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AND WE ARE BACK!!! The SC Bloom Virtual Retreat schedule is here!

Swipe to see the full schedule! From Tuesday, June 30th - Friday, July 3rd join us on Zoom for ✨FREE ✨workshops on preserving heritage, embracing your power, building relationships and more. This event is open to all ages. Twenty participants will receive a virtual gift card or wellness funds sent to them. Zoom links to be sent out via email before June 30th.

❤️Visit the link in our bio or go to www.waf.org/sc-bloom to sign up! Share this with anyone who wants to be a part of a community in bloom 🌸

Questions? Email coraw@waf.org

#SCBloom #LGBTQYouth #BIPOCYouth #RuralLGBTQ #QueerWellness

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We are excited to announce that @stormwaterstudiosart is starting a new series, Building Bridges. Their first program highlights LGBTQ+ artists and The Harriet Hancock Center!

Join us for the opening reception on Thursday, February 20, from 5 - 7 PM where our Executive Director, Cristina Picozzi, will be speaking about the HHC and how you can get involved in the community (and you can support some great local artists).
🗓️ Thursday, February 20th
⏰ 5 - 7 PM
📍 Stormwater Studios: 413 Pendleton St, Columbia, SC 29201

The exhibition will run from Wednesday, February 19, through Sunday, March 2, at Stormwater Studios Gallery. Visit and support these local LGBTQ+ artists during gallery hours, Wednesday to Sunday, 11 AM - 3 PM.

#columbiasc #event #lgbtqia #art

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Stormwater Studios – February Events You Can’t Miss!

Join Us to Shape the Future of Columbia’s Creative Hub!

📅 Monday, February 10 | 🕠 5:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.

Be part of an exciting conversation about the future of Stormwater Studios! This gathering will include board members, resident artists, and neighbors from One Eared Cow Glass and Lewis+Clark Studios, Clark Ellefson. Learn about upcoming events, exhibitions, and opportunities to get involved—whether through showcasing your work, volunteering, or supporting the arts in other ways. Let’s collaborate to strengthen The Vista as Columbia’s premier arts district!

Building Bridges Through Art – A Collaboration with The Harriet Hancock LGBT Center

📅 Exhibition: February 19 – March 2 | 🏛️ Gallery Hours: Wed–Sun, 11:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
🎉 Opening Reception: Thursday, February 20 | 🕔 5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
🗣️ Special Talk by Cristina Picozzi, Executive Director | 🕠 5:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.

Join us for Building Bridges, a new community-centered series that fosters diversity, understanding, and unity through art. This first exhibition features LGBTQ artists, including Brittany Watkins, Chilly Waters, Dogon Krigga, George Wenzel, Gerard Erley, Jahnna Blyden, and Mahkia Greene, in collaboration with The Harriet Hancock Center. Celebrate creativity, connect with artists, and explore how art can bring us together.

For more information on both events, visit www.stormwaterstudios.org/events/

#stormwatetstudios #lewis+clark #oneearedcowglass #clarkellefson #artsc #columbiacreativehub #community #artsupports #artists #board #columbiasc #southcarolina #art #thevistasc #scart #artgallery #HarrietHancockCenter #exhibition #LGBTQ #artists #BrittanyM.Watkins #ChillyWaters #DogonKrigga #GeorgeWenzel #Gerard Erley #Jahnna Blyden #MahkiaGreene #scpride

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Introducing our four artists being featured during our PRIDE exhibit at Koger Center this week! Every Third Thursday Koger and Jasper collaborates every month on a gallery show in the Nook, and this month we’re all about queer artists.

We’re featuring Jahnna Blyden, Kimber Carpenter, Mahkia Greene, and Quincy Pugh. Follow @kogercenterforthearts to see samples of the work and read more about them!

The art will be up all month, but come join us for a special Opening Reception this Thursday from 5:30 - 7:00pm PLUS a queer poetry reading from 6:00 - 6:30 hosted by @liberationislit

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Reposted from @castleskins We cannot wait to share this powerfully beautiful, powerfully moving, deeply engaging, and honest performance with you.

@dekinesoul is exquisite. @victoriaawkward is expressive. @zahiligz is commanding. @e.bearce is magical.

Do. Not. Miss. Thresh & Hold. Presented live and in-person TODAY at 4pm at the @boscenterforarts AND live-streamed. Pay what your heart desires.

More info in the #linkinbio and at castleskins.org

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Sunday’s performance of 🌾Thresh & Hold will feature a new COOS' collaborator film-maker Mahkia Greene (@kia.mov ).

