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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HIGHLIGHTS in and near SKID ROW, March 2024
Some neighborhood events, celebrations, and parties to join
1) Friday, March 1, 7pm, MOVIE NIGHT “Festival for All Skid Row Artsits 2023” documentary at Skid Row Museum (250 S Broadway)
2) Saturday, March 2, 1pm: March for Pales//ne at Los Angeles City Hall
3) Fri, Mar 8, 5-7pm: Arts Jam Open Mic @ Studio 526 (526 San Pedro St)
4) Sat, Mar 9, 4-7pm, Opening Reception of “Welcome to Covid Hotel” at Skid Row Museum (250 S Broadway)
5) Friday, March 15, 7pm: MOVIE NIGHT at LA poverty department‘s Skid Row Museum
6) Tues, March 19, 10:30-12 Creative Writing @ Skid Row Museum
7) Thursday, March 21, 12-3pm – Marketplace at LACAN (838 E 6th St)
8) Wed, Mar 27, 6:30pm – Adversity Generates Innovation, panel discussion, part of Welcome to Covid Hotel exhibit at Skid Row Museum (250 S Broadway)
9) Friday, March 29, 5-7:30pm, Open Mic with Lorinda @ Skid Row Museum
To view or print the full monthly calendar, go to doodleswithoutborders.com/calendar
ONGOING
“Visions of Transcendence: Creating Space in East and West” at Wende Museum in Culver City, including a number of Skid Row neighborhood artists is up until April 7, 2024. Entrance is Free. Fri-Sun 10a-5p (10808 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA 90230)
OPEN MICS as places to come together, and plant seeds of collective struggle.
There are at least FOUR open mics currently in Skid Row neighborhood:
Weekly – (1) every Thurs, 6:30-9pm at Peace and Healing Center (116 E 5th)
Monthly –
2) every second Friday of the month, 5-7pm, at Studio526 (526 San Pedro St)
3) every third Thursday, 12-3pm as part of LACAN‘s Marketplace (838 E 6th St)
4) every last Friday of the month, 5-7:30pm with Lorinda at LA Poverty Dept‘s Skid Row Museum (250 S. Broadway)
MARK YOUR CALENDAR
End of May, 2024: Walk the Talk Parade honoring Skid Row neighborhood leaders and visionaries, organized by Los Angeles Poverty Department!
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THOUGHTS ALOUD
A collective, creative struggle that resists, protects and heals is beyond borders. As a migrant from the Global South, from South West Asia (aka Middle East), from Armenia, from what I call the borderlands (between Global North and South), how I fit in this country did not make sense to me until I started looking at the Black and Indigenous perspective.
And then it clicks. Because as the various voices from the Black radical tradition together Brown and Indigenous comrades–Black Panthers, Combahee River Collective, Red Nation, and beyond–have said in many different ways: what this country does to the oppressed people all over the world, it does first and foremost to the Black and Indigenous and other oppressed groups inside this country.
It becomes clear that u.s. imperial funding of geno//dal mu//er and displacement of people in Armenian Artsakh, in Palestine, in Congo, and all over the Global South from Asia and Africa to South and Central America, is the exact same funding that goes to target Indigenous, Black and Brown people and communities in this country, and do NOT go to housing for everyone, healthcare for everyone, food for everyone.
Global Capitalism and Imperialism mean that our struggle is collective, borders only benefit the rich, and being a resident of u.s. empire just means that in our struggle we must always remember that any semblance of stability for those of you that have it is always at the cost of exploitation elsewhere, both “domestically” and across the planet.
A collective, creative struggle that resists, protects and heals is beyond borders.
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
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Artwork Storage as a Human Right – a glimpse from the Community Arts Depot story.
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Quote of the month
“Healing the planet is ultimately about creating infrastructures of caretaking that will replace infrastructures of capitalism. Capitalism is contrary to life. Caretaking promotes life.”
― The Red Nation, “The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth”
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