BROOKLYN, NY. (FEBRUARY 9, 2021) — Weeksville Heritage Center and Betty’s Daughter Arts Collaborative are excited to welcome the inaugural Jubilee 11213: FREEdom Fellowship cohort composed of a multi-generational cadre of artists, activists, educators and entrepreneurs who are invested in exploring cultural repair and reparations for Black folks in Brooklyn and beyond.
The cohort will work closely with invited practitioners and Weekville’s current artist in residence Ebony Noelle Golden for two months. The fellowship’s goal is to expand the creative and strategic capacities of community members through workshops, studio visits, critical conversations, research and experiential project-based learning. The cohort will design digital projects that link their family’s liberation journey to the founding of Weeksville as a Black liberation colony. Final projects will be shared at the end of March.
Jubilee 11213: FREEdom Fellowship marks the next phase of Ebony Noelle Golden’s multi-year partnership with Weeksville Heritage Center, which received generous funding from Creative Capital in 2020. The project is a multi-generational, cultural organizing and community performance project that includes the exploration of legacy, land, Black freedom colonies as well as the national movement for reparations.
Golden is the first artist to explore Weeksville’s archives as the subject of a performance and cultural organizing project. Her work employs site-specific performance rituals and live art installations that explore the relationships between creativity and liberation.
Click here to meet the fellows, facilitators and the FREEdom Fellowship team.
Fellowship Cohort
Mildred Beltre
Beryl Benbow
Tajah Ellis
Damian Joel
Saleema Josey
Dr. Nathifa Greene
Reynaldo Piniella
Shanna Sabio
Dominique Thomas
Norma Thomas
Lary Weekes
Dramaturgy Fellow
Ronald Wilson
Music Fellow
Ras Moshe
Community Witnesses
Chanel Haliburton
Dr. Raina Leon
Rise Wilson
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Weeksville Heritage Center
Weeksville Heritage Center is a historic site and cultural center in Central Brooklyn that uses education, arts and a social justice lens to preserve, document, and inspire engagement with the history of Weeksville, one of the largest free Black communities in pre-Civil War America, and the Historic Hunterfly Road Houses.
https://www.weeksvillesociety.org/
Betty’s Daughter Arts Collaborative
Led by artist-scholar-strategist Ebony Noelle Golden, Betty's Daughter Arts Collaborative (BDAC) is a cultural consultancy and arts accelerator based in Harlem and working globally. https://bettysdaughterarts.com/
