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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The impacts of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/ghost-ship\">Ghost Ship\u003c/a> fire on Dec. 2, 2016, when an East Oakland warehouse went up in flames during an electronic music show, continue to reverberate through the Bay Area’s creative scenes. The fire claimed the lives of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/ghostshipmemorial\">36 people, aged 20 to 61, most of whom were artists and musicians\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alexandrea Archuleta was slated to perform that night. Working the door when the fire broke out, she managed to escape with her life. Now, she’s uplifting the memories of friends she lost and creating a space for healing with a new symphonic work, \u003cem>Symphony No. 1 …And No One Died, Thus We Began to See in the Dark\u003c/em>, which she’ll perform with a new ensemble called Ghost Ship Symphony on \u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/art-in-movements-a-community-gathering-with-ghost-ship-symphony-rupture-tickets-1744402467739?aff=oddtdtcreator\">Nov. 15 at Bandaloop in West Oakland\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Basu is now the executive director of the organization for \u003ca href=\"https://www.vitalarts.org/\">Vital Arts\u003c/a>, an artist advocacy organization founded by Edwin Bernbaum, whose son, visual projection artist Jonathan, was killed in the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Building on the spirit of DIY mutual aid, Vital Arts leads several programs, including a paid fellowship and free legal cafes, that work to address artists’ material needs in the expensive Bay Area. As many advocates have pointed out over the years, the untenable cost of living and lack of available creative spaces is what pushed people to live and perform in unsafe venues like Ghost Ship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the Ghost Ship Symphony concert, which includes a performance from dance collective RUPTURE, Vital Arts will announce its new cohort of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13977921/bay-area-artist-census-fellowship-vital-arts\">Bay Area Artist Census fellows\u003c/a>, who over the next 18 months will survey the creative community about its needs for housing, healthcare and fair wages, and advocate for solutions. The organization also just opened applications for the latest round of its \u003ca href=\"https://www.vitalarts.org/adpg\">Artist Displacement Prevention Grant\u003c/a>, which pays $3,000 to support artists facing housing insecurity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think as artists, our job is to remind each other of life and give each other hope,” Basu says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13983598\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13983598\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/CFTA-Regional-Conversation_Oakland_July-11-2025_Sharmi-Basu_Photo-by-Paul-Kuroda-2-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A person speaks into a microphone at a conference. \" width=\"2560\" height=\"1545\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/CFTA-Regional-Conversation_Oakland_July-11-2025_Sharmi-Basu_Photo-by-Paul-Kuroda-2-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/CFTA-Regional-Conversation_Oakland_July-11-2025_Sharmi-Basu_Photo-by-Paul-Kuroda-2-2000x1207.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/CFTA-Regional-Conversation_Oakland_July-11-2025_Sharmi-Basu_Photo-by-Paul-Kuroda-2-160x97.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/CFTA-Regional-Conversation_Oakland_July-11-2025_Sharmi-Basu_Photo-by-Paul-Kuroda-2-768x463.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/CFTA-Regional-Conversation_Oakland_July-11-2025_Sharmi-Basu_Photo-by-Paul-Kuroda-2-1536x927.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/CFTA-Regional-Conversation_Oakland_July-11-2025_Sharmi-Basu_Photo-by-Paul-Kuroda-2-2048x1236.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sharmi Basu is the executive director of Vital Arts, an organization that supports artists with grants and legal advice. \u003ccite>(Paul Kuroda)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To that end, Basu has been working with Archuleta to find classical musicians to complete the Ghost Ship Symphony ensemble. The Nov. 15 show will serve as a work-in-progress preview of a large-scale orchestral performance next year, to mark the 10th anniversary of the tragedy on Dec. 4, 2026 at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Archuleta came up as an electronic musician. As she processed her grief over the past nine years, the works of Italian film composer Ennio Morricone and minimalist Estonian composer Arvo Pärt became a balm and a guiding light. She’s collaborating with arranger Franklin Cole, who’s based in her hometown of Denver, Colorado, to translate her composition into a sweeping epic propelled by horns and timpani.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The piece is part of a growing canon of contemporary classical works dedicated to the Ghost Ship victims, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13845021/a-symphonic-requiem-for-ghost-ship-fire-victims\">Richard Marriott’s \u003cem>Ghost Ship Concerto\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, which debuted in 2018 with the Oakland Symphony, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13922065/requiem-sinfonica-honors-ghost-ship-victims-with-music-and-hope\">Arturo Rodriguez’ \u003cem>Requiem Sinfónica\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, performed in full with members of Awesöme Orchestra in 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Archuleta’s \u003cem>Symphony No. 1 …And No One Died and We Began to See in the Dark \u003c/em>will be the first time such a project has been led by a survivor. 