🌾Mahkia Greene is a Columbia-based digital storyteller and teaching artist with a degree in Media Arts from the University of South Carolina (USC). Since graduating USC, Mahkia has not only been creating and experimenting with different forms of media through freelance work and personal projects, but teaching Media literacy and Video Production for over 5 years-running a collection of afterschool, in-school, and field trip programs as well as guest speaking at various
venues around the country including guest facilitating at the 2018 @ObamaFoundation Summit in Chicago, IL.
Mahkia's work often explores the intersection of media and identity in order to encourage subversive art. Some of her past programs such as 'TakeBreakMake' - an afters chool media program dedicated to LGBTQIA+ Youth and 'Lower Richland Story Lab- an in-school film program focused on aiding students to explore their rural community-are just a few examples of the mingling of art and culture Mahkia helps others to interrogate. As a Black-queer-southern artist herself, Mahkia strives to help marginalized communities retake the means of telling their own stories.

🌾Follow Mahkia at @kia.mov
🌾Watch Mahkia’s work “Rise Up!” (linked in our story)
🌾Finally JOIN US for Thresh & Hold @ 4PM on Sunday March 13th! Reserve your in-person or Live-streamed ticket by clicking the link in our bio or going to www.bit.ly/thresh_hold

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Last week, Ashleigh Gordon from Castle of or Skins joined us for a “Hello My Name Is” episode. Hear Ashleigh explain the process behind Castle of our Skins’ upcoming event Thresh & Hold and much more. If you haven’t yet, make sure you get your tickets! Castle of our Skins has made ticketing Pay-What-You-Like to make it accessible, and it’s Castle of our Skins’ last event as our Launchpad Music Residents, so you really don’t want to miss it! 🥲💖💐 🎻

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Celebrate #InternationalWomensDay and support female artists by attending or streaming 🌾Thresh & Hold🌾 this Sunday March 13th @ 4:00PM EST at the Boston Center for the Arts (@boscenterarts ) #paywhatyoulike

Featuring COOS' Shirley Graham DuBois Creative in Residence Marlanda Dekine-Sapient Soul (@dekinesoul ), Thresh & Hold is a book of their poems re-coded into a collaborative ceremony of composed and improvisational music, dance, poetry, and short film. Dekine’s poems play with past, present, and future, all held within any moment, remembering the power of Blackimagination for collective ancestral healing.

With Collaborators:
🌾Dancer Victoria Lynn Awkward (@victoriaawkward )
🌾North Carolina-based composer Brittany J. Green (@brittanyjgreenmusic )
🌾South Carolina filmmaker Mahkia Greene (@kia.mov )
🌾Cuban pianist Zahili Gonzalez Zamora (@zahiligz ), and
🌾Lighting Designer Emily Bearce (@e.bearce )

Tickets for both the live-streamed and in-person experience are PAY-WHAT-YOU-LIKE. and can be reserved here at the link in our bio or by going to www.bit.ly/thresh_hold

Thresh & Hold is co-sponsored by Boston Center for the Arts where Castle of our Skins is a Launchpad Resident. Supported, in part, from the @masscultural Council, a state agency, through a CIP Project grant; a grant from the Boston Cultural Council, administered by the Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture (@artsinboston ); and the Fromm Music Foundation.
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#coos #blackexcellence #blackcomposer #bcmc #blackartistry #bostonart #artsboston #poetry #dance #film #music #paywhatyoucan #southcarolina #northcarolina #threshandhold #boston #igersboston #artsboston #bosarts #femaleexcellence #southend #bostonevents #freeinboston #sunday #thingstodo #whm #womenshistorymonth

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1 Week from Today: Sunday March 13th at 4PM at the (@boscenterarts ) Boston Center for the Arts- 539 Tremont Street, join Shirley Graham du Bois Creative in Residence poet Marlanda Dekine-Sapient Soul (@sapientsoul ) for an evening-length, multimedia experience centered around their forthcoming full-length debut poetry collection, Thresh & Hold (Hub City Press, 2022).

With collaborative artists Victoria Lynn Awkward (@victoriaawkward ), Brittany J. Green (@brittanyjgreenmusic ), Mahkia Greene (@kia.mov ), and Zahili Gonzalez Zamora (@zahiligz ), THRESH & HOLD is a book of poems re-coded into a collaborative ceremony of composed and improvisational music, dance, poetry, and short film.

“Exhausted of singing in an empire’s hopeful choir”, Dekine’s poems play with past, present, and future, all held within any moment, remembering the power of Black imagination for collective ancestral healing.

