March 27 at USC

Upcoming Makeshift Reclamation Show:

3/27, 7 p.m.: Ground Zero Performance Cafe
University of Southern California
615 Childs Way, Los Angeles, CA 90007

More information coming soon!

Southern California Tour Dates 2011

Friday, 4/22, 8 p.m.: Echo Park Film Center
1200 N Alvarado St. (@ Sunset Blvd.) Los Angeles, CA

Feminist Media Night with imMEDIAte Justice

Live performances by Hilary Goldberg, Jessica Hoffmann, tk karakashian tunchez; Film/Video/Audio works by Alexis Pauline Gumbs, imMEDIAte Justice, POOR Magazine

Saturday, 4/23, 3:45 p.m.: Cal State Long Beach

Chicana Feminisms Conference, USU Beach Auditorium,
1250 Bellflower Blvd., Long Beach, CA

Live performances by Irina Contreras, Fabiola Sandoval, tk karakashian tunchez, Hilary Goldberg, Jessica Hoffmann; Film/Video/Audio works by Alexis Pauline Gumbs, imMEDIAte justice, POOR Magazine

Monday, 4/25, 3:15 p.m., Cal State Los Angeles

U-SU Theater, Student Union, 5151 State University Drive, LA, CA
Live performances by Hilary Goldberg, Jessica Hoffmann, Maegan "la Mala" Ortiz, Fabiola Sandoval, tk karakashian tunchez; Film/Video/Audio: Alexis Pauline Gumbs, imMEDIAte Justice, POOR Magazine

Tuesday, 4/26, 7:30 p.m., UC Santa Barbara

Multicultural Center Theater, 1504 Santa Barbara, CA

Live performances by Irina Contreras, Hilary Goldberg, Jessica Hoffmann, tk karakashian tunchez; Film/Video/Audio: Alexis Pauline Gumbs, imMEDIAte Justice, POOR Magazine

Makeshift Reclamation - Southern California

Save The Dates!

4/22/11 Los Angeles, CA

Echo Park Film Center

4/23/11 Long Beach, CA

California State University, Long Beach

4/25/11 Los Angeles, CA

California State University, Los Angeles

4/26/11 Santa Barbara, CA

University of California, Santa Barbara

Some Photos From Europe

more photos from the northeast

Our Fall Tour Dates!

We are excited to announce a Northeast Fall Tour! We will be presenting Makeshift Reclamation at Wesleyan University in Connecticut 10/13/10, Barnard in New York 10/14/10, Bluestockings in New York 10/16/10, Hampshire College and Food For Thought Books in Amherst 10/18/10 and Kelly Writers House in Philadelphia 10/21/10. We are currently booking shows in the region and if you would like to bring Makeshift Reclamation to a space near you, please email us.

an even newer trailer for recLAmation!

makeshift reclamation at AMC and USSF 2010

Our tour is headed to Detroit!
More details on our schedule coming soon.

US Social Forum

still from Double Take

Jess and I had the pleasure of being interviewed by the new feminist video zine Double Take at Evergreen. We are excited to check out how the project unfolds (unlike our jeans which appear to be well cuffed).

The Road (Portland)

I am drinking yerbe mate in the quiet grey morning of Olympia's light rainfall. We arrived yesterday from Portland. Portland. The In Other Wordsbookstore show was a really fun first event for our tour. The audience was lively and receptive. I was a little self conscious about my film project presenting alternative possibilities for Los Angeles that already seemed common place in that city, but the larger question of why more places aren't modeling that city planning still loomed. The Q & A after the show sparked a fun dialog about capitalism and trailed off into philosophical musings around the concept of liberty in times of a prison state.

Breakfast the next day was a gorgeous array of vegan wonders, and a warm mix of folks cooking in the kitchen. I learned some cooking tips and relished the kindness at Timmy Straw's abode. Later we trekked over to Reed College for our second show in a very pretty chapel hall. Reed looked like a brochure or a film set for Dead Poet's Society. I learned from documenting the shows so far that one venue isn't looking different from the next if I want the performers larger than the size of a carrot stick. Posterity lacked the rich woods and carved ceiling. (The multimedia means there is a blank white screen behind the readers and poets when art isn't being projected.) In my downtime before the next show I'm going to make some color mattes to project on the screen. That might be an interesting way to break up the background.

After the show we ate some food at the Red and Black Cafe, a worker owned cooperative vegan joint with delicious offerings. Then our dinner conversation brought to light the fact that across the street there was a bar that offered vegan corn dog baskets with tater-tots. I saved up some room in my belly and we went for a second dinner. It was a nostalgic whirlwind. I hadn't had a vegan corn dog in many years, not since Sandeh and Rene made them at The Clinic in SF. The next morning we went to Blossoming Lotus on the way out of town. I mistakenly looked at the brunch menu and had my heart set on savory pancakes -- then when we got there learned brunch was just a weekend thing. Lunch was not disappointing, actually it was the opposite, and I had a hard time parting from the city without longing for more meal time.

We arrived in Olympia and journeyed around the town in the rain. The Last Words bookstore had a display of books that made it hard not to want to stop and read every last item. We went to Le Voyeur Cafe for a rad meal. The Pacific Northwest is really delightful on the food front, and that such wonderful meals are actually affordable on a tour budget. Today hiking, visiting a food co-op and checking out community gardens are the top items on our list (not to mention some rehearsal time). Tomorrow we are at the Olympia Public Library at 8pm.

Welcome

Thanks for stopping by the new website. Things are taking shape, and far from blank! We've got several pages decked out in all kinds of informative drag. Have a look around the place, and don't forget to mark your calenders if we are passing through your town.

This first post is a little prelude to welcome you to our new collaborative effort. More is definitely on the way as we prepare to hit the road to the Pacific Northwest.