Last fall while visiting Ireland, the number 22 kept recurring on our trip, a room number, a table number, a food receipt, a sober anniversary, 2yrs, 2 months,2 days. After that a grocery trip, 22 items, totaling $220.00. We knew it had meaning, and here we are, Renee, and Alex, 22 days apart, and 22 dancers. My heart is hurting and the sheer hate and terror which is being inflicted on our country at the hands of ICE, still feels like a movie. However it’s not, I love this piece, and I am grateful that these brave and incredible artists, could exercise their rights to show respect to these 2 beautiful people, who were robbed of their right to live. Renee, and Alex, Thankyou for your bravery and sacrifice.
ResistDance is so powerful! We need all the arts - dance, singing, resistance street art, incredibly creative signs, performance of all kinds. At our Free America Walkout, we got a brass band to lead a second line through the center of town. Big, bold and lots of fun!
These dancers took my breath away. I love you have highlighted this! As an artist, I’ve been creating political art ( something I’ve never done before). I make stickers and magnets from my art as well postcards that I sell on Etsy. I love to send the postcards to congress and voters and just leave around places I go to remind people that they are not alone. And I’ve been donating 20% of my proceeds to different non profits that align with the art ( for example I created an illustration in solidarity with the people of Minnesota and will donate to Neighborhood House MN.) I’m loving seeing what fellow creatives are doing!
This is exactly what this post is about! Thank you for sharing this Allie! If you're comfortable sharing your Etsy, feel free to share it here in the comments.. I know readers here would love to see your work.
I also have my work on apparel through Bonfire, which they take care of the donating for me ( less admin work there and more time for creating lol): https://www.bonfire.com/store/do-good-7/
What a wonderful way to show what everybody is doing. I myself can't do anything due to my health and my age. I do do a lot from my phone. I sign a lot of petitions, and I forward all of them. I also send different podcasts and I donate.
With many ways of protest available it's encouraging to see the arts community participation. Music has the incredible ability to touch each of us. All emotions find representation in music. Adding dance brings movement which can be an automatic reaction to the sounds. Audio and visual expressions are ever lasting in the world. Never allow them to be taken away.
Beautiful dance choreography, sends a strong message, which we really need these days. I love the creative ways people are communicating and coming together.
The only real creative resistance I have and I’m not entirely sure the answer fits the question but: I kept feeling that I saw and understood part of the cause of a crack I see from my position as a rat within the system. One of them. One that seems to not get as much of a spotlight as I feel would be helpful, not from the accts I follow or other news I ingest. So, I set about to try to elevate voices to the algorithm via my acct tied to me via engagement whenever I caught mentions. The post but also the acct as a whole. Then, here I write the occasional post, trying to shine my own light (the admission of which is NOT a promotion nor a request to come read my nonsense!! Just the only acct I can make this comment under and have it make sense. And comment is more of a side-bar that - my own push to do things came from an internal sense of friction. I kept going ‘why doesn’t ‘x’?’ And eventually got to the - well, what can you find that you can do to help ‘x’?)
I’m also working on an idea to send nice, happy postcards to some judges making rulings I figure gets them hate. Postcards, so the people at the courthouse routing mail know the nature of the contents is nice and not sus.
Also, this might not count either but I’ve taken it upon myself to pack a very specific backpack for the protests, full of lots of things I hope to never need; wipes, eyewash, paper and pencil, etc. There are lots of extras in there. This way, should some around me sit in disbelief too long or an issue arise rapidly, I’ll be ready to help minimize the impacts for them. I feel tin hat, sure, as we have no current drama. But, I’m willing to concede it could become necessary so I wanted to be able to help any who might not see it for themselves until it’s their physical reality.
Lastly and least, probs, I personally know some people at protests and we cross reference protest or other info over text. Reddit and Substack are foreign words to them. Tho, they take the bullet that is being on fb so it’s an even exchange. Lol.
