My thanks to Kati Texas, who filled in for me last month and did a great job!
tower and transmission equipment on their Rancheria on Table Bluff. This is just the beginning and we are looking for other I was having a great vacation. I attended the community partners and supporters. To do this Americans for the Arts conference in Boston and right, we will need over $250,000 in the first two was intellectually refreshed and renewed. Then, years to get set up, and then ongoing support of I went to Asheville, NC to visit my sister, Carol, about $75,000 a year. We will be establishing and my mother, Antoinette. Some of you will two community committees, one to manage remember when my mother used to come visit programming and the other to raise funds. If you here to escape Lake Erie winters. She still has are interested in helping this project be fond memories of Eureka and says hello to all successful or want to help in any way, please her friends here. She will turn 93 contact me at libby@inkpeople.org. next month. Before I go any further, I want to This last month’s board meeting thank the wonderful people who didn’t have any new have gotten us to this point with DreamMaker presentations, KIPE. Great gratitude goes to: but we did have a very exciting Todd Urick, who got this all presentation from Jim started and nursed it along for Christensen, who is now our many years; Bill Rich and Mike Development Coordinator. I Holmes, who loaned us a barn to think you will like him. He’s low broadcast from to save the license; key, organized and very affable. Kevin Sanders and Simon Frech, As a way to get to know us better, he’s putting who engineered, loaned and installed equipment; together stories about Ink People (people and Damian Campos, who stepped up with the idea projects) and how the community has benefitted and the community; Fernando Paz, who is from our 37 years of existence. If you have a helping with fundraising; Ed Subkis, KHSU story you would like to share, please contact General Manager, who let us stream the BBC, Jim at jim@inkpeople.org. and has been a valuable committee member, along with Mike Clark, Sean McLaughlin, and Our community radio station is starting to take Patrick Cleary. Last, but certainly not least, a shape. KIPE-FM will be a Spanish language big hunk of gratitude to Gray Frierson Haertig, station thanks to Radio Bilingue and an engineer extraordinaire, who has gifted us with indigenous station carrying original content his services. from local Native American tribes. We are greatly honored to be in partnership with the Thanks to all you wonderful folks who keep the Wiyot Tribe, who has agreed to host the radio Ink People going and make this such a great community. -Libby 2
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Featur ed Artist: Artist Profile:Shoshanna Cory Goldman This month’s featured artist is a whirling cloud of color and spangles. On stage, and in life, she brings vibrancy and sparkle to everything she touches. She is a dancer, a teacher, mother, event planner, Girl Scout leader, and Rutabaga Princess. Around Humboldt, she needs only one name: Shoshanna!
history at HSU and have loved and studied dance since I was a little girl. First Ballet, then as a teen I found Belly Dance at a local studio. It's carried me on many journeys over the last 25 years and is a wonderful, personally expressive form that develops as you do as a person, artist, and creator. I can't imagine not dancing!
Q: What is your favorite art medium to work in, and why? A: I'm an improvisational dancer, who most loves to delve into Egyptian Raqs Sharqi and the "artsy side" of American Cabaret Style Belly Dance. I studied art, graphic design, and art
Q: When did you first figure out that art was important to you? A: Probably since I first found a love for twirling about as a little girl. I've always liked following my own rhythms and finding my own path through life, and dance, music and art have always been there offering all sorts of ways to inspire me. My parents have always been supportive of me exploring and following my passions, and it's delightful helping my daughters have the same amount of freedom to have the arts be important from day one. Q: Who is your art mentor? A: I think I have three teachers and artists that really inspire me. One is Elena Lentini, a very experimental, expressionist, abstract dancer in New York who has a magical freedom and depth to her movement and approach to dance and life. Another is Dalia Carella, who is an incredible dancer, teacher and fusion artist whose approach has been my biggest inspiration since I first saw her in 1995. She never stops studying, fusing forms together, researching, delving into the roots and essences of many dance forms - I love her passion for the process of creating. And she's an awesome dancer! Finally, there is a musician that I've learned SO much about Arabic music through, and the importance and value of branching out of the elements of your own culture that you have grown up in, so that you might taste the amazing offerings of other cultures and experience the dazzling power 4
Call to Artists! of new forms and expressions that happen when talented people of many genres collaborate openly and enthusiastically. That's San Francisco based violinist Georges Lammam. In visual art, Kandinsky is my hero. Q: Finish this sentence: My art is my… A: LIFE. Sometimes I get so over-extended and over-committed to a million super valuable amazing endeavors that I get paralyzed and want to run away from it all, but when it comes down to it, if I make the choices that just let me DANCE then it's all good! Q: What advice would you offer someone just beginning their exploration of their own artistic self? A: For dancers in my field, I recommend for them to know the MUSIC by immersing themselves in rhythms, melodies, and structures that make the music special and exciting to connect to. For anyone, I'd say find those things that are FOOD for your form - soak up live art, music, seeing great works of art in person, take workshops live, breathe and love all facets of your chosen medium. Be passionate. Be excited about what you love and be brave and open to share it with the world. If you're planning on quitting your day job, take a business class in case you are successful and never sell yourself short. Know how to talk about money.
