O1ARTS - NEWSLETTER - OCT 2018 vol.1 – CONNECTING OVER 4,600 CREATIVES
Kiki Coquette is Neo-Burlesque Performer, Producer, Choreographer, Dance Instructor, Entrepreneur, Multi-Disciplined Artist, Art Activist, Troupe Leader and Founder Of Rebelle Birds Burlesque in Ogden, Utah and founding Director of UVBC- The Utah Vaudeville & Burlesque Collective.
Kiki has an upcoming showing in the October 5th First Friday Art Stroll at Ogden Uncon Headquarters Mannequin Cosplay Contest from local designers. Go Vote for your favorite design & check out her latest project.
Ogden as Kaleidoscope
Happy #Ogtober, friends! (nope, not a typo… check out what Visit Ogden has to say about it!)
For us, the crisp fall air is pretty much our favorite time of year. After such a wickedly hot summer, we’re SO looking forward to getting out & about for #FirstFridayArtStroll again.
Of course, we’re biased, as we’ve got a special show opening at #O1PLATFORMS. Of course we’ve been over the moon about “#monarchinmoda, our beautiful new mural by Jane Kim and the Ink Dwell team… what a fantastic launch to our new #O1WALLS initiative. And if you haven’t seen it yet, we invite you to swing by on Friday to check it out.
5 Things You Need to Know about the Nine Rails Creative District
Jake McIntire
1. It’s officially a thing.
On August 14th, 2018 Ogden City Council unanimously voted to adopt the Nine Rails Creative District Master Plan, thus designating the stretch from 24th to 26th streets and Grant to Madison avenues as the Nine Rails Creative District. This makes Ogden one of only a few communities in Utah to have a designated creative or cultural district.
Along with our mural, we have another addition to our construction site. Have you noticed a van in our neck of the woods? We’re so excited to have The Banyan Collective hosting their podcasts #VanSessions and Nine Rails at our location. Van Sessions feature loading musicians into their 1987 Dodge Explorer camper for live semi-acoustic performances during Ogden's First Friday Art Stroll, and is in its 5th Season. They use the #TanVan to record podcasts on location from local trailheads and events. Other Banyan Collective produced podcasts include LITerally, and the new Nine Rails Arts Podcast. This Friday’s Van Session, October 5, will be The Reverend and the Revelry, and Morgan and the Mountain.
In Episode 5, we go on campus to talk Ink Dwell’s Monarch Butterfly Migrating Mural at Weber State University’s Kimball Visual Arts Building. We sat down with Ink Dwell studio co-founders, WSU Hurst Artist-in-Residence, Jane Kim, and adventure journalist, Thayer Walker, as well as Aubrey Eckhardt, one of three art student interns assisting with the mural. Scott Sprenger, the dean of the Telitha E. Lindquist College of Arts & Humanities, and Matthew Choberka, the Chair & Professor of Art at the Department of Visual Art & Design, joined us for the conversation as well. Ogden’s first Migrating Mural, discussed in Episode 4, is located at The Monarch building at 455 25th Street. Community members can view banner illustrations created by Kim at the Ogden Nature Center.
The Banyan Collective’s Nine Rails Arts Podcast explores what it means to be an Adventurous Creative in 2018. Through a partnership with arts non-profit, Ogden First, we will get to know Ogden’s new Nine Rails Creative District, as well as the district’s epicenter and future home to artisans, designers & creatives, the Monarch building.
Oct 5: Van Sessions at The Monarch
Oct 5-31: Kaleidoscope
Oct 5: Jaxen Layton First Friday Exhibit
Oct 5: Block Party Mural:Four Seasons
Oct 6: Ballet X
Oct 11: Jaxsen Layton at The Argo House
Oct 12: Jane Kim Public Lecture #xpectunexpected
Oct 15: Art + Action: Think / Act BIG with Thayer Walker of Ink Dwell
Oct 18: Art + Action: Creative Inclusivity - Creativity as a Tool for Change
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Why Conservatives (Still) Like Kavanaugh
By Matthew Johnson
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Senator Collins should be proud of herself. She will now potentially go down in history as the woman who made the overthrow of Roe v. Wadepossible — despite her allegedly pro-choice views.
Her name will go down in the annals of self-hating women along with the likes of Phyllis Schlafly and Laura Ingraham. Swing-vote Senators Jeff Flake and Joe Manchin will likely emerge unscathed, given that men are rarely held responsible for contributing to women’s oppression. Kavanaugh’s successful confirmation is case in point.
It may be tempting to fall into dismay, to grow red in the face, to wonder how this could have happened — how could these educated people so brazenly fall for the (bad) acting of Judge Kavanaugh and doubt Dr. Ford, who even Fox News’s Chris Wallace called “extremely credible”? Moreover, how could they ignore retired Justice John Paul Stephen’s argument that Kavanaugh, even if innocent of sexual assault and drunken disorderly conduct, is still unfit to hold the gavel due to the hyper-partisanship he displayed after Dr. Ford’s testimony? These are important questions, but I believe they miss the larger truth.
The truth is that it’s irrelevant whether conservatives believeDr. Ford: they simply do not care. They don’t care about Ford or any other outsider to their cause. They do not operate based on principles of justice — at least not the same principles of justice that liberals are familiar with. They are not concerned with a careful examination of the evidence when doing so might challenge their worldview. George Lakoff made similar claimsseveral years ago. He explained why liberals fail to win elections, along with the hearts and minds of conservatives. Yet Democrats and liberals continue to operate in a vacuum and continue to lose winnable battles.
As painful as it was for liberals to watch Kavanaugh’s emotional display — complete with nostalgic sobbing, conspiratorial accusations, and awkward, self-righteous anger — conservative viewers likely empathized with him even more. In Arlie Russell Hochschild’s recent book, Strangers in Their Own Land, she demonstrates how conservatives “identify up” with those who are more privileged. They also do not like being told by over-zealous liberals that theyshouldfeel something for the little guy (read poor people, immigrants, sexual assault survivors, etc.). Bottom line: conservatives see in Judge Kavanaugh someone they admire while they see in Dr. Ford an obstacle to their own, in this case vicarious, success. Therefore, it is not Orwellian doublespeak to claim that both Ford and Kavanaugh were credible witnesses in the Sept. 28 Senate hearing; nor is it cause to dredge up dubious theoriesof mistaken identity. Both witnesses can be credible at the same time but in different ways: Ford is credible due to her temperament, professionalism, and consistency while Kavanaugh is credible due to his success and his loyalty to conservative causes. Oh, and it also helps that he’s a white man.
If there is one major takeaway for liberals — other than to keep fighting and avoid despair — it is increased awareness of how conservatives view this unprecedented fight for a Supreme Court majority. For the Left, it’s about what is just. It’s about empowering the disempowered, and, in the same vein, it’s about placing checks on power and privilege. For the Right, it’s about tribal loyalty. It’s about winning. Kavanaugh may not be perfect, but he’s their guy. They must protect him from those who would impede his progress, and, by extension, their own progress and that of their families and communities — as they see it. Justice for those outside their allegiances is not a compelling enough reason to be disloyal.
Susan Collins is a Republican who answers to her conservative base. This, to me, best explains her vote. History will be the ultimate judge.
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Matt Johnson is an author and activist.
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Sen. Lee Statement on Kavanaugh Confirmation
WASHINGTON – Today, Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) released the following statement after the Senate voted to confirm Judge Brett Kavanaugh as an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court.
“Judge Kavanaugh is a good man,” Sen. Lee said. “He is eminently qualified to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States. I was pleased to vote in favor of cloture and was honored to vote for his confirmation.”
An online version of this release can be found here.
