black/water Returns to conjure a/new…
2024 black/water participant Mariama Eversley performs during JPS’ Seneca Village procession. Credit: Fletcher Laws.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
New York, NY, February 25, 2025 — Jupiter Performance Studio (JPS) is thrilled to announce the return of the JPS Lab with its next course, black/water: to conjure a/new… This hybrid learning ceremony is designed and led by founding artistic director, Ebony Noelle Golden. The course offers virtual sessions and an in-person immersion that builds on Golden's current scholarship, artistic practice, and cultural organizing efforts. No prior professional artistic or academic experience is required. Scholarship applications are due March 18, 2025.
Admitted students will explore a range of topics, including womanist methodology, eco-intimacy, environmental justice, climate reparations, and womanist approaches to directing and devising ritual performance. The course features lectures, workshops, readings, viewings, field trips, and fieldwork. Each participant will also be required to complete an individual project.
This year features another in-person immersion that will take the cohort "Down South" to continue its work in tandem with local partners. This immersive experience extends participants' learning beyond theory and into practical creative, cultural, and community applications. Golden shares, "JPS has offered black/water since 2020. This program has served as a watering hole for artists seeking to connect their artistic practice to justice work. We've offered micro-commissions, scholarships, and training opportunities to more than 50 participants since our launch. I am excited to reach more students this year through the return of our scholarship offering."
Now in its sixth iteration, the program remains true to its core mission: to activate experimental, experiential, and embodied explorations of sacred land stewardship, movements for environmental justice, and eco-intimacy through ritual, ethnographic research, and performance. Rooted in ecowomanist spirituality, popular education, and cultural organizing, black/water: to conjure a/new… provides a bold space to practice living in right relationship with our planet.
About Jupiter Performance Studio (JPS)
Established in 2020 by Ebony Noelle Golden, JPS conjures theatrical ceremonies rooted in diasporic Black cultural, spiritual, and performance traditions. JPS' work activates stages, streets, and sacred sites as spaces of liberation. JPS supports the movement for environmental justice and climate reparations through Watering (W)hole, its community engagement + education cosmology.
Recent projects include The Divining: Ceremonies from in the name of the m/other tree, commissioned by Apollo Theater and co-produced with National Black Theatre with major support from Double Edge Theatre, Green Apu at Central Mesa, and the National Theater Project; The Art and Survival Fellowship + Festival, produced in collaboration with Double Edge Theatre; and The Keeping, commissioned by Weeksville Heritage Center with major support from Creative Capital.
JPS’ current performance, again, the watercarriers, the next iteration of Golden’s episodic ceremony exploring spirituality and environmental justice, will tour fall 2025-2026.
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Contact: Jupiter Performance Studio
Email: jupiterisfreedom@gmail.com
Website: www.jupiterperformancestudio.com
