2021 SEASON
HOMECOMING PROJECT: WATER
APRIL 24, 2021 | 7 PM CT
“As mother of the planet’s living things, holding memory and mystery, healing flesh and rock, carving veins in mountainsides — water is the great collector down to the molecular level.” - free feral
Homecoming Project: Water is a collection of stories — told in the form of dance, music, spoken word, and film — exploring the depths of our vastly different and complex relationships with water.
During this time of pandemic, Homecoming Project Lead Artists Sunni Patterson, Frederick “Wood” Delahoussaye, Kesha McKey, Jeremy Guyton, free feral, and special guest Spirit McIntyre revisit Homecoming Project: Water from a distance.
Reimagined with stunning visuals from Melisa Cardona and Malachi Middleton artfully stitched together by Jazz Franklin, the Homecoming Project: Water Virtual Redux premieres a little over two years after the original performance premiered on a gloriously watery, stormy night.
About Homecoming Project:
Homecoming Project is a community-based, storytelling performance series that aims to marry high-quality artistic practice with a commitment to maintaining the essential relationship between art and progressive social change through engagement with New Orleans communities that have been historically oppressed and exploited.
NO DREAM DEFERRED’S ONE WOMXN, ONE SHOW: IN OUR MOTHERS’ GARDENS
MAY 6, 2021 | 7 PM CT
"They waited for a day when the unknown thing that was in them would be made known..." - Alice Walker, In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens
One Womxn, One Show: In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens is a collection of stories shared in honor of Black Womxn and all of the ways in which we birth, nurture, and grow culture, movements, art, and generations.
This work is most specifically for Black Womxn and those who love us.
This iterative, video/storytelling project is dedicated to the full spectrum of the emotional and lived realities of Black womxn in America. The project aims to cultivate and honor a space where Black Womxn can authentically see and hear each other as well as be seen and heard and take comfort and care in that truth.
BLACK WOMEN DREAMING
A Black woman in a rested state is a radical act.
Black Women Dreaming is a multifaceted initiative that creates a path forward all the while engaging in a historical praxis: rest as a form of resistance.
The longstanding idea that overproduction and exhaustion are necessary to getting ahead is steeped in capitalism and counterintuitive to healthy Black futures. We can neither build resilience nor movements if our means of survival live and thrive off of overworking ourselves. It cannot be overstated that women, particularly Black women, bear the brunt of oppression of sexism, patriarchy, colonialism, and racism. We often find ourselves on the front lines, however absent from the table. We are rendered invisible in the boardroom, yet called upon to save the world many times over. The work is heavy and burdensome. Black Women Dreaming is our declaration of a new way. We will rest.
Details coming soon.