https://pixelrave.life pixelrave Thu, 25 Mar 2021 10:09:24 +0000 https://pixelrave.life en https://pixelrave.life/Accessibility-Statement Thu, 25 Mar 2021 10:09:24 +0000 pixelrave https://pixelrave.life/Accessibility-Statement Accessibility Statement for pixelrave Website This is an accessibility statement from pixelrave. Measures to support accessibility pixelrave takes the following measures to ensure accessibility of pixelrave Website: Include accessibility as part of our mission statement. Include accessibility throughout our internal policies. Integrate accessibility into our procurement practices. Conformance status The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) defines requirements for designers and developers to improve accessibility for people with disabilities. It defines three levels of conformance: Level A, Level AA, and Level AAA. pixelrave Website is partially conformant with WCAG 2.1 level AA. Partially conformant means that some parts of the content do not fully conform to the accessibility standard. Additional accessibility considerations A mechanism for identifying the expanded form or meaning of abbreviations is available. Feedback We welcome your feedback on the accessibility of pixelrave Website. Please let us know if you encounter accessibility barriers on pixelrave Website: E-mail: pixelrave@protonmail.com Compatibility with browsers and assistive technology pixelrave Website is designed to be compatible with the following assistive technologies: Mozilla Firefox 87 with NVDA 2020.4 on Window 10 Google Chrome 89 with NVDA 2020.4 on Window 10 Firefox 86 with Talkback 9.1 on Android 6.0 Safari with Voiceover on iOS 14 Technical specifications Accessibility of pixelrave Website relies on the following technologies to work with the particular combination of web browser and any assistive technologies or plugins installed on your computer: HTML WAI-ARIA CSS JavaScript These technologies are relied upon for conformance with the accessibility standards used. Limitations and alternatives Despite our best efforts to ensure accessibility of pixelrave Website , there may be some limitations. Below is a description of known limitations, and potential solutions. Please contact us if you observe an issue not listed below. Known limitations for pixelrave Website: Contact Form: Buttons are not keyboard accesible because it is not possible to modify the standard contact form in the Cargo platform. The contact form will be replaced by another contact mechanism. Please use the email address listed on the website pixelrave@protonmail.com. Assessment approach pixelrave assessed the accessibility of pixelrave Website by the following approaches: Self-evaluation External evaluation Date This statement was created on 25 March 2021 using the W3C Accessibility Statement Generator Tool. https://pixelrave.life/VideoLiveStreaming Sat, 19 Dec 2020 15:46:32 +0000 pixelrave https://pixelrave.life/VideoLiveStreaming 19/12/2020 pixelrave @ HAU Digital Lab, livestreaming from HAU Hebbel am Ufer. Here you can still enjoy the full lenght of pixelrave live-streaming, it happened live the 19th of December 2020. pixelrave happened because the enthusiastic and generous participation of Club CoWeed (TUR), Deaf Rave (GBR), Dudakların Cengi (TUR), Go Grrrls (THA), House of Tupamaras (COL), Krip-Hop Nation (USA), Mamba Negra (BRA) and Queerwaves (TUR) TIMECODE: 00:00:00 - 00:09:37Several figures alternate in the video. In the first minutes a figure dressed in electric blue dances and moves to metallic and electric sounds. Two figures, one green and one blue, introduce the pixelrave and the next performers DEAF RAVE (Daniele Lucchini, Derin Cankaya, Salvatore Mercadante, Saverio Cantoni) 00:09:38 - 00:39:20Members of the DEAF RAVE crew introduce their project. Then the DJ set starts, interspersed with music videos.(Mc Geezers, DJ Jeffo, Rebecca Anne Whitney, Troi "DJ Chinaman" Lee) 00:09:39 - 00:40:16Two figures, one green and one blue, introduce Go Grrrls TV. 00:40:17 - 01:12:01Go Grrrls TV by&nbsp;Go Grrrls.(Amazon Sun, Azxula, Alexi, Cleo P, Dookie, Gsabale, LALALOVE, Lock, Momohime, Nookabooyah, Richard Whillas, Tar Photographer, Zymone &amp; Z Machine) 01:12:02 - 01:12:55Two figures, one green and one blue, while they are dressing theirself, introduce a performance by Dudaklarin Gengi. 01:12:56 - 01:45:49Several figures performance on a stage for Dudaklarin Gengi.(Akış Ka, Ceytengri, Madır Öktiş, Willie Ray; Camera, karebloknot, Aleyna Fox) 01:45:50 - 01:47:05Two figures, one green and one blue, while they are dressing theirself, introduce Krip-Hop Nation! 01:47:06 - 02:16:36We have a videocall between 4 person where they are presenting Krip-Hop Nation. Then the crew of Krip-Hop Nation starts their performances. (Leroy Moore, Intro; DJ Quad, Seeds Of Hip Hop - My Time To Shine; Keith Jones aka Fezo Da Mad One, AgainstDaWind - DatJazz; Toni Hickman, Hold on - This is only people pleaser) 02:16:37- 02:17:42Two figures, one green and one blue, introduce Mamba Negra! 02:17:43 - 03:11:52MAMBA NEGRA from São Paulo, Brasil,&nbsp;presents CÏKLA ELËMENTÄ, a Video-Performance, 20'12''. TRINITAS: Audre Verneck, Carmen Mawu Lima, Yris Franco; Roteiro e Direção, TRINITAS; Câmeras, Pedro Jorge (Afr0p) and Helô Duran; Edição, montagem e finalização, Laura Diaz (CARNEOSSO); Trilha Sonora Original, TETO PRETO: Laura Diaz (CARNEOSSO), Matheus Câmara (Entropia-Entalpia), Mari Herzer, William Bica; Vocais, Laura&nbsp;Diaz (CARNEOSSO), TRINITAS; Mixagem e Masterização, Matheus Câmara e Mari Herzer. Two figures, one green and one blue, introduce House of Tupamamras. House of Tupamaras performs&nbsp;Virusass.(Honey Vergony, dj; Pussy Diva, dancer; Demonia Tamara, dancer and Ana Izquierdo, editor) 03:11:53 - 03:12:53Two figures, one green and one blue, close the performance, remind people to visit their website www.pixelrave.life and invite everyoneto join the zoom party that is about to start. https://pixelrave.life/DeafRave Sat, 12 Dec 2020 15:25:39 +0000 pixelrave https://pixelrave.life/DeafRave pixelrave are big fan of Deaf Rave!We live surrounded by ableism and most of the time it is hard to us to understand that there are alternatives mostly because we never experienced those. Deaf Rave is a history of resilience, initiated by Troi “DJ Chinaman” Lee in UK that merged Drum&amp;Bass with signing performances, and much more. Troi “DJ Chinaman” Lee Founder Troi "DJ Chinaman" Lee began with a vision to give Deaf, Hearing and Disabled Artists and performers a platform to display their love for music. Deaf Rave provides entertainment with music, sign song and visual performances to an all-inclusive audience, globally and across the UK. Our aim is to unite everyone through the love and passion for music. Promoting our unique Deaf/ Disabled identity and teaching everyone about Deaf Culture. test https://pixelrave.life/MozillaHubs Sat, 19 Dec 2020 15:44:39 +0000 pixelrave https://pixelrave.life/MozillaHubs If this window looks blank please click here to visit our Mozilla Hubs chrome is the most supported browser for now. Please read below. Hubs instructions: Set up your room and devices for the best experience, as eary as possible prior the rave start (18:00) If you invite someone to watch the rave together, we recommend commecting your computer to a beamer, or a large monitor. With one place in hubs you are only allowed to choose one character and login in from one device. Any uninvited guests/characters will be kicked out, to make sure we all enjoy best performance of our machines and servers. For the best experience use only a PC/ Laptop, never a smartphone. Make sure you have good headphones or a good speaker(s) connected to your computer For the best experience we recommend to download and install the Chrome browser on your mac or PC. https://www.google.com/chrome/ In your computer, please close all unnecessary browser tabs, programs and anything else that can slow down performance of your computer. Make sure your laptop is on power supply. If you use a VR headset(e.g. HTC Vive or oter), make sure you have a WebVR compatible browser. Make sure your VR headset is properly updated. Test the Web VR in your browser at least one hour before the show starts. