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W+S vol 2 thanks for the trust💐 shots by @ryderphotographyandvideo 🎈

#music #lovers #posting

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Chicago Marathon weekend is here, and we’re teaming up with @salomon to bring an afternoon of house music to Bucktown. Join Motherboard for six hours of music from four of Chicago’s rising DJs, right inside the Salomon store. Whether you’re gearing up for race day or just looking for a reason to get out, stop by, catch a set, and spend the afternoon with us.

Tomorrow, 12–6 PM at @salomon Bucktown. All are welcome.

@valeriafride • @raye.josh • @ameerroberts • @harle.m

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Have a Fun, Safe Extended Weekend!
Each week, we open up the shop’s decks through Dig + Disconnect and Selector Saturdays — two listening-first programs that extend our education + community work into the real world.
Last week/end, the tables were held down by @harle.m , @djkevinmundt , @giggeconomy @dontsilencesam and @periellagreen — with a few familiar faces from our Miyagi Education cohorts in the mix. Come through each week to catch burgeoning talent, deep listening, and the kind of room where people grow in public (without the pressure).
Join us this Friday for Dig + Disconnect w/ @fathomdj @luxlistenings + Art of the Dig Workshop w/ @trew3000 , and Saturday for Selector Saturdays w/ @consazon_kbrn
#miyagirecords #miyagirecordshop #miyagieducation #musiccommunity #southsidechicago

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🌆 I Believe In Roof Worlds* Vol. 2 🌆
Do you want to play or book something in late sept? DM me🐌
*Title cred @anthroposcream

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Another show on my roof is coming up— This one will be weird and loud and very fun I think🦌
Flyer by @naturalblkinvention

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Chicago is, and always has been, a city of poets.

Tomorrow evening, meet us on the Arts Lawn at golden hour for the return of Poetry at the Pavilion—our monthly celebration of Chicago’s contemporary voices and the South Side legends who paved the way.

Here is what’s on deck for tomorrow: we’ll start the night with intimate readings from two incredible local forces, followed by selections from the Chicago legacy artists who inspire them. Afterward, they'll lead a guided writing session right there on the lawn. Whether you’re a seasoned writer or have never written a stanza in your life, this creative space is for you.

Meet Tomorrow's Featured Poets:
E’mon Lauren— Chicago’s very first Youth Poet Laureate, author of Commando, and a brilliant educator and organizer. She’ll be reading her own powerful work and sharing selections from the legendary Jamila Woods.

Harlem West— A sonic griot, archival image maker, curator, and Brooklyn Poets Fellow from Out South Chicago. They’ll be sharing their deeply rooted poetry alongside selections from Venus Ayalani.

Come listen, get inspired, and put your own pen to paper under the summer sky.
See you there!

Poetry at the Pavilion
Thursday, July 23 | 6:30 - 8:30 PM
The Arts Lawn | 337 East Garfield Boulevard

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Chicago is blessed with some of the most talented DJs in the country - I’d put money on that. With Sunday’s showcase, my curatorial mission is to show Black queer crowds how to critically honor this art form, which has been one of our ancestral lifelines through hardship. As you listen to each set, ask yourself:

- What about the DJ’s decisions motivates me to move? What might be their goal with each track?
- How are they keeping the crowd’s temperature in mind? Does this set feel tailored to the audience in some way?
- How is the pace of the set? Not just the BPM of one track, but how do they slow down or speed up over time?
- How are their transitions? What connections are they making across the set?
- What genres are in their repertoire and how might they speak to one another?
- Did this DJ introduce you to a new track or mix a track in a new way? Does the DJ rely on nostalgia or familiarity?

Special shout out to PG’s own DJ Rulito @beauxho, opening up our pre-show mixer tonight at 7pm. DJ @nxtlvl is on at 8pm tonight.

