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With the IMC's Participation in the LACE Democracy When? show, we thought it appropriate to tip our hat to some other cultural institutions and opportunities around the town.
LACE is ending up looking like an infoshop with cultural clout. This reminded us of the Long Beach infoshop whose members and aquaintances are having so much trouble with the heat. Way accross town in Highland Park is the community center
Flor Y Canto that does the infoshop thing in a different way. Someone from the Heavenly Trip Gallery recently wrote about the Long Beach Art Scene. There is also a notable art show on "The Flag" taking place in Pasedena. Finally, we thought it important to give a notice to the great line-up at the anti-war Refuse and Resist concert at the Palace Theatre coming soon.
In addition, several other interesting opportunities have surfaced in our spheres. A-Clip, an international network that makes and screens short "urban-political" films in mainstream theaters is seeking co-colaborators. The LA based Center for the Study of Political Graphics and members of the Figueroa Cooridor Coalition are having a poster design contest for their campaign against the gentrification of the cooridor. KPFK is seeking artists, currators and web editors for their new arts projects.
Also, check out Paul Chan's brilliant essay/talk The Rewriting of the Disaster delivered at last fall's New Social Geographies and the Politics of Space Conference at Scripps College. Chan is a New York artist active in the New York Independent Media Center. In The Rewriting of the Distaster, which is subtitled "Thoughts on Independent Media, New Media, and the Work of Mourning," Chan reflects on his experiences in New York following September 11 and addresses strategies for activist-artists to make work that empowers people against the delimiting, cooptive mechanisms of the corporate/mainstream media.
And finally, in a moment of levity, here's a link to some horrible pro-republican gangsta rap someone be postin' onta da newswire.
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