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/view-virtual-reality-firefox-webvr Quick way to join a room by standalone VR headset (e.g., Oculus Quest, Oculus Go, Samsung Gear) is by sharing the URL, which you then open in your headset’s browser. Starting from your desktop or smartphone, choose “Enter on Standalone VR” to generate a headset code. Open the browser in your VR headset (Firefox Reality works well). Then navigate to hubs.link and enter the room code. Enter the Hubs environment at least 20 min prior rave start Click the invitation link in the email. Follow the on-screen instructions in your browser. Make sure you can send and receive audio signals. Choose your avatar and enter the Pixelrave Main Hall The virtual space of the rave is limited to certain amount of avatars inside. In case when you arrive the space is full, you wont be able to enter the main hall with own avatar, but will be able to enjoy the show from the lobby and use the chat function. As soon as a place inside gets free, you can enter the main hall and choose or upload your own avatar and visit other rooms. Make sure you understand how to navigate the environment with move, turn and teleport functions. Use arrow keys to navigate forward, back, left and right, use mouse right click button to activate the green ray for teleport. In case your page goes black during the show, just reload it with CTRL/CMD + R, or in your browser next to the web address bar. If something goes wrong, just start with the invitation link in your emails and repeat all steps In worst cases try to reload and wait, and be patient. Since it is a prototype project, we can't promise that everything will work out perfectly. If the room is full, you can still watch from the lobby, but you won't have an avatar and won't be able to navigate the space. You can enter when there is enough space in the room. Thank you for your patience. Space Rules: At the Main Stage Please keep your microphone muted at all times. Unmuting yourself might lead to music broadcast interruptions. You are hightly encouraged to use the chat for interaction, since it is visible to all visitors. We highly encourage you though to unmute and use your microphone for conversations and share your web cam video in the chillout room and toilet. The chill out space allows you to creat 3 dimentional drawings. You can use the pen tool for this. In the main stage and chill out space, you are allowed to press G to fly. Feel free to explore the outer space! In the toilets it is not possible to fly. MOST IMPORTANTLY: WE ARE TRYING OUR BEST TO CREATE A SAFE(R) SPACE. RACISM, SEXISM, ABLEISM, HOMOPHOBIA, TRANSPHOBIA, ANY FORM OF HATE SPEECH OR HARRASMENT IS ABSOLUTELY NOT TOLERATED. If you encounter any problems, as well as need technical support to make your experience comfortable and enjoyable, please don't hesitate to contact us through our telegram group: Link to telegram group https://pixelrave.life/PartyResistance Sat, 12 Dec 2020 15:22:45 +0000 pixelrave https://pixelrave.life/PartyResistance pixelrave loves parties, an act of resistance. In Istanbul - mostly after 2014 - the LGBTQI+ communities are facing a tsunami of institutional and social discrimation, homosexuality is not illegal in Turkey, but homophobia is widespread and for many is not safe anymore to walk in the streets. Situation became even more difficult with lockdown and restriction imposed by Covid-19 sanitary emergency and the parties that where one of the very few opportunity to have in person meetings started to explore new forms of online-based solidarity. We met Queerwaves and Club CoWeed, two of the most active groups in Istanbul’s nights to learn how to rave together in the time of imposed social distancing, creating safe spaces even where&nbsp;LGBTQI+ communities are extremely endangered by violence and prosecutions. <img width="443" height="99" width_o="443" height_o="99" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bef73bab7165164938df6a3daf3aef2adc89b8011185b304d899e668c0745eb6/queerwaves-05.svg" data-mid="103421147" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" alt="[image description]: word &quot;queerwaves&quot; in white drawn with a stylised font." data-caption="[image description]: word &quot;queerwaves&quot; in white drawn with a stylised font." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/443/i/bef73bab7165164938df6a3daf3aef2adc89b8011185b304d899e668c0745eb6/queerwaves-05.svg" /> Group was founded by Melis Nots, Salih Canova, Sema Semih and Şevval Kılıç in 2014. After coming together and becoming friends as activists who have diverse experiences in LGBTQI+ movement in Turkey more than 10 years, the team members joined forces to have fun together and take care of each other with events they organize for their community and transform open spaces with gender politics. Since 2014, partying is a form of existence for the Queerwaves team, who have been involved in many events in Istanbul and organized unforgettable parties. Bringing a queer touch to Istanbul's nightlife and electronic music scene, queerwaves organize parties with special concepts and always make anywhere as queer as it can be, their priority is to provide alternative entertainment and solidarity spaces for queer folks in İstanbul. During 2020 and 2021 Queerwaves initiated a fundraising campaign to support queer nightlife workers in Istanbul. The initiative kicked in to help nightlife workers to face livelihood expenses, food and bills in a extremely difficult situation that did not receive any form of support from government and institutional channels. pixelrave invite all of you to support this initiative, you can&nbsp;donate now. <img width="1288" height="1280" width_o="1288" height_o="1280" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a27cbdbc3249bfafe4c8de2ae6997b895f795cea98bfba4bfd843b876909903a/melis-kare.jpg" data-mid="103424259" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" alt="[IMAGE DESCRIPTION]: Portrait of Melis, in red and blue lights at a party, with a wavy fabrics backdrop." data-caption="[IMAGE DESCRIPTION]: Portrait of Melis, in red and blue lights at a party, with a wavy fabrics backdrop." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a27cbdbc3249bfafe4c8de2ae6997b895f795cea98bfba4bfd843b876909903a/melis-kare.jpg" /> Melis After working many years at a lesbian club in Istanbul, Melis opened Şarlo with her partner in 2013 while having a desire of queer clubbing scene in the city. Not only the club left remarkable stories of wild parties and colorful memories to queer community, it also served as a sanctuary to LGBTI people during Gezi protests. After closing the club, Melis hasn’t stopped being a community builder, and has been organizing queer parties since 2014. While working at Charmenko (international booking agency for live music events) as a production manager she is also co-founder of Queerwaves collective in Istanbul which designed for queer community to come together and empower each other through music and dance. <img width="1288" height="1280" width_o="1288" height_o="1280" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/21e5862d2b6c4b7ef50cb9d8b3def58197563f24a850fa9b09edeaa12a84f59d/sevval-kare.jpg" data-mid="103424262" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" alt="[IMAGE DESCRIPTION]: portrait of Şevval djing at a party, surrounded by purple and orange lights." data-caption="[IMAGE DESCRIPTION]: portrait of Şevval djing at a party, surrounded by purple and orange lights." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/21e5862d2b6c4b7ef50cb9d8b3def58197563f24a850fa9b09edeaa12a84f59d/sevval-kare.jpg" /> Şevval Kılıç Şevval is playing various forms of melodic techno and house music into her sets. As a self educated dj whom started to djing in Istanbul at the queer solidarity parties she continued having gigs at many clubs in Istanbul and Berlin. She is also founding member of Queerwaves which is a collective aiming to provide alternative entertainment and solidarity spaces for queer folks in İstanbul. All the images published above here are courtesy of Queerwaves. Please follow them in their channels!instagram - linktree - website - donate now <img width="900" height="1600" width_o="900" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bcbcd1d2b2e4f05f7c43fcbca830b6bb144bd24488417074528db60d16ad0558/signal-2020-12-19-210416.jpeg" data-mid="102959990" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" alt="[IMAGE DESCRIPTION]: flyer advertising the after-party. It is black with a rainbow coloured space invaders suggesting &quot;press start&quot; and subtitles &quot;insert coins&quot;" data-caption="[IMAGE DESCRIPTION]: flyer advertising the after-party. It is black with a rainbow coloured space invaders suggesting &quot;press start&quot; and subtitles &quot;insert coins&quot;" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/900/i/bcbcd1d2b2e4f05f7c43fcbca830b6bb144bd24488417074528db60d16ad0558/signal-2020-12-19-210416.jpeg" /> On the occasion of the first pixelrave event worldwide live-streamed the 19th of December 2020 Club Coweed and Queerwaves joined forces to host a secret afterparty. Instanbul’s hottest dancefloor during pandemic times broke timezones and anywone lucky enough to get through the selection will never forget that sweaty night! A massive thanks from pixelrave to Aria Na Selectra, Dj Florence, Özgür Kaktüs and&nbsp;Şevval Kılıç for building beat after beat such a unique safe zone. <img width="430" height="184" width_o="430" height_o="184" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bf7204ef696c31fd2495a46a15f4aad0c9e9ae78f016e94454f88ceb29228349/ClubCoweed.svg" data-mid="103425134" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" alt="[IMAGE DESCRIPTION]: Club CoWeed logo, it is a C inside a circle followed by a curvy W." data-caption="[IMAGE DESCRIPTION]: Club CoWeed logo, it is a C inside a circle followed by a curvy W." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/430/i/bf7204ef696c31fd2495a46a15f4aad0c9e9ae78f016e94454f88ceb29228349/ClubCoweed.svg" /> ClubCoWeed offers you the chance to turn your living room, couch or bed into your favourite space for a while, through the parties that they organize on Zoom, the recently widely used video-conferencing app. In their events that take place on weekends, they aim to create a mutual experience with the participation of DJ's and performers from various locations, and the dances and "gullüm"* of the participants. They aim a place where many LGBTQIA+ people can exist, socialize and dance and which becomes a working space for many queers. *word in "lubunca" - Turkish queer language, meaning fun or jokes. 𝘌𝘧𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘦 They are ideally and potentially distant from traditional production methods. They aim to go out of stereotypes, hierarchical discourse and styles through the collective production process. Gender and trauma are the focus of their collective work. 𝘌𝘧𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘦 is trying to carry out their experiments with horizontal organizing mechanism, as such, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘭𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘤𝘭𝘪𝘱-𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘦𝘵-𝘓 series produced and the 𝘓𝘶𝘣𝘪𝘯𝘺𝘢 𝘋𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮 documentary series, which is fed from the same problems, are continuing. 𝘌𝘧𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘦 also continues their studies in the Department of Sociology at Boğaziçi University. <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cd36db38f9f8a3da01a9bad7e0bc05a1cacf867e01264d68aadb8d3480e1e62b/Ekran-Goruntusu-427.png" data-mid="103425450" border="0" alt="[IMAGE DESCRIPTION]: blurred and acid black and silver fluid image documenting a zoom party event." data-caption="[IMAGE DESCRIPTION]: blurred and acid black and silver fluid image documenting a zoom party event." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cd36db38f9f8a3da01a9bad7e0bc05a1cacf867e01264d68aadb8d3480e1e62b/Ekran-Goruntusu-427.png" /> Akış Ka Akış Ka was a bug crawling on cis-tem walls. Now they are turning into a dragon, spitting fire on the system's castle walls and tearing it down with their claws.. <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6c7a8d2decbcf17bfd1892c187ecd6147893d884b276c31e6549edf021c44b1a/Ekran-Goruntusu-429.png" data-mid="103425472" border="0" alt="[IMAGE DESCRIPTION]: portrait of 25 partygoers in a Club CoWeed event, their faces are outlined in black with fluid digital paint on a white background." data-caption="[IMAGE DESCRIPTION]: portrait of 25 partygoers in a Club CoWeed event, their faces are outlined in black with fluid digital paint on a white background." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6c7a8d2decbcf17bfd1892c187ecd6147893d884b276c31e6549edf021c44b1a/Ekran-Goruntusu-429.png" /> https://pixelrave.life/PopExplosion Sat, 12 Dec 2020 15:23:30 +0000 pixelrave https://pixelrave.life/PopExplosion pixelrave loves non-normative communities.The POP revolution is starting now, far from the conforming language defined by music industry and branding in the second half of the ´90s. POP is now everyone and everything, with the infinite freedom of defining themselves with unlimited language of the bodies. <img width="442" height="60" width_o="442" height_o="60" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f3d2aae0829918740e356aaef6ef5a09d8fbf007db5b6a7c5b75a79ccabde97b/DC-Logo-siyah.svg" data-mid="103433543" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" alt="[IMAGE DESCRIPTION]:Dudakların Cengi logo, white italic font in regular handwritten style." data-caption="[IMAGE DESCRIPTION]:Dudakların Cengi logo, white italic font in regular handwritten style." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/442/i/f3d2aae0829918740e356aaef6ef5a09d8fbf007db5b6a7c5b75a79ccabde97b/DC-Logo-siyah.svg" /> They are a community of queer performance artists, performing in various venues in Istanbul nightlife. By organizing performance nights and taking the stage as performers in many venues in Istanbul, they were both taking part in the entertainment industry and doing activism… up until now.Ever since they started social distancing themselves because of the Covid-19 outbreak, they continue their broadcasts through their social media channels. By doing live broadcasts of their shows like “Dudakların Cengi” or “O Perf Türkiye” and starting their Youtube/Twitch channels, they seek new ways to connect with their community and audience, and try to keep the solidarity we need strong through establishing a connection that could lift our spirits. (description from their official channels) <img width="1125" height="1583" width_o="1125" height_o="1583" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7b793f8671355b064b9e0cd2f6e615575ca5eb56ecdbd49090ae955aab045207/image_6483441.JPG" data-mid="103434452" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" alt="[IMAGE DESCRIPTION]: collage of many drag performers on their stage, with a cosmic background dominated by a glittery star sky." data-caption="[IMAGE DESCRIPTION]: collage of many drag performers on their stage, with a cosmic background dominated by a glittery star sky." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7b793f8671355b064b9e0cd2f6e615575ca5eb56ecdbd49090ae955aab045207/image_6483441.JPG" /> The golden day of Istanbul drag families ruled by open stages where many of the DC stars will also shine. There is a place for everyone who says “I can also be on that stage” –Dudakların Cengi pixelrave would like to invite you to read the following message and support with donations the&nbsp;Istanbulite Queer Performers Solidarity Fund. “We’ve built ourselves an economy with the shows we’ve been organizing for more than 2 years and the tips we’ve collected, but it is collapsed now. We have friends among us that are still students, that lost their jobs, that continue their lives without getting support from their designated families and they have become less secure than ever, right from the first days of this shutdown. Many of us living without any social security, savings or a source of income are having difficulty meeting their basic needs, particularly health and housing.In this hard and uncertain times, we need an economic solidarity network more than ever. Therefore, we’ve created this solidarity fund that all of us can contribute to, so that we can support each other with feelings of trust and responsibility. If you want to support us, you can send your contribution, either for one time or regularly. Or, you can simply share this fund with your friends.” All the images published above here are courtesy of Madır Öktiş.