Allen Cassidy is curating a show at the Mentor Network for August and September. “Extinction” is open to interpretation around the idea of anything that is disappearing or has already disappeared; from dinosaurs, animals and plants to rotary phones and cassette tapes.
For more information, contact Allen at cassidypetportraits@gmail.com or call Angie at 707-407-6094. Art must be ready to hang. If you will be submitting sculpture or artwork that is not suitable to be wall hung, please contact Allen in advance so that he can provide an appropriate size pedestal.
You can find more about Shoshanna, the classes she teaches, her dance studio, and lots of lovely pictures at:
Submissions: Thursday, August 4th 11:30-2:30 Mentor Network: 317 3rd St., Eureka.
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Return of The Steelhead? Testing the Water for Collaborators It has now been five plus years since the last issue of The Steelhead Special hit the streets, the fifty-third one to be produced. I called it the Third Ever Literary issue due to its emphasis on poetry, fiction, and book reviews, much like the twelfth and nineteenth issues. The lead statement of #53 was a review of the past twenty years of putting out the Steelie, and included an excerpt from the issue put out a decade earlier, a best of ten year anniversary issue entitled Retrosteel. The statement, which bore repeating ten years later, seems pertinent to this day:
five years ago, by stating: Now double that and we've arrived well into the next century.
This statement on what I had done the past twenty years was taking stock. It discussed how the Steelhead had evolved from being 'eclectic' for the first twenty nine issues into one that had a central theme for each of the next twenty four issues. Using the metaphor of The Journey, I touched on various issues we had covered in the following ten years. It concluded with a paragraph that stated that the glossing over by the mainstream press of anything that does not It was a mystery, what we support the corporate line were getting into, that fateful leaves the responsibility of time ten year ago. One hops keeping the Truth in the into a boat when they start a hands of the alternative press business, hoping the ride is and its readers. This was not too bumpy and maybe especially important in there will be money and some a time and age, I asserted, fun involved. After ten years, I where so much public policy can say that I have learned more from the had been decided based on the events of experience than I thought possible at its 9/11 and the presumptions that we were outset. lt turned out to be the kind of hard attacked by foreign entities on our own soil. work that brings life to labor. The money, The magazine, l declared, was about the however, has been more outgo than income. privilege and duty to take full advantage of The fun has been mostly in the thousands of the free speech that is the cornerstone of connections made with everyone from editors personal liberties in this country. to advertisers, poets and readers, artists and The opportunity to do so made the enormous interested parties with input, feedback, and amount of work involved all worth it. questions. And from the satisfaction of looking at a finished product. These days I find myself at a crossroads with the project. Another issue of The I brought us back to present day, which was Steelhead could be produced; there is 6
content available and more than enough poetry. An online version would incur little expense. Although it would lack the sense of physicality I love - the smell of ink, the weight of bundles, the joy of turning pages it would exist. While my heart yearns for something I can hold in my hands, it would be there for all online readers. In this day and age, that is more people than were ever willing to pick it up from the free magazine section somewhere in the geographical area that it could be found from 1991 to 2011. Potentially, there is an unlimited amount of people who could log on and find us where most things are found these days, resonating brightly on a computer screen. This seems like a workable solution, once the desire to smell and touch the finished product is overcome. What is important is that the issues of the day, the poetry and essays, the fiction and antique advertising, is available for all those who are nostalgic for the day when poetry led the way, and opinions could be read for free. Those things would still be free, and easier to access than back in the day when one had to put on their socks and go out and find it. While this all seems like a plausible way of going about returning the Steelie to its journey upstream, this publisher still feels like more input is needed. Thus, I cordially invite any and all who have read this appeal for grist for the mill to send whatever they might have to say about this potential development to my gmail inbox:
DreamMaker Project
In November of 1964, the West Coast was inundated by heavy rain from Central California north to Oregon and Washington and East to Idaho creating epic and catastrophic flooding. In the making of this film over 60 people were interviewed about their experiences. The Film makers have included archival photos, video and 16 mm footage to bring the stories to life. This film salutes the problem solvers and creative thinkers who were the working class heroes of the 1964 flood.