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Melodies and themes floated in and out of his head. Unrefined echoes of cello and lower bass notes appeared like shadows, looming overhead as he tried to jot them all down. As Rodriguez contemplated the form of the musical requiem, where the journey of souls toward paradise is traditionally explored through lyricism, he opted to forego a choir and focus on the instrumentation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside link1='https://www.kqed.org/ghostshipmemorial,Honoring Those Lost to the Ghost Ship Fire' hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/OaklandFireMemorial-11x17.jpg']“My work is supposed to represent the silencing of voices. I don’t know what their last words were,” Rodriguez said. “I can only imagine what they were thinking to themselves. 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David Möschler, Awesöme Orchestra artistic director and Requiem Sinfónica conductor, explains that many of the musicians in the 65-piece ensemble have a personal connection to the fire, and have been rehearsing arduously to perfect Rodriguez’s complex composition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The music requires a lot of endurance from the players because of its length. Because of the wide range of eclectic, stylistic influences, the music can switch really quickly from one mood to another,” said Möschler. “Any of the players will tell you, it’s not a piece to show up and just sort of sightread. It really requires focus and knowing how it goes, and the style and the sound.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13793868']Rodriguez spent over three years revising and workshopping the 90-minute requiem, with the entire process spanning six years. 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In an email to KQED, the promoter said new flyers were forthcoming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We, like many bay area natives, were un aware of this tragic event,” DiscoLab Events wrote to KQED via email. The owner of the account refused to disclose their identity. “The event was announced in July this year and we received positive feedback up until a couple days ago. … We do need a couple days to create new content and hope the community can be patient.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DiscoLabs Events’ claims of ignorance surprised most of the people interviewed for this story. The warehouse fire made international headlines, and received local and national news coverage up until earlier this year, as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11863824/ghost-ship-fire-defendant-derick-almena-to-serve-sentence-at-home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">trial of master tenant Derick Almena concluded in March\u003c/a>. 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This legislation, if passed, could help continue Oakland’s legacy of communal artist housing and workspace. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed bill amends one section of California’s health and safety code and adds another. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The amendment removes what Skinner and live-work advocates call a woefully outdated restriction on the number of residents allowed to share “joint living and working quarters” (currently, four unrelated persons). 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"content": "\u003cp>Jurors delivered a mixed decision in the Ghost Ship criminal trial Thursday, acquitting Max Harris of all charges but failing to reach a unanimous verdict for Derick Almena, who now faces the possibility of a retrial. The defendants each faced 36 counts of involuntary manslaughter for their managerial roles at the un-permitted East Oakland warehouse venue and residence where \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/program/oakland-warehouse-memorial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">36 people\u003c/a> died during an electronic music event on Dec. 2, 2016. [aside postID=news_11764921]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Family members of the deceased have been outspoken, regularly addressing media at the courthouse about their desire to see the defendants found guilty. But local music community figures interviewed by KQED, including people who survived the fire and who each lost at least several friends, expressed a nuanced view of the verdict, saying no outcome of Harris and Almena’s prosecution could resemble justice or elicit any semblance of satisfaction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The trial is the wrong place to look if you want to see things get better, if you want real justice for the people we lost,” said Nihar Bhatt, a San Francisco DJ and record label proprietor who escaped the fire and has since released or prepared \u003ca href=\"https://lefthandpathwax.bandcamp.com/album/private-property-created-crime\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">posthumous titles\u003c/a> by some of his friends who did not, including the local artists \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/12468905/johnny-igaz-a-pillar-of-community-electronic-musician-and-inspiration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Johnny Igaz\u003c/a> (Nackt) and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/12456485/joey-casio\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joey Casio\u003c/a> (Obsidian Blade).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bhatt and other underground music figures said Ghost Ship was widely considered an unsafe venue, but shows occurred there due to a dwindling number of alternative art spaces in Oakland—a trend that’s only intensified in recent years. He pointed to \u003ca href=\"https://saferdiyspaces.