Call-in, Dial-up, Log-on to a community conversation of social connection. Invite your friends, grab a drink and participate in this evening's discussion and community-raising in a time of physical and social distancing.
Zoom Meeting Link: https://bit.ly/DialUpJune30
Password: DialMeIn
Join in as we participate in a guided conversation moderated by local writer and author, Kathy Y. Wilson, with local artists, entrepreneurs, and authors: Terence Hammonds, Sun Smith, and Dani McClain. These black leaders and cultural producers will discuss art in the time of radical change, how their work has been informed by similar discourse and how the current climate is changing it, and what they still see possible for the future.
Come prepared to set a safe space, to lean in and listen to experiences with empathy that may be different from your own, and to add to the conversation with respect.
Kathy Y. Wilson- is an acclaimed writer, performer, educator, and art collector largely known for her provocative column “Your Negro Tour Guide” published in CityBeat, and later adapted as a book and one-woman play. An exhibit of her collection, "Sanctuary: Kathy Y. Wilson Living in a Colored Museum", was part of the Weston's 2017 season and reconstructed as if one was stepping into her living space.
https://www.amazon.com/Kathy-Y-Wilson-2005-02-16-Paperback/dp/B003TRSN5U
Terence Hammonds- is a Printmaker and artists whose work depicts black culture, political conflict, and empowerment using appropriated images and resources. He is an instructor at the Art Academy of Cincinnati, and was the 2019 CAC artist-in-resident. His work has been shown at 21C Museum Hotel, Crystal Bridges, and his work is in the permanent collection of the Cincinnati Art Museum.
Instagram: @TerenceHammonds
Website: https://terence-hammonds-studio.myshopify.com/
Sun Smith- is the owner of Soapbox Tees, which is a creative, urban and socially conscious lifestyle clothing company. Sun is a self-taught artist, activist, writer and volunteer in the areas of worker and human rights.
Instagram: @soapboxtees
Facebook: Soapbox Tees
Website: http://www.mysoapboxtees.com/
Dani McClain- is a writer and author. Her book, "We Live for the We: The Political Power of Black Motherhood", was published April 2019. She is a contributing writer at The Nation and a fellow with Type Media Center. McClain’s writing has appeared in outlets including The New York Times, TIME, The Atlantic, Slate, Colorlines, EBONY.com and The Rumpus. In 2018, she received a James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism. Her work has been recognized by the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association, the National Association of Black Journalists, and Planned Parenthood Federation of America (via Dani's website).
Instagram: @dani_mcclain
Twitter: @drmcclain
Website: https://danimcclain.com/
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Dial-Up coordinated by Colleen O’Connor, inspired from idea by Katherine Durack: A series of dynamic and participatory community conversations with artists, musicians, entrepreneurs, and others to inspire connection to ones’ neighbors both near and far through shared-experiences.
Referencing past ways of communicating and connecting with larger groups of people through telephone party-lines and internet chat rooms – Dial-Up’s approach is inclusive and plural. It does not discriminate or eliminate participation, and intends to reflect, commiserate, and postulate on what we are currently experiencing, how we are coping, and why our world will never be the same.
This project is made possible through the management of Wave Pool and funded by The Carol Ann and Ralph V. Haile, Jr./U.S. Bank Foundation