December 2011
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HAPPY NEW YEAR
…from the staff of Peel Pages.
Thank you for all your support and we’ll see you in 2012!
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“In some way, all art is political, even if it claims not to be. Contemporary art...”
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posted by Hatty
Stolen from the December 2011 brochure of Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, “The Politics of Art.”
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Call for Submissions -- April Print Issue
Humanity cannot help but be contoured by where and how it finds itself. How do our surroundings and attendant circumstances exert influence in our shaping as individuals? Collectively as a society? There are ways too, in which we reciprocate this pattern by turning the tables back on our milieu to define it. We pin sentiments of all kinds to the places of our abode and the spaces through which we...
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Home(lands)
posted by Molly
My powers of circular reasoning are excellent, and they have led me to this stunning conclusion: Home is where you feel at home.
Home is where you can set down our burdens and be at peace. It is a place, a person, or a language that speaks to your heart. Maybe it is a watch given to you by your in-laws that says, “Yes. This is you family now.” It is a special way of...
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the flow from the heart
posted by Hatty
A big shout out to our friends from the ReWrite!
Come to “Nam-Jai”, the 2nd showcase of the up-and-coming Asian Pacific Islander spoken word artists and poets in San Francisco Bay Area this Friday, December 16. It’s going to be another awesome time of sharing stories, writing together, and making music.
Doors open at 6 p.m. at 518 Valencia St, San Francisco....
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Constant coincidence
posted by Molly
We as human beings are surrounded by a constant flow of information pouring through all of our senses. In order to not be overwhelmed by the amount of information available, we filter. If you’ve ever been to a huge electronics store, you know what I mean. The store can set up a wall full of TVs, all playing different channels. You can see them all, in a physical sense, but...
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Want to get away?
posted by Hatty
Today, right after a meeting that didn’t go as well as I had hoped, I slowly sat back down in front of my work computer, hoping to distract myself from the frustrating reality that is work. My somewhat defeated mental state had less to do with a case of the Mondays and more to do with the thought that maybe, even after a million Mondays spent here, I wouldn’t have...
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Have you heard of seasteading? →
posted by Molly
I think of place and I think of land — cities, states, countries, and the belonging that goes with them. We wear fitted hats with our area codes, talk about East Coast/West Coast culture, and define rights according to citizenship.
That may be why it’s so strange to wrap my head around Blueseed. They’re a start up that’s hoping to allow people to do...