Reserve your ticket today by clicking on the link in our bio #paywhatyoucan

Thresh & Hold is co-sponsored by Boston Center for the Arts where Castle of our Skins is a Launchpad Resident. Supported, in part, from the @MassCultural Council, a state agency, through a CIP Project grant; a grant from the Boston Cultural Council, administered by the Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture (@artsinboston ); and the Fromm Music Foundation.
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#boston #bosarts #bostonarts #artsboston #igersboston #theater #concert #blackcomposer #womenshistorymonth #femalecomposer #blackhistorymonth #blackexcellence #multimediaart #poetry #poetsofinsta #instapoet #threshandhold #coos #coos #blackartistry #bostonart

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🌾 THRESH & HOLD 🏠 Sunday March 13th at 4PM at the (@boscenterforarts ) Boston Center for the Arts- 539 Tremont Street, join Shirley Graham du Bois Creative in Residence poet Marlanda Dekine-Sapient Soul (@dekinesoul ) for an evening-length, multimedia experience centered around their forthcoming full-length debut poetry collection, Thresh & Hold (Hub City Press, 2022) (@hubcitywriters )

With collaborative artists Victoria Lynn Awkward (@victoriaawkward ) of @dancevla , North Carolina composer Brittany J. Green (@brittanyjgreenmusic ), South Carolina filmmaker Mahkia Greene (@kia.mov ), and Cuban pianist Zahili Gonzalez Zamora (@zahiligz ), THRESH & HOLD is a book of poems re-coded into a collaborative ceremony of composed and improvisational music, dance, poetry, and short film.

“Exhausted of singing in an empire’s hopeful choir”, Dekine’s poems play with past, present, and future, all held within any moment, remembering the power of Black imagination for collective ancestral healing.

Tickets for both the live-streamed and in-person experience are PAY-WHAT-YOU-LIKE. and can be reserved here https://bit.ly/3va0kCp also linked in our bio

Thresh & Hold is co-sponsored by Boston Center for the Arts where Castle of our Skins is a Launchpad Resident. Supported, in part, from the @masscultural Council, a state agency, through a CIP Project grant; a grant from the Boston Cultural Council, administered by the Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture (@artsinboston ); and the Fromm Music Foundation.
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#boston #bosarts #bostonarts #artsboston #igersboston #theater #concert #blackcomposer #womenshistorymonth #femalecomposer #blackhistorymonth #blackexcellence #multimediaart #poetry #poetsofinsta #instapoet #threshandhold #coos #coos #blackartistry #bostonart #southcarolina #northcarolina #thecarolinas

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Up Next- Sunday March 13th at 4PM at the (@boscenterarts ) Boston Center for the Arts- 539 Tremont Street, join Shirley Graham du Bois Creative in Residence poet Marlanda Dekine-Sapient Soul (@sapientsoul ) for an evening-length, multimedia experience centered around their forthcoming full-length debut poetry collection, Thresh & Hold (Hub City Press, 2022).

With collaborative artists Victoria Lynn Awkward (@victoriaawkward ), Brittany J. Green (@brittanyjgreenmusic ), Mahkia Greene (@kia.mov ), and Zahili Gonzalez Zamora (@zahiligz ), THRESH & HOLD is a book of poems re-coded into a collaborative ceremony of composed and improvisational music, dance, poetry, and short film.

“Exhausted of singing in an empire’s hopeful choir”, Dekine’s poems play with past, present, and future, all held within any moment, remembering the power of Black imagination for collective ancestral healing.

Reserve your ticket today by clicking on the link in our bio #paywhatyoucan (Suggested: $10 for students and seniors (60+) and $15 for general admission).

Thresh & Hold is co-sponsored by Boston Center for the Arts where Castle of our Skins is a Launchpad Resident. Supported, in part, from the @MassCultural Council, a state agency, through a CIP Project grant; a grant from the Boston Cultural Council, administered by the Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture (@artsinboston ); and the Fromm Music Foundation.
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#boston #bosarts #bostonarts #artsboston #igersboston #theater #concert #blackcomposer #womenshistorymonth #femalecomposer #blackhistorymonth #blackexcellence #multimediaart #poetry #poetsofinsta #instapoet #threshandhold #coos #coos #blackartistry #bostonart Sunday March 13th at 4PM at the Boston Center for the Arts- 539 Tremont Street, join Shirley Graham du Bois Creative in Residence poet Marlanda Dekine-Sapient Soul (@sapientsoul ) for an evening-length, multimedia experience centered around their forthcoming full-length debut poetry collection, Thresh & Hold (Hub City Press, 2022).

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Got to Riso a collage piece by Elizabeth Houck (@alittlebithouck / @forthegirasoles) — four color print using Blue, Fluo Pink, Bright Red, and Yellow on Cougar Domtar 110lb smooth paper. DM @forthegirasoles to purchase—$15 each, with a portion of proceeds going to @sodacitybail. She’s doing local pickup and shipping, and they'll also be on sale at @thebeautifulneighborhood thrift collective in Five Points! Thanks Elizabeth ✨ collage 📸 by: @mahkiag
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#risograph #risography #risoprint #risoprinting #risografia #printmaking

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