&nbsp;Please follow them in their channels!instagram - youtube <img width="489" height="292" width_o="489" height_o="292" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/da91121f9c5591470e3295b25af019ebd495549e8d3b79d6aecdb449040dd060/GOGRRRLSlogo-02.svg" data-mid="91989852" border="0" alt="[IMAGE DESCRIPTION]: logo Go Grrrls, the three r letters are scratched in the middle by tiger's claws." data-caption="[IMAGE DESCRIPTION]: logo Go Grrrls, the three r letters are scratched in the middle by tiger's claws." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/489/i/da91121f9c5591470e3295b25af019ebd495549e8d3b79d6aecdb449040dd060/GOGRRRLSlogo-02.svg" /> Go Grrrls are a queer collective in Thailand helding Queer Dance Party in Bangkok since 2013. We are queer collectives of DJs, Voguers, Club Kids, and Drag Queens with long-time friendship and passion for music. We aim to create fun and safe space for LGBTQI+ and beyond (all genders welcome) with music we love and freaky friends we share. Each of us represents the uniqueness of character and style formulating the strong force of queer power. Go Grrrls stand for Freedom, Diversity and Equality for all. –Go Grrrls! <img width="1651" height="1651" width_o="1651" height_o="1651" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/11e21a45fefdd75212e3ee3f26ff5065fef4fcd66124bc71816b3f832263c04a/GG1.jpg" data-mid="103435233" border="0" alt="[IMAGE DESCRIPTION]: studio portrait of Go Grrrls collective, they are sitting on white cubes on a white background, wearing cool fashion outfits, one of them has a open folding fan with tapered in pink the word SLAY and another is standing with the LGBTQ+ rainbow flag (&quot;Progress&quot; variant)." data-caption="[IMAGE DESCRIPTION]: studio portrait of Go Grrrls collective, they are sitting on white cubes on a white background, wearing cool fashion outfits, one of them has a open folding fan with tapered in pink the word SLAY and another is standing with the LGBTQ+ rainbow flag (&quot;Progress&quot; variant)." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/11e21a45fefdd75212e3ee3f26ff5065fef4fcd66124bc71816b3f832263c04a/GG1.jpg" /> All the images here are courtesy of Go Grrrls. Please follow them in their channels!instagram - youtube - facebook <img width="1290" height="1290" width_o="1290" height_o="1290" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/25e70c608a60bffaa40b01a35cc180b4d12348607e08f6c8adde24a7a6aad0cd/GG2.jpg" data-mid="103435229" border="0" alt="[IMAGE DESCRIPTION]: studio portrait of Go Grrrls collective, they are sitting on white cubes on a white background, wearing cool fashion outfits, like the one before but from a different angle." data-caption="[IMAGE DESCRIPTION]: studio portrait of Go Grrrls collective, they are sitting on white cubes on a white background, wearing cool fashion outfits, like the one before but from a different angle." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/25e70c608a60bffaa40b01a35cc180b4d12348607e08f6c8adde24a7a6aad0cd/GG2.jpg" /> https://pixelrave.life/DancefloorRiots Fri, 11 Dec 2020 11:58:10 +0000 pixelrave https://pixelrave.life/DancefloorRiots pixelrave loves revolutions! we met two South American collectives that made weapons out of their bodies and parties. Guerrilla tactiques of squatting, informal organization and nightly life stealth actions. Their language, aesthetics, stories, everything in their artistic works is revolving around their communities, they are the rising majority that is knocking down bigotry establishments on the dancefloor.&nbsp; <img width="639" height="220" width_o="639" height_o="220" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d5b20df87df650c96d359bf406e04cabdbeba8c2a57334cc15dae31118a8705e/tupamaras.svg" data-mid="103345599" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" alt="[image description]: word &quot;Tupamaras&quot; in white drawn with a stylised font." data-caption="[image description]: word &quot;Tupamaras&quot; in white drawn with a stylised font." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/639/i/d5b20df87df650c96d359bf406e04cabdbeba8c2a57334cc15dae31118a8705e/tupamaras.svg" /> House of Tupamaras is an interdisciplinary collective dedicated to the practice, circulation, and management of Ballroom and Voguing culture in Colombia. They create safe spaces for the free development of the body and gender. Taking elements of dance, performance and visual arts, they develop scenic pieces that question the differences or similarities between contemporary art and spectacle, they transit through conventional scenarios and unusual spaces in the circulation of live arts. In House of Tupamaras they explore what is generally catalogued as "Mariconeo y Pluma", stigmatized and excluded gestures and movements in public places, that is why they are interested in nightlife and the party as a place of construction of knowledge and meeting between different groups. They generate nighttime encounters between the LGBTIQ+ community and the local context. They build safe and inclusive dance floors based on mutual respect. They offer professional training spaces and practices open to the public, based on technical elements offered by Voguing, and histrionic elements of merengue (popular dances in the 80's and 90's in different contexts). (description translated in english from&nbsp;House of Tupamaras official website) <img width="1200" height="1600" width_o="1200" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f1761daf9a450e32f29770db5264334bf6606f39d5bdb079d5673e3f8730c24b/tupamaras01.jpg" data-mid="103346607" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" alt="[image descriptions]: staged portrait of Honey Vergony, Pussy Diva and Demonia Tamara on a green screen backdrop in studio. They are wearing only lingerie, high heels and short fur coats." data-caption="[image descriptions]: staged portrait of Honey Vergony, Pussy Diva and Demonia Tamara on a green screen backdrop in studio. They are wearing only lingerie, high heels and short fur coats." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f1761daf9a450e32f29770db5264334bf6606f39d5bdb079d5673e3f8730c24b/tupamaras01.jpg" /> All the images published above here are courtesy of House of Tupamaras.&nbsp;Please follow them in their channels!instagram -&nbsp;facebook -&nbsp;youtube -&nbsp;vimeo <img width="409" height="228" width_o="409" height_o="228" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5fc06a015a7a6e739a31c0d1a2ec4178a572aaa96d3fd82384dc52e49355fc5b/LOGOMAMBA.svg" data-mid="103376311" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" alt="[image description]: logo Mamba Negra, lettering mixed of maths and Latin symbols." data-caption="[image description]: logo Mamba Negra, lettering mixed of maths and Latin symbols." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/409/i/5fc06a015a7a6e739a31c0d1a2ec4178a572aaa96d3fd82384dc52e49355fc5b/LOGOMAMBA.svg" /> Mamba Negra is one of the long-time inspiration for pixelrave, we had the privilege to attend few of their events and it is always a journey in a parallel dimension, a safe zone that create precious resilient and revolutionary spaces in Brasil, confronting its populistic right-wing government and its violent normative necropolitics. Mamba Negra only can speak of themself. Poisonous serpent with libidinous nocturnal habits. Fast and fatal pounce. Eletronic temple of experimentation.audacious gang of performative snakes from São Paulo's underground. Active in São Paulo's underground scene since may 2013, was born offering a obscure and hard type of atmosphere, and by the confrontation between eletronic and acoustic, minimal organic and percussive, techno with african and Brazilian rhythms. Consolidated as a live production space, with dj sets, live jams, psychedelia, maracatu and post-tropicalisms with eletronic beats. Mamba Negra is a deep aestethic experience surrounded by an multi-language enviroment, wrapped on a mesh of hand-made work, such as cenography elements, graphic material, live vjiyng, ready made serygraphic t-shirts, trash tattoo, performatic outfit and urban intervention. (english description from Mamba Negra’s Soundcloud) <img width="2048" height="1077" width_o="2048" height_o="1077" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a5d7db3ad1143a968f68f7803597d14d69f34ad147b0a7a0acb46a633c7d0c91/PANDEMONIAS.jpg" data-mid="103377528" border="0" alt="[image description]: illustration of 7 Annux Online Festival, the seventh anniversary of Mamba Negra. It is a digital collage with a torso stabbed by several swords and metallic/graphic objects in pink, read, green and black colours." data-caption="[image description]: illustration of 7 Annux Online Festival, the seventh anniversary of Mamba Negra. It is a digital collage with a torso stabbed by several swords and metallic/graphic objects in pink, read, green and black colours." