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TODAY is our last event of the season 🌙 hit us up if you need a ride, but we figured today is an especially good time to engage in black femme art and healing without being afraid to leave the house 🌿 from 3-5, join us for a two hour multimedia performance & workshop! 🌺 @wizard.apprentice will be giving a multimedia concert & following up with a skillshare on Shadow Work, navigating & processing & accepting some of our more undesired emotions 🌚 PCC Cascade, Terrell Hall, room 112 from 3-5 🕸 (at PCC Cascade Campus)

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THIS SATURDAY, AUG 4th! get all up in yr feelings with the facilitated help of @wizard.apprentice 🔮 From 3-5pm we'll be experiencing a live, multimedia concert from the artist & led on a Shadow Work journey; bring ur notebook or note taking device & an open heart 🌑 We'll be meeting in Terrell Hall of the PCC Cascade Campus in room 112 🥀 this location is wheelchair accessible & is located on the first floor of the building! 🎙 Due to the white supremacy rally supposed to be taking place downtown on the same day, we're also connecting Black and Brown folks with safe rides to and from this event. 🕯 We hope to emotionally process & be mindful with you soon! (at Portland, Oregon)

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Our last event of the season will be on Saturday, Aug 4th with CA based artist @wizard.apprentice 🕯 She'll be bringing a one of a kind multi-media experience in the form of a performance & shadow work workshop consisting of guided meditation, writing exercises, & other mediums to help aid the processing of emotions commonly deemed "negative" or "undesirable."🌠 the perfect post-Blood Moon/eclipse activity 🌚This event is free, funded by the amazing Precipice Fund from PICA & a Regional Arts and Culture Council grant, & will be catered by @platanorising 🥀 3-6pm at PCC Cascade Campus . . . . . . . . . #wizardapprentice #thefirstandthelastpdx #blackartist #queerartists #qwocartist #experimentalvideo #newmediaartists #shadowwork #platanorising (at PCC Cascade Campus)

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TONIGHT ! 6pm / Alberta Abbey / see you there 🖤✨🌹✨🖤 (at Alberta Abbey)

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TOMORROW! film screening of "Sight" & "Black Genius: Memphis" by @kalimahabioto from 6-8 at @pccparagonarts 💫💫 free & fantastically catered by @platanorising 🥑 see you there!✨🌹 (at Paragon Arts Gallery)

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the art don't stop!🌹 join us and @wizard.apprentice for a live multimedia performance and tender workshop on Shadow Work, processing emotions we deem negative or undesirable through free-writing, meditation, & other guided exercises. With the upcoming eclipse and Mars Retrograde, this is sure to be something ur little heart can't miss! 🖤🌊 This event is free, from 3-6pm, & catered by @platanorising . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . #wizardapprentice #thefirstandthelastpdx #platanorising #shadowwork #qtpocartist #blackartists #pdxart #newmedia (at PCC Cascade Campus)

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So excited for this weekend! JULY 27th: film screening with Kalimah Abioto (@kalimahabioto ) at Paragon Arts Gallery catered by Platano Rising JULY 28th: video screening with Jaleesa Johnston (@jaleesa31 ) at Alberta Abbey JULY 29th: Animation Workshop with Jaleesa Johnston catered by @platanorising at Alberta Abbey All events are free, 6-8pm, & open to the public though (Trans & queer) black women and/or femmes are always prioritized in these spaces 🖤🥑 . . . . . . . . . . . #thefirstandthelastpdx #pdx #kalimahabioto #jaleesajohnston #platanorising #experimentalfilm #blackfilmmakers #qtpocartists #blackqueerartists #qwoc

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Next weekend is jam packed with events! Following the film screening Friday, we'll be hosting Jaleesa Johnston at @albertaabbeypdx on Saturday, July 28 & Sunday, the 29th 🌟 Come thru on Saturday to view & hear @jaleesa31 talk about some of their favorite black femme photographers, video artists, & creatives in new media. Then get your minds & bellies ready for a dope workshop on creating/reframing narratives via video animation catered by the wonderful @platanorising 🥑 all events are free and open to the public ✨ . . . . . . . . . . #pdx #pdxart #jaleesajohnston #platanorising #blerg #blacklifeexperientialresearchgroup #thefirstandthelastpdx #videoart #blackwomenvideomagic #blackwomeninfilm #blackfemmesinnewmedia #newmedia #videoanimationworkshop #blackpdx (at Alberta Abbey)

