2017 has been messy y’all. Is the world ending or mending? On December 14th, Good Culture celebrates the New Year by looking back with the Y2K EDITION.
The new millennium was a time when the fresh outlook, music, and fashion of the 90s came to a screeching halt. Or did it? We learned that, like any good boy band or girl group, when we stick together, we’re survivors. We keep on survivin.
So grab the red pill, forget the Matrix, and mess with this Good Culture! Get ur freak on with H.O.V.A. talk by Eli Marienthal, Usher-style moves and moods by Ezra Bristow (Myles), and an 8 Mile freestyle compliment battle featuring Aima the Dreamer, Frak, Amani Johnson and AjGod. Then back that azz up with R&B and pop covers by host Jasmine Fuego and the Pop Up Band. But save the last dance for early 2000s club bangers care of DJ Wild Man. No scrubs. Just luv. Hope you’re ready for the next episode.
2000s l000ks encouraged.
$10 | $5 before 9pm
Drinks by donation
Food for sale
More about the artists:
Ezra Bristow (Myles) is a a quintessential triple-threat creative. The Newark, New Jersey native is a self-taught choreographer, published illustrator, and internationally recognized spoken word artist. In his work we see the timeless, vibrant, sensuous, joyful spirit of Carnival tempered by the dark, somber, ephemeral and emotional gravity of life as a Diasporic descendant. Despite the apparent contradiction, Ezra discovers hope in the duality by embracing the beautiful, kinetic, progressive aspects of our selves and our nature.
Eli Marienthal is an actor, poet and performer from Berkeley, CA. A former Brave New Voices national slam champion, he started rocking stages with Youth Speaks in 1998, and has been sharing his words across the country ever since. Rooted in ritual, with a prayer for peace, his work is an invitation to rejoice, redeem and remember where we come from. He is a co-founder of Gentrifried Chicken, an experimental arts and entertainment platform that takes old familiar games and remixes them into live gameshow style events focused on the transmission of vital historical and geographic knowledge. As co-director of Back To Earth he guides ceremony and mindfulness-based wilderness programs for teenage boys, and teaches nature connection to school children throughout the Bay Area.
Jasmine Fuego is a singer, dancer and ARTivist deeply committed to creating art in service to justice, self empowerment and liberation. In 2014, she co-founded the Permaculture Action Network,an organization that bridges art and ecology through action, with a group of community organizers and environmental educators. During the school year she teaches mindfulness & emotional intelligence to K-12th graders in Richmond, Ca with the Mindful Life Project. She has hosted and curated spaces at events such as the North American Permaculture Convergence, Symbiosis Gathering and Oregon Eclipse 2017.
Music: https://open.spotify.com/
DJ Wild Man is a geographer, dancer, and DJ. He works across all parts of his craft to cultivate more harmonious relations between sound, bodies, and space in an urban setting. His favorite medium is dance music – from hip-hop and house to dancehall and disco – and he spins in deep gratitude and service to the sonic elders and innovators of soul, past and present. Check him out at https://soundcloud.com/
Good Culture is a bi-monthly performing arts showcase and dance party that celebrates good music, good people, and good vibes in the East Bay. It’s curated by Jasmine Fuego (host) and Wild Man (resident DJ).