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FUNDRAISER FOR E-SIMS 🍉 We’ve pulled Dizzy Issues #1-4 out of our archive and are selling them individually or as a box set. 100% of sales will be used to purchase e-sims for people in Gaza. Issues #1-4, published in 2017-2018, feature an incredible group of artists including Rirkrit Tiravanija, Kembra Pfahler, Emma Kohlmann, Ellen Berkenblit, Gogo Graham, Martine Syms, Pretty Sick, Diamond Stingily, Ari Marcopoulos, Keegan Dakkar Lomanto, Alake Shilling, Susan Cianciolo, Aidan Koch’s pet snake, an advice column with Princess Nokia… the list goes on and on! Free Palestine, end this horrific genocide, keep watching and doing what you can! Link in bio to purchase. To purchase and donate e-sims yourself, visit https://gazaesims.com/

ROSES ‘R’NOT RED by William Idel Castro in Today, Tomorrow and Forever, our new poetry anthology featuring work by participants at the @vocalnewyork syringe exchange program. Edited by Drop-In Associate and writer @00charlotte11 🥀 Every book comes with an info-bookmark and NARCAN. 20% of the proceeds will be donated to VOCAL-NY. Link in bio to purchase. ❗️FREE SHIPPING site-wide thru December 18❗️ ROSES ‘R’NOT RED by William Idel Castro 1988. First NY State Correctional Facility Prison Term: Roses R Not Red Today Crazy Life, Crazy Ways, Living Me Vida Loca Tears ‘N’ Pains, An Anguished Past Shame On Me, Opps, Hide It Fast 4 If I Cry Within Eye Sight, 4 My Respect I’d Have 2 Fight Hurts 2 Know, Hurts I’ve Caused 2 Live, I Should Surely Die Hurts 2 Know, Hurts I’ve Caused 2 Live, 1 Am Profoundly Blessed And Live I Will, Hunter’s Pride Chasing Dreams I’ve Cast Aside Tried ‘N’ True, Sincere I’ve Bled Damn My Roses STILL Ain’t Red Someday Baby → “SOMEDAY!!!” Will Castro (b. 1968, Brooklyn) enjoys doing self-led yoga in the corner of the drop-in. He says: “Poetry, to me, was the most beautiful thing that I could use to express the hidden me.” Will is boisterous and idiosyncratic but, like everyone, within him is another version of himself – one more vulnerable and quiet than the Will the rest of us get to see. He calls this: “The me that I hide from the world.”

OUT NOW! Today, Tomorrow and Forever is a poetry anthology featuring participants of the syringe exchange program at the VOCAL Drop-In Center (Voices Of Community Activists & Leaders) in Brooklyn. Over the past two years, Editor and Drop-In Associate Charlotte Graham has led a poetry group where participants read and discuss published work, and utilize prompts to write their own poems. This anthology collects the work written during their workshops. Charlotte writes: “What binds the poems in this book? There is poetry in all manner of writing and speaking. Poetry in surviving; poetry in how one lives; the way a person walks into a room and asks for what they need. Poetry is movement, grace, rhythm, and poise. To me, living in poetry means that one is held together by the parts of the whole. When I first started this poetry group, one of the first things I noticed was that many participants had poems in their minds already; the same poem they’d been working on for years. A singular song that could be recited at a moment’s notice. Above all, these poems are soul-talk. They converse from the depths of the person who wrote them with clarity, gravity, and integrity.” Featuring poems and illustrations by: Melissa Williams Mr. R Michelle Mundo Enrique Guillen William Idel Castro Cesar Arbarracin Donna Diorio West Sarge Jesus Rivera Hector Castro Porkchop Curtis Turner Amari Ayala Mary Anna Dolan AKA Fanny Every book comes with an info-bookmark and NARCAN. 20% of the proceeds will be donated to VOCAL-NY. Link in bio to purchase! Info about @vocalnewyork in comments ⬇️

Remember Duck from Eugene Terry’s picture book Tuesday? He flew to a deli in search of snacks and met Cat when they both went for the Chewychips. You can now have your very own Cat to read and hang (literally) with! Cat’s paws have velcro on the ends, easy for linking together for hugs or hanging. 😼🐤 With delicate colored pencil illustrations rendered in subtle tones, Tuesday tells a simple story of adventure and friendship. The direct writing is paired with intricate imagery in which details are revealed with every read: an alligator peeking its head out of a sewer grate; the price of a Swiss cheese sandwich at the deli; a man watching television through an apartment building’s window. Character and plushie design by Eugene Terry. Link in bio, where you can also get a copy of Tuesday! 💙

