etc.

etc is a decentralized diy artist collective that is volunteer run and operated. We come together across many diverse backgrounds, lived experiences and scenes. We are musicians, poets, visual artists, dreamers, resisters, zine makers, photographers, activists and graffiti lovers. This space began as a dream seed in the summer of 2020. Collectively, we were navigating the beginning of the Covid pandemic and quarantine, while witnessing an increase in deaths by suicide and overdoses, a violent rise in the ongoing intensification of police brutality and racialized violence against black and brown bodies, and an ongoing attack on the poor. We felt we needed a space in Greensboro more than ever that could be a haven for people to express themselves creatively and plug into social justice issues here and afar. We are not a non-profit or LLC. In true DIY fashion, we interrogate systems of power and are rooted in mutual aid principles.

We stand in solidarity against oppression everywhere. From Palestine, to Sudan, Congo, Turtle Island, and all places and beings disrupted by supremacy violence. etc is an ICE free zone. We believe the most punk thing you can do is to care about one another and this world.