joshua

spring has sprung! 🌼 no better way to celebrate that feeling than a night of boogie with one of my favorite parties @love.t.k.o_ 🤩 so happy to be returning to the decks this Friday 5/15 @ @theknockoutsf with some amazing selectors @seaowl and @bobbybooffet ✨ i have an arsenal of disco, boogie, and jammin house music all rolled up in one night to share with you from my travels and digging, it’s been a min honestly and i come fully inspired by the recent theo parrish and moodymann shows to really get downnnn 🕺🏽 pull up, share some love, and kick off a beautiful weekend full of sun with us 😌 🪩

~introducing~ earth tones by @piscespace_ grounding the body to the earth through different shades of dance music 🌎🤲🏽💆🏽‍♂️🌀😌 live in the real world @ 1800 haight st, sf streaming live on @program.audio a lot of love and appreciation to erika & arthur of @program.audio for all they do for the community and giving me an opportunity to have this residency to play music i love during the perfect time of day, my show runs 2nd Saturdays 7-8pm every other month, so come join for sunset sets throughout the summer with me on haight street i’m bummed to miss my first show but am honored to call upon the illustrious groove selector @pqtrjck to introduce the show to the world! expect an exploration of house, deep house, street soul, deep groove, with a hint of boogie/disco if the vibes are right, the idea is to let these vibrations enter the body and root you to through the ground for an hour of both calming and energizing dance music ✌🏽 ✨

I didn’t know Hodari but so many folks and cherished ones around me did. I could see the reverberations they had on the lives and hearts of so many, just sensing the warmth people felt when recalling memories made me wish I had gotten to know them while they were still here with us. One of those people closest to Hodari who I could always feel wamrth from is Ray. However, I could sense the depths of grief many including Ray was exploring when Hodari transitioned and I wanted to help in any way I could to help memorialize this person. Past few years dealing with my own form of grief had me reflect on what it felt like to be vulnerable and share that grief with trusted close ones in my life and what if felt to feel that sunshine on my heart when the support formed around me in embrace. It’s something I will never forget and wish to share with others in all the ways I can. Through the avenue of art, specifically cyanotype printing, I found I was able to also channel what I was feeling through my hands. A form of nervous system regulation, ceremony, and intention. All this to say, I was honored that Ray was willing to share their memories with me about Hodari and be vulnerable just as I remember being in my time of need in order to honor this persons presence on earth and the eternal presence in those they touched through this print. What a beauty it was to see these images form once the water touched it. I am honored to do what I love and have that extend to touch others just as Hodari did, I like to imagine we would have found a common thread between each other in that way. 🤍 rest in peace 🕊️

SAVE THE DATE ⛄ join us Sunday, December 21 for our second annual SOULSTICE party at everyone’s favorite watering hole @drinktallboy 🍸🌭 This time around, I’ve assembled a team of vinyl avengers united by our love of drum machines, analog synths, and sassy vocals on wax 🕯️ all-vinyl house music and other dance business from 5 pm til midnight. Featuring myself, @piscespace , @sangsih.aiff and @qweentexture in the mix 📀 Pull up and move with us 💃🏻🪩🤸🏻 it’s the solstice with the molstice! ❄️🌌  #vinylcommunity #vinyldjs #housemusic #oaklandmusic

This edition of Listening Room is presented by Joshua (aka @piscespace_ ). I like to believe in soul music as a love language. The feeling when our hearts feel heard — by soulful rhythms, voices, and melodies — it’s transcendent. This music teaches us about love in all its facets. How to care for not just romantic love, but the love we have for ourselves, and each other. Soul music allows empathy to form in this way, it has this great power to shape us, and I wish to share and explore that together throughout the night. Expect a music-forward experience that invites you to open up and groove as a flow of personal reflections and poetry layer in upon shades of color and visuals. ​​​​​The space will be open 3pm onwards with non-alcoholic cocktails and tea for sale. Listening room starts at 8pm, with pre-show music selections starting 7.15pm. Please respect your fellow listeners by keeping noise to a minimum once show has started. ​About Piscespace Joshua (aka piscespace) is a visual storyteller, DJ, and event organizer living in and creating from Oakland. His work ranges from cinematography, to curated music events, to textile work through dyed and sewn projects and more. Through these varied avenues of expression the intent always centers the heart, the beauty and strength of community and our connection to nature. In this spirit, Joshua’s passion is to serve as part of the connective tissue that bonds the people of the Bay Area, and beyond.

