10/12/2023
Join us tonight!
Today I’ll be helping film/record a performance and panel discussion at the screening of a beautiful documentary project I filmed a bit on by Andrew Purchin - What’s Home? Creative Listening Across Differences down at the The 418 Project! It’s from 7-9pm, it’s also a fundraiser and tickets are donating based, I’ll drop the link in the comments below! And here’s some more info 🔽
Please join artist and documentarian Andrew Purchin and The Free Guide, a burgeoning homeless services provider in Santa Cruz County, for this exciting community-building event and fundraiser!
See excerpts from episodes of "What’s Home? Creative Listening Across Differences," a documentary film series in which thirteen Santa Cruz based visual artists, theater artists, choreographers, writers and musicians each collaborated with both an unhoused and a housed person to make new art. The project is designed to create an open-minded atmosphere of cooperation between those of us without homes and those of us who have reliable housing, so that we can address our mutual needs for well being, dignity, and safety.
Enjoy a live performance by rap artists Alwa Gordon and Alexandra the Author of the collaborative song "Don't Give Up On Me Now." Alwa conversed with unhoused musician Sonny Lopez and housed Santa Cruz Chief of Police Bernie Escalante as part of the documentary project. From those conversations, Alwa created a beautiful song which combines two intertwining melodies, reflecting a conversation between a person who lives in a stable household with privacy and another who doesn’t have this kind of shelter/security.
Join the conversation with Alwa Gordon and Alexandra the Author, Bernie Escalante, Sonny Lopez, and other panel members for a community discussion on housing and homelessness.
Benefit for the Santa Cruz Free Guide (go to santacruzfreeguide.org to learn more about the nonprofit). To read more about "What's Home?", check out whatshome.org.
