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We did it, yall!! We surpassed our goal! Thanks to all of you - your sharing, your donations, your caring, the fundraisers you ran or attended on the Palestinian beekeepers' behalf! We are blown away, moved, and inspired by this community support.

All funds over 6k will go to Gazan beekeepers, and funds that continue to come in will go to our ongoing mutual aid fund.

Stay tuned for reportbacks from the conference and more.

In solidarity. 🐝🇵🇸❤️

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Abu Zeyn's Egyptian Spiritual Jazz performance was so incredible to witness. @adam.elabd had the audience in a trance as he used his voice, multiple instruments, looping, and story telling to transport us to a higher place. Our packed house helped to fund support for Palestine and Sudan.

Look out for the video recording of this event.
Photos by @sinabasilafoto

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From our performance of the Golem Trilogy live-scoring animation screening in Philadelphia as part of the Fire Museum Presents. Adam Elabd in bass and Mark Wolfe in guitar. (I’m drumming)

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COMING UP THIS WEEK

🌾WEDNESDAY 5-6pm - Resisting Monocultures: Unlawing and Seed Saving - Join Ellie Irons (@elslaurel) for this hands on workshop about the integration of locally-adapted wildflowers and native grasses that can survive and thrive in this urban habitat.

📽FRIDAY 7-9pm - WTO/99 Film Screening on the Battle of Seattle (@wto99doc)- Join us for this documentary film to understand people power and mass mobilization in the start of the century. Q&A with filmmaker Alex Megaro (@prophetkotto) will follow the screening.
Be The Media! Workshop with Alex on Documentary Filmmaking with Pre-existing Media starts at 5PM.

🌳*regularly on Wednesdays, May 20 – October 21 4PM-7PM,* Collard City Growers garden open hours at 3337 6th Avenue. Join us to help out in the garden, harvest food to take home, or just relax amongst the greenery!

📻 *on Weekdays 6pm-7pm* tune in to @Husdonmohawkmag. HMM is a volunteer-produced, local radio news hour that provides sanctuary for the discussion of topics affecting our communities.

📸Here are some photos from previous weeks:

🎶We are still buzzing from last week’s performance of Egyptian Spiritual Jazz with Abu Zeyn (@adam.elabd). It was mesmerizing to watch as he seamlessly layered different instruments and vocals into songs that left the audience entranced. A big and hearty thank you to Abu Zeyn for sharing his gift with us.

🧄Garlic Seed is ready for planting! Join us next week for Garlic Planting and Fire Cider-Making as part of our Fall Herbal Series.

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Happy birthday to you, Lester Bowie:

Born on this day, October 11th, 1941, Fredrick, Maryland.

"The mural, designed and painted by artist Rafael Blanco, features jazz great and Frederick native Lester Bowie. Bowie, born in 1941 in Frederick County, grew up in St. Louis and began studying trumpet with his father as a boy. He was a cofounder of St. Louis’s Black Artists Group, and would go on to co-found the Art Ensemble of Chicago. An adventurous player, he explored the connection between jazz and other forms of popular music, and was famous for performing in a white lab coat, indicating he was researcher of jazz and the stage was his laboratory. Mural artist Rafael Blanco is a native of Alicante, Spain, and his artistic practice focuses on identity and human expression. Trained as a classical painter, he has transitioned into large-scale public art. He has exhibited internationally and holds an MFA from the University of Nevada; he is currently an assistant professor at Elmhurst University in the Chicago area."

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Film➕animation at the 🅾️+ Festival! JO+IN US Saturday October 10th!! ➡️ SWIPE FOR ALL FILMS ➡️

💥All artists will be receiving health care services in the Artists’ Clinic throughout the weekend, thanks to YO+U! Full Festival schedule + by-donation wristbands are available NOW @ the link in our bio, or: opositivefestival.org❤️‍🩹

Into the Dark by @fiona.otway featuring @pete_mauney

A documentary illuminated from within by Otway’s years-long friendship with photographer Pete Mauney and his years-long relationship, full of awe and discovery, with fireflies.

📍Location: @assemblykingston
🗓️Time/date: Sat, Oct 10, 1:00pm (18min), followed by Q&A with Otway & Mauney with an 💥encore Screening Sat, Oct 10, 3pm @upstate_films Midtown before “Next...” by Pablo Aravena

The Golem Trilogy with Live Score

Animation/Directed by Nathan Meltz with a Live-Scoring Ensemble: @a.r.m.b.r.u.s.t.e.r , @adam.elabd , @oui_was , @nathan_meltz

Stop-motion animation tells a three-part story exploring concepts of colonization, violence, resistance, and peace-making through collaged characters in a sci-fi environment with elements of experimental film and moody graphics.

📍Location: @assemblykingston
🗓️Time/date: Sat, Oct 10, 2:00pm (30min)

NEXT: A Primer on Urban Painting by @pabloaravena

Bringing together painters, writers, designers, and members of the international street art community, this documentary shows how this movement developed into a global culture through exchange, influence, and the power of placing art in public space.

📍Location: @upstate_films Midtown
🗓️Time/date: Sat, Oct 10, 3pm (90min)

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See you tomorrow night for Egyptian Spiritual Jazz with Abu Zeyn @adam.elabd at 7pm. Part of the proceeds benefit Palestine and Sudan. We're ready for you! Register at www.MediaSanctuary.org

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2 pm performance at the O+ Festival in Kingston!

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Tomorrow night!

An evening of sonic and visual wonder is taking place on Saturday October 3rd at 2223 Fish located at 2223 E. Dauphin Street (near the York/Dauphin MFL station & the septa 5 bus) in Philadelphia.

