April 2013
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March 2013
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February 2013
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January 2013
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CEREUS ARTS' NEW WEBSERIES** CASTING CALL
Directed by Chanelle Aponte Pearson
Produced by Jade Foster & Alyssa Hollins
Cereus Arts is casting for the upcoming narrative web series FAMILY. Production takes place from mid-March through April 2013 in Brooklyn, New York. Below you’ll find audition information, a short synopsis for the series, and descriptions for leading roles. Copy, credit, meals, and travel will be provided. To...
“KB: What risks at this point in your career are you most excited to take in...”
– trop magazine asked eileen myles really smart questions (via carmenrios)
Cereus Arts Is HIRING! Production Assistants...
Cereus Arts seeks two NYC-based production assistants to work on new narrative webseries, F^MILY. The Job:: The story of four fierce women navigating the pussies, poltucks and parties of New York’s queerest borough, Brooklyn. Cereus Arts’ first media effort, F^MILY, goes to production in February 2013 and is slated for a late summer release. Cereus Arts seeks two assistants to act as a...
“Evening, and all my ghosts come back to me
like red banty hens to catalpa limbs...”
– janice harrington, shaking the grass. (via black-poetry)
December 2012
2 posts
November 2012
3 posts
Ace Hotel: INTERVIEW : DJ MURSI LAYNE →
acehotel:
Trinidad-born Mursi Layne, founder of The Artchitects, spun with Tom Tom Magazine at Ace New York during October — and she’s back on the decks Monday night at Bembe in Brooklyn. A turntablist who prefers the wheels of steel to all that audio digitalis, she’s been mixing her bad…
October 2012
8 posts
CALL FOR PAPERS
Dear Colleagues: Please join the National Association of African American Studies & Affiliates [National Association of Hispanic and Latino Studies, National Association of Native American Studies, International Association of Asian Studies] at its February 11-16, 2013 joint national conference. Presentation of a paper brings with it several benefits. A few include: · Eligibility to have...
JADE FOSTER ON REDBONES
I think the whole light-skinned, dark- skinned, brown- skinned thing is similar to the whole red-head, blonde, brunette thing that White Americans have going on. It’s a decisive measure to make women think they’re different, than other women.
If I think I’m different than that woman on my left… or less than, or more desirable than the bitch on my right— then when...
“As an indigenous person of the Earth, I know that every step on this soil is a...”
– Eli Turner, THE REVIVAL Tour Manager
Taken from: www.esotericlore.org
SUNDAY MORNING| Official Revival 2012 Tour...
Peace Fam! Thank ya’ll for your prayers as we travel this FRIDAY for the very first show in BROOKLYN! Check out www.cereusarts.com for workable links, advanced ticket sales, addresses and more. And stay tuned to our official media sponsor, www.elixher.com to follow us as we’re on the road.
Much peace, and have a great week. If you’re anything like my grandma, iron all your...
September 2012
9 posts
“The genesis of this whole project was the need for genuine fellowship. Rejecting...”
– Jade Foster on THE REVIVAL Beginnings. Old Blog Post.
REVIVAL 2012 TOURING TROUPE
So you know all about our features… learn a bit about the touring troupe members. Poets. Musicians. Teachers. Women. And everything we can imagine.
THE REVIVAL 2012. WOMEN. WINE. THE WORD.
t’ai freedom ford
t’ai freedom ford believes in the Word. To her, writing is prayer, confession, catharsis. Every poem is scripture. Every book a hymn. Each audience a church. Every performance...
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August 2012
8 posts
ANNOUNCING REVIVAL 2012 FEATURED POETS
To find out more about the featured poets, touring troupe and favorite poems follow @revivalpoetry. Now…
Announcing Our Featured Poets!
BROOKLYN STAND UP || CHARAN MORRIS FEATURES|| FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5
Charan P. Morris is a poet/educator transplanted from Chicago to New York. In addition to being a NYC public school educator for the past eight years, she has facilitated poetry workshops...
ATTENTION EVERYONE
youhearme?
angelsonthetouchline:
ALL PRONOUNS ARE MADE UP.
BECAUSE THAT’S WHAT LANGUAGE IS.
MADE UP WORDS.
If you have no problems using the words iPod, google, eftpos, or any of the thousands of others created in the last decade, don’t bitch about ze/hir pronouns.
July 2012
6 posts
The Revival Is Hiring A Marketing Director!
Salon-styled Poetry Tour, The Revival is currently looking for a dynamic, young, marketing GENIUS to join our family! Check below for details and send your resume to cereusarts@gmail.com by Thursday, July 26, 3pm! THANK YOU!
Black Feminism LIVES!: Queer Black August Retreat!... →
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The Overview
In the spirit of historical practices such as Black August which commemorates African liberation and revolution in the Americas and the Combahee River Collective Black Feminist Retreats which built alignment and institutions by and for black women; Alexis Pauline…
June 2012
5 posts
“If you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool...”
– -Ray Bradbury (via marahruby)
“The reality of it is, when we part, I’m just another dyke on the street. So it...”
– -Genesis Tramaine, via www.elixher.com
“Once we realize the power between our thighs, then we will galvanize.”
– #ELLINGTON
Nyne (via nynelyves)
May 2012
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