Last fall while visiting Ireland, the number 22 kept recurring on our trip, a room number, a table number, a food receipt, a sober anniversary, 2yrs, 2 months,2 days. After that a grocery trip, 22 items, totaling $220.00. We knew it had meaning, and here we are, Renee, and Alex, 22 days apart, and 22 dancers. My heart is hurting and the sheer hate and terror which is being inflicted on our country at the hands of ICE, still feels like a movie. However it’s not, I love this piece, and I am grateful that these brave and incredible artists, could exercise their rights to show respect to these 2 beautiful people, who were robbed of their right to live. Renee, and Alex, Thankyou for your bravery and sacrifice.
ResistDance is so powerful! We need all the arts - dance, singing, resistance street art, incredibly creative signs, performance of all kinds. At our Free America Walkout, we got a brass band to lead a second line through the center of town. Big, bold and lots of fun!
These dancers took my breath away. I love you have highlighted this! As an artist, I’ve been creating political art ( something I’ve never done before). I make stickers and magnets from my art as well postcards that I sell on Etsy. I love to send the postcards to congress and voters and just leave around places I go to remind people that they are not alone. And I’ve been donating 20% of my proceeds to different non profits that align with the art ( for example I created an illustration in solidarity with the people of Minnesota and will donate to Neighborhood House MN.) I’m loving seeing what fellow creatives are doing!
This is exactly what this post is about! Thank you for sharing this Allie! If you're comfortable sharing your Etsy, feel free to share it here in the comments.. I know readers here would love to see your work.
💙💙💙 thank you! My Etsy link: https://www.etsy.com/shop/RisingUpCollective
I also have my work on apparel through Bonfire, which they take care of the donating for me ( less admin work there and more time for creating lol): https://www.bonfire.com/store/do-good-7/
@Allie, I love this❤️
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Such awesome display of power. ✊🇺🇸✊
I can't wait for the next protest.
What a wonderful way to show what everybody is doing. I myself can't do anything due to my health and my age. I do do a lot from my phone. I sign a lot of petitions, and I forward all of them. I also send different podcasts and I donate.
Really appreciate your shout out to all of the creative artists out there! Imagination is a huge tool for how we resist.
With many ways of protest available it's encouraging to see the arts community participation. Music has the incredible ability to touch each of us. All emotions find representation in music. Adding dance brings movement which can be an automatic reaction to the sounds. Audio and visual expressions are ever lasting in the world. Never allow them to be taken away.
Thank you. I re-shared the ResistDance to Bluesky and Substack.
Eagles 🦅 are soaring above the capitol in resistance to tyranny and preservation of democracy!📎🙏♥️
I am fully disabled, retired and trying to stay above water fiscally
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Breath taking! Everything in this!
Beautiful dance choreography, sends a strong message, which we really need these days. I love the creative ways people are communicating and coming together.
Fixed it, thank you! :)
The only real creative resistance I have and I’m not entirely sure the answer fits the question but: I kept feeling that I saw and understood part of the cause of a crack I see from my position as a rat within the system. One of them. One that seems to not get as much of a spotlight as I feel would be helpful, not from the accts I follow or other news I ingest. So, I set about to try to elevate voices to the algorithm via my acct tied to me via engagement whenever I caught mentions. The post but also the acct as a whole. Then, here I write the occasional post, trying to shine my own light (the admission of which is NOT a promotion nor a request to come read my nonsense!! Just the only acct I can make this comment under and have it make sense. And comment is more of a side-bar that - my own push to do things came from an internal sense of friction. I kept going ‘why doesn’t ‘x’?’ And eventually got to the - well, what can you find that you can do to help ‘x’?)
I’m also working on an idea to send nice, happy postcards to some judges making rulings I figure gets them hate. Postcards, so the people at the courthouse routing mail know the nature of the contents is nice and not sus.
Also, this might not count either but I’ve taken it upon myself to pack a very specific backpack for the protests, full of lots of things I hope to never need; wipes, eyewash, paper and pencil, etc. There are lots of extras in there. This way, should some around me sit in disbelief too long or an issue arise rapidly, I’ll be ready to help minimize the impacts for them. I feel tin hat, sure, as we have no current drama. But, I’m willing to concede it could become necessary so I wanted to be able to help any who might not see it for themselves until it’s their physical reality.
Lastly and least, probs, I personally know some people at protests and we cross reference protest or other info over text. Reddit and Substack are foreign words to them. Tho, they take the bullet that is being on fb so it’s an even exchange. Lol.