Joel St. Julien's How Not to Be Afraid: "Your suffering is your bridge"

Joel’s work continues an ongoing dialogue with his chosen spiritual ancestor, James Baldwin, offering a space to connect through shared suffering as a bridge toward collective belonging. The evening will be held through sound and movement. Guests are invited to lie down, allow themselves to feel fully, and join in a shared experience of shaking and trembling together.

Joel's composition will be accompanied with dancing by gizeh muñiz, Saharla Vetsch, and Keith Hennessy

Presented as part of Circo Zero's figure it out (a temporary commune)

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Joel St. Julien (he/him) is a Haitian-American composer, sound and video artist based in San Francisco. Joel has written music for documentaries, short / feature films, podcasts, and dance. He is a firm believer in experimentation/fusion with acoustic and electronic elements in sound oscillating through escapism and the mysticism of the present tense: music both being art and spiritual practice.

ABOUT figure it out

figure it out (a temporary commune) is a community performing artist residency.

figure it out (a temporary commune) is two-months of 24/7 access to a one of a kind warehouse/gallery/studio made freely available to a diverse community of experimental artists who need space to improvise, experiment, fail, and thrive.

figure it out (a temporary commune) is experimental performance research generating dance workshops and aerial labs, public conversations, queered holiday gatherings, and performances.

figure it out (a temporary commune) is togetherness-in-difference, collaborating in an intergenerational, multiracial, cross-class, inter-disciplinary, and equitable creative process.

figure it out (a temporary commune) includes culminating experimental performances guided by Keith Hennessy, created in collaboration during the residency.

Read more: www.circozero.org/figure

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- Big appeciation to our venue SPACE 124, a project space in Project Artaud
- Thank you to So Bad It's Good Productions for the subwoofers
- figure it out (a temporary commune) is funded by The Kenneth Rainin Foundation, The San Francisco Arts Commission, and The Zellerbach Family Foundation