The rest of our incredible cohort is excited to show you what they’ve got for Sunday! $10 tix are still available, benefiting black queer mutual aid 🌹

#chicagodj #queerdj #black #music #pride

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Black queer DJs – particularly those who are dark-skinned, disabled, fat, and/or femme – are not afforded the same access to opportunities, resources or infrastructure as their non-Black counterparts. AMPLIFY seeks to correct that with a festival-style showcase celebrating Black queer DJs and centering Black queer crowds.

Friday, July 3rd, we’re inviting Black queer DJs, producers, and space makers to a pre-show mixer designed for playful connection, featuring opening sets by @beauxho97 and @nxtlvl.sh.t

Sunday, July 5th, we’ll be showcasing 11 more DJs on two simultaneous stages, along with a community resource fair, tooth gemz and grillz by @jem.junkies and a bespoke photobooth by @tonals.corner

Our 2026 cohort includes:

@adoniabree
@bonitaappleblunt_
@sherellbee
@dyaspara
@harle.m
@i.am.lovemarie
@mobeethicc
@ndulgnce
@pettymogul
@sukigeez

Houston’s @hyperfem.me will close out the showcase. Their high-energy club sets highlight Black + queer artists across the globe. Featuring funk, disco, juke, ballroom, house, and hip-hop, they craft each set with intention, threading together Black dance music from techno to trap.

As HYPERFEMME reflects, “Black people just party differently.” They honor the dance floor as a Black queer oasis - “clubs can be shelters for innovation, connection, and celebration when we run them.”

Innovating, connecting, and celebrating Black queer talent is exactly what AMPLIFY was designed to do. Come ready to dance. Be prepared to feel pure love.

#blackqueer #djs #chicagopride #sapphic

🎨: @onyi3000 free the bots 🤖

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6/19/26

if yall see any of y’all’s peoples lmk, id love to tag them and send em a scan!
⭐️

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the week of my 30th, i traveled to chicago to participate in my third exhibition and artist talk within the past year. it was a very cathartic experience. feeling the tenderness and raw emotions that come around birthdays regarding mortality. i couldn’t help but to think of my little cousins Tay and Ni’Asia who weren’t able to see their 21st or 26th birthdays. i couldn’t help but to think of the 12 year old version of me that so desperately wanted to disappear and struggled to envision what kind of future could hold me. i clap for her and protect her softness with my present fire. this is only the beginning of the rest of this beautiful, haunting and healing life. thank you to @harle.m for including my work in “Too Tender Headed”. thank you to Ninel for trusting me to help bring your vision of “The Wayward Heiress: The Antithesis of The Southern Belle” to life, thank you to my bestfriend @bettercallfev for allowing me to photograph such a pivotal time in your journey of gender excavation, and thank you to a lonely me in my brooklyn bedroom in 2022 for making something from that longing to be felt and seen. i’m so grateful for the homies who showed up to support me from far and wide. 🤍

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swipe to see how I’m pulling up to #blackyachtweekend 👀
Grateful to be included in this write up by @britticisms !
Join us at the lake tomorrow for Let’s Jam! a free Juneteenth bbq at noon-sunset. Then running over to @podlasieclub to open at 9-11pm 💃🏽✨

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Please help us congratulate Carissa Lee (@carissa_explains_most) on the upcoming presentation of THRIVAL, her sonic and performance-based work developed while in residence with @HighConceptLabs!

Then grab your tickets for this performance exploring themes of transformation, resilience, and renewal:

THRIVAL
Sunday, April 19, 6pm
At @definitiontheatre
📍1160 E. 55th Street
🎟️ Tickets at Events link in bio

The work deconstructs the sounds of survival—laughs, cries, sighs, whoops, screams, long notes, harmonies, and rhythms—and uses them as foundational elements to explore the journey from merely surviving to truly thriving. It weaves in themes of baptism and renewal, asking how we collectively navigate and transcend the challenges that define survival.

Line Up:
@harle.m
@drapetomaniak_
@kierah.king

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