Jive Culture
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Melodic Expansions: David Boykin Expanse with DJ Ayana… pass it on.
Psssst… David Boykin Expanse with DJ Ayana. It’s a righteous situation at a secret location. RSVP info@perpetualrebel.com for more info.
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Louder Than a Bomb in Concert: english class heretics.
Featuring work by LTAB all-stars, alumni, and co-creator Kevin Coval Friday, August 5 & 6, 2011 7:30pm Zacek McVay Theater TWO NIGHTS ONLY! This will be one of the most exciting nights at the Victory Gardens this summer! Don’t miss out on ENGLISH CLASS HERETICS: LOUDER THAN A BOMB IN CONCERT! The stage artists…
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Ladies Ring Shout: performance as a way to community
The Ladies Ring Shout as a Performance was born of a weekly workshop, dialoguing space, and “jam session” for women. Participants talked, wrote and moved in the spirit of collaborative experimentation and explored what an urban feminine discourse looks and feels like. What are our notions of an Urban Feminine? What is her legacy to/for…
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Dorchester Projects June 2011
Visit us at Theaster Gates’ Dorchester Projects (recently featured in the Chicago Reader) this Friday Night (June 3rd from 7p-9p), as well as on Sunday, June 12th, from 3p-5p. Come with a story about how music has impacted your life…. About the Dorchester Projects: Dorchester Projects seeks to explore the ways in which thoughtful spaces…
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avery r. young: local wordsmith publishes opus on facebook
Avery R. Young, local Chicago wordsmith, educator, personality, and friend of darkjive, is in the midst of publishing a series of thirty works (some poetry, some script treatments, and some more visual pieces) in the form of facebook notes. The work plays with notions of language, blackness, and the canon of African-American pop culture as…
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Theaster Gates’ Dorchester Projects
What do you get when you mix a maverick artist with strong community ties and an Urban Planner? For one thing, Theaster Gates. For another, the Dorchester Projects, pictured above. Theaster has been purchasing properties in the Woodlawn/Grand Crossing neighborhood for a few years now, and has quietly acquired the stock of the former Dr. Wax record…
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Tonite! New School Poetics Presents: These Are The Breaks – Chicago Book Launch
Idris Goodwin is back home to Chicago tonight to celebrate the recent publication of his first book. It’s a collection of prose, poetry, and essays titled THESE ARE THE BREAKS. These Are The Breaks is the debut collection by NEA award-winning playwright, HBO Def Poet, and critically acclaimed “indie” rapper, Idris Goodwin. Diverse in scope and wickedly…
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A Conspiracy is Born.
Ayana Contreras (me) and Simeon Viltz (of The Primeridian) are the “Groove Conspiracy…” In the land of 10 million grooves only a few can grab a hold of the people’s aural senses and captivate their shokras. Spinning cutting edge beats juxtaposed with gritty, get down gems from the cradle of soul. Their weapon of choice: vinyl.…
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ReMake Estate: Brand New Day.
ReMake Estate is a really cool project going on in Gary (Indiana) in which an abandoned house on 24th and Massachutsetts will be reborn as a meeting space and a community garden. The project is being organized in conjunction with interested local community groups and Australian-based artists Keg de Souza and Zanny Begg. The artists (from…
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Lyricist Loft: Kids Today Can Read… and Write.
Wednesday nights this Summer, an Open mic for Open minds: hosted by dimi d. & Fatimah DJ talent & DJ Such N Such Bring your poems, songs, videos, chants, interpretive dancing…etc. JUST COME and bring your Positive Energy FEATURED POETS= Kuumba Lynx Date: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 Time: 6:00pm – 8:00pm Location: 400 South State
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