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The Imagination Issue

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ONE.DROP N a s h v i l l e A r t & K u l c h a

p u b l i s h e d b y

E V O L U T I O N X P R E S S

EDITOR IN CHIEFKANA KAVON

CONTRIBUTING WRITERMARCUS BENNETT

Shoot questions, comments, and ideas to onedropjournal@gmail.com

CONTENTS

COVER PHOTOGRAPH BY JOSEPH PATRICK.

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It's so good to be back! One.Drop Nashville is fresh from hiatus, wrapping up some imminent business and seeking clarity of creative vision. Not to mention, it takes a minute to get back in a good groove. But we're ready to start rolling again. This year has been an exercise in Consistency and Determination. From finishing a Master's Degree to learning the ropes of a new job, I have learned and re-learned that nothing beats the hard, grinding work of sticking with a task. It's quite satisfying in the end. I want to point out that these are an artist's best friends--Consistency and Determination. Without them, albums sit humming in your head, the best shots never captured, manuscripts never written…With all that being said, for most of us, creativity begins with Imagination- - the central and quintessential element of all creativity. It takes us as far as we will allow it. No further. It's great at obeying orders and following rules. But it's even better at freestyling and drawing outside the lines. Let's explore imagination.

Kana Kavon

Photo by Joseph Patrick

Nashville in November

M u s i c & D a n c e

L u p e F i a s c o 11 . 3J a n e l l e M o n a e 11 . 1 7

L a u r a M v u l a 11 . 1 7

P o e t r y & P r o s e

P o e t r y i n t h e B r e w 11 . 9

Ly r i c a l B r e w 11 . 2 1

W r i t i n g s o n t h e Wa l l 11 . 1 4

N i g h t o f F r e e S p e e c h 11 . 1 2

N i k k i G i o v a n n i @ S a l o n 6 1 5

T h e a t r e & F i l m

International Black Film Festival of Nashville thru 11.3

God Loves Uganda @ Belcourt Theatre 11.1Basquiat @ the Frist 11.15

Bohemian Circus Playground 11.21

V i s u a l

Split & Twisted thru 11.8 First Saturday Art Crawl 11.2

30 Americans Exhibit at the Frist

#Free Free admission to The Frist for Free Family Festival Day 11.17

Search www.NowPlayingNashville.com for details on these and more happenings!

As long as there is blood in your veins and oxygen in your lungs, you have a chance. Life is a continuous p roce s s cons i s t i ng o f many hardships, triumphs, obstacles, and challenges, that help to mold who you are and who you will become.

The good thing about it all is that everyday you have the chance and the choice to make it. With the right mindset, you can turn any situation into a success. Never consider a situation to be a set back, rather look at it as a set up for what is to come. Whether the experience is good or bad, consider it the grounds

Setback vsSET UP

to be a transition in your life.

At the time when you feel the m o s t d i s a d v a n t a g e d , t h e advantage you do have lies in your own hands. How you deal, and react to situations can hinder or help you in the long run. Exercise your brain to be mentally fit to climb every physical, emotional, and spiritual mountain and you will always reach the finish line.

--Marcus Bennett

If you think you're too small to make a difference, you haven't spent the night with a mosquito. -Afrikan Proverb.

"My task is not yet complete."

-Drea (San Francisco)

"If you want to do your part in bettering the World...stop dwelling in your own narcissistic insecurities with the regards to your impact. You are part of a bigger plan, play your role and your purpose will be clear to everyone."

-Los (D.C.)

Don't let anything but your divine purpose define U.

-Iyen (Nashville)

Proverb Breakdown

He chooses to look up, though they designate his demiseBlack boy walks, talks, beams with prideThey tell him he looks out of place being so hope full so proudso smartStill he looks up toward the unknownthat is surely better than the brokenness of what's been h i s t o r ys o f a rAin't he beautiful beingso bold?

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Kahlo is

the high

priestess

All textbooks are

Octavia Bulter

novels.

Andre 3000 is the

permanent Poet Laureat (until I say

otherwise)

We dance to the music of washing machines & playground songs while lightening bugs catch us in summer fields of low grass and basketball courts.

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(imagi)National Anthem:

Fela Kuti's "Water No Get Enemy"

In myMy mother's birthday is

the only (imagi)National

Holiday. Mandarin

Orange cake for

everyone. Two slices for

mommies, because you

know they'll share..

College Exit Exams = A healthy and successful garden

Passports are the only acceptable form of I.D.

We grow wings and fly. The butterflies, bumblebees & geese are so proud that they offer us guest rooms in their hives, nests, or cocoons for our rest. Whales & dolphins are so impressed with our evolutionary progress they decide to show us where our gills are. And so we soar and dive and teach others how to uproot themselves from old places of pain.

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Collaborate! Getting outside of your own creative space and working with other creators is a great exercise in imagination (or complete frustration if you don't take down your imagination fences!)

Turn off your phone during Thanksgiving dinner. Listen to the stories that are passed around with the turkey.

Spend a night a l o n e . N o e l e c t r o n i c s . Just you and y o u r i m a g i n a t i o n . Give in.

Go see the 30 A m e r i c a n s Exhibit at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts. Then go see it again.

Subscribe for free to One.Drop Nashville

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