Mid-Week Libation: Everybody Say Love!

Put on our 80s playlist, treat yourself to a glass of Xinomavro, check out the collages of Jackie Milad, celebrate spring with a poem by Elsa Gidlow, and watch a fabulous performance by Sasha Velour!

Mid-Week Libation is our weekly curated splash of inspiration and culture!

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This Week’s Words of Wisdom: Sandra Bernhard

“Love is the only shocking act left on the face of the earth.” — Sandra Bernhard [https://www.azquotes.com/quote/1096686]

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Wildstar’s Wednesday Wine Pick: Oenos Mittas, Xinomavro (Naoussa, Greece)

Purchase via Flatiron Wines or Wine-Searcher

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Another R&R Playlist for your listening pleasure: It’s Late Now

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The Art of Jackie Milad

Middle East Institute Arts and Culture @meiartsculture

Jackie Milad, an Egyptian-Honduran American artist, curator, mother, and arts administrator, often explores ideas of cognitive dissonance surrounding the idea of identity through her art. View her "Nada Que Decir" @middleastinst's show "Converging Lines": ow.ly/Ksh650Gidfz

WritingWOMEN @WritingWOMEN

Jackie Milad dlvr.it/SZ0NNd

TUCOFAC @TUCOFAC

Congratulations to @TowsonUAlumni Jackie Milad, selected to create new works for @artbma in dialogue with Fred Wilson's Artemis/Bast (1992). Jackie Milad, “Tu Cultura?” Photo by Vivian Doering. ow.ly/cpIr50KGXvM

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• Official Site of Jackie Milad

• Jackie Milad on Instagram

• Jackie Milad - Works for Sale (via Artsy)

• Jackie Milad at at Luis de Jesus Los Angeles

• Jackie Milad at Soco Gallery

• Egyptian-Honduran artist Jackie Milad’s tapestries create beauty from chaos (via Arab News)

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Poem of the Week: “Chant of Spring” by Elsa Gidlow (1898-1986)

Chant of Spring
by Elsa Gidlow

Like an unhappy woman Earth frees herself
          from the arms of Winter,
Surely Winter, her indifferent Lord,
Whose touch is death to her passionate body,
And, weeping, yields to Spring, the
          wooing maiden,
The slim girl who kisses her with
          awakening kisses,
Burning her lips and eyelids with flaming mouth
          loosed upon them,
Renewing her body with wildness
          of young caresses,
Holding her close while the reckless hours dance
          to death.

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Wan passion flowers growing in hidden places,
Memories,
Kisses given by the slim maiden.
Wan passion flowers,
All that is left to Earth of her maddest lover.

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Drag Performance of the Week: Sasha Velour — “Can't Get You Out Of My Head”

• Official Site of Sasha Velour

• Sasha Velour on Instagram

• Purchase Sasha Velour Merch here!

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Happy Wednesday everyone!

Today is the birthday of Willem Drost, Ōta Nanpo, Sarah Bagley, Qorpo-Santo, Mary Louise Booth, José Echegaray, Leona Florentino, Eva Gonzalès, Nobu Kōda, Alice Salomon, Ruth Milles, Bessie Mecklem Hackenberger, Manuel Bandeira, Germaine Tailleferre, César Falcón, Anton Pieck, Kay Swift, Rita Rait-Kovaleva, Sybil Andrews, Doctor Clayton, Sol Kaplan, Masaru Kawasaki, William Klein, Etheridge Knight, Fernando Botero, Jayne Mansfield, Antonio Carluccio, Michel Roux, Larry Ramos, Rikki Ducornet, Bernie Worrell, Dele Jegede, Tim Curry, Paloma Picasso, Candy Gourlay, Rita Ackermann, Amanda Sage and Ali Wong!

What can’t you get out of your head this Wednesday?