⚜ August 2025 NEWSLETTER ⚜ |
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| | | | | Almost 25 year Anniversary Brunch Party time!!! |
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| The menu is (mostly) set. The chefs are raring to go. We have supplies of chairs, plates and alcohol in the wings. Will there be more “Breakfast Opinions” on instagram to keep you entertained? We will see! We’re on the edge of our seats wondering about raindrops, but rain or no rain, we’ll be ready & it’s going to be a blast!
The one thing is that if it’s rainy we’re not going to be able to add last minute tickets BUT we’ve still got plenty of tickets available from 12:30 onwards. But that’s more like lunch you say! We’ve got so much delicious lunchy stuff: salads, frittatas, banana pudding and the like! So if you wanna be sure to be able to come, get a ticket TODAY!
If the basic info hasn’t made its way to you yet HERE IT IS>>> $25 = order anything you want from the food menu - cocktails separate (yes it is a fundraiser! Yes, we’ll also have fun non-alcs!) There will be guest chefs and there will be some weird delicious stuff to blow your mouth’s mind!
To come for free, donate to the DIRT PALACE library MORE INFO ABOUT THIS HERE
ALL OF THE LINKS IN ONE PLACE To buy tickets To donate print materials |
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Applications due September 14th!! |
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| Review guidelines HERE -
Application portal HERE |
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| | | | August Window Artist: Naffisatou Koulibaly |
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| | Naffisatou (she/her) is a poet and multimedia artist from Providence, RI. Naffisatou began writing professionally a decade ago at AS220 Youth where she was introduced to Slam poetry. Naffisatou competed on the Providence Poetry Slam’s youth Slam team in 2018 at international poetry festival, Brave New Voices. She currently serves as co-director for ProvSlam; writing grants, managing programming, and teaching poetry workshops. Naffisatou received a BA in English Literature from Salve Regina University in 2021. Naffisatou is also a resident at the Dirt Palace in Olneyville. From September 2023-June 2024, she was a part of the Emerging Artist Fellowship (now the Creative Leadership Program) at AS220 with a focus in teaching and education. Naffisatou has since been working full-time as a teaching artist and mentor in AS220's Youth program. |
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| | Naffisatou’s work unearths the complex tapestry of girlhood in the 21st century. While girlhood is often portrayed as a time of innocence and simplicity, her own journey through girlhood has been marked by a stark and sometimes surreal sense of otherness. In her work, Naffisatou seeks to unmask the myth of innocence that shrouds girlhood. It’s not about preserving fragility; it’s about embracing the strength that emerges from navigating a world that is as horrible as it is beautiful. A central theme to Naffisatou’s work is examining the profound and turbulent emotions that accompany girlhood. She invites her audience to recognize that being a girl is akin to being an outsider–an alien in a world that struggles to comprehend the intensity of our experiences; to be both extraordinary and out-of-place.
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| | | August - September Word Shelter artist: Chrysanthemum |
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| | Chrysanthemum is a poet, performance artist, and public historian. She serves as Co-Director of the Providence Poetry Slam, housed at AS220 since 1992. She is the Writer in Residence at Public Street for the Providence Commemoration Lab. She is the recipient of writing fellowships from the Poetry Foundation, the Rhode Island Foundation, Kundiman, and Lambda Literary, which named her LGBTQ Writers in Schools’ inaugural Poet-in-Residence in 2024. She broke ground as a finalist in the 2016 Women of the World Poetry Slam, and her teams were champions of the Rustbelt Poetry Slam and the first FEM Slam. Her work appears in Poem-a-Day, The Nation, The Rumpus, Them, Button Poetry, among others. She is a Vietnamese queer and trans writer who uses poetry to confront gaps and contradictions in historical records. |
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| | | | | | | the blaq panther is a spirit guardian for me. i felt their presence when i first started high school, but they’ve always been with me. i’ve neglected them this past year but we’ve been communicating all week. mostly at 3-4am. we don’t talk much when its light out. i missed them. |
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| | | Hello friends of the Dirt Palace! It has been a busy festival season, and the accordion choir has been playing a lot of shows! I love my friends, I love DIY, and I love the wholesome weirdo New England experimental music and performance art scene <3 I joined the Wicked Queer Puppet Theater in constructing our Future Ancestor Puppet for the parade at the New Bedford Roots & Branches Festival in July. The idea I came to brainstorm with was,“A mutant six fingered mole person loving the garden, thriving underground, and scavenging for scrap parts and electromechanical components to construct chain-reaction contraptions and machines for daily life.” And the group dug it, so we brought this mole to life and named him Dr. Bird. [the only photo evidence of this day I have is below]  Playing with The Bicentennial Memorial Accordion Choir at the New Bedford Folk Festival was so fun. As was the Pelvic Floor’s Pissmas bonus night. I finally made it out to Lowell, MA to play The Wire Factory as part of an all accordion bill with Ben Richter and Ted Reichman, though we ended up getting a great solo guitar+ set out of Ethan who plays harmonium with us instead of Ted that evening!
Our other big festival was the final Pity Parlor curated by Janet who got all us accordionists together to begin with! Janet has been an indispensable force for gathering wholesome weirdos in the area. I am so grateful for her and am devastated she is leaving New England for now. The choir played a cathartic set as a send-off after a 12 hour day of variety acts and experimental music in 90 degree humid heat. We also played a new piece Ethan composed for a friend’s film score! 
