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Excited to now officially report that I've been awarded the Huntington Library's Alan Jutzi Fellowship to support the next leg of my research this summer in the Octavia E. Butler archive. I'm so grateful that she's left so much of her story to learn from. Now looking forward to delving deeper.
This Saturday, May 27, join us at the Bowtie Project for Beginnings Marathon! Bring a book of your choice - any language, any genre - and read the first page aloud to an audience of other readers. Stay for the whole day, or come for just an hour. At the close of the event, we’ll enjoy s’mores around the campfire.
More info & link to RSVP: https://clockshop.org/event/beginnings-marathon/
This is the last week to see Radio Imagination: Artists in the Archive of Octavia E. Butler before the new year! The Armory will be closed December 24 - January 2. Stop in today from 12 - 5!
New podcast!
In a city as big as Los Angeles, with such a well-documented car culture, we often hear that you need a car in LA. But what can the experience of public transit offer a writer? What about an artist? In this episode, we take a ride from West Hollywood to Downtown with commissioned Radio Imagination artist and LA-native Lauren Halsey. Halsey’s work takes inspiration from her neighborhood in South LA, and the visual culture of small businesses throughout Los Angeles. Like Butler, she gets around on public transit, but there was a time when she used to drive...
While planning Radio Imagination, we could not have anticipated how directly Octavia E. Butler’s life and work would speak to the challenges we have faced in 2016, and will continue to face over the next four years. Butler wrote in Parable of the Sower:
We can, Each of us, Do the impossible As long as we can convince ourselves That it has been done before.
Butler willed herself—made herself—into a writer, overcoming impossible odds. We have learned from what she achieved, and take these lessons to heart, especially in this moment. Through Radio Imagination, Clockshop was able to support and celebrate emerging, under-recognized, and established artists while creating the conditions for deep, nuanced conversations about our future. This is fundamentally what Clockshop does.
We support artists. We create programs with intent and curiosity. We respond to current events with care and rigor. We bring diverse groups of people together. We create access—to issues, space, and dialogue.
Join us in this work. Make a one-time (www.bit.ly/2g2xYk9) or recurring (www.bit.ly/2gSIw9V) donation today. Clockshop depends on you. Each donation made before the end of the 2016 calendar year will be matched by a generous anonymous donor.
We look forward to standing strong with you in 2017.
With gratitude,
Clockshop
Have you made it to the Armory Center for the Arts to see our show, yet? If not, this week is a good one to come by! Regular gallery hours are Tuesday - Sunday, noon - 5. This Thursday, the gallery will be open late for Lynell George & Connie Samaras in Conversation. Leave us a note and let us know what you think!
(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rEbX6VgLaA)
This year, Clockshop is participating in the My LA2050 Grants Challenge to make Los Angeles the best place to PLAY. We’ll need your help to win!
Vote for the Bowtie Project - our innovative partnership with California State Parks - as the best submission in the PLAY category here.
Help us as we continue to build a community of stakeholders who will ensure that the Bowtie remains in the public trust, as a place for all Angelenos to play now, and in the future.
Voting is open through October 25 - tell your friends!
On October 27, flutist-composer Nicole Mitchell and her Black Earth Ensemble will perform work from Mitchell's albums 'Xenogenesis Suite: A Tribute to Octavia E. Butler' and 'Intergalactic Beings' at the @huntingtonlibrary.
The event will premiere Mitchell’s Chicago-based group, Black Earth Ensemble for a rare Los Angeles appearance, merging old friends with new musician friends from Southern California. The performance will be followed by a Q&A with Mitchell and a reception in the courtyard.
More information and tickets for this performance are available for purchase here: https://clockshop.org/event/xenogenesis-suite-a-musical-tribute-to-octavia-e-butler/
