Jubilee 11213: In Process

Image by: Angela Davis Johnson

BDAC’s Jupiter Performance Studio is currently developing Jubilee 11213 set for a 2022 world premiere. The project, part cultural organizing effort and part public performance, has received a Creative Capital award and is currently in development at Weeksville Heritage Center, the lead partner for this body of work.

From Weeksville’s Press Release…Through our partnership with Weeksville, this residency, which culminates June 2022, she will develop Jubilee 11213, a multi-generational and multi-year program that includes the exploration of Weeksville’s archives and historic themes. Golden is the first artist to explore Weeksville’s archives as the subject of a performance and community organizing project. Her work employs site-specific performance rituals and live art installations that explore the relationships between creativity and liberation.

The Weeksville Artist in Residence (Weeksville AIR) program provides an opportunity for visual and performance artists of the African diaspora to explore connections between historic and contemporary communities while supporting artistic process and community engagement.  Jubilee 112213 is  a community-powered processional performance ritual that activates Weeksville Heritage Center’s archives and re-mixes the center’s current walking tour into a re-imagined protest-parade and public display of collective emancipation. By activating the legacy of creative emancipation and collective imagining practiced at Weeksville’s founding, Jubilee 11213 advances sustainable practices of civic engagement and creativity that support self-determination, social good, and community power now and into the future.