Mid-Week Libation: The Role of the Artist
Celebrate the Albariño Wine Festival with our head-bopping playlist, the wisdom of James Baldwin, the feminist art of Zainab Fasiki, a poem by Ernest Dowson & a stellar runway from Drag Race France!
Mid-Week Libation is our weekly curated splash of inspiration and culture!
This Week’s Words of Wisdom: James Baldwin (August 2, 1924 – December 1, 1987)
Wildstar’s Wednesday Wine Pick: Bodegas Forjas del Salnés Leirana Albariño (Rías Baixas, Spain)
August 2nd – August 6th, 2023 is the Albariño Wine Festival (aka Festa do Albariño)! It’s the second oldest wine festival in Spain!
R&R’s Mid-Week Playlist: So Hard So Hot
The Art of Zainab Fasiki
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Poem of the Week: “They Are Not Long” by Ernest Dowson (August 2, 1867 – February 23, 1900)
They Are Not Long by Ernest Dowson Vitae summa brevis spem nos vetat incohare longam* They are not long, the weeping and the laughter. Love and desire and hate: I think they have no portion in us after We pass the gate. They are not long, the days of wine and roses: Out of a misty dream Our path emerges for a while, then closes Within a dream. *The brief sum of life forbids us the hope of enduring long - Horace
Drag Performance of the Week: ALL the Runway Looks from Season 2, Episode 5 of Drag Race France!
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Artists Born Today: August 2nd
Happy Wednesday everyone!
Today is the birthday of Samuel Dirksz van Hoogstraten, Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, Anna Cogswell Wood, Alice Lucas, Pierre Roche, Ida Gerhardi, Ernest Dowson, John Sloan, Arthur Dove, Gustave Van de Woestijne, Albert Bloch, Marg Moll, Otto Morach, Arthur Bliss, Gyoshū Hayami, Philippe Soupault, Maxwell Fry, Karl Amadeus Hartmann, Lê Phổ, Félix Leclerc, Johan Limpers, Camille Hilaire, Georgette Seabrooke, Big Walter Price, Alfonso A. Ossorio, Wah Chang, Ruth Barcan Marcus, James Baldwin, Carroll O'Connor, Zeca Afonso, Geles Cabrera, Ángel Acosta León, Vali Myers, Philippa Schuyler, Peter O'Toole, Jack Earl, Anthony Payne, Wes Craven, Doris Coley, Homer Banks, Isabel Allende, Nell Irvin Painter, Richard Mock, Naná Vasconcelos, Yoshiko Iwamoto Wada, Ruth Bakke, Robert Holdstock, Bei Dao and Kevin Smith!
Which artists are raising your consciousness this week?