Black Spatial Relics Convening 2021: Caribbean Zine Workshop Share-out

Black Spatial Relics

Join Artist Shanel Edwards for a Caribbean Zine Workshop Share-out. 

Now as much as ever, radical gathering spaces for rumination on Black freedoms are crucial. From February 23 - 27, 2021, Black Spatial Relics (BSR) is hosting its second annual convening. Building on our work to create Black spaces for creation, exploration, and community, this will be a free and virtual convening that will feature our 2020 artists-in-residence and several other Black performance makers and scholars from around Philadelphia and beyond.This offering is a zine workshop share-out centering Black Caribbean folks rooted in Philadelphia, their stories, their songs, their spirits. This work features original offerings from Tahnee Jackson, Charlyn Griffith-Oro, Angela Salmon and Nikolai McKenzie Ben Rema. About Shanel Edwards: Shanel Edwards is a tender flame, a blackqueerandtrans first-gen Jamaican / Philly rooted healer. Through movement channeling, laying hands on scalps, witnessing through photography, tender poetics, and filmmaking, their expansive transness is a compass towards liberation and abundance. Shanel is committed to healing their wounds by listening to smoke, water, the earth, their ancestors, themselves, and community. They are young and resting, wandering and sweating. They have learned their artistic gifts through non-institutional learning spaces because they don’t believe institutions validate our brilliance, relationships do, we do. Shanel cultivates black queer and trans brilliance and community every day. They hold this quote by genius Gwendolyn Brooks: “we are each other’s harvest, we are each other’s business, we are each other’s magnitude and bond.”Shanel has worked with Yolanda Wisher as a movement artist In Pirate Jenny’s Conspiracy, musicals for the University of the Arts Polyphone Festival and Princeton University. They have offered choreographic work with Nasra Adem for the Black arts matter festival in Edmonton, Alberta. Their film THIS IS FOR US has featured in film festivals globally: Fringe! London’s Queer film festival, Black Femme Supremacy Film Festival. Their creative works have been supported by the Leeway Foundation, Small But Mighty Arts, Red Bull, and Mural Arts Philly. Project support provided by Added Velocity which is administered by Temple Contemporary at Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University and funded by the William Penn Foundation. Black Spatial Relics is a national residency program, founded and directed by Arielle Julia Brown. The Black Spatial Relics Residency is made possible with support from the JKW Foundation, Black Seed, Velocity Fund, Monument Lab, Leeway Foundation, W. Trust and independent donors. Black Spatial Relics is a fiscally sponsored project of both Fractured Atlas and Notch Theatre Company. For more information about the 2020 artists in residence, their work, past artists in residence, and the 2021 convening, visit www.blackspatialrelics.org.

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