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express your yes foundation is a 501(c)3 arts & activism non-profit producing free fabulous events if not us, who? if not now, when?

from cabaret to congress — we’re here to unify the human race. to perpetually empower a collectively-cultivated conversation–

theatre & multimodal production, art, film, drag, live events, streaming, podcasts, rentals, rehearsals, recordings, music, dance, yoga, meditation, classes, and more! welcome to the gentle resistance.

03/24/2025

gravities forged in various iterations

12/05/2024

express your yes / NOW studios founder is starring in a holiday panto opening this weekend and running the next 5 weeks at !! 🎭🪄🥸🧝‍♂️🧚‍♂️🦄🧔🏼‍♀️🤩💜🙏 catch them singing and dancing and prancing in this kid-friendly, audience-immersive bombastic and ridiculous fever dream every weekend through the new year!

if money is an issue, use code “PWYC” for pay what you can tickets, no one turned away for lack of funds!! tickets & more info here: https://www.theatrenova.org/current-show

11/20/2024

join us This Friday 7-9pm for “Rooted in Resistance” : a liberatory night of open mic, potluck, poetry, freestyle… and lots of free zines! all poets will receive footage of their readings. this is a FREE event, masks encouraged, donations welcome.

(NOW studios will be closing at the year’s end. gentrification got us! who knows what’s coming, but we hope you’ll keep flying with us wherever the journey takes us!) 💜

11/15/2024

TONIGHT! with and friends! 🌟 this evening is about celebrating the moms in our lives! No experience required. come play! 📸

11/07/2024

join us TONIGHT and every thursday through the end of year when NOW studios will be closing.

11/05/2024

join us thursday! with 2FIK!

10/30/2024

📣 Identity Potpourri: A week with 2Fik! 📣
Gallery opening party TONIGHT at 6 PM Studios to kick off a week of irreverence, questions, & play with our very special guest here with us from Canada (by way of France & Morocco) !
A multidisciplinary master of caricature, known for embodying dozens of unique characters— who almost seem real, whose stories, personalities, and interests are rooted in our world— 2Fik offers a social and political lens to explore image, identity, gender, and perception, in a voyeuristic way that pushes the spectator to wonder what exists beyond ourselves and the scope of our own life’s work.

Each character becomes a reflection of our society, encouraging our own contemplations of universality, equality, and acceptance of self as a portal to acceptance of all else.

Quebecois by adoption, French by birth, and Moroccan by origin, 2Fik elevates the familiar trick of humor, staging his characters much in the manner of a soap opera reality show, thus allowing questions about how we perceive each other & creating earnest dialogues between reality and fiction that provokes us to both claim and question our place.

The Times We Are In beg each of us to do our Own inventories on the various standard operating procedures running our shared reality. Our epoch is begging for a collective gut check, asking us to not shy away from the hard stuff, to remember the love and play and vulnerable creativity at the heart of life itself.

Paying attention outside our own silos, vacuums, and echo chambers often means losing the very existential ground floors that previously held us. Making it very easy to get nihilistic and go dark, submerging into feelings of helplessness and hopelessness, all-too-often giving into the savageries of status quo.

Art is our reminder to love, to play, to engage deeply and vulnerably and creatively with ourselves and chosen communities.

and on that note, NOW studios will be closing at the year’s end when our landlord will not be renewing our lease on the rabbit hole after four years (because capitalism/gentrification).

Thanks to everyone who has gone flying on our magic carpet ! we hope to see you! 💋

10/26/2024

TONIGHT!!!!
We invite you to join us tonight, Saturday, October 26th from 6-9pm for Dancingstar Productions 1969 Psychic fair, costume contest party fundraiser! Get your future read, Jam out to some groovy tunes, Enter the costume contest and WIN A PRIZE!

So come on down the rabbit hole and join us in celebrating their upcoming screenplay "Universal Chord" by Trilian Krug and Christina Morales Hemenway, now in pre-production!

See their official website: DancingstarProductions.com
For other ways to get involved: https://www.dancingstarproductions.com/universal-chord

10/25/2024

We invite you to join us Tomorrow, Saturday, October 26th from 6-9pm for Dancingstar Productions 1969 Psychic fair, costume contest party fundraiser! Get your future read, Jam out to some groovy tunes, Enter the costume contest and WIN A PRIZE!

So come on down the rabbit hole and join us in celebrating their upcoming screenplay "Universal Chord" by Trilian Krug and Christina Morales Hemenway, now in pre-production!

See their official website: DancingstarProductions.com
For other ways to get involved: https://www.dancingstarproductions.com/universal-chord

10/23/2024

Tomorrow night! No commitments necessary. Would love your input!

10/19/2024

We invite you to join us on Saturday, October 26th from 6-9pm for Dancingstar Productions 1969 Psychic fair, costume contest party fundraiser! Get your future read, Jam out to some groovy tunes, Enter the costume contest and WIN A PRIZE!

So come on down the rabbit hole and join us in celebrating their upcoming screenplay "Universal Chord" by Trilian Krug and Christina Morales Hemenway, now in pre-production!

See their official website: DancingstarProductions.com
For other ways to get involved: https://www.dancingstarproductions.com/universal-chord

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715 N UNIVERSITY Avenue, Lower Level
Ann Arbor, MI
48104

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+17342749142

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https://www.expressyouryes.org/

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express your mess. get it out!

from cabaret to congress — we’re here to unify the human race. to perpetually empower a collectively-cultivated conversation to inspire women, minorities, and q***r candidates to run for office and support them on their journey if not us, who? if not now, when? welcome to the gentle resistance. purple — because democracy is a red and blue thing.