10 March 2025

Our invitation for The Honest Art and Performance Section asks us to reflect on the current state of art and remember the power inherently potential within art amidst a profit driven world that has made people forget not only art’s potential but humanity’s potential too.

“Whats the HAPS?” will be our weekly newsletter, offering a few brief thoughts, highlighting upcoming events we want to encourage people to attend, and providing real art recommendations for you to enjoy instead of doom scrolling through social media or wasting your time trying to sort the deluge of pseudo art pushed down our throats by capitalist interests. We encourage artists to use our invitation link above to submit their art or upcoming shows, and we can also be reached at honestartandperformancesector@gmail.com

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Recommendations

Books

Kurt Vonnegut’s 1997 Timequake is a brilliant semi-autobiographical novel about writer’s block on the surface containing a plethora of observations that have only grown more relevant over time.

Bartolomé de las Casas’ 1552 A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies is essential reading as we witness atrocities carried out it is necessary to understand this is nothing new, it is a continuation of the oppression certain communities have faced since Europeans sailed across the Atlantic.

Films

Spike Lee’s 1998 He Got Game features some of the strongest cinematic basketball performances and powerful social commentary, watch this and go play with your friends at the park.

Gints Zilbalodis’s 2024 Flow just won the academy award for best animated feature, one of the least debatable winners in the academy’s history, because despite featuring no dialogue it is one of the most moving animated films ever made, something the whole family will watch and not miss a second.

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