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it's the first of the month + y'all know what that means!✨ 26 more days til yr favorite black non-man film programming is back! 🌅 We're doing a screening with local filmmaker @kalimahabioto at @pccparagonarts on July 27th / catered by the amazing @platanorising 🌱. we. can't. WAIT. see you 🔜 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . #kalimahabioto #paragonartgallery #pdxartevents #pdxfilm #pdxfilmmakers #blackwomeninfilm #qtpoc #qtpocart #blackandqueer #blackwomendirectors #pdx #blackpdx #thefirstandthelastpdx #platanorising

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did you miss us? 🌅 we're back next month + kicking off programming with a film screening of original work at @pccparagonarts by @kalimahabioto & food from @platanorising 🔶 following that are events featuring @jaleesa31 & @wizard.apprentice 🔻 all free! see you on July 27th ✨

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we now have a site!! visit us, contact us, link us at thefirstandthelast.squarespace.com ✨

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black women are really out here doing the damn thing. today, we want to hype up friends @shouldersfilm since they've recently dropped a trailer for upcoming short film, Shoulders. Shoulders is "a story of sisterhood created through love and shared trauma. Proving that sometimes blood isn't thicker than water and your truest family may not be the people who bore you but the sister you made along the way--who will always be your home." Support the film at www.gofundme.com/shouldersfilm 💕 Shoulders was written and directed by Chanel Dupree (@artisticlaughter ) & Shot/edited by Kearah-Armonie (@kearmonie ). Please boost and share their fundraiser & if yr BK/NY based, keep ya ears open for any future screenings or events! 🖤 #Repost @shouldersfilm with @get_repost ・・・ And here it is!! The official #trailer for #shouldersfilm! Check out our Facebook page #linkinbio to see it on a bigger screen 😉

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thank you so much to @jazmine_jazzelle for bringing us #whenibethatbxtch to The First + The Last 💜 here we were led in an exercise of vulnerability & self reflection, to ground ourselves within ourselves + say what we've needed to say / how we wanna say it 〰️ thank you so much to @jamjamart with Grapefruits Arts Space for cultivating such a warm + infinite space for our multitudes 〰️ thank you so much to @platanorising for providing such delicious nourishment we STILL thinking about it the next day 〰️ & thank you to @king_the_kween @tallbianca.jpg & @fatherfannie featured here alongside @ackeefruit @jamjamart & @yungnegroartist for holding it down in the workshop & sharing yourselves wholly 🖤 see y'all in June 😉 (at Portland, Oregon)

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ONLY 3 HRS til our workshop by @jazmine_jazzelle / @deyblxk "When I Be That Bxtch You'll Know" at Grapefruits Arts Space 🌹 THIS EVENT IS OPEN ONLY TO BLACK FOLKS & PEOPLE OF COLOR ✨ Please be sure to bring your smartphones & tablets/laptops! ⚫️ this event will be catered by the amazing @platanorising 〰️ please tell yr community & we'll see you from 6:30-8:30! ❗️ 2119 N Kerby Ave Ste. D (in the alley) ⚪️ (at Portland, Oregon)

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#Repost @jazmine_jazzelle with @get_repost ・・・ blooming on Saturday #caliginouslavender . . . TONIGHT we screening CALIGINOUSlavender by @jazmine_jazzelle at 2119 N Kerby Ave ste d (#grapefruitsartspace )!! 6:30-8, bring ya people & we'll see ya there soon 💕 support blxk femmes ! ⚫️ donate to the artist directly at cash.me/$jayydodd 〰️ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . #jayydodd #blackfemmesinfilm #experimentalvideo #blackfemmesinnewmedia #newmedia #pdxartevents #pdxart #blackfemmesthriving #blackfemmemagic #thefirstandthelastpdx #blackart #queerartist #transartist (at Portland, Oregon)

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we're so hyped for jayy's arrival! They'll be featuring TOMORROW at @slamlandia & reading with @home.school.pdx at @opensignalpdx Friday before our screening & panel discussion at #grapefruitsartspace for CALIGINOUSlavender 💜🌿 support jayy's travel and stay at cash.me/$jayydodd ✨ see u soon! 〰️ (at Portland, Oregon)

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we're so close to jayy's arrival in PDX! Besides our film screening and workshop on Saturday & Sunday, they have a full schedule prepared for the beginning of May! peep the details here & be sure to mark your calendars for this week 💜⚫️💜