Fostering the Healing Power of Music
Diné/Navajo jazz-trumpet artist, composer, educator, and community leader Delbert Anderson answers some of SSB Away’s #FIFTYQUESTIONS. Anderson will play a free concert on July 24th.
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SSB AWAY RESIDENT TONY DE LOS REYES REFLECTS ON HIS WORK IN OUR #FIFTYQUESTIONS
Tony De los Reyes’ work focuses on stretches of borderlands in the high and low desert between Jacumba, California and Mexicali, Mexico—relying heavily upon photographic documentation—with its flora, fauna, and geologic intensity that seems to defy the border wall which cuts through it.
RICHARD MOCK: EARLY SSB PIONEER’S LINOCUTS ON VIEW
Way back in the day when SSB was just starting, David Ross, who lived in front of my little house in Venice, asked if I could put up a friend who was coming to LA.
SUSAN MORGAN UNEARTHS AND UNPACKS AN UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPT AND ANSWERS A FEW OF OUR #FIFTYQUESTIONS
SSB Away welcomes writer Susan Morgan to Abiquiu. Here project unearths and unpacks an unpublished, illustrated manuscript from 1935: One Hundred Wildflowers of the Pueblo Country with Tewa Indian Names and Uses.
Museum of Graffiti to Premiere Acclaimed Doc STREET HEROINES
SSB is proud to support the Premiere of Alexandra Henry’s Street Heroines in celebration of the Museum of Graffiti’s exhibition of NYC artist and icon Lady Pink.
INTRODUCING SSB AWAY’S 2021 ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE
We are pleased to present the 9 visionary artists and activists selected as this year’s SSB Away residents in Abiquiu and Tuscany. Representing multiple disciplines and approaches, their work looks to the future and expands our understanding of creative directions for positive change in ourselves, our communities, and our world.
Steve Jansen, June 2020 SSB Away Artist, Drops Seven Albums from Residency
SSB Away artist Steve Jansen drops a block of new material from Primitive Techno to Plaza Blanca field recordings destined for Section 31, a label devoted to documenting the sound-stacked environment of the Southwest.
SPECIAL SCREENING: Two Days Only!
November 16 and 17, SSB and WE CAN LISTEN present TIPPING POINT, a documentary about the largest civil rights protest in U.S. history and how Portland, Oregon emerged as its epicenter. TIPPING POINT humanizes the struggle while allowing Portland’s story to serve as a mirror for all of America — the past that brought us here and the future we choose.
What Happened Here in the Summer of 1940?
In a series of six interrelated short videos, Kenny Fries reads excerpts from his forthcoming book Stumbling over History: Disability and the Holocaust.
WHATEVER IS GENTLE AND KIND AND GOOD
Izhar Patkin’s street murals offer a preview of a full-scale exhibition of his early work set to open at Howl! Happening in September 2021.
Panelists include John Jesurun, Kestutis Nakas, Peter Littlefield, Samoa Moriki, Julie Hair, and John Kelly. Moderated by Frank Hentschker
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More than 500 people came to the HA/HA opening and 350 more to the sold out Homecoming show celebrating “We Started a Nightclub.”
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The sold out show featured performances and readings by talented pioneers from the Pyramid’s heyday.
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In celebration of “We Started A Nightclub,” Howl! Arts/Howl! Archive presents Pyramid Pioneers, an exhibition, reading, and book signing.
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“We Started A Nightclub,” an oral and narrative history of the early days of the club published by SSB and Damiani Books.
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