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Safer DIY Spaces\u003c/a>, which formed after the fire to assist underground arts spaces with code-compliance and advocate for them at Oakland City Hall, as an example of a better way to honor the lives of people lost than putting anyone in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12446719\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12446719\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/12446718-thumb-e1481230586911-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"A memorial for those who died in the Ghost Ship warehouse fire\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/12446718-thumb-e1481230586911-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/12446718-thumb-e1481230586911-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/12446718-thumb-e1481230586911-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/12446718-thumb-e1481230586911-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/12446718-thumb-e1481230586911.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/12446718-thumb-e1481230586911-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/12446718-thumb-e1481230586911-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/12446718-thumb-e1481230586911-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/12446718-thumb-e1481230586911-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/12446718-thumb-e1481230586911-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A memorial for those who died in the Ghost Ship warehouse fire. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>David Keenan, director of Safer DIY Spaces, said the trial has partly worked as a diversion, distracting the public from holding the City of Oakland accountable for the gulf between its promises and actions as far as compassionate code-enforcement after the fire. \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/evictions-after-ghost-ship/Content?oid=11223343\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Officials vowed\u003c/a> to help tenants of other un-permitted warehouses make safety improvements without risking displacement. “Instead they’ve made it harder to legalize these places,” Keenan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bhatt expressed similar frustration because recommendations from a city task force formed after the fire to address barriers to compliance with special events regulations have largely fallen to the wayside without meaningful adoption. “It’s easier in our current culture to focus on the conviction of individuals,” Bhatt said. “We should be looking at the laws and the economic situation in the Bay Area and the way those things converged [with the Ghost Ship fire].” [aside postid='arts_13816362']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many local arts figures are sympathetic to defense attorneys’ argument that Harris and Almena are scapegoats, believing city officials and the building owners should share some of the blame. (Landlord Chor Ng is among the defendants in families’ pending civil lawsuit.) They’re also generally in agreement with Harris’ co-counsel Tyler Smith that the rising cost of living contributed to the tragedy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“None of this would’ve happened in the first place if the income inequality and the housing crisis weren’t as bad, wasn’t permitted to get as bad as it’s gotten in the Bay Area and in Oakland,” Smith said at the courthouse Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, arts and music figures affected by the fire aren’t necessarily fond of the defendants themselves. “They were total douchebags,” said Sharmi Basu, an Oakland experimental musician who played a prominent role in fundraising for fire relief. But as a self-described prison abolitionist, Basu continued, she derived no pleasure from the prospect of their incarceration. “The justice system isn’t going to provide the systemic reform we need,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align='right' citation='Sharmi Basu']“The justice system isn’t going to provide the systemic reform we need.”[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other aspects of the defense dismayed music figures who followed the case. The defense implied during the trial that an unsavory, sinister element resided in the neighborhood, conjuring images of gangs and sex workers in an effort to lend credence to its assertion that the fire was set intentionally and to cast the warehouse as a comparatively rosy and idealistic arts collective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a way, said Bhatt and others, that defense strategy made the largely Latino, working-class Fruitvale district of East Oakland the trial’s forgotten victim. The assertion that a band of Latino arsonists in hoodies lit the warehouse on fire strained credulity to people who were there, and seemed to rely on racist tropes to burnish the image of Ghost Ship and its operators. “It was thinly veiled racism and also paranoia,” Bhatt said. [aside postid='arts_12484175']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jonathan Axtell, who recalled his harrowing escape from the fire as a prosecution witness in June, said the people he knew who died at Ghost Ship would be disappointed to see their names and memories used in the pursuit of lengthy prison sentences instead of pushing back against inequality and displacement in the Bay Area. “What’s been top of my mind is not whether or not they convict Derick and Max, but whether we live for what they lived for,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A hearing regarding Almena’s possible retrial is scheduled for Oct. 4. 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"content": "\u003cp>Estonian singer Maria Minerva and the late San Francisco producer \u003ca href=\"https://cherushii.bandcamp.