(quote of the month at the bottom of the email speaks to this very well)
Kind morning /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 morning” (բարի լույս [baree looys])
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DOODLES TABLE IS BACK: Our weekly Doodles table will return to General Jeff (Gladys) Park on Thursday, November 2, 3-4:30pm!
HIGHLIGHTS in and near SKID ROW, November 2023
Some neighborhood events, celebrations, and parties to join
1) Sat/Sun, Oct 28-29, 12-4pm: 14th Annual Festival for All Skid Row Artists @ General Jeff Park (808 E 6th St, 90013). Come one, come all! Doodles without Borders will be there with a table both days!
2) Thur, Nov 2, 1-3pm: Walk with Amal (from ICA LA to General Jeff / Gladys Park
3) Thu, Nov 2, 3:30-5pm: Doodles without Borders Arts Table IS BACK@ General Jeff / Gladys Prk
4) Fri, Nov 3, 6-9pm: Share and Show Open Mic @ Painted Brain (5980 W Pico Blvd)
5) Fri, Nov 3, 7pm: “White Hoax” MOVIE NIGHT at Skid Row Museum
6) Sat, Nov 4, 1pm: Skid Row 3on3 Celebration at Terasaki Budokan
7) Wed, Nov 8, 6pm (movie starts at dusk) – MOVIE IN THE PARK @ General Jeff Park – LACAN’s documentary “The Dirty Divide”
8) Thur, Nov 9, 7pm: “The Big Picture” with Andreea and Hayk @ Skid Row Museum (250 S Broadway) – https://www.lapovertydept.org/the-big-picture-11-3/
9) Sat, Nov 11, 3pm: Multimedia presentations on investigative reports @ Skid Row History Museum and Archive (250 S Broadway), part of Enough is (Never) Enough Exhibit
10) Nov 17, 7pm: MOVIE NIGHT “Enough is (Never) Enough“ at Skid Row Museum
11) Tues, Nov 22, 10:30am-12pm, Creative Writing @ Skid Row Museum
12) Fri, Nov 24, 5-7:30: OPEN MIC with Lorinda @ Skid Row Museum
13) Thursday, Nov 30, 10a-2p: National METH AWARENESS DAY @ San Julian Park, led by UCEPP
Here you can find a Printable/Online Monthly Skid Row Calendar of some arts and community activities in and around Skid Row neighborhood.
ONGOING
Thur-Sat, 2-5pm from Sept 16th to Nov 18th: Enough is (never) Enough: Hard Truths and the People Who Live Them. On exhibit at Skid Row Museum (250 S. Broadway).
MARK YOUR CALENDAR
Sunday, Dec 10, 11am-4pm: 2023 Re/Sound Festival by Street Symphony. A Free Community-Wide Celebration & Resource Fair, at Void Studios, Void Studios, 677 Imperial St. Los Angeles 90021
THOUGHTS ALOUD
I am very tired. But I find strength in supportive and kind people around me. Practicing and modeling kindness, love and support IS the route to liberation. But not in a vacuum; understanding that the context is the struggle to collectively disassemble settler colonialism, imperialism, capitalism and their violences. Caring and accountable collective struggle.
Free Skid Row = Free Palestine = Free Hawaii = Free Turtle Island = Free Artsakh =
“Interconnected struggles. Interconnected stories. Interconnected freedoms. 🍉 ” – Saul Williams
dwb ONLINE:
1) Doodles without Borders (dwb) is now on Instagram / Facebook.
2) There is 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.
Artwork Storage as a Human Right – a glimpse from the Community Arts Depot story.
UPDATE: We received a mini-grant from Skid Row Arts Alliance as well as a grant from CCI which will help to cover rent, insurance, and other expenses, many thanks to both groups!! And to all the individuals who have supported and continue to support us; we could not have gotten here without you!!! More details to come in the coming months, including possible additional resources we may be able to expand! We still continue to need support as this project’s sustainability is wholly dependent on grassroots support. To donate to the campaign click HERE!
Quote of the month:
“…The second mistake is what I will call ‘humanization’: I portrayed my people only in the ways that adhere to ethnocentric civility, robbing them of their agency. It is to ‘women and children’ Palestinians to death—to infantilize Palestinians in hopes of determining that, indeed, they deserve liberation… we must qualify our dead with reminders of their nonviolence, humane professions, and disabilities. A Palestinian man cannot just die. For him to be mourned, he must be in a wheelchair or developmentally delayed, a medical professional, or noticeably elderly at the very least. Even then, there are questions about the validity of his victimhood… Humanization, more often than not, does the exact opposite of what it alleges. I no longer feel the responsibility to give humans eyes for humanity.”
-Mohammed El-Kurd, from an interview, from “RIFQA” (2021)
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You can see the full dwb newsletter #23 here.
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