Angel Alviar-Langley, who also goes by Moonyeka, has always been drawn to dance. In this episode of “Art in Conversation,” fields talked to Moonyeka about joining the popping community in Seattle, storytelling through movement, and the gender dynamics at play within the dance form.
Read Moreby Taji Senior
Read MoreTaji Senior is a journalist, writer and performer. She has produced two solo works, AMENDMENT and ‘A’ (What the Black Girl Found While Searching for God). Her credits include TWENTYEIGHT, Doper than Dope, Comedy of Errors and the We Are film series (B.B. Araya), which is currently streaming on the Issa Rae Productions digital content site. Senior is currently earning an MFA in acting from UCLA.
Read Morefields magazine and BookWoman are back at it with our second Austin Interfaces! Our next gathering will be on Thursday, February 21, where we’ll hear from local writers Zoë Fay-Stindt, Katelin Kelly, and Alana Torrez.
Read MoreSeattle’s fourth youth poet laureate Azura Tyabji is working on publishing a book. For this episode, fields chatted with 18-year-old Azura about her experience at an experimental high school, the reputation of spoken word among poets, and why it’s important to have a youth-specific poet laureate in the first place.
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Read MoreContesting Modernity: Informalism in Venezuela, 1955-1975, presents a comprehensive look at the work of a country exploring the liberation of democracy while battling the injustices of a global capitalist system. Editor Sean Redmond explores these tensions in a review of this compelling exhibition, on display at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston through January 20.
Read Morefields magazine and BookWoman are partnering on a new reading series/open mic called Austin Interfaces! Expect an intimate night of poetry, fiction, music, essays, and an open mic featuring up-and-coming artists in the Austin area. Our first gathering will be on Thursday, January 17.
Read MoreFor Art in Conversation’s third episode, fields spoke with two members of Seaside Tryst, a Seattle band that describes itself as super synthy "trans ass new wave" with a knack for aggressively danceable songs. Here, Seaside Tryst discusses what attracted them to Seattle's music scene and what diversity looks like within it.
Read MoreLaura van den Berg is the author of two collections of short stories, What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us (Dzanc Books, 2009) and The Isle of Youth (FSG, 2013), as well as two novels, Find Me (FSG, 2015) and The Third Hotel (FSG, 2018). We spoke to van den Berg about her process of writing The Third Hotel, the unique lens that horror offers as a genre, and the way fiction allows access to hidden layers of the self.
Read Morefields is celebrating its five-year anniversary and 10th issue release! Join us at the new Fancy Fancy studios and gallery space, located in the Bolm Studios complex at 5305 Bolm Road, Bay 9, on Saturday, December 8, from 7-10 pm.
Read MoreBitchcraft is a variety show hosted by the comedic powerhouse Selena Coppock and Lauren Maul in New York City. Here, the founders of the show share some of their favorite things, which includes the radio show Sophisticated Boom Boom, Kacey Musgraves’s newest album, and Grease 2.
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