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cherushii\u003c/a> became fast friends once their label, 100% Silk, paired them up to go on a nationwide tour together in 2013. Whenever Minerva would visit Cherushii in San Francisco in the years that followed, she was struck by her unpretentious optimism and sense of adventure. [contextly_sidebar id=”uuiHQG3X8gvxQuA6idFAWRJe5hPd9mBC”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minerva recalls a time when Cherushii invited her to perform an early-morning set at the Folsom Street Fair, the famed fetish celebration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“To me that was the most insane experience ever,” Minerva laughs, remembering how Cherushii brought the same enthusiasm to the sparse crowd of leather-clad early risers as she would have during peak hours at a rave. “For her, that was her comfort zone.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sadly, Cherushii, whose real name is Chelsea Faith Dolan, was killed in the 2016 Ghost Ship fire just as she was hitting her creative stride.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Right before her passing, things were going so great for her. She was doing bigger and better gigs every week, producing a lot—she never stopped,”\u003c/span> says Minerva in a phone interview from Los Angeles. She and Cherushii had been in the process of completing a collaborative album in the months leading up to her death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After two years of working to finish the project amid a difficult grieving process, Minerva releases her album with Cherushii via 100% Silk on Feb. 15. Titled \u003cem>S/T\u003c/em>, it offers a glimpse into the new, exalted house-pop direction Cherushii was reaching for before her passing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=753160670/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soulful, ebullient and effervescent are some ways to describe Cherushii’s approach to house music, which harked back to the funky, jubilant expressions of influential ’90s acts like \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/MdoKsW6-r-M\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Inner City\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/644UU55eyzk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Frankie Knuckles\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On \u003cem>S/T\u003c/em>, Cherushii’s deep, pulsing grooves and heavy-reverb synths recall the work of pioneering pop producer \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/RK4Gr0Z1gsA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Giorgio Moroder\u003c/a>, who’s responsible for some of Donna Summer’s biggest hits. With Minerva’s melancholy lyrics about solitude and heartbreak against Cherushii’s ecstatic production, \u003cem>S/T\u003c/em> would sit comfortably on a playlist with tracks like “\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/8o5BHH9U2Mg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Missing U\u003c/a>” by Robyn or “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEamE0MYPkg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Everything is Embarrassing\u003c/a>” by Sky Ferreira—sparkly dance-pop tunes that belie pensive, emotional lyrics. [contextly_sidebar id=”F65KQ8pRal1u2LNfByFchOZNPnqbGWvo”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“More so than other musicians I worked with, [Cherushii] was inspired by the notion of making songs for people to thrill to, and bond to and celebrate to,” says Britt Brown, the co-owner of 100% Silk. “She wasn’t one of those people who’d write a song because she’s sad and it’s a sad song. … It was this revved up, joyful party song.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Out by Myself,” about the feeling of transcendence on the dance floor, captures how the pure love of a good beat propelled Cherushii’s creative process. (Her romantic and creative partner David Last assisted with mixing on the track.) On \u003cem>S/T\u003c/em> and in Cherushii’s solo work, her songs are often lengthy, with play times of up to eight minutes. Her maximalist beats beckon the listener—who is also often a dancer—to find the groove and hang out in it for a while, allowing melodic twists and turns to take them to new heights of spiritual ecstasy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13850859\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13850859\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/folsom-800x799.png\" alt=\"Cherushii and Maria Minerva performing at Folsom Street Fair. \" width=\"800\" height=\"799\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/folsom-800x799.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/folsom-160x160.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/folsom-768x767.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/folsom-1020x1018.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/folsom-1200x1198.png 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/folsom-32x32.png 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/folsom-50x50.png 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/folsom-64x64.png 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/folsom-96x96.png 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/folsom-128x128.png 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/folsom-150x150.png 150w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/folsom.png 1312w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cherushii and Maria Minerva performing at Folsom Street Fair. \u003ccite>(Colleen Dolan)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Brown and Minerva say that Cherushii sometimes felt under-recognized as a producer, and Minerva laments that Cherushii passed away before gender equality became a major topic of conversation in the electronic music world. Now, many international festivals have committed to \u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-43196414\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">booking 50 percent women\u003c/a> for their lineups by 2022. Female producers \u003ca href=\"https://www.thefader.com/2018/03/15/budx-seoul-peggy-gou-interview-boiler-room-budweiser\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Peggy Gou\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.thefader.com/2018/06/05/yaeji-cover-story\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yaeji\u003c/a> have emerged as two of club music’s biggest stars, and their work shares Cherushii’s joyous, life-affirming sensibility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She would complain to me about the party scene in San Francisco—and that’s like throwing shade now—but a lot of the male producers and DJs would look through her and not give her the time of day,” Minerva says. “Now the music world is waking up to the fact that it’s happening, and festival lineups get called out for the lack of women.