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Produced by Jete-Miro Productions, A DreamMaker Project of The Ink People Center for the Arts.
a·lo·ha (əˈlōˌhä) - Affection, peace, compassion, mercy. Tiare Reed recognized a puka (hole) in the community of Redding, California. Children were being sent off to schools, and elders into care facilities. She recognized the need to create an intergenerational connection within the community, and to teach people about the Hawaiian concept of Aloha. With the intent to provide spiritual enrichment and inspire the youth of her community to act on Hula traditions and values of responsibility, respect, and Aloha, she founded the Hula Arts Academy. The academy exists to further the cause of perpetuating and preserving Aloha. The immediate goal was to provide individuals an opportunity to become enlightened and empowered toward respectful acceptance of others. In the process of sharing the ancient Hawaiian musical instruments, songs, dances, chants, and customs, the Hula academy exposes people to culture and creativity. In this way, the Hula Arts Academy has truly imparted cultural enrichment to both the elders and the youth of its community. The city of Redding, California has been blessed with this offering of culture from the islands. Bringing these traditions to the people has allowed for a stronger bond between youth and elders, as the activities can be shared by people of all ages. The enrichment the Hawaiian Islands offers can only spread, as Tiare has intentions to expand the academy to the communities of Arcata, Chico, Grass Valley, Red Bluff and Yreka. If one would like to be involved in the expansion of this project, Tiare can be reached at 530.223.5398. email us tiare63@yahoo.com.
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Lightening Strikes Twice
Once there was a lightening strike that struck and caused a scene, it hit the tops of all good men who saw that it could mean that we have to live with spirit, despite that we get burned, and if we take the heat like that our sense of life is turned...
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Lightening it can hit us hard, it strikes in places known, and though it might just fry your brain it shows how we have grown
Creative people creating creative communities
when we stand up to the flashing, to thunder and to rain, standing in the wind that comes
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Calling Art Teachers! Betty Kwan The Betty Kwan Chinn Chinn Day Center is looking Day Center for art teachers to work with vulnerable Every Fripopulation in a free and inclusiveday environment. Class times available 1:00 every Fridayp.m. 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
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English Language Classes for Adults Monday and Wednesday 6:00-7:30pm May 16 to August 31, 2016 Jefferson Community Center 1000 B ST (Corner of B ST & Clark ST) Join Anytime! $3 per class Clases de Ingles Para Adultos Lunes Y Miercoles 6:00-7:30 de la Noche 16 de Mayo A 31 de Agosto, 2016 Centro Comunidad Jefferson 1000 Calle B, Eureka (Esquina da las Calles B Y Clark) Únase a la clase cualquier momento $3/la clase
The MARZ Project (Media & Arts Resource Zone) FREE for Teens (ages 12-22) Make your own music, movies, graphics and more with professional mentors. Bring ideas or start from scratch. Free lunches for anyone 18 and under provided by Food for People all Summer from noon to 1:00. Summer Hours: Tuesday—Friday Noon to 5:00p @ 23 5th St. Eureka
Want to see your Event, Class, Workshop, or Call to Artists in Ink People News?
Karuk Language Classes with Julian Lang Tuesdays, 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Ink People Offices 23 5th Street, Eureka Thursdays, 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. United Indian Health Services 1600 Weeot Way, Arcata
Submit pictures and text (no pre-made flyers) to Ink News Editor Joe Shermis
Writers’ Critique Group Tuesdays, 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Ink People Offices 23 5th Street, Eureka
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Deadline is the 15th Of the month prior to publication. All content subject to approval.
Life Drawing Group with Clinton Alley Thursdays, 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Cheri Blackerby Gallery 3rd & C streets, Eureka Call 707-442-0309 to join. $5 fee Models needed.
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