BGG2SM X BDAC: Orisii Dinner
Hosted by BGG2SM X BDAC, Orisii, Yoruba for “pairs,” is an intimate, invite only, for our community to share how the menopause experiences of Black women, women-identified and gender-expansive people impact all our relationships across the diaspora.
Messages from the Menopausal Multiverse Cocktail Hour
Black Girl's Guide to Surviving Menopause (BGG2SM) is coming to Harlem! BGG2SM X BDAC are hosting Messages from the Menopausal Multiverse cocktail hour for our invited guests. We will have two signature complimentary drinks---The Hot Flash and the Menopausal Multiverse, snacks, and some fun take-home swag. We can’t wait to see you!
BGG2SM X BDAC: Peer Learning Dinner
The Black Girl's Guide to Surviving Menopause (BGG2SM) is coming to Harlem for three events offered in collaboration with Ebony Noelle Golden of Betty's Daughter Arts Collaborative (BDAC)! On June 29, BGG2SM X BDAC are hosting a Peer Learning Dinner. This invite only event is especially designed for an intergenerational group of Black women, femmes, trans and gender-expansive creatives, artists, healers, social justice advocates and activists. The vibe will be all things healing, storytelling, and liberation. See you soon!
Hidden Conversations: A Day in Celebration of NBT Founder
Hidden Conversations: A Day in Celebration of NBT Founder Dr. Barbara Ann Teer features appearances by:
Nona Hendryx
Mahogany L. Browne
Qween Jean
Frida Escobedo
Jerron Hermann
Ebony Noelle Golden
Awoye Timpo
nicHi douglas
Camille Bacon
Steven Fullwood
Live concert by Harlem Soapbox
Music by DJ Stormin’ Norman
Sound Commissions by:
JOJO ABOT
Holland Andrews
Aaron Marcellus
Mikaal Sulaiman
Justin Hicks
TICKETS: $35 (plus fees)
Tickets also available via phone. Contact the Box Office at (212) 933-5812, 10am to 6pm, Monday through Friday. In person Box Office hours may vary.
Gulf South Climate Justice Artist and Cultural Organizer Convening
June 9-11
New Orleans / Bulbancha
Hosted by Junebug Productions, Mondo Bizarro, No Dream Deferred, Pearl Damour, Land Memory Bank and Seed Exchange, and the Contemporary Arts Center, the Gulf South Climate Justice Artist and Cultural Organizer convening brings together climate justice workers of different ages and levels of experience to share space, stories and work while dreaming towards our future through visioning and action steps.
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RADICAL FUTURES [Episode 2]: The Keeping with Ebony Noelle Golden
About the Episode: With the legacy of Weeksville, Brooklyn as a core inspiration and motivation, Jubilee 11213: The Keeping explores practices of social good, self-determination, spirituality, sensuality, and sovereignty as critical components of the Black liberation continuum discovered through Ebony’s archival research and dramaturgical field work over the last three years. May 2023 marks the culmination of the project with a public sharing of The Keeping, a theatrical ceremony that activates the entire Weeksville campus and surrounding area. The Keeping has catalytic support from Weeksville, Creative Capital, and the Coalition of Theatres of Color, and was conceptualized, devised, and produced by Ebony Noelle Golden and Jupiter Performance Studio.
This episode will stream on Youtube.
Watering (W)hole Listening Tour
We are excited to begin the next phase of our listening tour. This time we are focusing on the Gulf Coast region between Louisiana and Florida. The listening process will support the development of Jupiter Performance Studio’s next theatrical ceremony, In The Name Of The Mother Tree. Watering (W)hole is also JPS’ cultural organizing platform focused on climate justice and reparations.
We are looking to meet with farmers, folks who work with livestock, land stewards, water workers, herbalists, and ritualists along the Gulf Coast. If you are interested in sharing a story and are available, please email info@bettysdaughterarts.com.
Drop-In: black/water session
Photograph of Jupiter Performance Studio’s 79 Moons featuring (left to right): Jason Fletcher Christian Laws, Karma Mayet (back), Jude Evans, Ebony Webster (back), and Brittany Grier.
Drop-In to black/water this week! We are focusing on womanist performance.
Black/water is a rigorous virtual course for individuals interested in womanist public performance, climate justice, and reparations. Participants will be expected to work independently and in small groups. The course is open to everyone regardless of expertise. One must be an avid reader, writer, and critical thinker to get the most out of the course.