In addition to music things, I have been learning about wood grain, tools, knives, sharpening them, saving food from landfills, and doing a bit with Food Not Bombs. I made a 15lb batch of sauerkraut that didn’t even take up half of my fermentation crock and AM SEEKING FERMENTABLES!!!!! (and jars. always accepting jars)
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| Q (John-Francis Quiñonez) |
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Good Day to all the Dirty Court,
We are in the woof-woof, bark-bark puppy days of Summer! Stone Fruit is thriving, False Fall is here, and every year New Englanders act brand new to both Weather & Seasons! I hope you've whispered something juicy to the Ocean, or got Sand or BBQ sauce in somewhere pleasant and new!
This dispatch is from the kitchen at Big Feeling Ice Cream (769 Westminster) where I have sage-like been toiling outside of space and time. It has been sticky, and a total joy! If you haven't already - I hope you will come visit us!
We are going on a brief summer break at B.F. this Saturday & Sunday (8/23-24), which is perfect timing as I will be Roasting Away in the kitchen for the DIRT PALACE 25TH ANNIVERSARY BRUNCH! I’ll be hiding from the public and will be blowing little kisses at every Potato & Frittata! Hope to see (feel) you there!
I am otherwise in the Research & Slow Gather space of several creative projects, but I do have some LOST BAG SHOWS to plug:
☆ 8/29 ~ Sam Wenc/Post Moves, Stefano Grasso (milan), Jake Sokolov-Gonzalez (pvd) , Eli Neumann Hammond (pvd)
☆ 9/11 ~ Simon Joyner (Omaha), Leah Senior (Aus), & LIGHTS OUT!
☆ 9/25 ~ Andy Boay (Tonstartssbandht), Mike Etten, DJ Roy Barboza, Space Cowboy Newt
See you soon, Stay Sweet, Q |
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| Check out my DP window installation above^^^ I made a short film with my friends! The films narration is an original poem titled “Dog Days” which will be featured in my coming chapbook. Stay tuned, friends<3 Follow me on instagram @n.affisatou Follow @provslam!!! We’re back on September 4th at AS220 Main Stage. |
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| | it’s been an exciting couple months! i’ve gotten to remember that i have mental illness once again, which is a lot of feelings! manageable but Wow! i went to the beach and it was cute! got to walk a bunch and build a sand rectangular prism :) been testing if i can cure my leg, back, and hip pain by walking a lot. so far the answer has been a resounding ‘no’ but i’ve been walking a ton anyway. forgot how often men will speak to me because i am walking by and just sooooo sexy :( a curse, a burden, and a privilege to serve |
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| | been going to this DIY press-on place called Tiny Chaos in Allston and it’s been so much fun! fran has been getting into making press-ons and doing nails and they are so good at it! i’ve been participating because it is fun! they have guided classes AND open studio time though which is so sick?? i did their nuance class and an open studio and really just had so much fun, cannot recc enough. i linked them so you can check them out! |
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| here’s a first draft of a print project i’m working on! excited to be printing more, wish it wasn’t so hot in the print shop! i’m also printing a top secret project for the DP bday brunch that you’ll just have to come to check out… |
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| efrel helped me build a PC! i’m so grateful to them! their expertise and ability to problem solve computer stuff made it so much fun for me! i didn’t assist a ton.. but i did get taught a lot and the learning is the most fun part for me anyway! it’s still a work in progress, but this has been a goal of mine for… so long!! i bought baldurs gate 3 in celebration because soon i’ll actually be able to play it on my own!!! |
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| tattooing has been so so busy and i am endlessly grateful for this too! i’m having so much fun with a bunch of customs, but people have really seemed to be digging my flash too! here's some stuff i’ve done! |
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| | | | | New Wild Goose Chase Alert: The Theater Formerly Known as The Adult Movie Theater on BroadwayShame, Cruising/Urban Planning, Jack Smith, The Columbus aka the Uptown |
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It’s that time to year for this year’s birthday print (circa March) to be available to “the general public”….. This is a yearly project - If you send me something in the mail (a letter, drawing, postcard, print, message in a bottle, etc) I will send you this year’s print for free - Just make sure to include your mailing address. Mail to Pippi Z 14 Olneyville Square Providence RI 02909
Still have some copies of previous year’s prints. If you’d like one from a previous year you must send something separately for each you desire. Clearly mark with either the words “SLEEPLESS NIGHTS” for 2024, “BURN” for 2023 or “TIME” for 2022. |
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| | HARPY will be performing at the Skanu Mezs Festival in Riga Latvia in October! Really humbled to perform at such an incredible festival. We’ll be announcing the rest of our EU tour soon! |
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Mikayla here - Somehow, my summer at the Dirt Palace and Wedding Cake House has already come to an end? Turns out, time flies when you spend your days looking through the amazing creations of zinesters, cartoonists, miscellaneous artists, lyrists, reviewers, humans, creatures, beings, etc.
I will deeply miss existing among the contents of those boxes and the beauty of the space. Pictured above are some of my highlights from this summer.
Probably one of my favorite books i’ve found: binibus barnabus (1999) by robert goodin. If i were to ever own a copy of this, i’d never let it go. Labs with abs (2007) by andrew jeffrey wright. I don’t need to explain why i’m so obsessed with these little images of buff dogs. I wish i had bought the calender when it was available 😞 I don’t know which zine made me have this reaction, but many zines left me very happy and wide eyed and silly! Rich bastard comic (1998) by michael van vleet, i love this cover. Look at that rich bastard with his top hat! A drawing from Homestead, Scarborough (1998) by Shary Boyle that i love dearly And as testament to how much i love binabus barnabus, here is a page from that because it’s so lovely.
Thank you to everyone for this lovely summer. I am leaving with a heart full and a head full of wonderful and weird things.
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