Mercury Soapbox Presents AUAS:Another Urban Art Sho

Thursday august 13th

Mercury Soapbox presents

Another Urban Art Sho

Featuring

Artists: Enjoi, Ralph Nixon Jr

Music: Fly Machine, DJ E Money

The Interactive Art Redux!

$7/$5 more details coming soon...

eco360: A Night of Hot Tee's and Cool Drinks!

Come and enjoy the winding down of summer! Grab your friends, kick back with a drink and take in the cool wearable art of Jakob Hostetter (http://www.openeverysense.com) and Curtis Franklin (http://www.fashionhurtz.com), the acoustic stylings of Nick Zakharov and Ian Ferry, and the frenetic spinning of DJ E Money!

AND WAIT..... There's MORE!

Even if you can't make it (I know you have a curfew or your fake ID doesn't work, lol!), you can join in the fun LIVE through twitter (http://twitter.com/sos_eco360) and on facebook (http://tr.im/tKCL)!!

Thanks to a sponsorship from Air Dye, we're having a collaborative design experience and details on how it works are forthcoming, so stay pruned and stay tuned!

This event is made possible by our generous sponsors:
The Institute for Sustainable Communication: http://sustaincomm.org
SOSreach: http://sosreach.org
AirDye: http://airdye.com

Attendance: Free

Bursts of Reality (Quick hit of fiction from Isaiah Os a.k.a. Harus)

Everyday the mornings on these urban streets seems the same. Uniform, routine rituals of the underpaid laborers litter the streets. Shambling off the wilted dreams of youth for pieces of metal and paper. I am awake on this street from the lack of sleep I am privy to. People pass practically lifeless by me without real regard for anything. It is not without incident that I have discovered an after effect from these poor saps. I succumb in serene silence to their discarded hopes. Seeing their futures play out as they thought it would be; I feel the laughter, happiness, accomplishment, the general feeling of being complete. It was wonderful for the crashing waves of temporary bliss, but the more I took; the hollower I became.

I sun rose up as the street began to live again under the orange glow of daybreak. The emptiness of the morning denizens nearly gone. I panicked to find myself slip, fading from anything solid. No voice, no sound could come from me, nor could I hear any. In this despair, I turned to my home for sanctuary and there I was coming in down the steps. I was one of them, slaves to the routine. I tried in vain to stop myself and became a victim to those dreams discarded.

Skin by Isaiah Os (Harus)

Morning comes so soon. The days have grown thin with the thoughts that thickened our fears. Men and women on the television make the business of crafting our lives before we live them. Popular trading of despair is hawked in front of children. I see the serrated scars made by the belief of what the normalcy of today is. I see this grotesque being of expectations. I scream, curse and charge at it. Each of my hands burrows in this flesh fortified by slander. Tearing, clawing, ravaging this thing in aggressive glee, I soon see what has brought me terror. Under it all, there's a rusted mirror distorting the image of ourselves. Neglected because of our own ideals.

--Woke up today and decided to pay attention to the mass content of things on the news and the media and general---

Another fare hike from the mta? This is getting ridiculous.

A few things in the news this week. Most important! While everyone fawns over obama's 'coolness' and yuks it up at the correspondents dinner, he approved another HUNDRED BILLION DOLLARS IN WAR SPENDING! Now, mr. Obama, you are exactly like the war mongering presidents who preceded you. I hope you can sleep knowing many of us have totally lost faith in you.

In Question

Why is everyone so distracted by what is happening outside of the U.S. these days when things are far from fine? I can still walk around and hear the bullshit on how we are still good in the world. Has the public become to accustomed to the swagger of the media? Seriously, I think we all need to pay attention or just drug up on ritalin.

New Great sponsor and partner!! SOSREACH.ORG!

Yo check it out guys! Sosreach.org is an awesome nonprofit dedicated to the awareness of global issues, climate change and health care, and now Mercury Soapbox's eco-friendly sponsor, offering scholarship opportunities to socially conscious artists/students! Find them on facebook and check out the site for contests, giveaways and future events and collaborations!

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