Telegraph Valley: Performance Salon | The Container Project

🎭 What's in your container?

Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator (DVCAI) presents an intimate Performance Salon featuring Telegraph Valley, an immersive installation and performance by L.A. Samuelson in collaboration with dramaturg Elle Hong and sound artist Adam Stone.

Part of The Container Project—a trans-coastal, transcontinental, Caribbean diasporic initiative curated by Rosie Gordon-Wallace (DVCAI, Miami) and Breeana Thorne (Independent Curator, Los Angeles)—this work explores identity, dwelling, and the body through performance and community dialogue.

About Telegraph Valley:

Telegraph Valley assembles house frames, ladders, floating decks, and one dancer to deconstruct the body as a "house for the soul." This spatial experience makes momentary homes out of holes and passageways, inviting us to reconsider what we carry, what we build, and what we become.

What to Expect:

1. 5:30 pm: Doors open, light refreshments
2. 6:00 pm: Performance begins
3. 6:30 pm: Post-performance conversation
4. 7:00 pm: Event concludes

Part of Miami Art Week 2025

ABOUT DVCAI SPACE AT BARRY UNIVERSITY

The contemporary arts programming at DVCAI at Barry University is presented by the non-profit Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator (DVCAI) in partnership with the Barry University Institute for Immigration Studies and the Monsignor William Barry Library to benefit the community. Special thanks to the Barry University community and the support of Victor Romano, PhD, Vice Provost for Student Success & Undergraduate Studies, Giselle Elgarresta Rios, MM, DMA, Endowed Chair of the Monsignor Bryan O. Walsh Institute for Immigration Studies, and Vivica Smith Pierre, MLIS, PhD, Director of Library Services, Monsignor William Barry Library. With appreciation for the talents of exhibition designer Danielle Coates, visual identity designer Izia Lindsay, and photographer Roy A. Wallace.

ABOUT DVCAI:

Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator, Inc. is a virtual artist space, dedicated to promoting, nurturing, and cultivating the vision and diverse creativity of emerging artists from the Caribbean and Latin American Diaspora, through experimentation, exhibitions, artists-in-residence programs, international cultural exchanges, and dialog in contemporary art. www.dvcai.org. DVCAI partners with organizations to enhance residency experiences in the Caribbean region, nationally, and internationally. For more information, please visit www.dvcai.org and follow our activities at https://www.instagram.com/dvcai/ https://twitter.com/DiasporaVibe.

DVCAI is generously supported by The Mellon Foundation, with support from the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor, and the Board of County Commissioners. DVCAI’s work is sponsored in part by the State of Florida Division of Arts and Culture, with support from The Ford Foundation, South Arts, ArtsHere, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, CreArte, The Jorge M. Pérez Family Foundation at The Miami Foundation, The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC), Readytex Art Gallery, The Garner Foundation, The Hongs, National Performance Network (NPN), Alternate ROOTS, The Rhythm Foundation, and the Betsy Hotel.