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That never happened five years ago,” she continues, “And it’s a shame because I feel like she would have benefited from that new awareness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n",
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Titled \u003cem>S/T\u003c/em>, it offers a glimpse into the new, exalted house-pop direction Cherushii was reaching for before her passing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=753160670/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soulful, ebullient and effervescent are some ways to describe Cherushii’s approach to house music, which harked back to the funky, jubilant expressions of influential ’90s acts like \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/MdoKsW6-r-M\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Inner City\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/644UU55eyzk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Frankie Knuckles\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On \u003cem>S/T\u003c/em>, Cherushii’s deep, pulsing grooves and heavy-reverb synths recall the work of pioneering pop producer \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/RK4Gr0Z1gsA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Giorgio Moroder\u003c/a>, who’s responsible for some of Donna Summer’s biggest hits. 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"content": "\u003cp>A few weeks before the release of Russell E.L. Butler’s long-awaited album, \u003cem>The Home I’d Build For Myself and All My Friends\u003c/em>, the Oakland techno luminary is feeling nostalgic. Butler grew up in Bermuda, a tiny British territory with a majority-black population, in a house full of books. So, for our interview, Butler invites me to meet up at Marcus Books, the oldest black-owned bookstore in the United States and a stone’s throw from the first apartment the artist lived in after settling in Oakland in 2009.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Butler first came to Marcus Books a few years ago to drop off donations for a book drive a friend organized for San Quentin inmates. “It felt like something I’d been missing for a long time, this cultural experience,” says Butler as we stand outside the store, next to a mural of a rifle-toting Malcolm X. “These places that center our creativity are invaluable, especially in this age where you can hit ‘add to cart’ and hit ‘subscribe’ and you’re getting your monthly re-up of books.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Butler’s dad, the author \u003ca href=\"http://bernews.com/2016/12/dale-butler-releases-bermuda-nicknames-book/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dale Butler\u003c/a>, devoted his career to chronicling Bermuda’s distinct culture and history at a time when, as often happens in colonized places with melting-pot demographics, inhabitants questioned whether a unique local culture truly exists. “There’s a lot of people back home that talk about Bermudians not having culture, but they’re so culturally rich,” says Butler. “[My dad] felt this obligation to document this stuff so that wouldn’t be an excuse for people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The younger Butler’s music is rooted in similar ambitions of advocacy through creativity. But \u003cem>The Home I’d Build For Myself and All My Friends \u003c/em>is less about cultural preservation and more about actively shaping culture in real time—in Butler’s case, working toward a culture that takes care of queer and trans people, black people, immigrants, low-income folks and artists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=45713922/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" href=\"http://lefthandpathwax.bandcamp.com/album/the-home-id-build-for-myself-and-all-my-friends\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Butler (who uses the pronoun they), a safe space isn’t just some abstract ideal—it’s a material need. They’re an affiliate of Club Chai, the queer- and trans-forward Bay Area club music collective rooted in global rhythms that slip easily between genres and borders. Club Chai grew out of a warehouse scene that Butler became immersed in upon moving to Oakland after graduating from School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University. It’s the same underground electronic music scene that suffered an immense loss in the 2016 Ghost Ship fire. [contextly_sidebar id=”Tz9nt8MIrN9kA7tinlDJwpLwAVR5RktK”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Butler was slated to perform that night on Dec. 2, 2016, but happened to be outside the East Oakland artist warehouse when it went up in flames. Sadly, they lost 17 of their friends, many of whom were queer and trans underground electronic musicians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The music Butler has released since speaks to the artist’s difficult healing process. “I’m 32 and I’m just like, cool, what else life? What else, yo?” Butler tells me as we browse Octavia Butler’s apocalyptic science fiction at Marcus. “I survived all these things I thought would kill me. What now?