PICA condemns the violent, racist, and militaristic methodologies of police departments and white supremacist culture across the United States and specifically in Portland, Oregon. We are actively working to dissolve our own connections to these systems. We challenge our city, state, and national government; our partner organizations, our audiences, our donors and funders, and our own organization to do better. We urge you to join us in taking action: donate, read, post, petition, protest, and have tough conversations. We are asking our white and non-Black audiences, artists, donors, partner organizations, and ourselves to find ways to show up and actively engage in solidarity with, and support of, Black community members, Black-led organizations, QTBIPOC, and other historically underserved and underrepresented peoples.
SHOW UP:
Annual MLK March for Human Rights and Dignity! End Racism Show Up for Common Unity!
Monday, January 18, 2021
1:00 PM PST Peninsula Park
Hosted by Don’t Shoot Portland, Social Change Matters #VOTE, Artists For Black Lives, Communities Against Racism Standing Up For Black Lives, PDX Civil Rights formerly the Burger Barn
More info at dontshootpdx.org
VIRTUAL:
World Arts Foundation Inc. presents: “Bridge Over Troubled Water” LIVESTREAM TRIBUTE TO THE LIFE & LEGACY OF REV. DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
Monday, January 18, 2021
12:00PM PST
Streaming on: www.worldartsfoundation.org, Open Signal, KBOO 90.7 FM, XRAY 107.1 FM, YouTube, Facebook, and Twitch.
Info at holocene.org
LEARN:
Black Design in America: African Americans and the African Diaspora in Graphic Design
BIPOC Centered Design History Courses: January 8-21, 2021
Black Design in America: African Americans and the African Diaspora in Graphic Design, 19th Century–21st Century is the first in a series of BIPOC Centered design history courses facilitated by Polymode. The series revisits and rewrites the course of design history in a way that centers previously marginalized designers, cultural figures —particularly BIPOC and QTPOC people. Through pre-recorded lectures, readings, and live discussions, the class will shed light on moments of oppression and visibility.
See full course schedule at bipocdesignhistory.com
READ:
Black Performance on the Outskirts of the Left: A History of the Impossible
Book by Malik Gaines
Black Performance on the Outskirts of the Left illustrates the black political ideas that radicalized the artistic endeavors of musicians, playwrights, and actors beginning in the 1960s. These ideas paved the way for imaginative models for social transformation through performance. Using the notion of excess—its transgression, multiplicity, and ambivalence—Malik Gaines considers how performances of that era circulated a black political discourse capable of unsettling commonplace understandings of race, gender, and sexuality. Following the transnational route forged by W.E.B. Du Bois, Josephine Baker, and other modern political actors, from the United States to West Africa, Europe and back, this book considers how artists negotiated at once the local, national, and diasporic frames through which race has been represented....
Purchase at nyupress.org
WATCH:
"Mediocre" and Examining White Male Supremacy
Ijeoma Oluo Interview on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah
Ijeoma Oluo discusses the continued relevance of her 2018 book "So You Want to Talk About Race" and her new book "Mediocre," which examines the prevalence of white male supremacy in America.
*Ijeoma played "Ijeoma" in Charles Mudede's Thin Skin which had its West Coast Premiere at TBA:20.
Watch here on cc.com