of doodles without borders,
*the afternoon greeting in Armenian translates as “kind day” (բարի օր [baree or])
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EVENT HIGHLIGHTS
1) !!! >>> TOMORROW, Wed, Jun 28, 12-3pm: Story Gathering party for GENERAL JEFF Mural @ General Jeff/ Gladys Park (808 E 6th St). Please join, and please invite folks who have a connection to Skid Row neighborhood, to the park, and/or to General Jeff! <<< !!!
2) Tuesday, July 4th, 12-3pm: 4th of July BBQ, hosted be the Skid Row Community Improvement Coalition @ the corner of 5th and San Pedro!
SPACE HIGHLIGHTS
1) Check out the NEW Creating Justice LA Peace and Healing Center @ 116 5th St, bringing together The ROW Church, hip Hop Smoothie Shop, Skid Row Coffee, and many more!
2) Keep an eye out for all the amazing in person programming and organizing meetings that LA CAN is bringing back!
UPCOMING in and near SKID ROW, (tail of June and) July 2023
Some neighborhood events, celebrations, and parties to join
1) !!! >>> TOMORROW, Wed, Jun 28, 12-3pm: Story Gathering party for GENERAL JEFF Mural @ General Jeff/ Gladys Park (808 E 6th St). Please join, and please invite folks who have a connection to Skid Row neighborhood, to the park, and/or to General Jeff! <<< !!!
2) Friday, July 30th, 5-703pm: OPEN MIC @ Skid Row Museum
3) Tuesday, July 4, 12-3pm – July 4th BBQ by Skid Row Community Improvement Coalition @ corner of San Pedro and 5th (Stephanie’s Corner!)
4) Friday July 7, 7pm: Screening of UCEPP’s Documentary about UCEPP Youth
at Skid Row History Museum
5) Thur, July 13, 2pm: Ray Lewis is back with Ase Ase Drummers @ San Julian Park!
6) Sun, July 16, 11am-2pm: C’mon Sing by Urban Voices @ 5th/San Pedro!
7) Fri, July 21, 7pm: MOVIE NIGHT at Skid Tow Museum (250 S Broadway)
8) Thur, July 27, 10:30am-12noon: Creative Writing monthly workshop at Skid Row Museum @ Skid Row History Museum and Archive (250 S. Broadway). If you are interested, please reply to let us know.
9) Fri, July 28, 5-7:30: OPEN MIC @ 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
August 6: Jamaican Independence Day @ Skid Row Museum!
THOUGHTS ALOUD
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!
Quote of the month:
“For we the people will always be arriving
a ceremony of thunder
waking up the earth
opening our eyes to human
monuments.
And it’ll get better
it’ll get better
if we the people work, organize, resist,
come together for peace, racial, social
and sexual justice
it’ll get better
it’ll get better.”
― Sonia Sanchez, Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems
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You can see the full dwb newsletter #19 here.
Community Artivism 