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SUMMARY:2014 Philly Literary Family Reunion & Potluck
DESCRIPTION:VIA OUR FRIENDS\, APIARY MAGAZINE\nUs Philly poets and writers are lucky to have a beautiful & eccentric extended literary family. Over the last 5 years\, APIARY’s met many newfound brothers and sisters\, weirdo cousins\, inspiring aunties and uncles\, adorable nieces and nephews\, and wise grands. After a busy spring\, it’s time to catch up with everyone!  \nSo on June 8\, we’re throwing the first annual Philly Literary Family Reunion in Clark Park. No planned readings\, no speeches\, no bios. Just a grill & music & any Philly poet\, writer\, and reader who considers themselves fam. \nBring food or drink (it’s a public park\, and there will be folks of all ages\, so booze just needs to be non-visible and lowkey … don’t want it to be THAT kind of family reunion…). If you like\, one of your chapbooks\, CDs\, etc to swap. And bring your family\, too!  \nSee you soon. Love\,  \nAPIARY
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LOCATION:Clark Park\, 4300 Baltimore Avenue\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Some Other Jawns
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SUMMARY:2014 Trans Literary Salon
DESCRIPTION:In conjunction with the 2014 Philadelphia Trans-Health Conference\, the Leeway Foundation presents their Second Trans Literary Salon highlighting the work of emerging literary artists from a diversity of genres including poetry\, fiction\, memoir\, and spoken word. The salon will feature readings from Annie Mok\, (ACG ’13)\, Darkmatter\, Imogen Binnie\, J Mase III (ACG ’07)\, and Kokumomedia Inc.. Audience members are invited to bring work to share. Hosted by J Mason III. Thursday\, June 12 from 7:30pm – 9:00pm at the Leeway Foundation (1315 Walnut Street\, Suite 832). Location is wheelchair accessible. \nCo-sponsors:The Apiary Corp.\, Thread Makes Blanket\, Trans Masculine Alliance Network\, Topside Press\, Sisterly Love\, and William Way LGBT Community Center \nRSVP HERE: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2014-trans-literary-salon-tickets-11372283807 \n=================== \nAnnie Mok\nAnnie Mok writes and draw comic books\, both solo\, and collaboratively with artists including Emily Carroll and Sophia Foster-Dimino. She recently illustrated and designed a zine edition of Casey Plett’s short story ‘Lizzy & Annie.’ Annie draws an ongoing diary comics strip for ‘Comics Workbook’ called ‘Bleed-Throughs.’ She sings in the pop band See-Through Girls. Find out more about Annie’s work here. \nDarkMatter\nDarkMatter is a trans/national queer South Asian activist creative hivemind that likes to think about alternative post/colonial cyborg digestive futures && spit expletives about prison abolition and heteropatriarchy. You can read more about their work @DarkMatterRage and/or darkmatterrage.com. \nImogen Binnie\nImogen Binnie writes the zines The Fact That It’s Funny Doesn’t Make It A Joke and Stereotype Threat. She also writes a monthly column for Maximum Rocknroll magazine\, and her work has been featured in The Collection: Short Fiction from the Transgender Vanguard\, as well as on prettyqueer.com\, lambdaliterary.org and elsewhere. She writes about books at KeepYourBridgesBurning.com and her first novel\, Nevada\, was published in 2013. It is the recipient of a MOTHA Award and a finalist in the 26th Annual Lambda Literary Awards. \nJ Mase III\nJ Mase III is a black/trans/queer poet currently based in Brooklyn. The creator of the traveling performance event Cupid Ain’t @#$%!: An Anti-Valentine’s Day Poetry Movement\, J Mase has shared his special brand of poetry on stages around the U.S. and UK. An organ donor\, he is the author of If I Should Die Under the Knife\, Tell My Kidney I Was the Fiercest Poet Around. In J Mase’s other life as an educator and activist\, he has worked with thousands of community members and service providers across the country on the needs of LGBTQ youth and adults in spaces such as faith communities\, elementary schools\, domestic violence shelters\, medical agencies\, juvenile justice organizations\, and foster care programs\, among others. An advocate of really fierce scars and queering scripture\, he currently spends his offstage time teaching poetry at various youth organizations. To find out more about J Mase III\, feel free to stalk (follow) him on Twitter @jmaseiii\, Facebook J Mase III\, or track him on his website at jmaseiii.com. \nKOKUMỌ\nKOKUMỌ is the CEO/Founder of KOKUMOMEDIA INC.\, a Black transwoman run and operated multimedia production company that uses music\, film\, theatre\, and literature to illuminate experiences of TGI people of color. For more information\, please visit kokumedia.com.
