#astratesh

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For this installment of “Beyond the Page,” I interviewed Tanuja Devi Jagernauth—Indo-Caribbean playwright, dramaturg, organizer—about how her practices in theater, prison abolition, healing justice, and transformative justice interconnect; creating spaces for BIPOC theater-makers; doing mutual aid during and beyond the pandemic; and how she challenges systems of oppression and struggles for collective liberation through her work.

Read the interview on the Sixty Inches from Center website. Jagernauth’s short play, To Know A Neighbor, is also embedded within the article!

Image description #1: Tanuja Devi Jagernauth. In this medium close-up photo, a self-portrait, Jagernauth looks at the camera with a firm expression. She wears glasses, red lipstick, hoop earrings, a headwrap, and a black cardigan over a black shirt that reads “WE DON’T PLAY,” repeated. Photo courtesy of the artist.

Image description #2: A digital illustration with four overlapping quadrants. In the top left-hand corner, three bees face a section of honeycomb. In the bottom left-hand corner, two people smile behind transparent face masks, each person holding part of a bag’s handle. The bag depicts a heart against a tree, with a broad circle behind that. In the bottom right-hand corner, a hand holds a pencil poised above the first line of a new sheet of paper. In the top right-hand corner, hand-written words float in the air (action, mutual aid, building, alignment, restructuring, bravery, struggle, ideas, collaboration), with dark blue, purple, and pink shading behind each. The left side of the illustration is yellow, the right side is blue, and they fade together to make green in the middle. Illustration by Teshika Silver (@astratesh).

[anysquared]

ART OFF! a live art + slaps event Postponed: Date To Be Announced Hairpin Arts Center 2810 N Milwaukee | Chicago

ART-OFF! is an art extravaganza featuring live painting, slaps making tables, and artmaking for the public!! Live painters will have 2.5 hours to complete their art, the audience votes on 3 winners, and the top 3 artists win cool prizes. Our slaps making table is open to all, and the slap that gets the most votes also wins a prize. We'll projecting prompts of progress created from audience participation to inspire artists to think about Life In Progress. Live Artists featured at the event include: Mario Mena @hyperdimentionalbeing • Squeak Starzula @squeakstarzula • Akeem @aiselife • Joos @1.s00j • Delisha@delisha___ • Natalia Sustaita @susta.art • Natalia Virafuentes @virafuentes_art • Tekisha Silver https://www.instagram.com/astratesh • Jeff Pak @jpak4ever • Mosher @moshershow • Zach Bartz @imzachbartz • Hailey Marie @hai_ey • Don @Don.mega.art  • Alice Robeson @teamalice42  NOTE: We have a limited number of open sign-up spots for the the live-art contest! ARRIVE EARLY to get those extra spots! ____

Part of AnySquared's LIP 20/20 Exhibit & Arts Festival March 7–28, 2020

LIP = Life in Progress  |  The LIP 20/20 Exhibit & Arts Festival showcases work that expresses definitions and/or critiques of progress that provokes, challenges, or illustrates. Through all media, artists represent, examine, analyze, or dissect what is actual progress, what some consider progress, and what is not. LIP 20/20 seeks to answer and explore this concept with our work, our art, in our communities, and as human beings, both in the city and the world.  #LIP2020 ____ AnySquared is an all-volunteer collaborative and artists network. Propelled by a deep sense of cooperation with artists, neighbors and the wider community, our mission is to support, produce and promote collaborative projects that facilitate arts activities through inclusive participation. AnySquared.com projects@anysquared.com ig | ne2_gallerysquared facebook | AnySquared twitter | AnySquared

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Yooo good times had at @earphoriachicago Big respect to all the bands. Yooo @cordobachi was on some ole' Brian Auger's Oblivion Express type ah schit. I Didn't see that coming! Loved it! (That Korg SV1💕) Big love to @raebees For inviting me to show some artwork. Shout out to @astratesh . Her work is super fresh. (Totally didn't get photos. Not even of my own work 🤔) Shout out to Ben and Manu 🙏🏽 ✌🏽 (thank you) And extra super shout out from the mountain top to @art_by_betty_heredia @evoniz and @zana_zeta for coming thru and supporting. You ladies are thee raddest around town. Love and blessings. (at Earphoria: Chicago) https://www.instagram.com/p/BxVSGJllc1y/?igshid=1jtf4yu08kf2j