festival:festival 2018 Opening Night Party
This event took place on Aug 10, 2018
To maximize accessibility, all programming this year will be free and open to the public!
All programs will happen in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle, at Northwest Film Forum and LoveCityLove.
About
festival:festival is an arts presenting platform focusing on Seattle artists and practices that engage with intersectional structures and identities. The mission of the festival is to create vibrant spaces through creative frameworks of empowerment, healing, and intentionality with the goal of building a sustainable and accessible arts community.
festival:festival brings together and celebrates live music, performance, theatre, dance, visual arts, panel discussions, workshops, and other creative presentations removing the barriers that often separate the arts into genre-specific venues and programming.
August 10 Opening Night Programming
6:00-8:00pm: Festival Reception with lobby installation entitled Ok, Get Rid of It All by Chelsea Rodino:
Description:
These creations are on ongoing exploration of growth through devastation. Thinking about the ideas of home, feeling stuck, and what to hold onto and let go. Seeking contentment and beauty within chaos. In this creation there was no planning, everything just happened.
Artist Statement:
Chelsea Rodino generates new things utilizing a boundless range of materials and emotions. Through out her work she is continually drawn to the ideas surrounding human connection, memory, self, movement, present time, and the unconventional. While in the midst of continually learning and unlearning, Chelsea finds the process of creating to be where the most fruitful notions grow. She moves through the creative process with no clear plan, just being as present and honest as possible
7:00pm: Film Showcase featuring:
Hanan Diriye’s The Mask (2018)
Hanan Diriye is a poet and storyteller currently residing in the pacific NW. Her work is influenced by her experience as a black woman, 2nd generation American and diaspora of Somaliland.
Kamyar Mohsenin’s Bookworm (2018)
A visual portrait/documentary of Philadelphia musician Jahmir Marks, also known as BookWorm. Premiered at the Seattle Central Student Film Festival and publicly on May 25th, 2018.
Photo credit: Cameron Fletcher
OPENING NIGHT ARTISTS
Chelsea Rodino
Chelsea Rodino generates new things utilizing a boundless range of materials and emotions. Throughout her work she is continually drawn to the ideas surrounding human connection, memory, self, movement, present time, and the unconventional. While in the midst of continually learning and unlearning, Chelsea finds the process of creating to be where the most fruitful notions grow. She moves through the creative process with no clear plan, just being as present and honest as possible.
Hanan Diriye
Hanan Diriye is a poet and storyteller currently residing in the pacific NW. Her work is influenced by her experience as a black woman, 2nd generation American and diaspora of Somaliland.
Kamyar Mohsenin
Kamyar Mohsenin, 20 years of age, is an artist, filmmaker, and student from Santa Cruz, California, currently living in Seattle, WA.
festival:festival is partially funded through an Art Projects grant from 4Culture. Help pay festival:festival artists, curators, and organizers through their Kickstarter fundraising campaign with a tax-deductible donation, made here.
ADDITIONAL FESTIVAL ARTISTS
Dandy (David Rue & Randy Ford)
Déjà Speaks
Ben Gale-Schreck
Goodsteph
Guayaba
Christopher Paul Jordan
Simba Mafundikwa
Natasha Marrin
mmuumm
Matt Offenbacher
Khadija Tarver
+ more TBA!
COMMUNITY PARTNERS
LoveCityLove
Northwest Film Forum
secondnature
Youth In Focus
CURATORS
mario lemafa
artist, poet, and community organizer
http://www.mariolemafa.com
Amina Maya
designer and photographer
http://www.aminamaya.com
Sara Porkalob
arts-activist, playwright, performer, and director
http://www.saraporkalob.com
Juan Franco
Co-Founder & Organizer
Carl Lawrence
Co-Founder & Organizer