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In early 2017, Butler released an EP, \u003cem>I’m Dropping Out of Life\u003c/em>, which was already in the works before the Ghost Ship fire; Butler had been workshopping two of the tracks in a producers’ meetup group run by Chelsea Faith Dolan, a.k.a. Cherushii, a beloved local house musician who died at Ghost Ship. While in the liner notes, Butler specified that the life they’re dropping out of is an \u003cem>uninspired\u003c/em> one, alluding to the need to seize the day, the record’s sentiment was decidedly dour compared to the emphasis on creation and possibility for \u003cem>The Home I’d Build For Myself and All My Friends\u003c/em>, which comes out on Nov. 15 through San Francisco label \u003ca href=\"https://lefthandpathwax.bandcamp.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Left Hand Path\u003c/a>. [contextly_sidebar id=”d9yBi2RWNkULQlpCi1PB0QKrPRL9jGBK”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, \u003cem>The Home I’d Build For Myself and All My Friends\u003c/em> isn’t the soothing music of an imagined utopia: sonically, it manifests many of the tensions and struggles of everyday life in a polarized place like Oakland—where luxury apartments are jarringly juxtaposed next to homeless encampments, and violence is as enmeshed in the day-to-day as art and music. Not traditional techno by any means, Butler’s tracks sound like they’re wrestling, fighting. Fat bass lines jut out like springs; eerie synth notes creep, like an approaching shadow in one’s peripheral vision, with a tension that never quite dissipates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not to elicit this feeling for foreboding or negativity—it’s in order to elicit this extreme complexity, and feeling overwhelmed,” Butler says. “Because of the album’s name and its look, I thought a lot about, if I’m trying to create this space, am I at all served by thinking of it in a utopic fashion? … I’m creating this idealistic space, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t a breadth and depth of feeling in that. It isn’t all sunshine and rainbows and shit. 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Butler. \u003ccite>(Mariah C. Tiffany)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This ability to hold seemingly contradictory realities at once stems from Butler’s life experiences as a queer, non-binary immigrant. They’re used to often being the first: the first Bermudan person people meet in Oakland, the first person who uses “they/them” pronouns someone encounters, the first black person who isn’t African American. For a long time, as their star rose in the local scene, they felt isolated constantly having to translate their identity to strangers. But eventually, they shifted their perspective and began to view their unique circumstances as a position of possibility to move the culture forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In my knowledge and my upbringing at the very least, I didn’t learn about people doing what I’m doing, who look like me and are from where I’m from, who were involved in any measure of this shit at all,” says Butler. “I have some trepidation saying I’m the first X, but a lot of the time I am. And that comes with a lot of responsibility I take really seriously.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This sense of responsibility means forging new paths, new ways of thought, for the lofty ambition of building a more equitable society, Butler says. On \u003cem>The Home I’d Build for Myself and All My Friends,\u003c/em> techno is the language Butler uses to bring these new realities into being.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Butler tells me, “I’m forging the history of my people as I’m creating it.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A few weeks before the release of Russell E.L. Butler’s long-awaited album, \u003cem>The Home I’d Build For Myself and All My Friends\u003c/em>, the Oakland techno luminary is feeling nostalgic. Butler grew up in Bermuda, a tiny British territory with a majority-black population, in a house full of books. So, for our interview, Butler invites me to meet up at Marcus Books, the oldest black-owned bookstore in the United States and a stone’s throw from the first apartment the artist lived in after settling in Oakland in 2009.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Butler first came to Marcus Books a few years ago to drop off donations for a book drive a friend organized for San Quentin inmates. “It felt like something I’d been missing for a long time, this cultural experience,” says Butler as we stand outside the store, next to a mural of a rifle-toting Malcolm X. “These places that center our creativity are invaluable, especially in this age where you can hit ‘add to cart’ and hit ‘subscribe’ and you’re getting your monthly re-up of books.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Butler’s dad, the author \u003ca href=\"http://bernews.com/2016/12/dale-butler-releases-bermuda-nicknames-book/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dale Butler\u003c/a>, devoted his career to chronicling Bermuda’s distinct culture and history at a time when, as often happens in colonized places with melting-pot demographics, inhabitants questioned whether a unique local culture truly exists. “There’s a lot of people back home that talk about Bermudians not having culture, but they’re so culturally rich,” says Butler. “[My dad] felt this obligation to document this stuff so that wouldn’t be an excuse for people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The younger Butler’s music is rooted in similar ambitions of advocacy through creativity. But \u003cem>The Home I’d Build For Myself and All My Friends \u003c/em>is less about cultural preservation and more about actively shaping culture in real time—in Butler’s case, working toward a culture that takes care of queer and trans people, black people, immigrants, low-income folks and