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Recap💧Writing Diasporic Dreams and Futures💧 🌊On December 20, a Saturday afternoon, we gathered on zoom for a sweet session about nostalgia, diaspora and memory. Inspired by @oliviaongevans ‘ ongoing film project, Kota Hujan (City of Rain), we journaled, meditated, and cocreated collective bodies of water in relation to our memories and dreams. Our bodies and earth are both made up of 70% water. If you imagine yourself to be a body of water, what shapes, velocities, temperatures do you embody? Where do you get the water from, who nourishes you, where are you going? Thank you @squeakybuffalo for hosting us and everyone for dreaming together 💤 Facilitation and 35mm film photos by huiyin Zhou and Laura Dudu; the screenshots shared here include contributions from workshop participants.

TOMORROW! Join us for a Zoom Workshop: Writing Diasporic Dreams and Futures 📅Time: Saturday, December 20, 3–5pm ET / 12–2 PT 🎫RSVP: Free; register @squeakybuffalo website In the deep of December, cozy up and join for a virtual writing workshop on dreams, nostalgia, and diasporic home-making. What alternative knowledges, homes, and futures can we access through dreaming and writing together? How do dreams and nostalgia open up a portal for future-making, in connection with our own bodies and the bodies of land, water, and time? CAO Collective will lead a virtual session on dreaming as a relational method and collective writing practice. Participants are invited to share bedtime stories, dreams, and reflect on their relationships to home/land, rest and sleep. Through somatic practice, guided writing activities and facilitated conversations, participants are invited to weave a collective dreamscape for resistance and healing. Please ensure stable access to the internet and writing tools such as journals, pens, and online collaborative documents. This event will be facilitated in English but participants are encouraged to write/doodle/create in whatever languages they feel called to. This event is presented as an invitation to deepen into Olivia Ong Evans’ upcoming film Kota Hujan (City of Rain), which was screened in person at Squeaky Wheel in early December. The stories co-created in this workshop will be included in CAO Collective’s long-term social practice project, “One Thousand and One Nights: A Queer Journey of Dreams & Diaspora”, culminating in a collective dream archive.

This Saturday, 3 pm ET online, free or suggested donation: Join us for Writing Diasporic Dreams and Futures, a virtual workshop with CAO Collective (Chinese Artists & Organizers Collective) on dreams, nostalgia, and diasporic home-making. What alternative knowledges, homes, and futures can we access through dreaming and writing together? How do dreams and nostalgia open up a portal for future-making, in connection with our own bodies and the bodies of land, water, and time? CAO Collective’s huiyin zhou and Laura Dudu will lead this session on dreaming as a relational method and collective writing practice. Participants are invited to share bedtime stories, dreams, and reflect on their relationships to home/land, rest and sleep. Through somatic practice, guided writing activities and facilitated conversations, participants are invited to weave a collective dreamscape for resistance and healing. Register now in the link in our bio. The stories co-created in this workshop will be included in CAO Collective’s long-term social practice project, “One Thousand and One Nights: A Queer Journey of Dreams & Diaspora”, culminating in a collective dream archive. This event is presented as an invitation to deepen into Olivia Ong Evans’ upcoming film Kota Hujan (City of Rain). These events are supported by a Support for Artists grant from the @nyscouncilonthearts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, and @teigerfoundation @oliviaongevans #OliviaOngEvans @caocollective #CAOCollective

This Friday, December 5, at 7pm join us for our last in-person event of the year with Olivia Ong Evans' in-progress film, Kota Hujan (City of Rain). Kota Hujan (City of Rain) is a collection of nostalgic memories and playful tales that trace the shifting meanings of home through time and across diasporas. The film features my mother’s narration of stories from her childhood in Bogor, Indonesia during the 1960s and ’70s. These recollections are interwoven with scenes of the city and its landscapes from our return visit to her hometown in 2024. The soundtrack for the film features recordings from a live performance by the Nusantara Arts Javanese Gamelan group in Buffalo, NY. The artist will present on the process of making the in-progress film, including traveling to Bogor in 2024, editing the footage filmed at that time, subtitling and translation, as well as the challenges and insights that have come up through the process. The talk will feature selected footage of the work in progress to show how the film is taking shape. Learn more and rsvp in the link in our bio. [Please note the time on the image for the workshop on December 20 is incorrect; it will be at 3pm ET] This is the first of two events celebrating Evans’ work who was a Workspace Resident with Squeaky Wheel in 2021; later in December, Saturday, December 20, CAO Collective (Chinese Artists & Organizers Collective) will lead a virtual writing workshop offering participants the chance to dive deeper into the film’s themes through their own reflections and connections. These events are supported by a Support for Artists grant from the @nyscouncilonthearts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, and @teigerfoundation @oliviaongevans #OliviaOngEvans @caocollective #CAOCollective

@o.l__i.v 🫧 Toko Liv features hand-carved, hand-printed linoleum block prints by Olivia Ong Evans. Each print reimagines a tarot card to create whimsical, black-and-white designs. /shop/TOKOLIV

