Andro Queen, All Maine Points, Bitemark, Dollmaker, Torture Agenda

Area 54, Saturday, May 30 at 06:00 PM EDT

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The Lavender Room is going to push you around and make you gay with a weird gender. Specifically on Friday, May 30th, at Area 54 (@area54buffalo) 🥹🥳🏳️‍⚧️We’ll be bringing the (transgender) noise when Pink n Black Punk Pride Eve (Eve) returns, with Lavender Room debut of Andro Queen (@androqueen) all the way from Boston, along with our beloved Dollmaker (@dollmaker716) and a scary and weird and loud combination of Bitemark (@officialbitemark), All Maine Points (@allmainepointsmusic) and Torture Agenda (@tortureagenda) ✨🧷❤️‍🔥 We will be outside out back (probably) with a bunch of local organizations doing important work in our Buffalo community, as well as free zine and craft tables 🥰 this one will be special, come hang out and celebrate one of the most important protest movements of all time with us ❤️‍🔥
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Lav Room: Pink n Black Punk Pride Eve Eve
Friday, May 30
Area 54 / Amy’s Place
3234 Main St, Buffalo
Doors 6pm Music 7pm
$15 Pay What You Can
No One Turned Away For Lack Of Funds
All Ages & All Abilities
Not a Sober Space
Respect The Space
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Queercore / Punk / Post-Punk / Post-Hardcore / Riotgrrrl / Riotghoul / Crust / Powerviolence / Indie / Alternative / Pop Punk / Folk Punk
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beautiful amazing gorgeous flyer by @wallofjunk
Bitemark by @othersideofthe.mirror
Dollmaker by @lavcam_
All Maine Points by @chemical.trails

https://buffalo.askapunk.net/event/pink-n-black-punk-pride-eve-eve-andro-queen-all-maine-points-bitemark-dollmaker-torture-agenda

Mormon Mincers, Ate, Dollmaker, Miss Guerrilla Fighter

Hen House, Saturday, May 23 at 07:30 PM EDT

Gig moved to Hen House! No longer at wastelands

Music @ 7:30

$10 PWYC

Presented by:

G.A.G.S. - https://www.instagram.com/g.a.g.s.716

Bands:

Mormon Mincers (Bay Area Mincecore) - https://www.instagram.com/mormon_mincers/

Ate (Rochester Mincecore) - https://ateny.bandcamp.com

Dollmaker (Buffalo Powerviolence) - https://www.instagram.com/dollmaker716/ [FIRST SHOW]

Miss Guerrilla Fighter (Buffalo Sludgeviolence) - https://missguerillafighter.bandcamp.com

https://buffalo.askapunk.net/event/mormon-mincers-ate-dollmaker-miss-guerrilla-fighter

I wish I also had time to join this #DollMaker jam

https://itch.io/jam/dollmaker-jam

#GameJams #ItchJams

i love using online dollmakers/avatar creators. it's been one of my enduring hobbies since early childhood.

i made myself at https://www.dolldivine.com/classic-games/winter-avatar-creator

I've started crafting this new weird doll, and she is talking about how everything is connected, that no mind is separate from the others, all thoughts born in the ocean of collective consciousness, everything and everyone connected with invisible strings... Her eyes breaks and reflects the light. Her face is decorated with dots, lines and spirals. Her colorful hair is kind of messy, but two neat braids are hanging down. She has no body, just kind of tentacles so far, I'm not sure she will get a body, but she will definitely get some kind of a crown. I struggle to comprehend what kind of entity I'm dealing with. Any ideas? Any mythological creature, deity, entity comes to your mind reading and seeing all this?

#dollmaker #weirdart #doll #artist #dollcrafter #entity

When I started to make (and sell) dolls and people started to tell me that my dolls help them I was wondering - how? is it true? is it placebo? I never offered them as magical solutions. Of course, I can't deny there is my thought, intention and inner conversation happening while I craft my dolls - it's a personal practice. I know about traditional uses of dolls in folk magick and witchcraft, but not all who own my dolls call themselves witches or use them for ritualistic or magical purposes. When "The Healing Doll Way" - a visually stunning book about creating dolls as part of art therapy by Barb Kobe reached me, I finally dared to look for the answer - how can a doll help? In this book the author offers a guided process of creating dolls for self-discovery, awareness and transformation, but if you are not the one creating a doll, is there still any benefit of engaging with dolls as an adult? Turns out, the idea that dolls can help isn’t just a weird thought of a few "crazy" witches. The power and potential of dolls as valuable tools for personal development, self-reflection and regulation, transformation, growth, healing and overcoming problems is well recognized, accepted and used in modern psychology and psychotherapy.

This doll right here was created channelling confidence and self-acceptance. Kind of affirmation doll, a reminder and symbolic companion. That's what most of my dolls are. I still don't know if my dolls are art or delusional madness, but do we know where to draw the line? Is it even possible to draw a clear line and is it even needed? You tell me... The fact that my dolls help is something buyers of my dolls told me, I had no clue it could happen, just a hope they would bring joy and the sense of companionship. To my own surprise they do a lot more, and I've heard a few times: "Kristine, you don't know what you are doing with those dolls." And I agree. To be honest, I needed 7 years of crafting dolls to understand that a doll is a powerful vessel.

If you are interested in exploring this topic, you can find my full article about this here: Through The Lens of Psychology: How Can a Doll Help?

https://www.silticrafts.com/dolls-and-inspirations/through-the-lens-of-psychology-how-can-a-doll-help

(The link takes you to my SiltiCrafts home page)

#witches #pagan #rituals #paganart #witchart #occultart #artdoll #artist #dollmaker #dollartist #crafter #folkmagic #witchcraft #psychology

She waves her comfrey root stick to transport herself safely from a place to place, one state of mind to another. She is a Wild Flower. Playful, imaginative, vivacious witch, inhibiting this time and space as unapologetically wild creature.

I struggle to call myself a doll maker lately. It's April, it's a very busy season in the garden and in my mind, and I'm learning to drive a car as a toddler mom close to 40 - it's damn expensive and not coming easily, but I can barely get out of this remote place without driving a car, so I have to. My mental space lately is constantly overloaded, so I carry, lift and dig in my garden to get some sunshine through the thick clouds in my brain. Doll crafting is an essential part of my self-reflection, rest and self-care all in one, almost a spiritual practice, it's also my micro-business and I havent given enough of time to that lately. From who knows where this little lady found the way to my Witch Town, she didn't even knock as an idea begging to be made into a doll, she just arrived with ease and confidence I haven't seen in me for a while. She arrived as a reminder.

P.s. The doll is available in my shop.

#wildflower #dollmaker #storyteller #witchcrafter #witchdoll #artdoll #dollcrafter #doll

If I post a picture of a doll I've made, the one where the doll stares at you, is that eye-contact and should be marked as sensitive content?

This is my interpretation of Veļu Māte - the Mother of the Dead from Latvian mythology. One of the most feared deities because nobody comes back from her realm. She mostly visits in the shape of an old woman.

#mythology #baltic #latvian #dollmaker #doll #crafter #dollcrafter