FUCK ICE, CHINGA LA MIGRA!!! made these cyanotype bandanas to sell with all donations going to @centro_legaldelaraza I wanted a wearable garment with info on rapid response hotlines for reporting ICE in the Bay, been feeling very frustrated and at a loss for how to help, not that these make any big big difference but I want folks around me to stay informed and know where to go, who to call and what to do if they see their neighbors, their family, their co-workers, their FELLOW HUMAN BEINGS, being kidnapped. It’s our fight to protect our communities, to protect our own people, and just being informed is one step there that we all need to take! come find me at the @safariiicamp picnic this Saturday 7/19 at Lake Merritt in Oakland to grab one, limited run, and get info on best practices in siting/reporting ICE activity. There are also going to be tacos and popsicles, and more so pull up with some activities and some friends and hang! beautiful designs by @___makeda____ made with support by @jon.sun safari event flyer by @eva.minh please share if you can! Centro Legal de la Raza helps connect families of those being detained by ICE find legal aid, they also help run the rapid response ICE siting hotline through the ACILEP (Alameda County Immigration Legal & Education Partnership) and run programs like “Know Your Rights” training to teachers and care providers in OUSD. keep up to date, download resources and stay informed via @ccijustice

scenes of spring pt. 2 1 - eastern sierras with my day one homie @justin_adona 2 - lil solo trip, bus ride to oaxaca 3 - djs being djs lol 4 - flower delivery boy 5 - is there anything better than laying in the grass with your friends? 6 - mike and i just searching 7 - when you see real love, cherish it 8 - our first harvest 🥺 9 - the energy at @dreamstate.wav was like letting a bunch of happy kids loose to play 10 - you ever really smell and kiss the flowers? 11 - when you get new neighbors 😍 12 - ascended at the @laraaji_official show at @eternalnow.space 13 - candy at the garden 14 - group cyanotype dream come true 😌 15 - early morning walks hit different 16 - aspiring botanist 17 - @camerasquadmatt ran me over 18 - i became an avid kite flyer 19 - letting go 20 - bye bye spring 🌅 these moments make me laugh so much still, won’t forget all the joy and laughter spring this year brought, welcoming in summer time with warmth, care, patience, and consistency 🤲🏽

scenes of spring pt. 1 1 - the moment winter became spring 2 - rare oakland soul blasted by @record_jungle_oakland at the iconic grand lake corner 3-5 - garden activities at @jon.sun ‘s 6 - how my face be cheesin whenever i’m at @safariiicamp ft. @bydakotalim 📸 7 - @nicolecondez always staying strapped 8 - sleep deprivation produces such chaotic behavior and laughter, @laloushlens can attest 9 - @unseasonalallergies watering the plants 10 - adlibin’ w/ @_tessashimizu_ on @lowergrandradio 11 - its for a project i swear 12 - being kids 🍦 13 - @skylervm with only the most funky basslines 14 - when the boys pull up to the lake 15 - look up “a sunday afternoon” painting 16 - new sunset watching spot unlocked 17 - i love bike

all during spring this year, friends, family, even strangers kept saying to me “you’re glowing!” like very frequently, so much so that I would get so surprised and caught off guard, for some reason I’m not the best at taking compliments plus I was confused at what might have changed in my appearance or anything that was that different from before, going from winter into spring I certainly felt the opposite, I was super low, but the sun and the warmth really helped me move into a place of happiness, excitement, patience, a feeling that things would be okay with time, and soon without even thinking about it, they did. I treated myself with a ton of compassion and love but honestly it helped to have beautiful people around me that made me feel that glowing energy. I am welcoming in the summer today by really feeling so much gratitude towards all my friends and support, we need each other now more than ever and the strength built from this collective care is something that doesn’t stop within our tighter social network, it extends outward to help those in need in our community and beyond. thank you all for your love and for the glow I feel when I think of you and all these memories of the spring 💙