Blub-fest is less than 3 weeks away and, ooooh blub will we have vendors! Alongside the music we’ll have art and crafts and vinyl and comics to browse and the lovely people selling them to support. And of course our brand new cassette Blub Blub from @peterwalkeerecords Oct 19 / Hickory Urban Sactuary (232 Pratt) / 4-9pm

Special cameo @o.l__i.v !!!!! ❣️❣️❣️❣️🥲 laps of lux w a ride to town and pizza by the lake❣️❣️❣️❣️

Allentown Flea is off to a great start! Special thanks to @twentysixallen + @pineapplco for sponsoring this event! The next one is June 22 in the lot behind 26! @stepoutbuffalo.thingstodo . . . . . #buffalo #buffalony #buffalonewyork #buffalove #buffalonyevents #buffalonyartist #buffalonyartists #hashtagstepoutbuffalo #stepoutbuffalo #art #artists #fleamarket #makers #market #vendors #painting #thrift #artistreels #illustration #ceramics #apparel

Announcing the beginning of an online gallery for Ancestral Memory Enclaves: Over the past year, I’ve taught many workshops on Ancestral Memory Enclaves, a project which began when @culturehub_org asked me if I could teach something related to my relational reconstruction practice in a 3 hour session for ReFest last October. A year later, now in a residency at @librarycongress , I’ve worked with dozens of people to craft a space of care from a family photo or an archival photo they feel a personal connection with, and I’ve created an online gallery with many of the memory spaces – enclaves – which people crafted in these workshops. I began with an idea from Lynda Barry - a question I’d ask in @newoldcollective workshops with @towardsanidealplace – think of a memory, and look around - left, right… up and down. Take a deep breath and smell the place. Listen for its sounds, and feel the ground beneath your feet. I’ll be teaching many more of these workshops in the coming year, as well as more in-depth, longer workshops to reconstruct and weave ourselves into relationships with memories and ancestral spaces. Thank you so much to the folks who participated already, and I’ll be reaching out to more past participants to add to this gallery on a rolling basis. ID in comments. unterbahn.com/enclaves

Next Tuesday, 7 pm ET, online and in-person at our friends upstairs at Journey’s End Refugee Services for the group screening Echolocations: Films in Translation and Transcription. Bringing together essay films and personal non-fiction films, historical analyses and experimental films, the filmmakers’ approaches to subtitles, captions, translations, and interpretation grapple with the histories, present, and futures of imperialism, colonialism, racism, and ableism. Alternately playful, angry, contemplative, utopian, and generous, the films help us imagine new relationships, between films and audiences, and between each other, across languages and voices. Learn more about the films, accessibility info, and get tickets at the link in our bio. Free or suggested donation. Featuring work by #AlexDoloresSalerno #AstriaSuparak #champoy #JJJJJeromeEllis #JohannDiedrick #NadiaShihab #OliviaOngEvans #SaifAlsaegh and #SkyHopinka . The screening will be following with a Q&A with Olivia Ong Evans. This is the first event as part of our Fall / Winter series [Speaking in Foreign Language]. Funding for this program is provided by  @warholfoundation . #warholgrantee @jersbuffalo @alex_dolores_ @astriasuparak @champchampchampoy @jjjjjeromeellis @johanndiedrick @nadiashihab @o.l__i.v @saifalsaegh @skyhopinka Image descriptions: Ten images with angular lines, text, and Squeaky Wheel’s logo. All slides except the first one also have a still image from a film. Slide 1. Text on image: Echolocations: Films in Translation and Transcription. Tuesday, October 17, 7pm ET @ Journey’s End Refugee Services and online. Screening with work by Alex Dolores Salerno, Astria Suparak, champoy, JJJJJerome Ellis, Johann Diedrick, Nadia Shihab, Olivia Ong Evans, Saif Alsaegh, and Sky Hopinka. Slide 2. Image: Tattooed hands trace letters and their translations engraved in wood. Text: champoy, english is yr mother tongue, 4 min, 2020. Slide 3. Image: A cellphone standing vertically on a carpeted floor. On the screen is a woman looking at us, and the filmmaker, on a smaller screen on the top corner. Text: Saif Alsaegh, 1991, 12 min, 2018. Additional image descriptions in comments.

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PHOTO FOR THE ALGORITHM💖 (📸 @everehnhuus ) I AM ANNOUNCING MY DEBUT ALBUM, “ROSÉ SKY” WHICH WILL BE OUT ON MY BDAY FEBRUARY 9TH 2022. 10 TRACKS COMPOSED AND ORIGINALLY PRODUCED BY JANELOVESU! SWIPE FOR ALBUM ARTWORK ➡️➡️➡️ THANK YOU TO EVERYONE INVOLVED WITH THIS WORK MIXING/MASTERING: @atlas_blaque FEATURING: @__adlai_ok ALBUM ARTWORK: @roughyyyyyy STYLING: @torsopromise PHOTOGRAPHY: @everehnhuus @instamatt_lincoln LOGO: @fairyboymusic ADDITIONAL VISUALS: @o.l__i.v RELEASE SHOW TBA. PRESAVE LINK IN MY BIO love you all xoxo💖