Co-founded by Elsa Saade (musician/puppeteer) and Tracy Chahwan (cartoonist/illustrator), This Time's Quartet is a visionary carousel quartet that brings together four dynamic artists in an immersive, multi-sensory experience where poetry, music, live illustration and puppetry converge. The quartet also features Erik Ruin (shadow puppeteer and paper-cut artist), Huda Asfour (oud and voice).

Troy, NY-based artist Nathan Meltz presents The Golem Trilogy, a 30-minute stop-motion animation with a live-scoring ensemble.

In this animation, collaged robotic humanoids and animals in a sci-fi environment are blended with elements of experimental film and expressionistic, moody graphics to tell a story in three parts exploring the concepts of colonization, violence, resistance, and peace-making. The live-scoring ensemble consists of lap-steel guitarist Steve Hammond of several popular upstate New York bands and Raven Chacon’s Lazyhorse project, bassist Adam Elabd of the Arabic improvisational project Abu Zeyn, guitarist Mark Wolfe, and Meltz on drums/percussion.

Dani Dobkin is a New York City based sound artist, composer and educator currently working within the means of sound, synthesis and ceramics. Recently their work has engaged with ideas of grief, decay, ephemerality and mycology.
Matt Sargent is a composer, guitarist, recording engineer, and music technologist based in upstate New York, where he is an assistant professor of music at Bard College.

Showtime is 7:30PM. Tickets and info at the link in bio.

See you there!

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O+ Festival 2026 countdown continues with Art Installations + Film + Animation + Multimedia 🎨🎥🎬! From Oct 9th-11th, all artists will be receiving health care services in the Artists’ Clinic throughout the weekend…thanks to your suppO+rt! 🅾️➕ wristbands are available @ the link in our bio, or: opositivefestival.org/wristbands. Every by-donation wristband sold goes directly to support access to healthcare services for artists❤️‍🩹! *Full schedule TBA!

Good Vibes are Eternal by @bamiam | Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to bask in a light cleanse of positive vibes emitting from the afterlife of our ancestors, with the hope that it helps get us through this thing called life | 10/9-11 @old_dutch_church_kingston (Fair St Side)

Swipe to see more Artists ➡️👀➡️

💥Stay tuned for O+ Festival updates, or join our mailing list @ opositivefestival.org💌

All-American Ruins: A Buzzard in the Ballroom by @allamericanruins (Blake Pfeil and @stev_hull_allen) | A fantastical audio theatre experience, beginning inside Peekskill’s abandoned Colonial Terrace. The experience slowly becomes part guided meditation, part cultural reflection, part sound expedition into the underbelly of America. Through memory, folklore, and the interior worlds of physical and spiritual ruins, listeners are called to ask: What if time isn’t something we move through, but somewhere we can return? Followed by Q&A with Pfeil and Hull-Allen | 10/9 @lgbtqcenter

🎟️GET YOUR O+ FESTIVAL WRISTBANDS TO+DAY @ opositivefestival.org/wristbands, or visit the link in our bio! Every by-donation wristband sold goes directly to support access to healthcare services for artists and musicians❤️‍🩹

💥MORE ARTIST ANNOUNCEMENTS COMING SO+ON…stay tuned for updates, or join our mailing list @ opositivefestival.org💌

Portals by Katrina Steier | Large-scale forms made of twisted dogwood stand as monuments to letting go of what no longer serves us to enter a new dimension of being | All weekend @old_dutch_church_kingston (Fair St Side)

🎟️GET YOUR O+ FESTIVAL WRISTBANDS TO+DAY @ opositivefestival.org/wristbands, or visit the link in our bio! Every by-donation wristband sold goes directly to support access

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Improv Spaces is looking forward to participating as part of the program for An Evening Over the Falls - Mount Ida's Second Annual Gala this Saturday, September 26th.

There will be a live performance by Improv Spaces Ensemble Members Trio
Featuring Alex Chang, harp | Abu Zeyn, bass and winds | djdrummernk, percussion

Get your tickets to support this vital community organization and space:
https://www.simpletix.com/e/an-evening-over-the-falls-mount-ida-s-seco-tickets-281787

Photo of djdrummernk by Sam Chabot. Photo of Alex Chang by @jessicatomaselliphotography.

@mountidapreservation

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GPS* summer flashback June 4-11, 2026 Newark + Upstate NY Newark (public & closed programs + bts rehearsals). Grateful to Alex Chang @alexachang2000 + GPS* @gps.lab & all for the unforgettable sessions.
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The Global Performance + Sound Lab [GPS*] is an inter-institutional collaboration that is a growing network and resource that can help to manifest new work, performances, research, scholarship, pedagogies, connections, and knowledge and practice sharing among those in these constantly developing interdisciplinary fields.

GPS* 2026
HUMAN + COMPUTER RELATIONS
Newark + Upstate NY

GPS* advances interdisciplinary collaboration across art, computer design, music and sound studies, embodied performance, curatorial studies, global urban studies, American studies, history, and eco-art/environmental humanities. Within the theme of human–computer relations, areas of inquiry include mapping, immersive and interactive technologies, cybernetics, and AI, approached through critically engaged, theory- and practice-based research.

The Newark portion will convene Rutgers faculty and graduate students alongside international collaborators for a working session focused on future planning. This will be followed by a series of site-based engagements in Upstate New York, including studio time/work and practice-based sessions exploring human–computer relations alongside embodied, affective, and cultural histories, ritual, healing, and artistic practice. The convening is oriented toward developing practice-based research methods, curricula, and collaborative frameworks.

ℹ️ https://performancesoundlab.com/2026-gps-program/

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