The CalArtian NY // June '25 // ed 7

Summer in the City: Protest, Theater, Voting, Dance, Tarotscopes

Dear Readers,

This month calls for action. Before we get into your regularly scheduled newsletter, here are suggestions from our lists … please share yours and we will update them to this post.

LA - DONATE:

• CHIRLA is California's largest immigrant rights organization.

• GoFundMe for the families of the 14 workers detained by ICE at their job at an LA garment factory.

• Follow @JailSupportLA on ig for the most up-to-date information about sending funds to support protestors.

NYC - DO:

• Justice for Mahmoud Khalil: go fund me

• Make the Road New York • Make the Road New York (MRNY) is the largest progressive grassroots immigrant-led organization in New York state.

• We Protect Us! - Know Your Rights - Make the Road New York
  (current posters with information on resisting ICE)

• Abolish ICE NY-NJ Coalition of organizers

• Jews for Racial & Economic Justice Home to NY's Jewish Left, Jews For Racial & Economic Justice (JFREJ Action) fights for an NYC that funds care not cops.

• Soft Power Vote Level up on voting in NYC. produced by regular New Yorkers.

EDUCATION

• Free ebooks on border and police abolition from Haymarket

Please email us if you have insight on how to support current students at CalArts in this unstable moment. The current anti-immigration, anti 0-1 visa rhetoric is painful to witness on many levels. The best people at CalArts, our friends, our people— are from other countries. Connect us with anyone organizing resistance or support.
Oh, and : You'll notice something new in the newsletter this month: Merkel made us some tarotscopes! Read on to find out what wisdom the cards hold for you this month. Get inspired— you too could contribute a feature or art project to this newsletter. Please pitch us at calartianny@gmail.com. We would be into it.
Take good care,

- CalArtian NY, Ásta, Shelly & Merkel

EVENTS IN TOWN

ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL

an immersive production that performs in NYC parks.
Just show up to these free and public performances.
Tuesday thru Sunday

June 3 – 22 | Central Park
June 24 – 29 | Carl Schurz Park
July 1 – 6 | The Battery (Battery Park)

Produced by New York Classical Theatre, an off-Broadway theatre company that provides 100% free classical theatre in New York City parks , while compensating all of our artists, staff, and team members at union-level wages. Kat Lopez, Music ’17 is on the board of directors and shared this info with us! (thank you Kat!) The cast also includes alum. Clay Storseth, Theater.
Though reservations are not required, you can reserve space and get more information on the website

BOB KAUFMAN AT 100 - The idea of an archive

Tuesday, June 24 6:30 PM (doors)
Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery, NYC
great lineup of readers and rare films, including Kaufman’s first reading (1973) after his 10 year silence. Readers will Include: Ama Birch, Critical Studies ‘09, & others more info.

ASSEMBLY

Thursday, June 26, 6 - 9 PM @cprnyc
ASSEMBLY is a dance theater work in which narratives emerge and unravel as a cast of seven performers navigate the intersection of movement and text scores. Each subsequent loop generates into a new stage of the one before it. Viewers are welcome to enter [and exit] at any point during the three-hour performance. Director & Choreographer: Caitlin Adams, Dance ‘14. Music Director: Jeff Aaron Bryant, Music ‘13
Tickets

SUBLIMINAL TABLE

Saturday, June 28 in Red Hook,
is a durational, open-entry installation by Caitlin Adams, at Green Lung Studio, featuring an extensive generative sound installation built from field recordings, a multi-channel video installation, and live performances unfolding throughout the day.

photo: Maria Baranova

CANNABIS! A Viper Vaudeville

Thursday July 10, 9:30 PM
CANNABIS! A Viper Vaudeville returns for a night at Joe’s Pub
"like a party where weed is the guest of honor" — The New York Times
Written by Baba Israel, Composed by Grace Galu. Directed by Nic Benacerraf Theater ‘12 Costumes by Kate Fry Theater ‘13

EVENTS OUT OF TOWN

GIOVANNI’S ROOM

Has extended through June 29 in Philadelphia! Tickets here. Featuring Michael Aurelio, Theater ‘13, as Giovanni.

THE HOUSE ON MANGO STREET

July 18 - August 15 at Glimmerglass festival in Cooperstown,NY
Amando Castro (Dance, 13) is choreographing the world premiere of this new opera based on Sandra Cisnero’s award winning book. More information and tickets on website.

TO READ

“We Must Resist With Radical Imagination”

Irina Kruzhilina, Theater ‘05, a Russian-born, New York-based theatre artist, scenographer, visual dramaturg, and educator, delivered this keynote address at the New School,“The role of the artist today is not to simply mirror society, but to challenge it—by reimagining and modeling a different one.” You can watch her read a portion online or read the full transcript.

Kim Krans Wild Unknown Tarot deck

TAROTSCOPES by MERKEL

These tarotscopes have nothing to do with this month’s astrology. I just used zodiac signs as a way to speak to an unknown audience. I shuffled the cards and asked, what does the Aries reading this need to hear? I could’ve used blood types or some other system of categorization, but honestly more people know their sun sign than their blood type. So, while for legitimate, astrologically-sound horoscopes, I usually recommend reading your rising sign, I’d say go with the sun sign here! Or not. You could do rising or moon if you identify more with one of those. The important thing is to hold a question in your mind that can’t be answered with a simple “yes” or “no,” then choose one tarot-scope to read and interpret as the response to your question.

Or you could do what I usually do with horoscopes: go in with nothing more specific than the hope to be healed and achieve my dreams, read them ALL and then forget everything right away!

Aries – Knight of Wands

Just go for it. You’re an Aries. Do you really need any more permission than this?

Taurus – The Star

Sure, it’s scary when institutions crumble, but once the walls (and ceiling) you thought were sheltering you are gone, you can look up and see the stars. Perhaps the absence of structure and security is what you need to shine too.

Gemini – The High Priestess

As tempting as it is to know it all, don’t forget to hold space for something even more important than knowledge… the unknown.

Cancer – The Magician

You’ve got all the tools you need to make it happen. Even if you feel like you’re faking it ‘til you make it, you’re still making it!

Leo – Death

What moldy veg needs to get out of the refrigerator and go to the compost heap so that something new and fresh can eventually spring from its decay?

Virgo – VIII of Pentacles

Have you ever watched a spider spin a web in real time? It happens so fast! Spinning each of those strands might seem monotonous to the spider (or it might not, we really can’t know!), but it is absolutely gorgeous to the outside observer. So keep at those repetitive tasks, you’re building something beautiful. To speed things along, why not heed that old Disney hymn (this is the CalArtian after all!) and whistle while you work!

Libra – The Moon

Stop subscribing to linear time for a moment and get down with the cyclical!

Scorpio – IV of Wands

Is that a foundation or a door you’re building? Either way it’s a portal. Concentrate on laying the necessary groundwork so you can walk right into your dreams.

Sagittarius – VIII of Cups

Just because some trophies are hard-won doesn’t mean you don’t need to set them down in order to climb the next mountain…

Capricorn – IX of Cups

… but if you’re a Capricorn it might do you good to bask in the glow of those shiny and hard-won trophies for a minute!

Aquarius – VI of Swords

All those stories (biblical, Muppet and otherwise) about the rainbow at the end of the long and necessary journey are true.

Pisces – Wheel of Fortune

If you got on the Ferris wheel just for the view from the top, you kind of missed the point of the Ferris wheel. But it’s not too late to start enjoying all the other vantage points!

Merkel is a Pisces Sun, Libra Moon, Sagittarius Rising, award-winning* actor and writer, who has deigned to give freely of her psychic abilities for the sake of this newsletter.
*The awards are almost exclusively Virginia High School League awards.

To book a tarot reading with Merkel, email SallieMerkel@gmail.com – rates are sliding scale.

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