This was the view of the moon I used to have a few years ago. It would stop me in my tracks, I would sit on this rooftop for hours watching the moon rise from the horizon all the way up into the sky. It was so mesmerizing to lock into its gravity, the weight of its pull and its silent power made everything else fall away. It became a ritual for me, every full moon, surrendering myself to its presence like this. It was something that grounded me despite anything I was going through. It could move oceans but also felt so personal to me. The moon found me in many phases of my life: in grief, in joy, in love, in great upheaval. With each cycle I would share my life with her, everything, asking questions hoping my voice would be heard and that I would be given a sign to help me understand it all. But something I learned and began to cherish about this ritual was that I knew I would never receive any answers. In the end I understood that all this time I sat, I was just gifting myself patience to be still with everything. The moon had made me reflective so I could see myself even clearer. At the same time, soul music had also revealed to me an equally powerful quality to touch my heart in its deepest places. So naturally spinning soul music under the moonlight became a part of this full moon ritual. The bond between music and the natural world provided me with healing vibrations and profound realizations about how I could move through life with love in the foreground. I wanted to release those sessions through these tapes so you could feel that too. They may not be the most rare songs, but there is something special about the way they came to me in the moment, under the full moon, that I hope is translated when listened to. I hope sharing all this can remind you of the rituals that bring you closer to your heart so that when you look up at night you cherish not only the moonlight but also your own love and illumination ✨ with that, introducing the first releases from 🌱 The Garden Tapes 🌱 Souldies Under Moonlight Vol. 1 🌙 Souldies Under Moonlight Vol. 2 🌗 Giving Love / Bluebirds in the Spring 💙 dm me for a copy :) more coming soon!

:) smile on my face through it all spent so much time internally last year that after a blink or two I forgot just how much I spent enjoying the randomness and everything around me! thankful that there are some people in my life to help capture myself laughing when I sometimes forget 🫶🏽 some notes to self, that may help you too?: don’t be so hard on yourself, remember the excitement of exploring something new, wait and rest in the sun for a moment more, dance a ton, hug even more, document the life you’re living and what’s around you if you find yourself forgetting where you are, enjoy the community you’re apart of and also the comfort of solitude, regardless of anything else, and he would be proud of you 💟 anddddd if any of you all need a little encouragement by way of music, movement and love please consider saying hi, receiving embrace and dancing with me at the events below 🙃 1.10 - tonight! Tender Love + Care w/ @samplelov ✨ 🤲🏽 1.11 - Saturday @tamarackoakland Musical Healing ❤️‍🩹 b2b with @earthangel_1 🪽 1.18 - @freqshow__ at @bissapbaobab b2b some house music with @minadropthebase 😈😇 looking forward to doing much more with music/events this year, i want to push myself and others around me to think about how we can utilize our spaces, our connections, our talent for much more than one night out, hopefully you feel the same way too ☺️ take care of yourselves! ✌🏽

unlearning and learning new ways to live, what a difficult year it was being engulfed at times in the messiness of it all, feeling the fight or flight of having to know right away how to deal with a situation as simple as a decision for the next day or as heavy as a decision that would set a new stone along the path way of life’s twists and turns what can be taken away as a common denominator for relief of the turmoil, big or small, that wrestles inside yourself is patience patience is not a means of perfection, it’s a way to understand and find compassion, patience doesn’t give you an answer, it releases you from the urgency of the question, the levity that patience brings is an expansive feeling, it opens the heart to breathe a little easier, the mind to soften, the eyes to open with clarity, and you can feel it, the calm sensation that washes over you when there is time given brings about honesty in your heart and mind, your body knows its truth and it’s only delivered through being patient with yourself and the world around you. I think often about how seeds/plants go dormant in the winter, how we hibernate, how there is a lull in energy with the winter season, I think it makes sense, in this time that feels slowed there is a lot of patience in nature, but it’s not like nothing is happening. There is so much strength that is gathered here, so much wisdom to be gained for when the sun bursts the life from us in spring. So I sit here like a seed enjoying looking back at all these moments that I stopped to notice the quiet moments of life, fully accepting and at peace knowing that things always will work themselves out, life goes on, and growth happens often when you aren’t so focused on fixing everything all at once, it’s day by day, moment by patient moment.