artists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=45713922/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" href=\"http://lefthandpathwax.bandcamp.com/album/the-home-id-build-for-myself-and-all-my-friends\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Butler (who uses the pronoun they), a safe space isn’t just some abstract ideal—it’s a material need. They’re an affiliate of Club Chai, the queer- and trans-forward Bay Area club music collective rooted in global rhythms that slip easily between genres and borders. Club Chai grew out of a warehouse scene that Butler became immersed in upon moving to Oakland after graduating from School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University. It’s the same underground electronic music scene that suffered an immense loss in the 2016 Ghost Ship fire. \u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Butler was slated to perform that night on Dec. 2, 2016, but happened to be outside the East Oakland artist warehouse when it went up in flames. Sadly, they lost 17 of their friends, many of whom were queer and trans underground electronic musicians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The music Butler has released since speaks to the artist’s difficult healing process. “I’m 32 and I’m just like, cool, what else life? What else, yo?” Butler tells me as we browse Octavia Butler’s apocalyptic science fiction at Marcus. “I survived all these things I thought would kill me. What now?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In early 2017, Butler released an EP, \u003cem>I’m Dropping Out of Life\u003c/em>, which was already in the works before the Ghost Ship fire; Butler had been workshopping two of the tracks in a producers’ meetup group run by Chelsea Faith Dolan, a.k.a. Cherushii, a beloved local house musician who died at Ghost Ship. While in the liner notes, Butler specified that the life they’re dropping out of is an \u003cem>uninspired\u003c/em> one, alluding to the need to seize the day, the record’s sentiment was decidedly dour compared to the emphasis on creation and possibility for \u003cem>The Home I’d Build For Myself and All My Friends\u003c/em>, which comes out on Nov. 15 through San Francisco label \u003ca href=\"https://lefthandpathwax.bandcamp.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Left Hand Path\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, \u003cem>The Home I’d Build For Myself and All My Friends\u003c/em> isn’t the soothing music of an imagined utopia: sonically, it manifests many of the tensions and struggles of everyday life in a polarized place like Oakland—where luxury apartments are jarringly juxtaposed next to homeless encampments, and violence is as enmeshed in the day-to-day as art and music. Not traditional techno by any means, Butler’s tracks sound like they’re wrestling, fighting. Fat bass lines jut out like springs; eerie synth notes creep, like an approaching shadow in one’s peripheral vision, with a tension that never quite dissipates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not to elicit this feeling for foreboding or negativity—it’s in order to elicit this extreme complexity, and feeling overwhelmed,” Butler says. “Because of the album’s name and its look, I thought a lot about, if I’m trying to create this space, am I at all served by thinking of it in a utopic fashion? … I’m creating this idealistic space, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t a breadth and depth of feeling in that. It isn’t all sunshine and rainbows and shit. 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"content": "\u003cp>On Friday, Aug. 17, Grumpy Green was busy installing a group exhibition at the East Oakland art space known as Trash Palace when they heard loud knocking at the door. As soon as they opened it, fire inspector Miguel Villanueva planted his foot in the doorway. Green said Villanueva told them the art and furniture temporarily staged in the hallway posed a life-safety risk, giving him “probable cause” to enter the building without their permission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Green and another artist involved in the show, Daria Lourd, debated Villanueva and another official until he decided to call his supervisor. “I asked for documents, and they said they didn’t need any,” Lourd said, adding that the landlord hadn’t notified the tenants of the pending inspection. “They said we were actually on some kind of list.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13839872\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13839872\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/TrashPalace2-2-800x833.jpg\" alt=\"Part of the exhibition 'Are You Comfortable?,' staged at the Lake Merritt bandstand after a fire inspection at Trash Palace in Oakland.\" width=\"800\" height=\"833\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/TrashPalace2-2-800x833.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/TrashPalace2-2-160x167.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/TrashPalace2-2-768x800.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/TrashPalace2-2-1020x1062.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/TrashPalace2-2-1153x1200.jpg 1153w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/TrashPalace2-2-1180x1229.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/TrashPalace2-2-960x1000.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/TrashPalace2-2-240x250.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/TrashPalace2-2-375x390.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/TrashPalace2-2-520x541.