2022-2023 SEASON
THE HERE WOMEN
VIRTUAL PREMIERE
SEPTEMBER 2022
The Here Women is a love letter to Black women.
Written and performed by Sha'Condria "iCon" Sibley, filmed and edited by jazz franklin, and produced by Junebug Productions, The Here Women is a labor of love by Black women for Black women in appreciation of our strength, our beauty, and our spirit.
JUNEBUG JUKE JOINT
OCTOBER 2022
Ashé Cultural Arts Center
Our Junebug Juke Joints are a series of pop-up parties celebrating Black art and Black joy.
Held in Black-owned spots across the city, each Junebug Juke Joint is a unique showcase of Black brilliance featuring live music, DJ sets, dance performances, and spoken word.
Fun is essential to our freedom, so we'll take care of the cover charge, drinks, food, and music... all you need to do is show up and show out!
BLACK WOMEN DREAMING
NOVEMBER 2022
The longstanding idea that overproduction and exhaustion are necessary to getting ahead is steeped in capitalism and incapable of securing our Black futures.
Black Women Dreaming is our declaration of a new way. We will rest. YOU will rest.
Black Women Dreaming is a rest-full experience curated for Black women that will feature a decadent dinner and a sumptuous stay at the Junebug Residence.
RAW FRUIT:
CULTIVATING HEALING
NOVEMBER 2022
Ashé Cultural Arts Center
Raw Fruit by Kesha McKey and KM Dance Project is a multidisciplinary dance work that reveals the essence of ancestral values woven into the cultural fabric of Black lives, and examines legacy, identity, socialization, unity, and friction inside the southern Black family dynamic.
In partnership with Ashé Cultural Arts Center and KM Dance Project, we're hosting a series of interactive community events exploring the lessons in our lineage and how we can use them to heal.
URBAN BUSH WOMEN’S
HAINT BLU
January 26 - 29, 2023
André Callioux Center for Performing Arts and Cultural Justice
Known as the color that Southern families paint their front porches to ward off bad spirits, Haint Blu uses performance as a center and source of healing, taking us through movement into stillness and rest: remembering, reclaiming, releasing, and restoring. It is an embodied look into familial lines and the movements, histories and stories of our elders and ancestors. It reflects on what has been lost across generations and what can be recovered.
ARTIST-IN-EXILE
FILM SCREENING
Spring 2023
World-renowned poet Sunni Patterson was displaced for twelve years following Hurricane Katrina. Set in the Desire/Florida neighborhood where Sunni grew up and the Algiers neighborhood she now calls home, this film merges documentary and poetry to tell the story of her return to New Orleans and the beauty of her people, who, despite it all, still call New Orleans home.
Directed by Kiyoko McCrae and Jason Foster.