Join us October 19th for an animation workshop with @lotsagirl ✍️ Violet invites us into her process of creating animations using drawing and printmaking! During this workshop, Violet will demonstrate how she constructs “rubbings” using a flat object, which serve as single frames within a larger moving composition. Participants will then create their own rubbings using a personal object, culminating in an original animation. The workshop will take place within @ritasalt exhibition at @entrance.nyc in the Lower East Side. Participants will be given the unique opportunity to engage with and employ Rita’s ceramic sculptures as a rubbings object alongside their own. Snacks and tea will be provided. No prior animation experience needed. RSVP required. Only 10 spots available! Link in bio. Admissions: $10-20 suggested donation. No one will be turned away for lack of funds. Violet is an experimental animator who utilizes multi-media practices such as printmaking, drawing, photography and collage to create her animations. Her work has been featured on Dizzy TV and in Lilypad Magazine and Snuff Magazine. She has exhibited locally in New York as well as internationally in France, the UK, Japan, and her most recent solo exhibition with Pangée in Montreal, Canada. She currently lives and works in New York City.

SEEKING SUBMISSIONS for 2 special programs, curated by actor & transdisciplinary artist Bobbi Salvör Menuez, to air on the next season of Dizzy TV! Submit to one or both of the programs below: Program 1: PETS Are you a dog person or a cat person? Or maybe more of a legacy pet owner - with an 80 year old tortoise named Bob in your backyard, or 6 birds you bring on the ferry to Fire Island every summer. We want to see footage of your nearest and dearest non-human companions; show us your interspecies economies of affection. Program 2: FOOD Both quotidian and charged psycho-social material, we all have our own relationship to food. Although you can’t taste a video, many of us regularly consume & sometimes gorge on food video content. ASMR, MuckBang, recipe tutorials, food diaries, restaurant reviews. Yum? Yuck? Show us how you interact with food! Submit to: dizzytelevision@gmail.com Deadline: November 15th Specs: 5 mins max, mp4 or mov file

Emma Kohlmann is September in our 2024 Bookmark Calendar! Emma Kohlmann is an artist who lives and works in Western Massachusetts. Link in bio to purchase!

Robin Pak is August in our 2024 Bookmark Calendar! Robin Pak is a Queens-based artist and stop-motion animator from Huntsville, Alabama. She plays with surreal and familiar imagery to explore themes of fantasy and childhood. She currently teaches for Pioneer Works art foundation in Brooklyn, New York and her work has been exhibited internationally as well as in New York City. Detail from animation for Beepy Bella Link in bio to purchase!

LINK IN BIO for new @dizzy_television t-shirt and Dizzy Icons canvas tote 👾

Livia Charman is July in our 2024 Bookmark Calendar! Livia Charman is a visual artist and musician based in Santa Cruz, CA. Link in bio to purchase!

🕊🐤🦤 WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT 🦤🐤🕊⁣ 𝗕𝗶𝗿𝗱𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗚𝗮𝘇𝗮 with Dizzy Books and Mishou Magazine ⁣ 𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽⁣ ⁣ Date: Saturday, June 29, 2024 ⁣⁣ Time: 10am–12pm ⁣⁣ Capacity: 20 participants⁣ Suggested donation: $25–$75⁣ (sliding scale, no one turned away for lack of funds)⁣ Link to register on our website.⁣ ⁣ Join us for the all-ages community art project Birds of Gaza, led by Milah Libin and Kayla Ephros of 𝘔𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘶 𝘔𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘻𝘪𝘯𝘦 and Dizzy Books. During this workshop, we will craft paper birds to honor and remember the children murdered in Israel’s ongoing genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. Each participant will choose a child for whom they will create and dedicate a handmade paper bird. A link to the growing Birds of Gaza database is on the event page on our website.⁣ ⁣ Although all ages are welcome, this workshop prioritizes youth under the age of 16. Given this, please note that your registration does not guarantee entry, and that we will follow up to confirm your spot. ⁣ Issues of 𝘔𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘶 𝘔𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘻𝘪𝘯𝘦 will be available to purchase, with 100% of sales going to Gaza mutual aid.⁣ The donations from this workshop will also be going to @thesameerproject. 𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗮𝗰𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀 and image credits⁣ in the comments.

Lucile Palmer is June in our 2024 Bookmark Calendar! Ohio native Lucile Palmer was born in 1892. She was a writer, author, and publisher from the 1930s to 1960s. Seemingly unknown to most, she wrote and self-published over 700 poems. She lived in Southern California and had her own press called Sargent House Press. Wind by Lucile Palmer from her book “Purely Personal” Link in bio to purchase!