Anew Conjuring: BSR Performance Sharing

Black Spatial Relics

Featuring works from our 2021-2022 artists in residence, this is a showcase of the performances built by the artists  during their residency

Featuring the works of our 2021-2022 artists in residence, this digital showcase traversing works and processes from around the Caribbean and United States, is a testament to the unrelenting power of Black radical performance. This showcase features the works of Awilda Sterling Duprey, Sonja Dumas, Candice D’Meza, AZ Espinoza, Arielle John, Monèt Marshall, nikolai mckenzie ben rema and LaRissa Rogers. ______________Anew conjuring: Stirring Up Black Virtuosic HopeArtist and scholar Dr. Omi Osun Joni L Jones names virtuosity as “the paradox of humility and fearlessness” in her work Theatrical Jazz: Performance, Àṣẹ, and the Power of the Present Moment. Black radical performance makers are rooted in what Jones refers to as the practices of ensemble and solo based-virtuosity. Black radical performance makers know when spirit is calling us forward for moments of virtuosic practice to be lights and beacons in our communities. These calls are a series of calls from and to the wilderness to gather, remember and dream. In this convening space, we are making a new thing together. We are conjuring ourselves and our conspiration anew. This gathering is a space for a stirring up of a new hope, inspired entirely by the study of our ancestral and living leaders who have built for themselves and their communities a daily practice of Black virtuosic hope. Both digital and in-person the events of this convening move with and through The Colored Girls Museum, The Discovery Center and as a ritual caravan across the city of Philadelphia. Featuring Dr. Omi Osun Joni L Jones, Awilda Sterling Duprey, Sonja Dumas, AZ Espinoza, nikolai mckenzie ben rema, Monèt Marshall, Candice D’Meza, LaRissa Rogers, Arielle John, Germaine Ingram, Abdul-Aliy Muhammad, Hollerin’ Space and many others, this convening is a constellation of artist talks, ceremonies, a digital performance showcase and varied conjures/facilitations on Black virtuosic hope building in Philadelphia and beyond with virtual and in-person programming from July 27-30th. _________Black Spatial Relics is a supporter, convener and funder of Black radical performance, founded and directed by Arielle Julia Brown. The Black Spatial Relics' residency, convening and other programs are made possible with support from the JKW Foundation, W Trust, The Black Seed Program - a regranting program of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and independent donors . Black Spatial Relics is a fiscally sponsored project of The Public Trust. For more information about the artists in residence, their work, past artists in residence, and the previous micro grantees, visit www.blackspatialrelics.org.

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