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---------- From: Dont Rhine <dontr@earthlink.net> Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 08:41:03 -0700 To: (Recipient list suppressed) Subject: Convergence this Saturday, August 5 HOPE TO SEE YOU THIS SATURDAY!!!!! HISTORY IS OURS TO MAKE. PLEASE COPY AND CIRCULATE COME TO THE GRAND OPENING OF THE COMMUNITY CONVERGENCE Saturday, August 5th 11am to Dusk 1919 7th St., 1 blocks E. of MacArthur Park/Alvarado (MacArthur /Westlake Metro stop) Join together for a day of Art, Celebration, Music, and Food as we build a community of resistance to the Democratice Convention. The Convergence will be open every day and eve from August 5th to August 17. Celebrating is part of getting ready...... Featuring: ART GALLERY OF RESISTANCE: Bring your own Art to the Gallery of Resistance. We have four stories of beautiful wall space waiting for your photos, drawings, paintings, prints. Thousands of people will be passing through this center over the next few weeks. Think about a building full of art that dedicated to end every kind of oppression and make a better world. Realize that this is a gallery in the trenches and it will be your responsibility to hang and take down. PIECES OF RESISTANCE: Writers, Graffitti Artists & Muralists. We have the vinyl and the beginnings of a stash of spraycans. Spend the day turning the vinyl into street murals that will be taken out to the protests. Noon to 5:00 P.M. SOUNDS: Dejays - come and share your music. We will be spinning all day. There will be a mic for mc's, poets and wordsmiths. Bring your dance, street theater, and drumming. DANCE/MOVEMENT:Movement skills for creating and doing movement in the street for those with and without dance experience: Sat Aug 5th, 1:30 - 3:00pm and every afternoon til Aug 13. GIANT PUPPETS & ART MAKING: Orientation/Workshop at 2pm and 7pm. DRUM, RYTHMN, WORDS: Learn to make drums, practice rythmns, chants and marching. OTHER WORKSHOPS: Also workshops on nonviolent direct action (7pm) legal/know your right/jail solidarity (2pm), and more. GENERAL PRE-DNC RALLY/MEET: 11am: Report from protests at the Republican Convention in Philly, Updates from D2KLA Network, Independant Media Center and Rise Up Direct Action Network LA and info about what is planned for the DNC , how to get involved, followed by massive leafletting around the city. ARTS IN ACTION: 5PM- get involved in creating a pageant - a large scale participatory theater in the streets of LA during the DNC and independant arts projects. We are forming a cluster of affinity groups that will create a pageant each mornings procession with Rise Up DAN LA and others, and for the Monday afternoon March and Rally. We will bring art, theater, dance and music into the streets and transform LA into a festival of resistance. The next meeting is on Tuesday Aug 8, 7pm at the Convergence. Please join us. SUNDAY AUG 6 SPECIAL EVENTS @ THE CONVERGENCE ROBBIE CANAL & THE ART OF STREETPOSTERING: 3PM Learn how to make and get up streetposters from one of the most infamous and high visibility agit-prop artist alive. His images of Bill Gates, Daryl Gates, Giuliani, and men without lips have been up across the US. Bring your images to share. ROSS ALTMAN: MAKING SONGS FOR CHANGE: 7PM Enjoy, listen and learn from music and words of LA's renouned singer/songwriter, founder of Songs for Change and a teacher of songwriting. NEEDS: bright colors of latex/water based housepaint, full sheets of plywood, 2 by 4 lumber, brown paper bags, plastic containers with lids, backpack frames, big shelves, spraypaint, sheets and big pieces of fabric, bamboo poles, old bikes (to donate), bike parts, and bike locks. Tax-deductable donations to RiseUp/DAN-LA P.O. box 26374 LA, CA 90026 COMMUNITY CONVERGENCE Workshops, culture, teach-ins and events to get informed, involved, prepared, and fired up for the Democratic Convention: nonviolent direct action, street theater, know your rights, dance, anti-oppression, music/drumming, art, giant puppets, and more Sat. August 5 to Thurs Aug 17, Day and Evening 1919 7th St., 1 blocks E. of MacArthur Park/Alvarado (MacArthur /Westlake Metro stop) ARTS IN ACTION: (323)666-7993 D2KLA NETWORK: (323) 860-6554 www.d2kla.org INDEPENDENT MEDIA CENTER (310) 458-6566 www.indymedia.org RISE UP! DAN LA: www.d2kla.org/dan (323) 993-7212 _______________________________________________ Artsinaction mailing list Artsinaction@riseup.net http://lists.riseup.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/artsinaction _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list Nettime-bold@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold