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CopyWrite Presents: SS22 - A Streetwear Showcase | PROMO VIDEO + TICKETS
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SS22
CopyWrite Magazine present:
Street Smartz: A Streetwear Showcase
On May 22nd from 6pm-9pm, The Vatofied Experience will be collaborating with the Designers of Brick Layers Club and Planet Marcellus to offer a dynamic show that presents Black Men in fashion, a more than trendy display on Urban wear, and the ever morphing nuances of modern fashion culture.
Check out this promo video to get a glimpse of how we will be rocking SS22.
Join us on Instagram Live Today, May 19th 11am | Critics & Coffee
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The “Out of the Picture” team will return on Thursday with the latest edition of Critics & Coffee, a quick, deeply personal and caffeinated conversation among art critics on Instagram Live. You can catch it all here tomorrow at @marylouises, 10 am MT/11 am CT ☕️
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COPYWRITE MAGAZINE OFFICIAL DROP! Issue 19: Shape Shifting [Place your PRE-ORDER now!]
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In this issue of CopyWrite Magazine, we curated a group of voices that are multifaceted in their journeys. Some features show change as a means of survival, others have relearned their position in the world to combat generational disenfranchisement, and even more, have renegotiated their complacent realities for passion and purpose. Shape Shifting pay homage to the many forms creativity manifest.
Interviews w/ Razito Zulu, Steph Crosely, Style Pop Cafe, Shonn Hinton, Yaya Edmonds, and Tru West
Feel the SHIFT! CopyWrite Magazine Issue 19: Shape Shifting | Official Drop 4-15-22
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SHAPE SHIFTING | ISSUE 19 | COPYWRITE MAGAZINE | 4-15-22 |
Are you ready to feel the shift?
Your official count down starts now!
Milwaukee Chamber Theatre Presents THE ISLAND | April 8th-May 1st, 2022
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Milwaukee Chamber Theatre Presents
THE ISLAND
By Athol Fugard, John Kani, and Winston Ntshona,
April 8th-May 1st, 2022
Studio Theatre, Broadway Theatre Center
MILWAUKEE, WI – April 5th, 2022 Milwaukee Chamber Theatre is proud to announce full casting and production details for THE ISLAND by Athol Fugard, John Kani, and Winston Ntshona, directed by Mikael Burke. THE ISLAND opens Saturday, April 9th at 8pm. Preview night is set for Friday, April 8th at 7:30pm. A Pay-What-You-Choose performance is scheduled for Monday, April 11th at 7:30pm. Tickets can be purchased via the MCT website, milwaukeechambertheatre.org/tickets or by calling 414-291-7800.
Athol Fugard, John Kani, and Winston Ntshona’s THE ISLAND celebrates the depths of human resilience and offers a scathing indictment of the injustice of white supremacy. Inside a notorious maximum-security political prison, two cellmates toil at brutal hard labor by day and rehearse Sophocles’ ANTIGONE for a prison entertainment by night. When one is unexpectedly granted his release, envy and empathy, triumph and loss, and hope and despair all collide in the concentrated atmosphere as they dig into a two-thousand-year-old play that explores every human’s moral obligation to defiance of unjust government. After a critically acclaimed run in MCT’s 20/21 virtual season, this modern classic from some of South Africa’s most esteemed theater-makers is back by popular demand for a live in-person run.
“Dimonte and Sherrick were the first two Wisconsin actors approved by Actors’ Equity Association to rehearse in-person last season when we created our virtual production of THE ISLAND,” shared Artistic Director Brent Hazelton. “It is our honor to close our 21-22 Season by sharing their work in this remarkably moving production with an in-person audience who is able to react, respond, and engage in the conversations this play sparks."
THE ISLAND is Directed by Mikael Burke, with Composition and Sound Design by Peter Goode, Costume and Makeup Design by Amy Horst, Scenic and Properties Design by Stephen Hudson-Mairet, Lighting Design by Ellie Rabinowitz, Dialect Coaching by Nathan Crocker, Stage Management by Kira Neighbors, and ASM/COVID Safety Management by Sydney Smith.
“THE ISLAND speaks to our current American moment as if it were written yesterday,” said Burke. “These two men, Winston and John, are sent to the Island to be broken, to have their spirits broken. And even under the most extreme circumstances, these men manage to hold on to their spirits and conviction, through the power of art and story.”
THE ISLAND is presented by Executive Producers John Shannon and Jan Serr, and Producer J. Michael Reavis.
TICKET INFORMATION
THE ISLAND runs April 8-May 1, 2022, in The Studio Theatre located inside the Broadway Theatre Center. To purchase tickets, go to www.milwaukeechambertheatre.org/tickets , call 414-291-7800 or visit in person at 158 N. Broadway in the Historic Third Ward. For more information about MCT, the 21/22 season, how to purchase tickets, and how to donate can be found at www.milwaukeechambertheatre.org.
TALKS AND EVENTS
Pay What You Choose: April 11th 7:30pm
Talk Theatre: April 20th 12pm
TalkBacks: April 14, 21, and 28. All post-performance.
For more information on talks go to https://www.milwaukeechambertheatre.org/continuing-the-conversation.
COVID AND ATTENDEE EXPERIENCE
Beginning March 28, 2022 the Broadway Theatre Center will no longer require proof of vaccination for admittance to the facility. Milwaukee Chamber Theatre continues to require masks to be worn at all times while inside the Studio Theatre. This policy is in effect for THE ISLAND April 8 - May 1, 2022. For full details of our health and safety plan, go to https://www.milwaukeechambertheatre.org/safety
ABOUT MILWAUKEE CHAMBER THEATRE
Founded in 1975 by Montgomery Davis and Ruth Schudson, guided until 2020 by Michael Wright and Kirsten Finn, and now led by Brent Hazelton and Amy A. Salat, Milwaukee Chamber Theatre (MCT) partners with other arts organizations, community-based organizations, and universities to produce thought-provoking productions and innovative outreach programs on an intimate, human scale. As a leader in developing Milwaukee and Wisconsin’s theater community, MCT provides regular employment and a stable artistic home to local theatre professionals through a five-play subscription season, the Young Playwrights Festival (YPF), and the Montgomery Davis Play Development Series (MDPDS). MCT performs at the Broadway Theatre Center in Milwaukee’s Historic Third Ward and is a proud Member Group of the United Performing Arts Fund. For more information, to purchase tickets, or to make a donation please visit milwaukeechambertheatre.org.
HomeWorks: Bronzeville Development Initiative is "Re-imagining" Gentrification w/ Artist in Mind
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HomeWorks: Bronzeville purchases City-owned foreclosure,
reviving the decade-long vacancy as part of an artist housing cluster
As renovation will soon be on its way, the Press and community is invited to attend
HomeWorks: Bronzeville “Press Launch”, March 26, 2022 at 10:30am at the north east corner of
N. Vel R. Phillips Avenue & W. Meinecke Avenue.
“Community” development is at an all time high in Milwaukee's Bronzeville Cultural and Entertainment District. While this development spike has several stakeholders, critics, and polarizing advocates, its existence grants opportunity for communal investment that has not been seen since the disruption and displacement of the 1960’s. One group of creatives has taken on the idea of community development as a personal call to action, understanding the plight of gentrification with longing for urban life that respects new and existing neighbors. They call it HomeWorks: Bronzeville.
As of March 15th, 2022 the long anticipated acquisition of the final property in their piloted three building cluster has been achieved. The site was previously a City of Milwaukee foreclosure that has been vacant for over a decade. HomeWorks: Bronzeville can now begin its renovation of the south-facing duplex and quad demolition at 322-340 West Meinecke. The duplex will be rehabilitated into a two-story single, Artist Live-Work Space for Local and Visiting Artists (3-bedroom upper with lower level art studio) with initial tenant Alexia S. Brunson and CopyWrite Magazine. The quad will temporarily become Greenspace for year-round art installations and programs by Jazale’s Art Studio, MKE<->LAX, Food4All, I Am Milwaukee, and CopyWrite Magazine.
“While others build a place and then find the people, we find the people and then build the place,” said Vedale Hill of Jazale’s Art Studio in discussing the need for this type of creative development.
HomeWorks: Bronzeville is a development initiative based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin that emphasizes community development in its physical, economic, and social form by way of authentic arts and culture applications. At the foundation of this initiative are co-owners Vedale Hill, Sara Daleiden, and Mikal Floyd-Pruitt, who are all active members of the arts community. Their collective experiences in navigating real estate for their professional, communal, and personal creative practices have helped them form an effective ideology on creative placemaking and developing community holistically.
HomeWorks: Bronzeville centralizes their development efforts on specific qualities that are meant to challenge traditional practices and emphasize niche community needs including:
Client Specific - artist and community cultivators who are also entrepreneurs
Creating Ownership - providing opportunities to add + retain economic, cultural, and influential value
Stability - building directional infrastructure for communal longevity
Reimagining Gentrification - by changing the “how” not the “who”
Narrative Shifting - focusing on ownership as a tool for stability and growth
Transferable value - facilitating experiences that elevate authentic community practices + interest via a creative economy
Retaining creative talent pool - through genuine opportunity and consistency for artists
“It’s crucial that our shared values and aspirations frame and guide this initiative. If goals and practices aren’t part of the process, they won’t be part of the product. It’s as simple as that.” - Mikal Floyd-Pruitt, I Am Milwaukee
Their collective ideology through real world experience of displacement, eventually led them to find a location in the heart of Bronzeville with a three building cluster that they will turn into the anchor home they all envision [located at the corner of W. Meinecke Ave & N. Vel R. Phillips Ave]. This will be a place that will hold all the programmatic elements of their respective organizations and businesses, residential property for artist housing, rental studios, and community space. As of 2018, HomeWorks: Bronzeville has completed its first fully developed property in the cluster co-developed with Strong Blocks; a fully gutted duplex turned two-story artist live-work space designed for Vedale Hill and family, featuring a public gallery space on the lower level.
