#shakinshitup​ #teamsharonseattle​ #teamsharonnc​ #teamsharonworldwide​ SHAKIN' SHIT UP Our Stories. Our Messages. Season 2 Episode 1 Features Visual Storytellers Michael B. Maine and Chloe Collyer Thursday, March 4, 2021, 6pm (PDT) / 9pm (EDT) Shakin’ Shit Up is about sharing stories/creativity and exploring the messages within them. This event is the fire breathing conversation you want after you hear dope shit. ABOUT MICHAEL B MAINE: Michael B. Maine is a Seattle-based, socially engaged artist and creative consultant. Primarily working as a freelance photographer, he focuses on learning about and addressing issues of social inequity through media, concerned with studying the images that already exist and working towards being additive to the field in a way that increases representation both in front of and behind the lens. His ultimate goal is to help create a media landscape that is more fairly produced and representative of humanity and the range of human identities and experiences. ABOUT CHLOE COLLYER: Chloe Collyer is a documentary photographer born and raised in Seattle, WA. After 10 years of studying photography across the Puget Sound, Chloe has dedicated their life to telling the stories of others. Chloe spends time working as a freelance documentary photographer, videographer, and teaching photography around Seattle, WA. Chloe has contributed to the following publications: -NEW YORK TIMES -NPR -BUZZFEED NEWS -MLB INC. -SEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY -SEATTLE GLOBALIST -CROSSCUT NEWS -SOUTH SEATTLE EMRALD -KUOW SEATTLE (NPR) -REAL CHANGE -NW LEAF

SHAKIN' SHIT UP Our Stories. Our Messages. Thursday, November 5th, 6pm (PDT) / 9pm (EDT) Shakin’ Shit Up is about sharing stories and exploring the messages within them. This event is the fire breathing conversation you want after you hear dope shit. This episode is going to be a musical gift of pure joy. Featured Artists: Martín Instagram @thefakemartin https://linktr.ee/thefakemartin Martín says: My music is the Combination of Hard and Soft. Soft is hard. I'm holding space, creating space for the truth to come. I create dreamy, hypnotic vibe inspired by Seattle blues, purple haze, electro-soul, R&B, funk and Afro-Caribbean music. Glendal TauTua Instagram @glendaltautua https://www.facebook.com/glendaltautua59 https://linktr.ee/Glendaltautua Glendal TauTua says: I am a Hip-Hop/R&B recording artists from Seattle, WA. I am a part of the OTOW Music collective and I write music that describes my experiences as a Pacific islander living an urban experience. #shakinshitup #teamsharonseattle #teamsharonnc #teamsharonworldwide

SHAKIN' SHIT UP Our Stories. Our Messages. Thursday, August 27th, 6pm (PDT) / 9pm (EDT) Shakin’ Shit Up is about sharing stories and exploring the messages within them. This event is the fire breathing conversation you want after you hear dope shit. #shakinshitup #teamsharonseattle #teamsharonnc #teamsharonworldwide Featured Artists: AVIONA CREATRIX RODRIGUEZ BROWN instills inclusivity and accessibility, by creating multidisciplinary art to tell stories surrounding being multiracial, exploring queerness, working through mental illness, stress, navigating drug addiction, and homelessness. BLACK STAX’s sound is like Miles Davis, Etta James and Langston Hughes adapted for savvy, hip-hop and neo-soul listeners. By any standard, their music is not ordinary and nothing is dumbed-down or gimmicky. It is smart music; every word carefully chosen and every song carries a message of social justice and community upliftment.

Special Edition of SHAKIN' SHIT UP Battling mental illness is hard during regular times. How are people coping amidst a pandemic and social unrest? How is a sector that depends on social entertainment, truth-telling, and community gathering making it during this time of physical distancing? Artists Sharon Nyree Williams (Storyteller and Arts Administrator), Dani Tirrell (Curator, Choreographer, Educator and more), and Lauren DuPree (Actor, Singer, Writer, Filmmaker) will share their creative work and, with the support of Dr. Katrina Sanford (Counselor, PsyD), will embark upon a conversation around how they are mentally surviving. Thank you to our Partners NAMI Seattle, Central District Forum for Arts & Ideas and Menrva Labs.

SHAKIN' SHIT UP Our Stories. Our Messages. Shakin’ Shit Up is about sharing stories and exploring the messages within them. This event is the fire breathing conversation you want after you hear dope shit. #shakinshitup #teamsharonseattle Featured Artists describing their work: Aramis O. Hamer My work is inspired by the cosmos, music, nature, divine femininity, and the complexities throughout the Black culture. When I explain what I do to someone at a coffee shop, I just say "I create colorful, cosmic queens". I let their imagination do the rest ;) website - aohamer.com Instagram- @aohamer, FaceBook- A.O. Hamer Paypal - aramis.hamer@gmail.com Damon Brown I am a SeattIe, WA based artist who, from an early age, knew I loved art and to create new designs. I drew inspiration from comic books as I spent countless hours exploring different images and heroic storylines which opened my eyes to artistic creation. As my imagination grew, I began to study various art movements, illustration styles, and urban art. This, in turn, taught to me how things like color, shape, story, and texture can manifest into something so vivid for people to feel and see. I was then able to blend my love for classical art and illustration. www.creativelou.com Instagram:Creative_Lou Facebook:Creativelouvisuals PayPal: Damon@creativelou.com Cash APP$CreativeLou Venmo:@Damon-Brown-30

SHAKIN' SHIT UP Our Stories. Our Messages. Shakin’ Shit Up is about sharing stories and exploring the messages within them. This event is the fire breathing conversation you want after you hear dope shit.#shakinshitup #teamsharonseattle Featured Artists describing their work: ARAMI WALKER (She will blow your conscious mind.) Arami Walker is a multidimensional artist and educator who intends to use the power of music, technology, and transformative practices to catalyze a shift in consciousness throughout the world. Inspired by poetry, music and meditation- she hopes to use traditional and non- traditional media to promote a healthier way to share stories and develop society. She has traveled to over 14 countries researching cultural practices of music, dance, and communication. She is a dedicated global citizen who strives to contribute thoughtful content in the form of music, books, and educational lectures. in the year of 2020, she intends to distribute her first music album as well as launch a school of transformation she calls, “Pazzzify”. BRIAN J. EVANS (Brian is a special gift of all kind of talent.) Mixing disciplines, mixing professions, and of mixed race, Brian J. Evans unpacks the “moments of suspension” that reside in the spaces between spaces. Convinced that connections exist between us all and it is the responsibility of the Arts to remind us to be holistically human, lest we forget. Courageous vulnerability and intentional equity keeps him aloft as he finds ways to give back and add to the communities, mentors, and ancestors who blazed trails and continue to do so!