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a5d7db3ad1143a968f68f7803597d14d69f34ad147b0a7a0acb46a633c7d0c91/PANDEMONIAS.jpg" /> We had lucky chance to chat a bit with Cashu, one of the initiators of Mamba Negra. Mamba’s story, experience, strategies are really inspiring for us, they went quickly in online formats finding creative way to stay connected with their communities. And their 7 Annux Online Festival has been a blast! pixelrave Por que é tão importante para si ocupar espaços? Cashu Acessar os espaços (de fala) pode ser uma realização pessoal decorrente de privilégios estruturais, ocupá-los e ressignificá-los é uma conquista coletiva. Não existe empoderamento individual, nem linguagem de uma pessoa só. Cashu Dois extremos coexistem na música eletrônica brazyleira: o do entretenimento de massas que abocanha desde o gospel e sertanejo ao funk, hip hop, R&amp;B, EDM e tudo mais que rolar no grande gênero da música POP; e o da arte independente. Cashu Esse amplo setor é protagonizado por mulheres, pretes e LGBTQIA+ de todas as regiões do Brazyl, articulades nos centros e periferias. A comunidade de música eletrônica independente é marginalizada, acessa y alimenta indiretamente o circuito de entretenimento na política da loteria. Ela é um nicho, que é visto com maus olhos pela população comum devido o som repetitivo, mas principalmente por ser frequentado por LGBTQIA+ e pretes, de ser associada ao uso de drogas. Cashu Esses corpes sem juízo encontram-se nas festas pela construção de um ambiente de liberdade, respeito e reconhecimento das narrativas individuais num contexto de bando. Cashu Estes corpes são as festas, as festas são Totem de manifestação da vida numa realidade cercada por Tabus. Todo encontro é risco, é a medida do improvável numa enorme e desigual cidade latinoamericana. Esses corpes tornam-se (r)existência como demarcação urbana dessa comunidade. Cashu O desenvolvimento predatório da cidade de São Paulo, ao longo de sua história, com um urbanismo rodoviarista, as demandas do mercado imobiliário por novos centros de exploração e moradia criaram enormes cicatrizes. A segunda maior cidade da américa latina convive com espaços ociosos entre viadutos e praças, áreas industriais abandonadas, centenas de milhares de edifícios parados por dívidas públicas e heranças de velhas oligarquias. Durante muitos anos assistimos esses espaços permanecerem fechados ou, quando ativados pelos movimentos de moradia, culturais e por trabalhadores, violentamente expulsos. Cashu Somos uma coletividade liderada por mulheres e LGBTQIA+ que alinha sua atuação aos movimentos de luta pela retomada dos espaços físicos e subjetivos de liberdade. pixelrave Como se protege e à sua comunidade num contexto em que a política está a promover tanta violência? As suas actuações são também uma autodefesa? Cashu Respeito, afeto, trabalho, reconhecimento e dinheiro. Cashu Todos esses fatores passam por posturas individuais e coletivas. Cashu Ações como a entrada gratuita para pessoas trans e drags, água gratuita, composição da equipe de produção e de artístico são elementos essenciais para o estabelecimento de um território seguro para mulheres, pretes e LGBTQIA+ numa sociedade de morte e violência. Cashu A MAMBA é uma festa em constante transformação. Cashu Atingirmos uma equipe 95% composta por mulheres e LGBTQIA+ é uma construção de 7 anos que se expande para muito além da MAMBA. Desde 2013, muitas outras festas e coletividades surgiram: Batekoo, coletividade.Namibia, Bandida, Marsha!, Vampire Haus, Blum, Sangra Muta, Metanol, Caldo, Dusk, Houve of Divas, Dando*, Vorlat, Chernobyl, Masterplano e muitas mais. Cashu Isso representa um pouco do que significa esse movimento independente, também no sentido de profissionalização de uma geração que está articulando um circuito alternativo ao mainstream. Cashu Isso é motivo de celebração. Cashu Nós celebramos juntes e queremos o reconhecimento em vida. pixelrave Porquê conceber o seu acto performativo como experiências imersivas, criando uma espécie de mundos paralelos que estão na realidade? Cashu A MAMBA é uma espécie de respiro para a cidade e para as pessoas que não se enquadram na estrutura normativa da sociedade. Cashu O encontro é o fator improvável, como dissemos. Cashu Ao mesmo tempo, é nossa melhor chance de existir como corpes. Cashu Isso se aplica à nossa linguagem. Cashu Música, performance, design gráfico, poesia, vídeo, espaço, luz, instalação, ocupação dos espaços, elétrica, financeiro, redes sociais, segurança, todos esses elementos estão presentes em todas as nossas frentes de trabalho: festas, no selo MAMBAREC, na Rádio Vírusss, nos projetos de intervenção. Cashu É uma experiência envolvente, porque envolve muitos corpes. Cashu Queremos criar experiências que sejam gatilho do pensamento livre, da livre atuação y fruição dos corpes sem juízo na realidade Brazyleira y Latino Americana. pixelrave Durante este tempo de bloqueio que práticas desenvolveu para se manter envolvido com as suas comunidades? Cashu Em maio, mantivemos a celebração do aniversário da MAMBA com o Festival Online de 7 Annnux. Foram 4 dias de transmissão ao vivo e pré-gravada com 61 atrações musicais e performativas, oficinas e debates. Cashu Esse, sem dúvida, foi nosso maior esforço coletivo, e já foi uma loucura. Cashu Como coletividade, participamos de alguns debates e festas online nacionais e internacionais. Cashu A Rádio Vírusss realizou a série de programas da Invasão Nordestina. Cashu Com a MAMBAREC, tivemos os lançamentos de "Tragicomic Remixes" (Valesuchi e V. A., álbum), o álbum "Pedra Preta Remixes" do TETO PRETO com dois videoclipes, o EP "Dois Leões" de Tantão e os Fita também com videoclipe e agora em dezembro, o Volume 1 da Coletânea Kengaral Eletrohits. Apesar dos lançamentos serem digitais, o selo produz merchandising para a nossa lojinha da festa. Cashu Paralelamente à isso, nosso time de produção ficou o ano todo redigindo projetos para editais públicos e procurando parcerias com capital privado para levantar recursos para continuar as atividades da coletividade. Através das parcerias e do autofinanciamento do festival, por exemplo, conseguimos organizar cachês para os artistes da festa e, posteriormente, um auxílio financeiro mensal para quase 25 artistes e profissionais da coletividade. Cashu Não é nem perto do que gostaríamos de fazer para, de fato, amparar a nossa rede da cena independente. Porém, a pandemia é um momento de arrumarmos a casa, nos dedicarmos à organização estratégica de todos os setores da MAMBA e construímos a fundação desse novo momento da coletividade. Cashu Com muito trabalho de criação, redação de projetos coletivos e estudo, estamos conseguindo levantar recursos para atuar com força total em 2021 em novos formatos, mas com a mesma essência incansável das cobras. Cashu Boas coisas estão por vir! Vamos começar o ano com a abertura de um pequeno espaço cultural no centro de São Paulo. O COVIL vai abrigar o co-worqueen das MAMBAs, onde ocorrerão as Rádio Vírusss, Oficinas, Debates, Cine Clubes e pequeniníssimos eventos. Cashu Um espaço de trabalho, um espaço de encontro e experimentação para escutar música, performar, criar, bebericar, petiscar e conversar. É uma garagem cercada por um jardim tropical inacreditável bem no centro de São Paulo. Cashu A MAMBA entende que é responsabilidade das festas independentes não compactuar com a política negacionista de Jair Bolsonaro e do capital especulativo assassino. Até hoje, trabalhamos com aglomerações como artistes e como coletividades. Estamos construindo um novo espaço de articulação segura para, quando pudermos voltar às tão aguardadas festonas, podermos chegar com força total nas fábricas desativadas e ruas. pixelrave Criamos uma área de "perguntas frequentemente respondidas" no nosso website. Qual é a pergunta mais irritante que as pessoas lhe fazem e que viveria para evitar responder? Podemos colocá-la lá e eles simplesmente lêem-na. Cashu Como surgiu a MAMBA NEGRA? Cashu O governo Bolsonaro está sendo muito ruim para a cultura e para a comunidade de mulheres e LGBTQ? Cashu