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/TrashPalace2-2-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/TrashPalace2-2.jpg 1844w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A banner by Aida Lizalde at the exhibition ‘Are You Comfortable?,’ staged at the Lake Merritt bandstand after a fire inspection at Trash Palace in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Sam Lefebvre)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Two more officials soon arrived, as well as the space’s leaseholder, Anthony Walter, who consented to the inspection. “They came in and took pictures of everything and threatened to red-tag the place,” said Green, calling their tone accusatory. “They even stopped to take pictures of a pair of boots that had ‘all cops are bullies’ written on them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Villanueva, who didn’t respond to an interview request, left the tenants with a two-page report, reviewed by KQED, listing “deficiencies” related to fire extinguishers, carbon monoxide detectors, exposed electrical fixtures, and “housekeeping,” as well as orders to change the building’s “use or occupancy,” writing that it’s “not permitted for assembly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Billed \u003cem>Are You Comfortable?\u003c/em>, the art show Green had been setting up before the inspection originally featured 16 artists “exploring queer sanctuary,” according to its flyer. The visit by Villanueva, and a fear of officials or police returning during the event, inspired the organizers to relocate the show, and they spread word of a “renegade location” to be announced the next afternoon. On Saturday at 5pm, they shared a map with a line leading from Grand Avenue to the Lake Merritt bandstand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I spent four months working on a floor plan for that show,” Green said. “So I figured we should just do it outside in public at the lake—go out, take up space, and not be silenced.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13839871\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13839871\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/TrashPalace1-2-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Part of the exhibition 'Are You Comfortable?,' staged at the Lake Merritt bandstand after a fire inspection at Trash Palace in Oakland.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/TrashPalace1-2-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/TrashPalace1-2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/TrashPalace1-2-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/TrashPalace1-2-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/TrashPalace1-2-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/TrashPalace1-2.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/TrashPalace1-2-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/TrashPalace1-2-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/TrashPalace1-2-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/TrashPalace1-2-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/TrashPalace1-2-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An installation by Zelda Hazel at the exhibition ‘Are You Comfortable?,’ staged at the Lake Merritt bandstand after a fire inspection at Trash Palace in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Sam Lefebvre)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At about the time police officers were shining flashlights into Trash Palace that Saturday night, looking for the exhibition, more than 50 people milled around the bandstand at the lake. With the help of a generator, music echoed and projections spilled across an improvised screen. An artist named Neut cooked on a camping stove, while another created a playpen in an effort to encourage childhood regression. “We didn’t cancel or retreat to some tiny space,” Green said. “It sent a message.” They placed a banner on the staircase, reading “ARE YOU COMFORTABLE?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guerrilla Davis hung photos he’d taken of Adonis Emory posing with materials inside the construction site for Brooklyn Basin—a sprawling development surrounding and, some say, jeopardizing the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13838421/with-luxury-development-on-all-sides-oakland-artists-buy-the-right-to-stay-put\">historic artist enclaves at 5th Avenue Point\u003c/a>. An accompanying text, taped to the bandstand pillars, criticized city government, particularly tourism bureau Visit Oakland, for accelerating gentrification: “How are we supposed to thrive when our work and/or live spaces are threatened and pulled out from under us?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lourd, a DJ and producer, has helped organize workshops and other events at Trash Palace for more than a year. “It was a very queer and trans-centric space—most of the shows were based on giving space to marginalized artists,” she said. 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With the help of a generator, music echoed and projections spilled across an improvised screen. An artist named Neut cooked on a camping stove, while another created a playpen in an effort to encourage childhood regression. “We didn’t cancel or retreat to some tiny space,” Green said. “It sent a message.” They placed a banner on the staircase, reading “ARE YOU COMFORTABLE?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guerrilla Davis hung photos he’d taken of Adonis Emory posing with materials inside the construction site for Brooklyn Basin—a sprawling development surrounding and, some say, jeopardizing the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13838421/with-luxury-development-on-all-sides-oakland-artists-buy-the-right-to-stay-put\">historic artist enclaves at 5th Avenue Point\u003c/a>. An accompanying text, taped to the bandstand pillars, criticized city government, particularly tourism bureau Visit Oakland, for accelerating gentrification: “How are we supposed to thrive when our work and/or live spaces are threatened and pulled out from under us?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lourd, a DJ and producer, has helped organize workshops and other events at Trash Palace for more than a year. “It was a very queer and trans-centric space—most of the shows were based on giving space to marginalized artists,” she said. 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