Andi Crist and JP Culligan talk about the development of their Sacramento River CSH (Community Supported Homesteading) project, which is down the block in a neighborhood near you.

My audio recording, dreamy and trail of consciousness was combined with footage made from a pre-quarantined Chicago with its spirit in full bloom. It’s a feedback loop of remembering and forgetting and remembering to forget. Past, Present, and Future. Somewhere it all meets at a single point that is hollow on the inside holding everything and nothing.

A series of drawings by Naomi Hawksley about finding hope at home, and in regrowth and being a little silly during this weird time.

Following the Common Field Convening’s Saturday sessions, Public Media Institute will present a series of experimental after-party events to help gather far-flung attendees. Online social spaces and performances via Twitch & Zoom from 8pm until late in the hopes of fostering the kinds of connections and conversations that happen after a day of panels at the real life conference. Concerts, games, break out party rooms, special guests and more await, in an experience guided by Lumpen’s Jeremiah Chiu and Team Precariat’s Brandon Alvendia.

Songwriter Angela James casts a spell for comfort in uncertain times and observes how care taking is shifting during the pandemic.

Engaging with my kitchen studio as a pie shop, I am conjuring up spells for queer pleasures on the daily to celebrate and honor our existence, communal care, and beauty. It has offered me so much healing in return. Everything is so absolutely uncertain all the time. The only certain thing is how temporary everything always is. 

I can see the physical changes the rapidly rising pressure Corona Virus has made to my ice cream shop, Pretty Cool Ice Cream. Like fossils of long by-gone times, we still have a sign declaring the water fountain out of order next to a box of magnetic letters pulled from our giant magnetic wall, relics of our first feeble attempts at public safety.

It’s why we don’t use mirrors tilted at the clouds as traffic signs, at least anymore.

Public Media Institute's Lumpen Radio Twitch Channel will host public online after parties for Common Field Convening, a now-virtual national gathering of arts organizers.

A poetic mixtape between two roommates by Noa/h Fields and Stevie Cisneros Hanley