Como é para vocês, enquanto mulheres, atuar numa cena tão dominada por homens? Vocês já sofreram abusos e situações desagradáveis? Como foi? Cashu Como é ser músico latino americano? Cashu O que você acha que poderia mudar? pixelrave Why is it so important for you to occupy spaces? Cashu Accessing spaces (of speech) can be a personal achievement arising from structural privileges, occupying and re-signifying them is a collective achievement. There is no such thing as individual empowerment, nor one-person language. Cashu Two extremes coexist in Brazilian electronic music: mass entertainment, which includes everything from gospel and country music to funk, hip hop, R&amp;B, EDM, and everything else that rolls in the big POP music genre; and independent art. Cashu This broad sector is led by women, blacks, and LGBTQIA+ people from all regions of Brazyl, articulated in the centers and peripheries. The independent electronic music community is marginalized, accesses and indirectly feeds the entertainment circuit in the politics of the lottery. It is a niche, which is frowned upon by the common population because of its repetitive sound, but mainly because it is frequented by LGBTQIA+ and blacks, and is associated with drug use. Cashu These judgement free bodiesare found at parties by the construction of an environment of freedom, respect and recognition of individual narratives in a group context. Cashu These bodies are the parties, the parties are Totem of manifestation of life in a reality surrounded by Taboos. Every encounter is risk, it is the measure of the improbable in a huge and unequal Latin American city. These bodies become (r)existence as an urban demarcation of this community. Cashu The predatory development of the city of São Paulo throughout its history, with a highway urbanism, the demands of the real estate market for new centers of exploitation and housing have created enormous scars. The second largest city in latin america coexists with idle spaces between viaducts and squares, abandoned industrial areas, hundreds of thousands of buildings stopped due to public debts and the inheritance of old oligarchies. For many years we have watched these spaces remain closed or, when activated by housing, cultural and workers' movements, violently evicted. Cashu We are a collective led by women and LGBTQIA+ that aligns its action with the movements fighting for the retaking of physical and subjective spaces of freedom. pixelrave How do you protect yourself and your community in a context where politics is promoting so much violence? Are your performances also a self-defense? Cashu Respect, affection, work, recognition and money. Cashu All of these factors come through individual and collective stances. Cashu Actions like free admission for trans people and drags, free water, composition of the production and artistic team are essential elements in establishing a safe territory for women, blacks and LGBTQIA+ in a society of death and violence. Cashu MAMBA is a party in constant transformation. Cashu Reaching a team 95% composed of women and LGBTQIA+ is a 7-year construction that expands far beyond MAMBA. Since 2013, many other parties and collectivities have emerged: Batekoo, collective.Namibia, Bandida, Marsha!, Vampire Haus, Blum, Sangra Muta, Metanol, Caldo, Dusk, Houve of Divas, Dando*, Vorlat, Chernobyl, Masterplano and many more. Cashu This represents some of what this independent movement means, also in the sense of professionalization of a generation that is articulating an alternative circuit to the mainstream. Cashu This is cause for celebration. Cashu We celebrate together and want the recognition in life. pixelrave Why do you conceive your performative act as immersive experiences, creating a kind of parallel worlds that are in reality? Cashu MAMBA is a kind of breather for the city and for people who don't fit into the normative structure of society. Cashu The encounter is the unlikely factor, as we said. Cashu At the same time, it is our best chance to exist as bodies. Cashu This applies to our language. Cashu Music, performance, graphic design, poetry, video, space, light, installation, occupation of spaces, electricity, finance, social networks, security, all these elements are present in all our work fronts: parties, the MAMBAREC label, Radio Víruss and intervention projects. Cashu It is an immersive experience, because it involves many bodies. Cashu We want to create experiences that are triggers for free thinking, free acting, and enjoyment of the bodies without any judgment in the Brazilian and Latin American reality. pixelrave During this downtime what practices have you developed to stay involved with your communities? Cashu In May, we kept the MAMBA anniversary celebration going with the 7 Annnux Online Festival. It was 4 days of live and pre-recorded streaming with 61 musical and performance attractions, workshops and debates. Cashu This, without a doubt, was our biggest collective effort, and it was already crazy. Cashu As a collective, we participated in some national and international online debates and parties. Cashu Radio Vírusss carried out the series of programs Invasão Nordestina. Cashu With MAMBAREC we had the releases of "Tragicomic Remixes" (Valesuchi and V. A., album), the album "Pedra Preta Remixes" by TETO PRETO with two music videos, the EP "Dois Leões" by Tantão and the Fitas also with a music video and now in December, Volume 1 of the Kengaral Eletrohits Collection. Although the releases are digital, the label produces merchandising for our party store. Cashu Parallel to this, our production team spent the whole year writing projects for public funding calls and looking for partnerships with private capital to raise funds to continue the activities of the collective. Through partnerships and the festival's self-financing, for example, we were able to organize caches for the artists of the festival and, later, a monthly financial aid for almost 25 artists and professionals of the collective. Cashu It's not even close to what we would like to do to really support our independent scene network. However, the pandemic is a moment to put our house in order, to dedicate ourselves to the strategic organization of all sectors of MAMBA, and to build the foundation of this new moment of the collective. Cashu With a lot of creative work, writing of collective projects, and study, we are managing to raise funds to act with full force in 2021 in new formats, but with the same tireless essence of the snakes. Cashu Good things are coming! We will start the year with the opening of a small cultural space in downtown São Paulo. COVIL will house the co-worqueen of the MAMBAs, where Radio Vírusss, Workshops, Debates, Film Clubs, and tiny events will take place. Cashu A working space, a meeting and experimentation space to listen to music, perform, create, sip, snack, and chat. It is a garage surrounded by an unbelievable tropical garden right in the center of São Paulo. Cashu MAMBA understands that it is the responsibility of independent parties not to collude with the negationist politics of Jair Bolsonaro and murderous speculative capital. Until today, we work with agglomerations as artists and as collectivities. We are building a new space of safe articulation so that when we can return to the long awaited parties, we can arrive with full force in the deactivated factories and streets. pixelrave We created a "frequently answered questions" area on our website. What is the most annoying question people ask you that you would live to avoid answering? We can put it there and they just read it. Cashu How did the BLACK MAMBA come about? Cashu How bad is the Bolsonaro government being for the culture and for the women and LGBTQ community? Cashu What is it like for you as women to perform in such a male-dominated scene? Have you ever suffered abuse and unpleasant situations? What was it like? Cashu What is it like to be a latin american musician? Cashu What do you think you could change? All the images published above here are courtesy of Mamba Negra.