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SUSAN MORGAN UNEARTHS AND UNPACKS AN UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPT AND ANSWERS A FEW OF OUR #FIFTYQUESTIONS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 Here project unearths and unpacks an unpublished, illustrated manuscript from 1935: One Hundred Wildflowers of the Pueblo Country with Tewa Indian Names and Uses.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.
A Laboratory for Experimentation, Venice was a cultural stew of innovators and risk takers.
SSB Celebrates 50 Years with an Oral History of the 70s Art Scene in LA
As an Igbo-American sound and video artist, kelechi’s work recalibrates, dismantles, and animates the conventions of performance spaces, culminating in amplifies it, doubles, trebles it.
kelechi agwuncha envisions and constructs a new framework for restaging sound artists through public activations—drawing on experimental spatial approaches found in genres like experimental music, disco, punk, and Jamaican dub
Windy City residents take a deep dive into the birth of New York’s iconic Pyramid Cocktail Lounge
SAVE THE UGLY MUSIC FESTIVAL, features music, raffles, murals, a clothing swap, games, and lots of other wacky, experimental art activities and people.
Whether transforming textile waste into beautiful handmade paper and journals or walking across the US collecting litter and connecting with people and communities, Chauncey Foster, co-founder of We Grow Eco, is a visionary—facilitating interactive science, art, and community programs built upon small, unified actions that lead to habitual, social, and systemic change.
July 25th Zoom Webinar: “We Started a Nightclub” with Susan Martin and Kestutis Nakas moderated by Yael Friedman and hosted by Village Preservation.
The finale of Lisa Mezzacappa and Beth Lisick’s audio opera set in chatrooms at the dawn of the internet airs on June 1st.
In honor of the publication of “We Started a Nightclub”: The Birth of the Pyramid Cocktail Lounge as Told by Those Who Lived It, co-author Kestutis Nakas talks with key players in the book who tell their stories recalling their friends and collaborators and the culture of the East Village in the early 80s.