Harriet's Gun 2024: Program 2

Dance Mission connects and empowers diverse Bay Area communities and artists through all aspects of dance and dance theater, including the production of new works, instruction, and performance. We are an artist-driven, feminist organization dedicated to building community, addressing social justice issues, exploring cultural identities, promoting inclusivity, and creating a more peaceful world through collective action.  Many female artists, artists of color, and culturally specific ensembles consider Dance Mission to be their artistic home. Master teachers of dance and music have created a thriving inter-generational community celebrating cultural traditions, welcoming students of all backgrounds. Dance Mission is also the home of Krissy Keefer’s Dance Brigade, San Francisco’s groundbreaking, feminist social-change modern dance company.

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Harriet's Gun 2:  Shapeshifting Towards A Radically Imagined Black Future presents Program 2: Sunday, May 19 at 5pm PT / 8pm ET.

Dance Mission Theater’s Liberation Academy presents Harriet’s Gun 2 Shapeshifting Towards A Radically Imagined Black Future An online dance festival featuring 16 dance artistsCurated by Sarah Crowell and Adia Tamar Whitaker And featuring emcee, Rhodessa JonesSat-Sun: May 18-19, 2024 5pm PST / 8pm ESTTwo days, two distinct programs!Tickets are by donation, $0-$100. (Registration is required. $10 or $20 donation is suggested, but please only give what you are able to at this time.) If you are having trouble registering, email info@dancemission.com. This page is for Sunday tickets. If you are looking for tickets for Saturday, please click <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/harriets-gun-2024-program-1-tickets-881611392407?aff=oddtdtcreator" title="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/harriets-gun-2024-program-1-tickets-881611392407?aff=oddtdtcreator" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">here</a>.Saturday artists (Program 1) include amara tabor-smith, Mud Water Theater, Kiazi Malonga, Efeya Sampson, Tendayi Kuumba, Sydnie L. Mosley, Hattie Mae Williams, Alayo Dance Company and CubaCaribe, Marjani Forte, and Kara Mack.Sunday artists (Program 2) include Gbedu Town Radio, Rochelle Jamila, Push Dance Company, Bernard Brown/bbmoves, Jade Charon, Destiny Arts, Jasmine Hearn, J. Bouey, and Kara Mack. Harriet’s Gun: Shapeshifting Towards a Radically Imagined Black Future was first presented in March 2021. We are excited to bring this online festival back in 2024 due to audience demand. This year our theme is WE OUTSIDE! To us this means, a study, an activation, an inspiration map of how we move into spaces of power and crown ourselves. This is the Black Future.This is a resistance to the consumption of Black suffering. An acknowledgment of that suffering as a launch pad into new life, without giving suffering all the power. This is Black folks in full-bodied Black joy, wings spread. It is us in the full bloom stage of shapeshifting. It is an unapologetic arrival into our brightness. The tears and fire that make us rainbows. The sweetness of freedom savored.About Harriet’s Gun Harriet Tubman always carried a gun and an ivory handled sword on her liberation missions. Harriet’s gun was insurance, protection, a wand, an anchor, a shield, an antenna, a sage bundle, a way out, a motivator, and a guard rail. In the same way, Harriet’s Gun, Shapeshifting Towards a Radically Imagined Black Future, offers a collective space for artists to define, speak and move power into the Black future and out into the worldCo-curated by Liberation Academy co-director, Sarah Crowell, Artistic Director Emeritus of Destiny Arts Center in Oakland, CA and Dance Mission resident artist, Adia Tamar Whitaker, Artistic Director &amp; Founder of the Brooklyn-based performance ensemble Àṣẹ Dance Theater, Harriet’s Gun features a spectrum of world class Black artists from around the country, with Rhodessa Jones spinning the web for the evening as the Mistress of Ceremonies and homegrown San Francisco storyteller. A panel with the artists follows each performance.This year’s performances will be dedicated to Robert Henry Johnson, a prolific Bay Area Black choreographer who passed away in 2023. We are also honoring the lives of Papa Zak Diouf from Diamano Coura, Chief Yagbe Awolowo Onilu, Mozel Zeke Nealy, Malonga Casquelourd, Carlos Aceituno, and Iyanifa Omo Osun Ifadayo Olaberinjo Efeya Makala Sampson.This festival is made possible in part with support from Dream Keepers, San Francisco Arts Commission, and Grants for the Arts. Photo of Efaya Makala Sampson by Tracie Dawn Williams, Flier design by Christine Joy Ferrer.

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