NEWSLETTER: burning sensation

Greetings!
New moon, Mercury soon to go direct and all California's woes could be solved by legalizing the Holy Herb, WOOOO! Now THIS is how you start off the summer! Kids here in LA would also have to agree: summer school was just canceled for elementary and middle schoolers. Holy shitake mushrooms, Batman! Luckily, the summer arts season is upon us and rather than shrink the season in order to support a few large ticket companies, it seems that we will get to revel in local arts and small indie groups from afar! The paradigm is shifting, but you should still call your local reps no matter what state you live in, to make sure that any and all budget adjustments are made with people and social harmony as the center piece, not industry or real estate or finances. When people are taken care of, at least here int he US, we have a tendency to create new business models, industries and financial markets. These tired-ass vampires that are sucking the life out of our here and now must be released into the past if we are to survive for a future. Though fear has of late driven just about every major policy decision in the last 9 years, we can no longer assume that it is normal nor prudent. Only 12% of us registered to vote went out and voted on May 19th in California Special Election. From that paltry showing, Sacramento is claiming that they heard us loud and clear and are now cutting services that will cost us far more than they will save us. Now, why did only 12% turn out and how is it posasible for legislators to know what to cut when folks don't participate? but how can those same legislators claim to know what we want from a paltry 12% showing? If you want them to hear you loud and clear, get involved with the Constitutional Convention, but also give some real thought to legalizing marijuana. The math works, the medicine works, the statistics of crime shift, the possibility for prevention increases, the protection of our national forests is strengthened (yeah y'all, fools is growin weed on massive plots in the woods, armed to the teeth) and several new legitimate industries will be born. Remember, Prohibition preceded the Great Depression. I'm not advocating that we all get high, just that we get real.



Afrolicious. Afrologia. Afrodelic. Afropoesia. Afrologica. How big is your 'fro? Fractal, improvisational, polemical, but always moving with spirit and in service to lifting us all up! That's the Logic of the Afro--sign up, read up, be up, act up--you can move mountains, now make it beautiful


Highways Performance Space
1651 18th Street @ Olympic, Santa Monica, CA
Oh My Tiger + Ocean/Flight
Friday, May 29 - Saturday May 30 @ 8:30 PM & Sun May 31 @ 7:30 PM



Luckman Fine Arts Complex
5151 State University Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90032-8116
Tribute to Rudy Perez: Premiering "Enough Rope"
Saturday, June 6, 2009, 8:30 pm, $30
Celebrating three decades in Los Angeles and the birthing of 50 different dance works, postmodern master Rudy Perez, who is turning 80, refuses to rest on his laurels. One of the co-founders of New York's experimental Judson Dance Theatre, a coterie of artists who would define boundary-breaking "downtown" aesthetics in 1962, Perez continues to chart an unwavering course where pedestrian moves transcend the mundane to reveal bold, deep ideas.
Buy Tickets: Through Ticketmaster or call the Luckman Box Office at 323.343.6600

A lovely little fragment of a newsletter. Catching the wind to get justice by my side and Anatomy Riot's produced...stay tuned. We are taking flight shortly.
in love,
-Anna