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A story about all the good, bad, ugly, strong, and beautiful in California.

10/23/2024

Join representing x today from 12pm - 1:20pm PST, speaking at ’s Environmental Justice Colloquium! While this talk is on-campus, feel free to attend virtually at the link in bio.

They will be presenting around the trilogy of illustrations being created (The Origin, The Exposition, and The Climax) in service to a cross-issue education and solidarity organizing campaign about crises locally, statewide, and in relationship to global justice.

09/24/2024

We’re out here for New York Climate Week! 🗽 Telling stories about climate colonialism and possibilities for liberation in the belly of the beast, in Times Square. Stay posted for our upcoming workshop this week 🙌🏽

08/23/2024

TLDR; Come witness a storytelling of * and brainstorm with community to prepare for coming fires, both ecological and social! 🔥

When/Where: WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2024 from 6pm - 9pm at the OAKLAND ASIAN CULTURAL CENTER. RSVP at the link in bio ()

We invite you to share stories you carry— and consider which to extinguish, which to warm and which to set ablaze. With fire as our lens, we’ll create a healing space, a grief tending, a gathering to organize community, and a storytelling/image ideation to examine literal and metaphorical fires in our world.

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The world is on fire. We weather severe heatwaves, scorching droughts, and vicious wildfires, that fuel our collective rage. In the wake of these disasters—we root together to dream beyond violent cycles of extraction, exploitation and injustice.

There is a steady and kind flame being tended in community— centered in care of one another, being witness to and in support of each other’s grief, trailblazing paths to solidarity and liberation. When our ancestors were in good kinship to fire it helped us shapeshift, as well as share stories and food in warmth. With this principle, we will explore our collective narrative, discerning which stories to extinguish, which to warm and which to set ablaze.

*This event is part of a larger participatory process to create a image depicting liberatory shifts in the entire state of California, as a metaphor for global justice and held by the guiding questions:

What world do we want to live in on these lands?

What world do we need to birth? Dar a luz?
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Maximum of 30 spots available.
This is a masks-required event.
NOTAFLOF (no one turned away for lack of funds). Herbal wildfire care kits will be given out to all participants! Food will be provided.

This event is a collaboration between Weaving Spirits and The Callegory. It is part of our upcoming programming focusing on fire tending.

08/15/2024

to our residency with in Bakersfield, where we led a storytelling + visioning to generate research/concept ideas for the upcoming Climax poster.

There is a depth and swath of narratives swirling throughout and within California— the dominant ones in the coasts, the nestled ones in the forests, the hidden ones in the corners, the industrial narratives in urban cities and the sacred ones in its history. While the issues experienced here are local, there are national and global echoes and this project is an intervention to connect them all. Stay tuned on how to join and support this process! 🙏🏽

02/03/2024

The and are proud to announce that our official website is LIVE— this is the virtual home for updates, future resources, and the process of the latest graphics campaign about California! Follow along on our progress here on IG () or on our page to learn more about the project and to get involved, at callegory.org.

Also, stay tuned about “Diadromous”— an arts activism fellowship connecting Bay Area and Central Valley organizers and creatives launching this year. More information and applications to come very soon! 🦢

01/10/2024

~ART! STORYTELLING! SPOKEN WORD!~

Want to learn more about The Callegory, the latest graphic trilogy with ? TWO more storytellings this tour are happening:

🐝 January 12th at 5:30PM
The NEST, United Way of San Joaquin
777 N Pershing Way, Suite 2B
Stockton, CA 95203

🐝 January 13th at 3PM
Kreepy Kawaii Designs
1742 Canal Street
Merced, CA 95340

This Bay Area-Central Valley stretch of shows will have more focused time exploring The Exposition, one of the images in the Callegory trilogy. Spread the word and share, and see ya there!

11/30/2023

Our predecessor and fellow cross-pollinators, the is now booking for our first two US tours in early 2024: Dec 27 - Jan 26 in California, Nevada and Arizona & Feb 1 to Feb 24 around the East Coast (see rough itinerary below). Some of us from will be on the CA stops!

We are available for presentations, class talks, and interactive workshops at universities, colleges, high schools, and middle schools, as well as events at community centres, galleries, conferences, union halls, farmers markets and any other space where people would like to see us present.

We are also booking for summer festivals and youth camps in the US in 2024 and are looking forward to touring coast to coast in the not-too-distant future! So if you want to bring Beehive Collective to your community please reach out!

