Sunday, August 24th, 6-9pm Portland OR (Email for address. Enter backyard through the paved driveway.) 

About the event: A friendly gathering to mark the culmination of a seven-year journey: the community release of Sage Schick's book, The Bellowing Fire, and completion of Elliott Miskovicz's tape and CD, Conspire, with his project A Stick And A Stone.        

The event will be open-format — no stage or performances, just a place for you to engage with the works at your own pace and share this closing chapter with us. We will have couches for reading, headphones for listening, and tables for drawing or painting. Behind the house, a cozy backyard for conversation and celebration. Light food and drinks available for donations to Gazan mutual aid group Bridge of Solidarity. 

We will co-create multiple interactive altars to honor movement ancestors and offer anchors for reflection and re-centering to hold us through heavy times. Our hope is for people to leave feeling re-grounded in their purpose and reconnected to the inner resources which sustain them in showing up for each other and the world we’re trying to build.   

About the artists: Sage and Elliott are two trans artists & longtime friends with a deep history of mutual support through housing precarity, disability, and now as creative accountability partners. Their work shares common threads: resistance sparked by fierce love; grief in the face of politicized deaths; and the ways geopolitics becomes deeply relational — particularly across Syria, Palestine, Mexico, and Ukraine. As creative companions and co-editors, Sage and Elliott carried each other through the intensive endeavors of bringing these works to life.              

About the book: The Bellowing Fire: Kayla Mueller’s Legacy of Loving Resistance unfolds as a series of nonlinear, memory-rich vignettes. Sage’s moving lyrical prose takes the form of letters to Kayla Mueller — their close friend who, while aiding Syrian refugees, was kidnapped by ISIS and never returned. In a deeply honest and heart-wrenching dialogue with their beloved friend-turned-ancestor, Sage confronts the past while seeking Kayla’s guidance amid the social upheavals of the present. Tracing how this transformative friendship shaped their commitment to Palestinian solidarity and migrant justice, Sage offers an intimate portrait not just of loss, but of love as a catalyst for action.      

About the album: Conspire draws its title from the Latin root conspirare — “to breathe together.” In a time when those confronting violence are often branded as “conspirators,” this album asks: How do we breathe together amid wars and planetary destruction? How do we hold each other as we fight tyranny? What guidance can our queer ancestors offer on this path? Alternating between spacious moments of clarity and sudden eruptions of dissonance, Conspire is a soundtrack for the breaking and mending of what needs to be reconstructed — in ourselves, and in our world.   

This abum created with support from RACC (@regionalarts) and the Office of Arts & Culture (@pdxartsculture) 

Sunday, June 29th, 5:30 to 10:30pm 

A record release event for A Stick And A Stone's Conspire with St Sol, Spectral Forces, Moondrifts, Vidrozhena, Cadence Luxe, Mik Phillips, and Zoe Farnsworth —  

✦˙⋆☽˚ A mini-fest of eclectic, weird, trans & queer-as-fuck artists from outerspace ˚☾⋆˙✦ 

at Space 1026 at 844 N Broad St. Philly, PA (no longer 1026 Arch St) 

10-30 N.O.T.A.F.L.O.F. (No one turned away for lack of funds)     

⟶ Accessibility info below. 

St.Sol is an electronic avante-pop project from singer-songwriter-producer Oliver. Superimposing the bombastic and the delicate, their music is an ethereal reconstruction of an internal world rich with complex and overlapping self states. solsolsolmusic.bandcamp.com

Moondrifts is an all-trans space rock band & the moon is a trans rock from space. Sometimes grungey, sometimes twinkly. Songs of resistance, love, & community care. moondrifts.bandcamp.com * instagram.com/gay4themoon

