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This past week I traveled to Julian, CA for a week of creative rest, reset, and community thanks to the overwhelming generosity of the @speranzafoundation. Thanks to all who made this week possible, and to the talented, open hearted artists that filled the week with so much love and joy. If you seek a world of beauty… LOOK ABOUT YOU.

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Not guilty on the DWI charge.

Max Pines and Hakim Bellamy recently took a DWI case to trial in Albuquerque’s Metropolitan Court. Our team challenged the evidence through a close review of the officer’s lapel video, questions about the breath alcohol testing, and testimony from our client and a witness.

The judge found our client not guilty of DWI—a meaningful outcome for him and his future.

In this video, Max shares the strategy behind the verdict and why we took the case to trial.

#MaxPinesLaw #Albuquerque #CriminalDefense #DWI defense

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Author and journalist T.J. English is coming to FUSION on Friday, October 9, at 6 PM as part of the Rising High Arts Festival. English is the author of Dangerous Rhythms: Jazz and the Underworld, and is currently on tour for his latest book, Blood in the Desert: The T. J. English Reader. Bringing another dimension of storytelling, Blood in the Desert spans subjects as varied as jazz, boxing, police corruption, and violence in the desert Southwest. A follow-up interview will be conducted by Hakim Bellamy, the inaugural Poet Laureate of Albuquerque, NM (2012-2014).

WHEN: Friday, October 9, 6 PM

WHERE: FUSION | 708 1st St. NW, Albuquerque, NM

WHAT: Reading & Signing by author & journalist T.J. English + Q&A with Hakim Bellamy

FREE RSVP: https://www.fusionnm.org/upcoming/2026/10/9/tj-english-reading-book-signing

@tjbabaloo

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Had the honor of attending a fundraising event for this incredible organization this morning. Together for Brothers mission is to “build the capacity of boys and young men to lead with love at all levels of our community”. Over the last five years, the organization has provided 4,500 lbs of locally grown food to families, provided over $900,000 in wages to young men doing work in the community, and is also the organization that secured free public transit since 2023. There is so much more T4B is about. Learn more and consider supporting at: www.togetherforbrothers.org

A special thank you to Hakim Bellamy for the invitation. He’s one of the founding members and continues to serve on the board.

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This Friday I’m hitting you with a big ole heap of soul. Classics & modern soul scorchers you need in your crates. Friday kicks off 12-5 at 1810 Broadway SE Albuquerque. Your new soul headquarters. #albuquerque #soulscorchers #modernsoul #classicsoul #raregrooves

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👀 Tonight 6-7:30MT! Please register at the link in our bio for our free, virtual panel discussion with an incredible group of artists from our current exhibition @theprojects_space in Tucson, Haunting Space / Holding Legacy. Tonight’s talk will be moderated by co-curator Béalleka Makau and welcomes Hakim Bellamy, Claire A. Warden and Paula Wilson.

Moderator + Co-curator: Béalleka Makau
Kenyan-born, California-raised, Béalleka Makau is a queer Black feminist recovering academic-turned-lyrical essayist and storyteller. She earned her Ph.D. in postcolonial literature and theory from UT-Austin in 2005 and was a tenure-track professor of African and African American Literature, South Asian Diasporic Literature, American Studies, and Gender & Women’s Studies at Colgate, Michigan State, and Willamette Universities until 2015.

Based in Taos since 2018, Béalleka writes about and coaches teams and individuals to unlearn divisive stories about identity and power; cultivate empathy and connection, and get free using REDE (Radical Empathy Disrupts Entitlement, “ready”) a curriculum she originated in 2017. She is fascinated by how the stories we are told—and those we create—shape and justify categorical exclusions, and how we might realize our unified whole for the sake of our interdependent future.

A former Toni Morrison scholar and passionate reader of Octavia E. Butler’s fiction for nearly 40 years, Béalleka’s writing has most recently appeared on Medium, been published in Bacopa Literary Review, and shared in numerous storytelling performances on both U.S. coasts. She is currently completing a memoir, Peculiar Intimacies: Incidents in the Life of a Recovering Blackademic, about her indigenous Kenyan/German-American ancestry; psychedelic and geographic excursions; self-emancipation from academia; and development of embodied, liberatory curricula.

HAUNTING SPACE / HOLDING LEGACY
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The Projects/Space
174 E Toole Ave, Tucson, Arizona
A collaborative project between @taosabstractartistcollective and @southwestblackartscollective
Curated by bianca gabrielle goyette, Béalleka Makau and Lauren Dana Smith.