US Early 2024 tour – Rough Itinerary
WEST COAST
Dec 27-Dec 28: Southern California
Dec 29-30: Central Coast
Jan 1-11: Bay Area and Northern California
Jan 12-14: Central Valley
Jan 16-21: Arizona and Nevada (Phoenix, Flagstaff, Las Vegas)
Jan 22-23: Inland Empire, CA
Jan 24-26: Southern California

EAST COAST
Feb 1 Buffalo
Feb 2 Pittsburgh
Feb 3 Pittsburgh
Feb 4 Blair Mtn / Matewan
Feb 5 Charlottesville / Louisa
Feb 6 Richmond
Feb 7 Richmond
Feb 8 DC
Feb 9 Baltimore
Feb 10 Philly
Feb 11 Philly
Feb 12 NY
Feb 13 NY
Feb 14 NJ
Feb 15 Scranton
Feb 16 Binghampton
Feb 17 Albany
Feb 18 New Haven /Hartford
Feb 19 Springfield/Worcester
Feb 20 Providence
Feb 21 Boston
Feb 22 Boston
Feb 23 Boston

04/08/2023

Stoked to announce the beginning of Callegory: Phase 2, or the Sequel! [] 🐝 Come to our storytelling event and decompression jam.

When:
Saturday, April 8 from 6pm-9pm!

Where:
PLACE for Sustainable Living (.community)
1121 64th Street, Oakland, CA!

The California Allegory (Callegory) is an arts activism and narrative organizing project, nurturing coalition-based power and embodied storytelling to spur sustained, collective action. Using a powerful image called the Exposition created over four years, we will illuminate oppression and liberation in the Bay-Delta bioregion through storytelling, and dream about a larger, state-wide illustration drawing power from local to global movements for social, economic and climate justice.

Light refreshments will be provided. To respect the story, we will start promptly at 6:30pm. BYOI (bring-your-own instruments for a decompression jam)! 🎶

SLIDING SCALE DONATION: $10-$20 but NOTAFLOF (no one turned away for lack of funds) 💵

All monies raised will go towards organizing costs and continued work for the California Allegory project. Thank you for your support!~

02/21/2019

Excited for Saturday night! We'll be celebrating the work of many artists, activists, and educators over a span of four years

02/17/2019

"The Spirit of California"
by Tianna Renee
(otherwise known as El-P)

Your skin is golden and soft you are blessed with good genes,

I have worked this land
The sun, soil, and water has brined my skin

Your knowledge is expansive you are naturally intelligent,

I have survived genocide, colonization, drought, and exploitation
Thinking is a luxury, survival is what has created my mind

Your produce is life giving,

I am not allowed to eat the harvest,
Only to tend to it,
How does it taste?

Your recipes are unique and flavorful,

The ceremonies we preform to make our food are the ingredients that you had never felt,
Until you stole them from our hearts

You are so strong for a female,

All strength is derived from the divine feminine,
Mother Earth,
My physical strength is only because,
I am holding together this earth in my heart

My people weep,
From a window,
Adjacent to your stairwell,
You step on shifted, manipulated land of my people to add commas to your debt,
To take years off of your life,
To experience something more than taste and sight,

California is my name

01/10/2019

: At one point, the California Beehive poster was still a work-in-progress. In this video, Orion (Ryan) Camero and the organizing of Restore the Delta won the 2015 Brower Youth Awards for this very project, at a stage where a lot was still in the works! A lot of progress has happened since this video was shot :)

Take a walk down memory lane and check it out!

01/04/2019

"El Rio de las Calaveras"
by Michael Gallagher
(otherwise known as the Blue Flame)

Panning for gold in the river of skulls
Calaveras county
jaw on the jetty
bones in the bushes
steelheads migrating like the bayonets of colonizers spear-fishing
destiny in their wake
questions kindling fate
what waves do I create?
what ripples reap these riddles?
I dip the porous pan and find gold teeth in the
mud
they bit the hand that plated meat and
cupped blood
marsh minerals sparkle and slip between fingers
and my eyes are the strainer sifting mundane for glimmers
beyond the gleam of glamour
past the allure of glory
basking in the muck and mosquito
precious to all people
shining behind veils
adorning the sore legs and pushing the
backs of those hunched over the streams
I would trade metal for your meaning
I will toss back the bounty
but if you find your skull
instead of gold
know
I am fulfilled

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