Base Residency Entry Point: Ajani Brannum

Ajani Brannum's Entry Point: ‘At the end of aspiration’
This choreopoem turns memoir inside-out, as it probes the embodied dimensions of Ajani’s personal and artistic histories. It is a love letter to people, events, and artworks that have fed his will to belong to life. Through a combination of storytelling, poetry, song, and movement, At the end... asks how performance might help us survive a world where visibility impacts our well-being. It repurposes the past as strength for enduring (into) an uncertain future.

July 18 at 4 PM
You can learn more about Ajani here.

This event will be recorded.

About Entry Points: Entry Points are opportunities for our Resident artists to share their process. They may take the form of a showing, a conversation, or another expression of the artist's imagination. It’s an opportunity for the community to engage with the deep dives the artists undertook during their Residency and, possibly, discover a new artist or deepen their connection to an artist they support.

About the Base Residency: The Base Residency is a unique, artist-curated program offering unrestricted space, the opportunity to publicly share work, technical, marketing, and administrative support, travel and lodging for out-of-town artists, and a fee of $1,000 per residency week. The ‘25-’26 Residency Season was curated by Parisa Ghaderi, Joseph Hernandez, and Keyes Wiley. This year, the Base Residency offers six artists—three from the Seattle area and three from beyond—two weeks of immersive creative time at Base between January and July 2026. Since 2016, more than 30 artists have completed Base Residencies as the program continues to evolve and grow within a national context. Meet Base Residency Alumni here.

Flourish:
In 2024, Base launched Flourish—a three-year fundraising effort to support residencies, organizational capacity, and new community-facing programs. Now, as Base celebrates its 10th anniversary, we’re entering Year Two of Flourish—building on momentum as we acknowledge the realities artists face today. If you’re unable to attend this event, but would like to support Base, please consider donating to our campaign.

Accessibility at Base:
Base is an ADA-compliant, accessible space on the ground floor, with all-gender and wheelchair-accessible restrooms. More on accessibility at Base here.

Any additional accessibility needs/requests for the show? Reach out to aaron@thisisbase.org

The Base Residency is made possible in part through generous support from Glenn Kawasaki Foundation, The Morgan Fund, Norcliffe Foundation, Vogt Family Foundation, and donors of the Flourish Campaign.

Base is supported by grants from the Ruth Foundation for the Arts, 4Culture Sustained Support program, Doors Open, Public Free Access, and Cultural Equipment Grant programs, Office of Arts and Culture C.A.R.E. Grant program, Norcliffe Foundation, The Morgan Fund at Seattle Foundation, and ArtsFund’s Community Accelerator Grant program. Base gratefully acknowledges the sustaining support of the Glenn Kawasaki Foundation, Case van Rij, and John C. Robinson. Free and reduced-cost access is supported by 4Culture.