#taos #tucson #artcollective

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HAKIM BELLAMY
HAUNTING SPACE/HOLDING LEGACY
@hakimbe

Hakim Bellamy served the City of Albuquerque as both Inaugural Poet Laureate and Deputy Director for the Department of Arts & Culture. A W.K. Kellogg Foundation Global Fellow and John F. Kennedy Center Citizen Artist Fellow, Bellamy has held adjunct faculty positions at UNM, the Institute of American Indian Arts, and served as the Creative Writing Chair at New Mexico School for the Arts. A National Poetry Slam champion, Bellamy’s first collection of poems, Swear, won the Tillie Olsen Award for Creative Writing from the Working Class Studies Association in 2012. Learn more about Hakim, his publications and performances at hakimbellamy.com.

HAUNTING SPACE / HOLDING LEGACY
8/1-10/3
The Projects/Space
174 E Toole Ave, Tucson, Arizona
A collaborative project between @taosabstractartistcollective and @southwestblackartscollective

#taos #tucson #artcollective #hakimbellamy

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Virtual Artist Panel Discussion: Haunting Space / Holding Legacy

Haunting Space + Holding Legacy Co-Curator, Béalleka Makau will be moderating/hosting a virtual artist panel discussion with Hakim Bellamy, Paula Wilson, and Claire A. Warden, diving into the ragged edges of the haunt(ing): What we choose to hold on to, what we can’t seem to shake, and what remains. Offering insight into the making of, curatorial approach to, and artist response to this exhibition. Free to attend. RSVP requested.

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#paneldiscussion #nmartists

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Hakim Bellamy @hakimbe is a poet, writer, performer, and former inaugural Poet Laureate of Albuquerque whose work is rooted in language, history, community, and radical imagination.

Hakim first found his way to poetry through hip hop and has spent more than two decades writing, performing, teaching, and creating work that gives language to the people, places, and histories that shape us.

“I create to not forget. I create to imagine more evolved futures. I create to survive. I create to sustain the communities that represent. I create to resist. I create to cultivate.”

That sense of purpose has remained constant even as Hakim's life and creative practice have continued to evolve. After completing law school and becoming a practicing attorney, he is finding a different kind of structure around his art and asking new questions about what he wants to create.

Right now, that includes developing his third collection of poems and exploring a project centered on the history of Negro Motorist Green Book locations in New Mexico.

We're grateful for Hakim, and for the wit, nuance, energy, and generous spirit he brings to this community and are excited to welcome him as an Artist in Residence with our Julian cohort.

#HakimBellamy #LincolnCityFellowship #ArtistInResidence #Poet #SpokenWord #NewMexicoArtist #CreativeCommunity

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Mes Amis <3

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Please RSVP and join us on Wednesday 9/16/26 for a free virtual artist panel discussion in response to our current exhibition. Haunting Space + Holding Legacy Co-Curator, Béalleka Makau will be moderating/hosting a discussion with Hakim Bellamy, Paula Wilson, and Claire A. Warden, diving into the ragged edges of the haunt(ing): What we choose to hold on to, what we can’t seem to shake, and what remains. Offering insight into the making of, curatorial approach to, and artist response to this exhibition. Free to attend. RSVP requested. Please register at the link in our bio 🔗

Taos Abstract Artist Collective (TAAC) and the Southwest Black Arts Collective (SBAC) announce Haunting Space + Holding Legacy, an intermodal group exhibition opening August 1, 2026 at The Projects/Space in Tucson, Arizona and running through October 3. The show brings together thirteen artists, writers and creators from across the Southwest, curated by Béalleka Makau, bianca gabrielle goyette and Lauren Dana Smith.

The exhibition asks what we hold onto and what we release - the inheritances, hauntings and histories that shape us long after their origins fade. Drawing upon the word’s etymological roots in “to frequent” and “to bring home,” the show invites haunting not as something frightening but as a form of return: a preoccupation with what we were once part of, or still are. The works in the exhibition span grief, attachment, joyful remembrance, and excavation of self and environment – surfacing what’s been buried, intentionally or not.

Alanna Airitam, Beedallo, Hakim Bellamy, Montanna Binder, Elizabeth Burden, Granville Carroll, Dora Dillistone, Dante Biss-Grayson, Julia Jameson, Rocío Rodriguez, Claire A. Warden, Paula Wilson and Caroline Yezer.

#taac #newmexico #tucson

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