Fortunately Issue 0 Launch Party

Miriam Gallery

Join co-founding directors Cierra Michele Peters and Mark Hernandez Motaghy to commemorate the release of Fortunately's inaugural issue.

What would a lifestyle magazine look like in a post-capitalist world? Join us for the launch of Fortunately, an arts and culture publication centered around cooperation, economics, and alternative ways of living, founded at the Ujima Project. Its first publication, the Pro-Testing Print, considers iteration, reflection, daydreaming, and re/vision as sites of radical potentiality and luxurious practice.In Issue 0, SAMSØN Projects’s Camilo Alvarez talks about art market futures with writer Alula Hunsen. Economist Francisco Perez meditates on the symbiotic possibilities of the solidarity and arts economies, while MOLD Magazine editor LinYee Yuan reflects on community economics and the future of food. Veteran organizer Rosalba Solis and viento izquierdo ugaz explore Indigenous cosmovisions, music, and grassroots organizing. And the UnBound Bodies Collective chats with Cy X about the erotics of care. Additional features include Resonate.Coop’s director brandon king and artist-educator Fei Liu, as well as poet Porsha Olayiwola, painter Shantel Miller, organizer mai ishikawa sutton, and Small Format, a Providence-based, queer-run cafe and bar.Event Description:To commemorate the release of Fortunately's inaugural issue, co-founding directors Cierra Michele Peters and Mark Hernandez Motaghy host a conversation with artist-organizer Caroline Woolard, and editor LinYee Yuan of MOLD Magazine and Field Meridians.Following the discussion, we will have a reception featuring music by subt.le while Fei Liu invites us to play dominoes with a twist. Specialty drinks and copies of the publication will be available.This publication was initiated and supported by the Ujima Project, a Black-led organization building a cooperative business, arts, and investment infrastructure in Boston with a mission to return wealth to working-class communities of color. Ujima is home to the nation’s first democratically governed investment fund. To learn more, visit Ujima’s website <a href="http://ujimaboston.com/" title="http://ujimaboston.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">here</a>.Follow on IG: @fortunatelymag

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