&nbsp;Please follow them in their channels!instagram -&nbsp;facebook -&nbsp;youtube -&nbsp;vimeo - bandcamp https://pixelrave.life/KripHopPolitics Fri, 11 Dec 2020 11:53:39 +0000 pixelrave https://pixelrave.life/KripHopPolitics pixelrave loves Krip-Hop Nation´s music, and everything they are doing. Because it is impossible to resume with few words their discourse we are collecting here some materials generously offered by Leroy Moore, Keith Jones, DJ Quad and Toni Hickman to invite you to dive into all the incredible resources that they made available online. You should follow their digital TV channels, podcasts, Poor Press and Poor Magazine... please get yourself lost in their stories. <img width="600" height="600" width_o="600" height_o="600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/febae35db1b8c15ec6bc0f83f598fdbf945b0bed479bef91209ed761702e9df8/kriphoplogo.jpg" data-mid="91935587" border="0" alt="[IMAGE DESCRIPTION]: logo Krip-Hop Nation with a disabled breakdancer performing on a turntable" data-caption="[IMAGE DESCRIPTION]: logo Krip-Hop Nation with a disabled breakdancer performing on a turntable" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/600/i/febae35db1b8c15ec6bc0f83f598fdbf945b0bed479bef91209ed761702e9df8/kriphoplogo.jpg" /> Leroy Moore The Black Kripple aka Leroy F. Moore Jr., Founder of the Krip-Hop Nation. Since the 1990s, has been a key member of Poor Magazine that started with a column "Illin-N-Chillin" for POOR Magazine then onto a founding member of Poor Magazine’s Homefulness and Decolonize Academy, their school. Moore is one of the founding members of National Black Disability and activist around police brutality against people with disabilities. Leroy has started and helped start organizations like Disability Advocates of Minorities Organization to Sins Invalid to Krip-Hop Nation. His cultural work includes film documentary, Where Is Hope, Police Brutality Against People with Disabilities, spoken-word CDs, poetry books and children’s book, Black Disabled Art History 101 published by Xochitl Justice Press. Leroy is one of the original creator of Poor Press of Poor Magazine that has publish his books since the late 1990’s including his graphic novel, Krip-Hop Graphic Novel Issue 1: Brown Disabled Young Woman Super Hereo Brings Disability Justice to Hip- Hop was published in 2019 and 2020 under Poor Press Leroy also wrote Black Disabled Ancestors. Moore has traveled internationally networking with other disabled activists and artists. Moore has written, sang and collaborated to do music videos on Black disabled men. <img width="1600" height="1597" width_o="1600" height_o="1597" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/979306dbb3c1b4b17b315f8bf73c4d1c757f9e19a78e9d16459a3648a42ff575/Leroy-looking-so-smooth.jpg" data-mid="103501956" border="0" alt="[IMAGE DESCRIPTION]: Portrait of Leroy Moore wearing an elegant suit." data-caption="[IMAGE DESCRIPTION]: Portrait of Leroy Moore wearing an elegant suit." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/979306dbb3c1b4b17b315f8bf73c4d1c757f9e19a78e9d16459a3648a42ff575/Leroy-looking-so-smooth.jpg" /> All the images published above here are courtesy of Leroy Moore and Krip-Hop Nation. Please follow them in their channels! Krip-Hop Nation&nbsp;- National Black Disability Coalition - Poor Press Magazine - Krip News - youtube <img width="568" height="629" width_o="568" height_o="629" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/432334cce6647f603cd7031c131343a3e1813ac17d1da09c4259583b4089a1b7/quad-2.jpg" data-mid="103503157" border="0" alt="[IMAGE DESCRIPTION]: Portrait of DJ Quad while performing, holding a microphone in his left hand." data-caption="[IMAGE DESCRIPTION]: Portrait of DJ Quad while performing, holding a microphone in his left hand." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/568/i/432334cce6647f603cd7031c131343a3e1813ac17d1da09c4259583b4089a1b7/quad-2.jpg" /> DJ Quad Jesse DJ Quad Morin is a disabled hip hop artist who became paralyzed at the age of 16 from a diving accident at Venice Beach in July of 1984. But even before his accident he was always into music or as some called it back then was making noise. But little did everyone know is that the music never left him it just got stronger and with time DJ Quad developed the talent of singing and laying different instruments. It was back in elementary school where he was just singing to himself in class and his teach pointed the music teacher in his direction and that is when he started getting into singing in the school choir. Soon after that the instruments can in hand and the noise began. So a few years go by and here come the day of July 16th, 1984 and his life changed in a major way. Now paralyzed from the neck down not being able to move his arms or hands the only thing DJ Quad had at that time was his voice, It wasn’t the same as it was a few years ago but he never gave up on music. It seem be that music was actually a way from Quad to escape from the things happening around him as he was learning a new way of life and living. Now jump forward a few years where DJ Quad is captured by the music again but this time it’s in a different way and here is where the name DJ Quad was born. Yes as you might have guest it was by becoming a DeeJay back when the real DJ’s would spin records on vinyl (YES ON WAX). Once he started getting into DJing he would practice to perfect his craft, and remember here is a young man at the time still not having full function of his arms and hands, but again he never gave up and he found ways to make it work for him. Now moving forward again a few years he wanted another challenge and that was to become a music producer taking it to the next level from being a DJ but using his skills at the same time. Now as a producer / beat maker DJ Quad had so many ideas he wanted to get out of his head and that he did, as he was be making beats everyday for almost 12 hours a day. The beat production had gotten better and better, he started making beats for local artist and fellow rappers as he started a hip hop crew called 5th Battalion Ent with his best friend Fernando Escobar. DJ Quad and the 5th Battalion started putting together showcase shows all over Hollywood California and that just took off where they were running the underground hip hop scene all over California. <img width="1080" height="1080" width_o="1080" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5c55f32a404c4823ea050172066aed7fecba6a66a711b70f01bfdf6fd2bc1e15/quad-1.jpg" data-mid="103503156" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" alt="[IMAGE DESCRIPTION]: Digital drawing portraying DJ Quad wearing Los Angeles Dodgers&acute; jersey." data-caption="[IMAGE DESCRIPTION]: Digital drawing portraying DJ Quad wearing Los Angeles Dodgers´ jersey." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5c55f32a404c4823ea050172066aed7fecba6a66a711b70f01bfdf6fd2bc1e15/quad-1.jpg" /> It was about the time when DJ Quad and Leroy Moore got connected together as the Krip-Hop Nation was taking off as well. And right there is when DJ Quad and Leroy Moore began making history. DJ Quad becoming a proud member of the Krip-Hop Nation working on many if not all of the Krip-Hop Nations CD’s that have been executive produced by Leroy Moore. Krip-Hop Nation CD’s Vol’s 1, 2 and 3, Police Brutality Profiling, Krip-Hop Nations 10 year anniversary album. And we got more music coming soon in 2021. SO STAY TUNED. I hope you’re ready for it. DJ Quad projects and albums: 1st solo album titled (DJ QUAD – BRINGING THE HEAT) 2nd solo album titled (DJ QUAD – THRU THESE TAINTED EYES) 5th Battalion Ent project – &nbsp;A group album with Lyrical Onslaught Music titled THE ONSLAUGHT COMETH. And many more albums and projects with different artist around the world in many countries.. To keep up with DJ Quad you can find him on social media! facebook - instagram Keith Jones Fezo da Mad One aka Keith Jones is one of the founder of Krip-Hop Nation and nowadays the President and CEO of SoulTouchin’ Experiences. As an African American community activist and entrepreneur with cerebral palsy. As a strong advocate for independent quality living in the community, Keith Jones has participated actively in various issues that face people with disabilities. These areas include, but are not limited to housing, education, and voting access. Keith Jones is also extremely active in multi-cultural, cross-disability education and outreach efforts and has performed trainings (including train the trainer) with the purpose of strengthening outreach efforts to provide services and information to people with disabilities. Keith Jones works to not only educate the disability community about enhanced community