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Yanira Castro
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Puerto Rican interdisciplinary, performance artist making work with the public.

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Letters to Dissenters is an action of CIRCLE UP: a group that gathers IRL & virtually to knowledge share, engage in action, & buoy dissenters with notes of gratitude. It’s a a good reminder to steel your spine. Third round: Rep Al Green, Maine Gov Janet Mills, Wesleyan Pres Michael S. Roth. Join us!
MICHAEL S. ROTH  President of Wesleyan University 229 High Street Middletown, CT 06459 GOVERNOR JANET MILLS  1 State House Station  Augusta, ME 04333 REPRESENTATIVE AL GREEN  2347 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, DC  20515
March 26, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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Gratitude Letters to Dissenters is an action of CIRCLE UP: a group that gathers to knowledge share, engage in actions, & buoy dissenters by sending notes of gratitude. It’s a real nervous system temperer. Second round: Danielle R. Sassoon, Jeffrey M. Birnbaum, AG Leticia James, Ron Vachris. Join us!
Danielle R. Sassoon United States Attorney's Office 26 Federal Plaza, 37th Floor New York, NY 10278 Jeffrey M. Birnbaum, MD, MPH c/o HEAT Program SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University 450 Clarkson Avenue, Room 6-27 Brooklyn, NY 11203 AG Leticia James Office of the NY State Attorney General The Capitol Albany NY 12224-0341 Ron Vachris Chief Executive Officer, President & Director Costco Wholesale 999 Lake Drive Issaquah, WA 98027
February 19, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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Art community. Wake up. Wake up. Wake up. We are in an existential moment. We are right to feel it. The ground HAS shifted. The future is not what we were planning for. And yes, it was fast. And yes, the whiplash hurts. But… we are here. And we know it. So, what the F? This is what I’m dreaming…
Text that reads, “Art community. Wake up. Wake up. Wake up.” Text is overlaid on a photo of the sun rising over the ocean. Text that reads, “It IS an existential moment. We are right to feel it. The ground HAS shifted.” Text is overlaid on a photo of an old, rusted, defunct lifeguard chair at a drained pool. Text that reads, “To all our art non-profits… private funders… art spaces… May you organize. May you create underground networks of funding, of mutual aid. May you give artists whatever money there is to protest.” Text is overlaid on a photo of a cave opening. Text that reads, “To us, the artists: May we use every skill in our arsenal to rise to this moment. We need zines, line dances, posters, protest chants, acts of demonstration, and, and, and… How can we tell the stories of how this all effects real people. Make it visceral. We have the props.” Text is overlaid on a photo of a window taken through a metallic filter.
February 14, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Last chance to see “Revenge Score: An Abbreviation of the Treaty of Paris 1898” at 21c Chicago Museum Hotel’s Gallery 3 conference room. Designed to the U.S. Gov Publishing Office Style Manual’s specs, this performance score “for americans” is printed on beach towels as official state documents.
Three white oversized beach towels hang on a wall. Printed on them is text resembling a government document but is actually a performance score.
January 29, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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New here. 👋
Sharing a project, Gratitude Letters to Dissenters (inspired by @evayaaasantewaa.bsky.social), that I’ve begun IRL w/ a group called CIRCLE UP. We gather to knowledge share, engage in actions, & we buoy dissenters by sending notes of gratitude. 1st up: Revd Mariann Edgar Budde. Join us!
A photo of the Reverend in her ceremonial robes with her address: The Rt Revd Mariann Edgar Budde Episcopal Church House Mount St. Alban Washington, DC, 20016-5094, USA A stack of letters addressed to The Rt Revd Mariann Edgar Budde.
January 29, 2025 at 1:16 PM