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LOCATION:Leeway Foundation\, 1315 Walnut Street\, Suite 832\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19107\, United States
CATEGORIES:Readings & Performances
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SUMMARY:2014 Allied Media Conference in Detroit
DESCRIPTION:Join Metropolarity & network at this year’s The Allied Media Conference\, a collaborative laboratory of media-based organizing strategies for transforming our world\, held every Summer in Detroit! \nDID U KNOW? METROPOLARITY PRESENTS A SCI-FI FOCUSED PROGRAMMING TRACK THIS YEAR! \nLiberation Technologies: Sci-Fi for World Building & Survival\nThe post-apocalypse is here and real\, where ancient and varied modes of survival and technology have been erased in the name of Empire and Progress. What do we do when access to memory/the past is standardized? This track explores how people at the margins can remix\, rewire\, and revive emancipatory technologies such as storytelling\, world-building\, magic\, sci-fi and speculation to envision and conjure narratives of power and joy. Through engagement with tools like portals and time-travel\, we will develop strategies to manifest new/ancient narratives into reality. We will envision a world that has happened\, is happening\, and will happen. We hope that travelers will walk away with the courage to embody the power of fiction and visioning in healing personal and historical trauma and disenfranchisement. We want to create and share multifaceted inclusive networks that emerge our bodies from isolation and oppressive paradigms to keep our souls alive. \n==================================== \nABOUT THE AMC\nCREATE\nAt the AMC\, we understand media as any way in which we communicate with the world\, from zines to breakdancing\, to designing neighborhood-based communications infrastructure. We share and create media that exposes\, investigates\, heals\, builds confidence and radical hope\, incites dialogue and debate. We demystify technology\, not only learning how to use it\, but how to design and build our own.  In doing so\, we redefine technology’s role and impact in our lives. The AMC creates learning environments for all ages and skill levels\, including hands-on workshops\, strategy sessions\, presentations and performances. \nCONNECT\n The AMC is a network of networks – social justice organizers\, community technologists\, transformative artists\, educators\, entrepreneurs\, and many others — all using media in innovative ways. Some of these networks sprout from the conference\, grow over the course of the year then reconvene in Detroit larger and healthier. Others use the AMC as an annual point of convergence and a space to forge new relationships. Through cycles of participatory investigation and experimentation\, our networks continue to grow\, generating new theories and practices of media-based organizing. \nTRANSFORM\nAs our networks grow\, so does our capacity to take collective actions to transform our world. At the AMC\, we develop new leaders and new forms of leadership\, design new methods of problem-solving\, cultivate the visions of our communities and build our power to make those visions real.  \n==================================== \nBrowse the 2014 Tracks\, Practice Spaces\, and Network Gatherings that make up the AMC here! \n==================================== \nREGISTER TO ATTEND!  ／／／　FIND HOUSING\, RIDESHARES\, CHILDCARE & ACCESSIBILITY HERE \n==================================== \nAllied Media Projects Network Principles\nWe are making an honest attempt to solve the most significant problems of our day. \nWe are building a network of people and organizations that are developing long-term solutions based on the immediate confrontation of our most pressing problems. \nWherever there is a problem\, there are already people acting on the problem in some fashion. Understanding those actions is the starting point for developing effective strategies to resolve the problem\, so we focus on the solutions\, not the problems. \nWe emphasize our own power and legitimacy. \nWe presume our power\, not our powerlessness. \nWe spend more time building than attacking. \nWe focus on strategies rather than issues. \nThe strongest solutions happen through the process\, not in a moment at the end of the process. \nThe most effective strategies for us are the ones that work in situations of scarce resources and intersecting systems of oppression because those solutions tend to be the most holistic and sustainable. \nPlace is important. For the AMC\, Detroit is important as a source of innovative\, collaborative\, low-resource solutions. Detroit gives the conference a sense of place\, just as each of the conference participants bring their own sense of place with them to the conference. \nWe encourage people to engage with their whole selves\, not just with one part of their identity. \nWe begin by listening.
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CATEGORIES:Afrofuturist Sciences,Conferences,Parties,Readings & Performances,Workshops,Youth Events
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SUMMARY:Philly Feminist Zine Fest 2014
DESCRIPTION:Join Metropolarity crew at the PFZF 2014 as we set up shop for all your sci-fi print/audio/atmospheric needs. \nMark your calendars! Philly Feminist Zine Fest will be held on June 28-29\, 2014. The fest is split up into two days this year for tabling and workshops. On June 28\, from 1PM-5PM. On the 29th\, various workshops\, skill shares\, and discussion groups will happen in cooperation with radical spaces and organizations in Philly. (More details on that as they become available.)  \nRegistration for Philly Feminist Zine Fest will open on 4/28 and close on 5/17. Half tables (4′) will be $10. (You can request more than one half space\, but we can’t guarantee it. Space will depend on registrants available.) As always\, PFZF is a juried event to make sure that female identified folks\, queer/trans/genderqueer people\, POC\, and people with disabilities have priority access.  \nIt will be held at Christ Church’s Community House. The location is in old city and is super close to lots of cool stuff! Neighborhood House is wheelchair accessible. If you have other accommodation needs or requests\, please don’t be shy about letting us know.
URL:https://metropolarity.net/event/philly-feminist-zine-fest-2014/
LOCATION:Neighborhood House CCNH\, 20 North American Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Readings & Performances,Zine & Book Events
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