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Passing the Paintbrush: Art Show on Dec 3 in Berlin
You are invited to the Passing the Paintbrush Gallery show at Spinnboden Lesbian Archive on December 3 from 16-19. The exhibition will feature beautiful art by participants from the art and history workshops on Gertrude Sandmann, Lotte Laserstein, and Toni Ebel this fall. In each three-hour workshop, we explored the biographies of these incredible women and how their stories…
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Drawings at the Club
It was almost 3 and a half years since I went to a club. Before the pandemic started I used to be in bars and clubs almost every single week, sometimes multiple times a week performing drag, and supporting my friends and community. After finding what covid precautions I need to take to make this…
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Some pieces on vulnerability
It’s Tammuz/Cancer season , and I’m thinking about my squishy parts, and how I have gotten more exoskeletal support this year. This winter I had an accident on the subway and bumped my eye socket hard on a pole when the car braked too fast. and I painted my black eye in this piece –…
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Gad Beck Yahrzeit Grave visit and beautification
June 24- 12:00 Photo attached is the current state of Gad Beck’s grave as of April of 2024/ Nitsan 5784. We will gather to clean it and plant some new flowers and place some colorful stones before taking the photo to submit to the Senate for the application to have his grave be a recognized…
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Lotte Laserstein May 27 Event Reflection
This past Monday on May 27 I facilated and taught at an event for Queer History Month, gathering a group of people at the Spinnboden Lesbian archive to learn about Lotte Laserstein and paint our own self-portraits. Clara Julia Esclara was the guest educator, and did a wonderful job giving the participants an understanding of…
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Support the LGBT Mikveh Learning Event in Berlin
We are fundraising for the LGBT community mikveh learning and ritual event happening May 19 in Berlin. Despite trying very hard and contacting all the local Jewish and antismetism combating funding organizations there has not been any success in finding the money we need to put on this event. Since it is entirely independently organized…
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Event Annoucment ! Mikveh Learning and Ritual for LGBTQ+ Jews
Mikveh Learning and Ritual for LGBTQ+ Jews with Rabbi Avigayil Halpern Sunday 19 May / 11 Iyar 12-16Tegel Forest , exact location given after signing up. Sign up : email fforaging@gmail.com or dm @the.rainbow.fairy Covid test required, asking for masking on transit and masking optional during the event. If you want to help pay pool…
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Parting of the Red Sea
In the Passover Chag spirit I painted this piece as my interpretation of the crossing and parting of the red sea. I thought of this image of the marine life just looking from the walls of water onto the people and how this marvel must have looked. Here is my version. gouache, acrylic ink, and…
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Sunsets in Gouache
Lately I have been really enjoying painting sunsets in Gouache. It really relaxes and grounds me and I have enjoyed the confidence of painting a sunset that Gouache gives me. It is just so fun too! I use fluid big bottles. I use them also for the workshops that will be happening later this year…
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Early Spring Fairy Foraging Newsletter
Hello Spring Bluebells and Lilacs! The sun has been shining longer than the usual winter darkness in Berlin and the rain has produced beautiful spring croci in purple and yellow. If you look you can find three-cornered leeks growing in the forest, waiting for us to celebrate and make into pesto. I have a few…
Mycelium Memory 