From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V16 #469 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Wednesday, June 27 2012 Volume 16 : Number 469 To unsubscribe: e-mail ecto-digest-request@smoe.org and put the word unsubscribe in the message body. Today's Subjects: ----------------- =?utf-8?Q?I=20am=20turning=2030=20=2D=2D=20help=20me=20celebrat e=21=21?= [=?utf-8?Q?Tim=20Jones=2DYelvington?= Subject: =?utf-8?Q?I=20am=20turning=2030=20=2D=2D=20help=20me=20celebrat e=21=21?= OHMYGOD Y'ALL, I'M TURNING 30! Hello friends! This July 12th, I will turn 30!!! To celebrate, I am asking for your help in completing the LIT DIVA EXTRAORDINAIRE album, indie lit's first pop record. Part of my broader LIT DIVA EXTRAORDINAIRE performance text, which also includes a performance piece and set of written texts, the LIT DIVA EXTRAORDINAIRE album is literary theory performed through DIY dance pop. Of my performance, says novelist Martin Seay: "Where Bowie's costumes and theater were designed to create slippage between the pop star's mask and the face behind it, and where Madonna launched a thousand dissertations by embracing that role of pop-star-as-floating-signifier, and Lady Gaga has seemingly READ some of those dissertations and plugged their contents back into her own pop project, Tim is actually using pop forms to DO theory, which is more fun than it sounds like it might be." Last summer, I was humbled by my community/communities' support for the first stage of this project -- I hope that you will again join me and ring in my 30th year by helping me create some innovative art. Funding from my indiegogo birthday appeal will support mastering and distribution expenses for the album. Small donations add up -- if everyone who receives this email gives just $5, I will be $9,000 beyond my goal. Visit my indiegogo page to donate, watch a video from the project, and learn more: http://timjonesyelvington.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f6552c4bf461f6e4cbad1c47f&id=9d33547a9e&e=c6659c9af2 Thank you for your support and friendship! HELP ME CELEBRATE IN PERSON For Chicago-area folks, I am planning an exciting birthday event: Mark your calendars for Sunday, July 29th, from 7:00 - 10:00 PM, and join me at Beauty Bar Chicago, 1444 West Chicago Ave. Emceed by the magnificent Debbie Fox, this event will bring together a first-time-ever mixed lineup of literary, drag and gender-bending readers and performers. This reading/performance will benefit my employer the Crossroads Fund, a public foundation that supports grassroots organizers and activists working on some of the most critical social, racial and economic justice issues of our time, like income inequality and corporate accountability, immigration reforrm, the school-to-prison-pipeline, bullying of LGBT young people, and many more. Just like me, Crossroads Fund has also been celebrating its 30th birthday! Visit Brown Paper Tickets for more information and to purchase advance tickets for a suggested donation of $5 ($10 at the door): http://timjonesyelvington.us4.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=f6552c4bf461f6e4cbad1c47f&id=c215c85c5d&e=c6659c9af2 XOXO, Tim Jones-Yelvington ============================================== Unsubscribe ecto@smoe.org from this list: http://timjonesyelvington.us4.list-manage1.com/unsubscribe?u=f6552c4bf461f6e4cbad1c47f&id=d709d6d910&e=c6659c9af2&c=3738baa8c2 ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V16 #469 ***************************