living, but also the community at large. Keith Jones holds a strong desire to get the disability community more involved in the issues that concern their own lives. Keith&nbsp;Jones provides outreach support in relationship to the arts and independent living skills. Keith Jones has been recognized for his emerging leadership by the state of Massachusetts and President's Commission for Employment for People with Disabilities. Also, Keith Jones is the Disability Law Center’s 2011 Individual Leadership Award. (short bio from SoulTouchin´ Experiences website) Toni Hickman “Toni Alika Hickman is not only a talented singer-songwriter; she is the survivor of two brain aneurysms and a stroke,” says board-certified neurologist, pain medicine specialist, medical educator, and executive director of the Global Neuroscience Initiative Foundation’s (GNIF), Dr.Shaheen E Lakhan. In 2004, the singer/songwriter was days away from signing another record deal when she suffered a brain aneurysm. She refused to let it derail her music career, and three years later was in New Orleans to celebrate completing her album when she had a second aneurysm. While Hickman was on the operating table, she also suffered a stroke that partially paralyzed her right side. Toni was raised as a Seventh Day Adventist, and a vegetarian. Even though she has eaten meat throughout her lifetime, she has maintained mostly healthy eating habits and has been a vegetarian for over 20 years. Some people may assume that Toni’s stroke and aneurysms happened because of high blood pressure, but according to the brain aneurysm foundation, 1 in 50 people in the U.S. has a brain aneurysm, with an estimated 6 million having an unruptured aneurysm. Toni now uses her voice and &nbsp;music to inspire others. She has been featured on the Deborah Duncan Show, Radio One, featured in Shape magazine and several other publications throughout the world. She has spoken at numerous colleges and other organizations on subjects of depression and recovery, physical, mental, and spiritual health, living one’s purpose, chemicals in beauty products, and a host of other subjects. She is a speaker/performer for YoungStroke and the American Heart Association, an author, artist, Certified Naturopath, mother, &amp; Activist. Toni has spoken at several organizations and businesses throughout the United States, and featured in publications and radio in different parts of the world. Some of her speaking/performing engagements include: Austin State Capital - Georgia State University - San Francisco Public Library - Community Book Center (New Orleans) - Prarie view (College Station) - YoungStroke Conference Jacksonville, Florida - Radio One - Texas Black Expo - Women with Disabilities Conference - YoungStroke Fundraiser Washington, DC &amp; the list goes on! <img width="300" height="400" width_o="300" height_o="400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/42378cdcb2a3b1a2c20390e6668cc17f30e51e8f240ec253058031d16f09c213/tonihickman.jpg" data-mid="91937446" border="0" data-no-zoom src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/300/i/42378cdcb2a3b1a2c20390e6668cc17f30e51e8f240ec253058031d16f09c213/tonihickman.jpg" /> I never suffered with high blood pressure. Health has always been important to me, and I believe it is one of the reasons I am still alive after suffering 3 attacks that could have taken me out. –Toni Alika Hickman My daughter has done more than I could’ve ever imagined after having 2 brain aneurysms and a stroke. –Carolyn Hickman Toni now uses her voice and &nbsp;music to inspire others. She has been featured on the Deborah Duncan Show, Radio One, featured in Shape magazine and several other publications throughout the world. She has spoken at numerous colleges and other organizations on subjects of depression and recovery, physical, mental, and spiritual health, living one’s purpose, chemicals in beauty products, and a host of other subjects. She is a speaker/performer for YoungStroke and the American Heart Association, an author, artist, Certified Naturopath, mother, &amp; Activist. Toni has spoken at several organizations and businesses throughout the United States, and featured in publications and radio in different parts of the world. Some of her speaking/performing engagements include: Austin State Capital - Georgia State University - San Francisco Public Library - Community Book Center (New Orleans) - Prarie view (College Station) - YoungStroke Conference Jacksonville, Florida - Radio One - Texas Black Expo - Women with Disabilities Conference - YoungStroke Fundraiser Washington, DC &amp; the list goes on! I do the impossible all the time! –Toni Alika Hickman https://pixelrave.life/RavingOnline Sun, 06 Dec 2020 20:15:21 +0000 pixelrave https://pixelrave.life/RavingOnline pixelrave loves raving.During this pandemic time the dancefloors are left empty for sanitary reasons. We support any for of social responsibility! And we want you all to do so, but we missed the free and safe space that the temporary raving communities were building around the world. We asked Alla Popp and Ulla Heinrich how does it feels raving online. Alla Popp Alla Popperson work in live performances and scenographic installations, experimenting digital voices, natural language processing, brain stimulating music and interactive visuals. We had a nice talk about online raving experiences! Ulla Heinrich Ulla Heinrich, is a curator and founder of dgtl fmnsm festival, organizer and booker and managing director of Missy Magazine. Ulla worked at HELLERAU European Center for the Arts, with a focus on contemporary dance and performing arts. From: Ulla Heinrich Subject: Re: Pixelrave would like to talk with you :) Date: 5. December 2020 To: Saverio Cantoni, Derin Cankaya Dears, I woke up with a terrible migraine and will not be able to join a the zoom meeting in the next hours. Super sorry! Let me answer your questions quickly w some bullet points and after that I lay down. - Do you have experiences of online raving?I have actively searched for online rave/music formats from second one of the logdown, because I am also an organizer myself. In the meantime I have seen many different things, formats and rooms. what workedWhenever I went into a room/ online format with a group/friends, it worked. In general everything that is visually strong. In most cases I have looked at whole sets if the visuals were good (and when they where short like 20 minutes to 30 minutes). I only danced when I was connected with other people. In this case the private chat was really important. It was never integrated in the platforms, and took place on Telegram. The one time I was really dancing/raving at home, I prepared myself for the event, kepted the evening free, have made my environment cosy, made an online appointment with friends. After the rave it was actually very hard to be alone at home, after this feeling of connectivity and intimacy that came though the music and the chat. So maybe aftercare can also be something you can think about. In fact, when I think about it, I also was most likely to stay or to watch a set, if I knew the people who played and if the live streams were „authentic“. I remember watching a live set (and dancing a little) bc the friends of mine that where DJ-ing where a little drunk and it was very cute to watch. Also there was the chat (this time on facebook) that I enjoyed very much.didn't work for you?When I went alone I usually just checked out the form and design, tried out all possible features and then left. Even when I DJ'd myself, I never made it through a whole set of someone else. Overall, I believe that we need to learn online raving as much as we need to learn the rules of all other spaces we enter. At the moment it is not yet clear what I have to do to make an onlinerave "successful" for me. We all still lack the experience to do this. We can invent and explore this together.I will answer this question later, sorry! How do you want/feel comfortable being in a digital space, how should your phsical body be in digital dimension? Do you feel the digital spaces you inhabit in your everyday life are inclusive? If not what would you like to change?Best!U. -----------------------Ulla HeinrichGeschäftsleitung Missy MagazinePronomen: sie/her oder keine Pronomen-----------------------&nbsp; DIE NEUE MISSY IST DA! 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