Spectral Forces - A force, helixed towards the firmament and wrapped in mystic conjure– a reclamation jazz band, a post-punk experimental ritual: Spectral Forces is Julius Masri (Mephisto Halabi, Nomad War Machine,  Dromedaries), Pete Dennis (Search for the Infinite Light/ Delany Van Parys), and Alexoteric aka Alex Smith (Solarized, Arkdust, Pew Grantee) laying it down somewhere out in the cosmos. “The Universe is Within Who” is their 2024 demo tape, a skyward burst of kinetic punk-jazz and Afrofuturism. Let’s get tympanic! spectralforces.bandcamp.com   

Vidrozhena (Ksenya Leah Basarab) is emotive solo work involving bass guitar, electric cello, & various layers. "A framework through wilderness, insomnia, what seems abandoned but isn't, hyper-fixation of sounds within sounds, and the city at off-times..." vidrozhena.bandcamp.com   

Cadence Luxe - polyrhythmic drums and chimes with bass. instagram.com/cadence.luxe

A Stick And A Stone: Ethereal, minimalist songcraft and dark ambient resonance. The project of Chiricahuan desert-based vocalist/composer Elliott Miskovicz, A Stick And A Stone's live Philly ensemble includes harpist/violist Myles Donovan, violist/vocalist Billy Ray Boyer, and percussionist Olivia Cadence Luxe — often showcasing local movement artists. Their haunting performances offer a meditative inquiry into restoring the fractures of our world through reverent invocations of nonhuman life forms, trans ancestors, and unseen currents.  www.astickandastone.com

Mik Phillips is a trans, queer + fat dance and performance artist currently based in Philadelphia, who received their BFA in Dance from the University of the Arts in 2021. He examines + lives inside a constant welling; a need for quivers, heaving, uncontrollable laughter, sobs — and indiscriminate violence guides them into creating temporary worlds that are maniacally unkempt and grotesquely forgiving. He aims to distort time, go elsewhere; while exploring humor, absurdity, queer futurity, and intense physicality through different modes of efficiency and enactments.

Zoe Farnsworth (they/she) is a Jewish, trans artist and educator from Brooklyn, now based in Philadelphia. With roots in dance improvisation, post-modern dance, and release technique, Zoe breathes new life into complex ancestral histories through their "compostable dance" process. Her immersive performances draw from themes of death, migration, ecology and mythology to reflect on the ongoing work of decolonization and dismantling white supremacy. Their recent Philly Fringe piece, The Meaning of Where I’m From, wove dance with storytelling, music, and ritual to explore their connections to their Bubby, Judaism, and trans identity.  

About the record release of Conspire:  A Stick And A Stone's Conspire stands out from their previous four albums for its dynamic descents into feral noise-scapes, and for its bold messages of resistance woven into the lyrics. Field recordings of endangered wild animals and protest speeches intersperse with samples of children discussing their solutions to global problems. 

The 11 song album features the chaotic percussion of Olivia Cadence Luxe, mesmerizing harp of Myles Donovan, cacophonous sax harmonics of Wren Radix, dissonant synths of Benjamin Schurr, subtle viola of Billy Ray Boyer, and brooding cello of Rhys Jewell—all layered over the haunting choral harmonies of Elliott Miskovicz. From the roots of con + spire (“to breathe together”), Conspire is a gasp for air amidst the upheavals of our time. 

Infused with Barzin Savaji's occult album art subverting the structures of social control, the cassette tape will be released by Fiadh Productions and the CD by Mutual Aid Records.   

This album was created with funding support from RACC (@regionalarts) and the Office of Arts & Culture (@pdxartsculture) 

Accessibility: All performances before 8pm will be outdoors, but in case of inclement weather (including high heat) the whole lineup will perform indoors. Masks will be provided to wear indoors. The back entrance has no steps and enters the backyard from Carlisle street, and there are no steps from the backyard to the back door of the building or to the bathroom. However, the main entrance where the door person will be has 7 steps from the sidewalk to the door. The backyard is concrete and there are a variety of benches to sit or stand on as there is no stage. Non-alcoholic and alcoholic beverages will be sold. For any further accessibility questions, contact Space1026 at gallery@space1026.com ♡