welcome to artists

WELCOME ARTISTS!Our Brother Legion / 7001 welcome you.

Art introduces us to new worlds, new ideas, and

new friends.

“I was alone in the apartment. I sat at my desk and looked at the reproduction of Guernica, which I had put on the wall near my bed. The city of Guernica had been destroyed by the German Air Force in 1937, during the Spanish Civil War. Picasso had painted the mural for the Spanish Pavillon for the International Exhibition in Paris that year. I knew that painting by heart and could draw it in my mind. I had dreamed about the bull and the horse. I had drawn the screaming pain-filled faces of the women in my notebooks during class. I had put the anguished women with the dead child in the back of an English exam book; and had gotten it back with a written remark from the teacher at this having been an English, not an art, examination; he gave me a D on the test. I did not understand what Guernica had to do with the Christian Bible. I did not understand what it had to do with the Massacre of the Infants (Christian New Testament, Matthew). I felt upset and uncomfortable at having read from the Christian Bible. I thought of the mashpia. I wonder if the Rebbe really know what Jacob Kahn was doing. I felt vaguely unclean.”

-My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok

ART• Builds community.

• Dazzles us.

• Affirms our friendship.

• Delves into the taproot of our common humanity.

• Creates awareness.

Emily Balog, Artist & Humanitarian, Dear One

BO-STEVENS AT THE GARAGEWINSTON-SALEM JULY 2015

Support local music! Especially when you went to high school with the lead singer.

–Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling

“Ah, music,” he said, wiping his eyes. “A magic beyond all we do here.” -Albus

Dumbledore

People who are depressed, in

despair, or enduring disease

need art.Art reaffirms our humanity,

shares the struggle, entertains, distracts,

sustains, and pours out copious reminders that

heartache is part of loving and hope surprises us.

• Please consider donating a song or a pieces of visual art or of writing being one of our Special Exhibits at 7001.

• If you would like it linked to your art house or producer, list the link on the submission form.

• If you are an academic/ professor/ teacher consider involving your students to send their art. Emphasizing links to this community or personal experience is totally appropriate.

• Because we seek to create a sense of belonging through learning about folks who live with mental illness, trauma, or addiction, an activity/ event/ shindig (usually based on a trivia model so that it’s interactive) would being the people into both sides of the process.

SECULAR OR SACRED ART WELCOMED

BY 7001.Tacky ass Baltimore pop art

““My idea of an interesting person is someone who is

quite proud of their seemingly abnormal life and turns their disadvantage into

a career.” ― John Waters,

Baltimore Royalty

I DO A LOT OF ART OUT OF NECESSITY FOR OUR BROTHER LEGION. IT’S SAFE

ART. 7001 takes more risks. We do not permit faces or overt vulgarity. We’re going to have to label the hell out of everything so consumers will have informed choice (essential

in trauma care). Voicing our suffering and giving language to our doubt requires courage. There is a certain daring to the art of healing.

HEALING CERTAINLY REQUIRES

SANCTUARY.Healing also requires the truth about the human experience.

Finding the truth that gets us off the couch

from depression, that’s our mutual investment.

INVEST IN US.

Invest with us. Bring the best of your community and of your individual aptitudes to let folks

know that they are not alone. That their suffering is not

unnoticed. And that folks care enough to

contribute.

Children are welcome to

participate in whatever ways makes sense to

them.If children want to create

community by sharing their weird little senses of humor,

that’s great. People who struggle love pictures and

cards and stylized resurrected photos of

Zombie Jesus. And children keep growing in generosity.

It’s all good.

Artists, musicians, professionals, and amateursthank you for taking time.

Thank you for sharing your care & talents with 7001.

Please tell interested parties that the submission process is fairly low

maintenance. Here’s How:• Fill out submission form on 7001strong.org. Then email the file to 7001strong@gmail.com.

• .mp3 file format for music or podcasts.

• File formats for Visual Art: .png, .jpeg, or .pdf

• If you have questions or comments, feel free to be in touch. (Email hello@ourbrotherlegion.org.)

“ROMEO IS BLEEDING”A troupe of Spoken Word poets re-wrote “Romeo and Juliet” to

describe the decades long feud between North and Central Richmond, CA. They said that they were going to “speak the pain out of

Richmond.”

ART HEALS.

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