“We seek to cultivate Bronzeville by concentrating on properties that surround America's Black Holocaust Museum in the Harambee neighborhood portion of the district. We honor the re-emergence of the museum as a beacon for change and an archive of pertinent history for this community” - Sara Daleiden, MKE<->LAX
Homeworks: Bronzeville notes that without active collaboration reviving the site's decade-long vacancy under this type of incentive would not have been possible. Collaborators include the City of Milwaukee, Wisconsin Preservation Fund, Thurman Grant Architect, CopyWrite Magazine, Toki & Associates, Darren Hill, Jeff Lamar Brown, Gray Development Group, Food4All, Strong Blocks and other cultural leaders from the district and the city. The project has also been guided by City leadership including Alderwoman Milele Coggs, the Bronzeville Advisory Committee, the Department of City Development and the Neighborhood Improvement Development Corporation in connection with the City’s Bronzeville Redevelopment Plan, the Bronzeville Artist Housing Report and the Art and Resource Community Hub (ARCH) Loan Program.
Through support from the City’s ARCH Loan Program, Greater Milwaukee Foundation and Wisconsin Preservation Fund, HomeWorks: Bronzeville is actualizing on this artist housing cluster, in alignment with the neighboring America’s Black Holocaust Museum.
As renovation will soon be on its way, the Press and community is invited to attend HomeWorks: Bronzeville “Press Launch”, March 26, 2022 at 10:30am at the north east corner of N. Vel R. Phillips Avenue & W. Meinecke Avenue.
Always learning from the world around them, challenging the systems before them, and advocating for authentic progression in creative place-making, HomeWorks: Bronzeville believes “Community thrives on cultures.”
HomeWorks: Bronzeville is currently looking for investors for their future development projects. You can support them through their non-profit financing partner Wisconsin Preservation Fund.
Press Inquiries
Lexi S. Brunson, CopyWrite Magazine, Media Relations
General & Development Inquiries
Vedale Hill, Jazale’s Art Studio, Co-Owner
(414) 403-3000
Sara Daleiden, MKE<->LAX, Co-Owner
(323) 630-7272
About:
HomeWorks: Bronzeville is a development initiative based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Titled by its namesake, the Bronzeville Cultural and Entertainment District, this initiative emphasizes community development in its physical, economic, and social form by way of authentic arts and culture applications. Learn more at: https://homeworksbronzeville.com/CHARTER
Corridor & A Little More | An Interview with creative Weléla Mar Kindred on her life & forthcoming local Indie Film “Corridor”
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We had the awesome opportunity to virtually sit down with actress, dancer and artist, Weléla Kindred. Weléla wears so many different creative hats and has ample years of experience creating, living, and funding her own dreams. She is also the founder of the Chicago studio, ‘THE LVMB COLLECTIVE’ as you’ll find out in our interview. It was honestly humbling to myself finding out what goes into someone’s creative form simply meaning, finding out what it took [behind the scenes] to understand what she lets us experience today. You guys will get to discover ‘which hat fits when’ in our new exclusive interview with Weléla about her life and her experience in playing ‘Maria Grey’ in the new forthcoming Milwaukee-based indie-film, “Corridor.”
Want to know more about Weléla? Check out her website: https://www.lvmbcollective.com
Want to know about ‘Corridor’? Check it out here:
Keep it easy,
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Partnership Content - Artist Eats: SistaStrings at Villa Terrace
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SistaStrings at Villa Terrace
We met in early May 2021 at Villa Terrace. The unusually cold day was even colder as we were situated on Milwaukee’s east side across the street from our lakefront.
On this particular day, Monique Ross (older by 2 years) and Chauntee Ross are exhausted but ecstatic. Just 2 days prior, they announced their farewell show before moving permanently to Nashville, TN. Their departure is a harsh reminder of the importance of creating and cultivating an arts community that allows artists to flourish and get paid.
Their farewell show sold out in 72 hours. Another reminder of how incredible their contribution is to Milwaukee’s music scene and how much we’ll miss them. As of today’s writing, they’re doing well in Nashville including recently sharing the stage with Thee Brandi Carlile.
Not too shabby for the Queens of Strings. Not too shabby at all.
It’s hard to encompass all that is SistaStrings in a 10-minute video. Our conversation over FlourGirl and Flame pizza and drinks from Vibez Creative Arts Space navigated the journey of 2 black women who’ve made a home in classical music with a bit of gospel and a bit of soul.
Here’s our interview.
2022? We will be here, doing all the things we do!
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No speech this year. You see the world. We see the world. Shit. . . Anything could happen. But one thing for certain, we will be here doing what we do! 2022 we will be staying focused on our mission with humanity in mind every step of the way.
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