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Josh Hoshwa Redman

on Sunday, April 26, 2015

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on Sunday, April 26, 2015

DWIF DWEST odds and ends.

Group floss party hour. Amy Berkowitz’s map of the Ypsilanti noise scene. Mysterious figure. Traditional DWIF DWEST map by Justin Carder. Redman family video montage. Watercolor Paintings performance.

DWIF DWEST is over for now. The real DWIF DWEST was in you the whole time. 

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Balloons. The Yellow Dress. Evidence of DWIF DWEST.

Faint Music // Ordinary Light by The Yellow Dress

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Partying as a radical organizing tool: from Power Hours of Fun to rallies for political justice

Often, when you’re part of a collective body, you’re with a bunch of strangers. The common denominator is this thing you’re a part of: your mission, your art, your politics. I counted, and there’s still about a million things to break down before we do anything productive. We feel awkward, unsafe, and unfamiliar. It takes a lot to collectivize. Even more to organize. When we get to lose ourselves in something– a party, a meeting, a conversation– we emerge more vulnerable and ultimately more connected to one another. This is my case for “losing yourself” as a radical method of organizing.

From Elise Granata’s lecture on partying.

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April 30th: Guided Imagining #30

Imagine you are very hungry, unless you are hungry, then imagine you are not hungry at all.

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From America’s great southwest, Kyle Daniels (DWIF DWEST class of 1991) has spent his life a wanderer. While perusing many of the different experiential arts (music, design, sleepiness, taco consumption) Daniels has made a name for himself through the visual arts. His art is sad, whimsical, like a child’s birthday party greatly planned but left unattended. In addition to his sculptural and conceptual works, Daniels also runs the label Snorin’ Desert. Currently his life is dedicated to the Museum of Socks. He is a timeless man. He is a man for our times.

Kyle Daniels’s favorite holiday is Halloween. His favorite Pokemon game is Pokemon Snap. His mantra is “deciduous”. He is very afraid of paper cuts.

Kyle Daniels’s work will be on display the entire month of April as part of the DWIF DWEST gallery of artists Dan Weiss has been in a car with at Wolfman’s Books.

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DWIF DWEST’s Featured Alumnus of the Week #6: Patrick Tabor

Forged in the fires of Half Moon bay, handsomely shaped by the forests of northern most California, and aged and refined like a fine wine by San Francisco’s East Bay, Patrick Tabor (DWIF DWEST class of 2013) is demigod of parties made flesh. With his various projects Tabor Mountain, Morning Hands, and Diesel Dudes, Tabor has single-handedly paved a new path in the experiential field of having a rad time, a path which all of hope someday to be worthy to but pass through.

Patrick’s favorite sandwich is the KFC Double Down. His favorite color is fluorescent pink. His number one literary hero is Virginia Woolf. If he could sit down with anyone one person living, dead, or fictional, it would be every single person living, dead, and fictional. He is the cosmos.

Patrick Tabor will be performing as Tabor Mountain at the final April DWIF DWEST cultural event, April 30th at EM Wolfman Books.

LO MAGIC by Tabor Mountain

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April 29th: Guided Imagining #29

Imagine traveling through time, the act itself.

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April 28th: Guided Imagining #28

Imagine you are wearing a hat.

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Actual Video Evidence of DWIF DWEST

featuring local San Francisco comedian DJ  Real’s father explaining the science of jokes.

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Posted by Ruthie Miller on Sunday, April 26, 2015

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April 27th: Guided Imagining #27

Imagine this text say something different.

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April 26th: Guided Imagining #26

Imagine you are in a car waiting for a parent or parental figure.

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Actual photographic evidence of DWIF DWEST activities. Pictured here: biology teacher Robert Little on the family life of the North American Sea Elephant.

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April 25th: Guided Imagining #25

Imagine you have never met your best friend.

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April 24th: Guided Imagining #24

Imagine you are sitting in a chair.

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Ultimately if there was a lesson that we hoped you came away with from our families program it is this: Snow Dad is better than No Dad.

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April 23rd: Guided Imagining #23

Imagine you are the first person to ever go to outer space, just before take off.