#performanceritual

Come get this healing! We are excited to launch our second annual Community Ritual! Part 1 is from January 29th - January 31st, and is an offering of performance rituals, workshops, artist talks and overall queer magic. This is for Black queer and trans people! All events are FREE and ASL interpreted. Our Community Ritual is an intergenerational program placing Black queer and trans folk at its center, to commune, celebrate and create liberatory and healing experiences. Come indulge in healing at the palms of your own hands, build community, and conjure magic all weekend long. Join Us. 

Part 2 of our Community Ritual is an offering of digital spells for Black queer and trans healing and liberation. Each day in February - #BlackHealingMonth - Indulge and receive a short spell and let it wash all over you. Take what you need. Spells will be posted on IGTV and on Tumblr.

Healing the Black Body is an offering to create, build, and practice healing and liberation in Black queer and trans communities through performance, movement, and Black Feminism. We envision a world with freedom at its center, particularly where Black queer and trans people live free from oppression, and have abundant access to tools for intergenerational healing. The Community Ritual is sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by Brooklyn Arts Council. The Community Ritual is also funded through Third Wave Fund.

LINDA LA

Friday, January 29th - 8:30 - 9:30pm

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUuf-6vqjsuG9S7rz4bxjhaggDsCzphuHN3

Get this healing with LINDA LA’s Performance Ritual!

Adjusting My Crown is a meditative, ritual performance born out of recurring themes exploring self worth and self preservation in combat with societal norms. It is an intimate homage to life before the pandemic, set in quarantine, including original movement, music and poetry. This project is intended to re examine the ways we value stillness, solitude and technology. As well as commemorating queer and trans life in spite of the hardships in love and everyday societal rejection.

Olaiya Olayemi

Saturday, January 30th - 2:00pm - 3:30pm

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUqfuGppjsoH9FWtBGZQTWe__e07N0k7s_v

throwing the bones and working the roots: a (writing for) performance workshop

this highly anti-disciplinary and experimental workshop/seminar uses writing, image-making, movement, and sound-based exercises to create a brave space where students can excavate and craft their own performative conjurations and divinations; this class explores artmaking as a catalyst for social justice and as a healing modality.

Brother(hood) Dance!

January 30th - 5:00pm-6:00pm

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUocOqvrTMuEtaEM6QX8kLd9ItaiUregeQP

Brother(hood) Dance! will offer a movement experience that engages your full sense of awareness and connectedness to past present and future. We will work through African Diasporic techniques to ground and be rooted.