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FOOD! FRIENDS! READERS! VISUAL ART!
Bundle up your winter britches and come out to South Philly for food, readers, visual art and music!
This event will be an occasion for people to fill their bellies, meet or re-connect with each other, check out some visual art pieces, and listen to some next level readers who will open up perspectives and spark discussions about what’s to be done in the present moment as well as the immediate and long-term future. There will be an open mic at the end of the readings for people to present their writings or thoughts, either prepared beforehand, in response to the readers, or thought up on the spot.
There will be food with vegan and gluten-free options. Just bring some money$ – no one will be turned away for lack of funds but there is a suggested donation of $5+ which will go toward legal fees for anti-inauguration protesters on January 20.
This is the first of what we hope will be more events which will take place both here and in other places across the city.
Food and art reception begins at 11am, readings start at 1pm sharp.
We unfortunately live in a world where this does not go without saying: This event will be held in a safer space – ableism, homophobia, misogyny, racism, transphobia, and other oppressive language or behavior will be confronted and their vessels booted.
Accessibility: Everything will take place on the first floor, which has a bathroom. There are two steps into the front door and people available to assist folks who need help getting in. If you have a question or feel that something more should be mentioned here, feel free to message a host! ♥
[January 14 11am to 4pm, readings at 1pm South Philly contact january14benefit@gmail for address]
List of authors + presenters:
d.e. // afro tejana ontological negation
Joohyun Kim // Joohyun Kim is a feminist poet, visual artist, and electronic musician living in Philadelphia. Her first chapbook of poems “As Rhizomes We Will Live One Million Years or More” is from Birds of Lace Press. She is working on a forthcoming book on cancer and capitalism.
Sharon Kelly // Sharon Kelly is an investigative reporter focused on energy, climate change, and the chemical, oil, and gas industries. She will talk about projects she worked on in 2016 including interviews with anti-fracking activists in the heart of the oil industry: West Texas.
Suzy Subways // Suzy Subways is a writer/activist who loves Philly the way a three-eyed fish loves its lake. She edits for Prison Health News, coordinates an oral history project about the Student Liberation Action Movement (SLAM!) and freelances as a copy editor. Her fiction has been published in Metropolarity and Apiary.
+ open mic
+ Visual Art:
Alie Huxta // “Hover Craft” comic in pen
Briana Clark // Acrylic paintings
Emma Callahan // Ink drawings
Laura Evangelisto // “World Under Siege” photographs
Li Xu // “Dim Sun” comic
Sam Spetner // Prints + Patches
