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Good Grief Mic-Shop!

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59 E 4th St

New York, NY 10003, USA

 Good Grief Mic-Shop stands as an innovative workshop centered on humanity. This unique blend of artistic genres, conversations, and expressions aims to cultivate a nurturing environment for marginalized communities, fostering healing and evolution.

Within our creative pursuit, we embrace the significance of self-care and the continual development of our craft. Granting ourselves the freedom to pause allows room for growth and transformation. We acknowledge that sustained creativity is a personal odyssey, not bound by perpetual visibility but anchored in our commitment to honoring our talents at our own pace and in our unique way.

Experience the transformative power of art at the RBJGlobal Art Pop-Up Gallery's #GoodGriefMic—an extraordinary evening fostering healing, expression, and community.


 Every 3rd Sunday until November 2024, join us in this experimental journey of turning grief into growth through creative expression.

From 6:30PM to 8PM, sign up for 5-8 minutes of stage time to share your story, poetry, music, or any creative form. Our stage is a canvas for your expression! ** 

And this season, visual artists can pop-up their art buy purchasing a $5 wall space for a piece 24”x24” max.Includes 4 mins to speak about your submission & artistry. Art is hung from 5:30pm-6:30pm before the doors open. All art must be taken after the show if unsold. sold pieces subject to 5% commission. 

hosted by @ThenotoriousRBJ.


contact thegodisarts@gmail.com to  sell visual art or vend.  


Join the feel-good winedown dance party once the list is complete,  good vibez provided by resident DJ  @hey_leonex 

 

Suggested contribution of +/-$10 supports our artistic home and artists, ensuring accessibility for all. Expect food, drinks, and an inclusive space—committed to sowing radical joy until it is regular. Be part of this movement where vulnerability meets grace, transforming grief into growth, one artistic expression at a time. #GoodGriefMic #RadicalBlackJoyGallery


Featured Artists:



October 2024: Sakinah Iman 

Hailing from Brooklyn NY, Sakinah Iman is a Caribbean-American 25x International Award Winning-Filmmaker, Multi Award-Winning Actress and Certified Health Educator of Jamaican and Garifuna descent. For over 15 years, using theatre arts such as spoken word, comedy, drama, and music, Sakinah has performed on stages across the globe, devoting her artistic abilities to creating art that engages audiences in sociopolitical change. Sakinah has written, produced, directed, and starred in multiple short films, of which, won 25 Best Short Film Awards, selected and placed in a total of 64 film festivals worldwide. Sakinah currently has one of her films, “He Wants To Know My Number,” licensed by the major television networks, Showtime-ViacomCBS and Paramount +.

Links:

Website [SakinahIman.com]
Instagram [@SakinahLuvs]


Sept 2024: J. Rose

Jasmine Rosario, a force in the poetic realm, graces stages as JRose. She's an illustrious Spoken Word Artist hailing from the borough of Queens, NY. She not only paints the tapestry of words with her mesmerizing performances but also wears many crowns as the visionary CEO of The Rose Garden Events. She is the winner of various poetry slams including the 2023 BRIC Brooklyn Grand Slam Finals and many more. JRose is the charismatic host of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe Monday Night Slam at the prestigious Bowery Poetry Club and recently released her debut Spoken Word album, "Pieces of My Crumbed Thoughts". Beyond the spotlight, JRose extends her poetic skills as a freelance Teaching Artist and Mentor, sharing the magic of Spoken Words with eager minds. She has taught people of all ages in various US cities, including weekly programs in Rikers Island, where she works with incarcerated youths. Her visionary spirit radiates as she fearlessly claims her space and, in doing so, creates sanctuaries for others to express themselves authentically. A beacon of inspiration cutting through societal norms, JRose invites people from all walks of life to embrace their voices and narratives. Her dedication to unapologetically take space while creating space for others to do the same inspires people from all walks of life. Her album is streaming everywhere and you can stay tuned for the upcoming release of her first poetry book this Spring! #KeepGrowing

Links:

Book: https://a.co/d/cGPlPdy


April 2024: Zoe Map                                                                  

“When you turn to art you return                     

In this stage vision, the artist becomes actor of life, where human emotions are suspended and spiritual practices are the only way to dominate ego and instinct for a deeper awakening.

The fragile ecosystem, the human supremacy, the dark subject will berepresented on repetition, merciful compassion and empathy of the idealistic clumsiness of human life.                                                                       


       

Metamorphosis of continuing movement challenging the human condition, often overwhelmed, stuck and disconnected from the surrounding; deeply represented by the voiceless body that poetically is ‘the dancer’. Are we still Alive or some of us died without realizing it?The answer to this cosmic question gravitates through the spectator's perspective and interpretation of re•turn.                       

BIO:

                       

Zoe is an Italian born artist and performer, with expertise in a variety ofmedia. Her work is an exploration of street and contemporary styles,which she combines to create new visual and emotional expressions.Rauschenberg Foundation, Chashama and NYFA have awarded Zoefor her performance Rowing Upstream. The video of this performancewas on screening at Salomon Arts Gallery as part of the exhibition:Know Thy Self. She is specialized in producing stories that amplifycultural narratives and raise awareness on social justice, with recurringthemes of diversity and racial equality in American culture.

                       

At the moment she is producing UNLEARN series; a video podcast ofroundtable discussions about Italian diaspora. Also she is the founder ofWomxn To The Front, a project with the mission to equalize the genderimbalance in Art, Music & Film for women and female identified people.

                       

Zoe currently resides in Brooklyn, where she continues to cultivate andexpand her craft, producing videos, curating events and by collaboratingwith musicians and other artists as well as in solo performances.Check out her latest work with womxntothefront


April 2024: Lauren LoGiudice

Lauren LoGiudice is a comedian, actor, award-winning filmmaker, and author of Amazon Kindle Best Seller Inside Melania: What I Know About Melania Trump by Impersonating Her. Her work has been featured by The New York Times, BBC, Bust Magazine, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Hyperallergic, among others. Her writing has been called “criminal.” Her TV and film credits include Veep, Brave the Dark and Galaxy360. Moth StorySLAM Champ. You can listen to her comedy album, Misfits: A Comedy Album, as well as select tracks from Melania Trump’s Rockin’ Right-Wing Christmas Album, on all major streaming platforms.