About the session
In this workshop, we will examine the cultural and sociopolitical impact of womanist and Black feminist theatre and experimental performance from the 1970s through the movement for Black lives. The term “womanist,” coined by Alice Walker, is rooted in the cultural and political work of Black women's freedom. We will explore womanist and Black feminist performance praxis as a holistic framework for creative activism, movement building, and liberatory transformation through a range of creative texts and media.
Facilitator
Cost
50.00
Make payments via Venmo @ebonynoellegolden. After your payment is confirmed, we will send you the curriculum for the session. There are no refunds for the session. Thank you and see you soon.
Information
Email projects@bettysdaughterarts.com for information or any questions.
JPS Application Launch
Ebony Noelle Golden and Jupiter Performance Studio Launch New Course on Performance and Climate
Jupiter Performance Studio (JPS) is thrilled to announce the launch of JPS Lab, an in-person and virtual creative development initiative designed and led by Founding Artistic Director, Ebony Noelle Golden. The course, black/water: Worlding, Wilding, and Wandering as Womanist Praxis, offers seven half-day sessions that build on Golden's current scholarship, artistic practice, and cultural organizing efforts.
Established in 2020, JPS is a hub for the study of diasporic Black performance traditions. With a commitment to expanding the collective ability to imagine truly liberated futures, Golden looks forward to supporting the exploration of Black performance, culture, and legacies of liberation that actively engage individuals and communities. In addition to JPS' education and culture work, the Studio is currently developing two theatrical ceremonies, Jubilee 11213: The Keeping, commissioned by Weeksville Heritage Center and In The Name Of The Mother Tree, commissioned by Apollo Theater and National Black Theatre.
Visit www.jupiterperformancestudio.com or www.bettysdaughterarts.com to apply. APPLY HERE: DUE FEBRUARY 17, 2023.
Photo: Mshairi A Uwezo Siyanda in 125th and FREEdom at Weeksville Heritage Center. 2018.
Production Residency: In The Name Of The Mother Tree
Check Back Soon for more information. We are working.
Photo Credit: Walter Wlodarczyk
Music Residency: In The Name Of The Mother Tree
Check back for more details… we are working!
Photo Credit: Walter Wlodarczyk
Performer: Rochelle Wilburn
Specter of Sunlight// at Magdalena Festival
We are excited that JPS has been invited by Double Edge to perform Specter of Sunlight at the Magdalena Festival. This curated international festival will include performances, workshops and conversations, with activities in our indoor theatre spaces and also outside events in the fields, and under the stars. More information and tickets will be available here soon.
Art and Survival Virtual Study Group
BDAC is excited about our year-long Art and Survival Study Group presented in partnership with Double Edge Theatre and our emerging practice space Jupiter Performance Studio. The monthly study group is open to a limited amount of visitors to attend each session alongside our fellowship cohort. For schedule and to confirm attendance, email projects@bettysdaughterarts.com.
Art and Survival Virtual Study Group
BDAC is excited about our year-long Art and Survival Study Group presented in partnership with Double Edge Theatre and our emerging practice space Jupiter Performance Studio. The monthly study group is open to a limited amount of visitors to attend each session alongside our fellowship cohort. For schedule and to confirm attendance, email projects@bettysdaughterarts.com.
The Body Ecology: Conjuring Community, Conjuring Change
BDAC is excited to return to Vibe for our annual professional development retreat centering performance and cultural organizing. We can’t wait to create with you all!
Cultural Organizing Workshop with The Laundromat Project
Congratulations to the 2022 Create Change Cohort! BDAC looks forward to working with you during our 10 season of service to The Laundromat Project! Let’s work!
Jubilee 11213: Work in Process Sharing
Join us for a work-in-process performance of Jubilee 11213 on Sunday June 27 from 6-7:30 PM. Conceived and created by Ebony Noelle Golden and developed with an ensemble of creative collaborators, Jubilee 11213 tells the story of descendants of a Black FREEdom colony who return to reclaim their ancestral inheritance. REGISTER HERE
The creative team features: Kelvyn Bell(music director/composer), Damian Joel (fashion griot), Andre Zachary (associate choreographer/rehearsal director), Viktor Le Givens (creative collaborator/performance film director), Kirrin Tubo (production stage manager), Graceson Abreu Nunez (creative studio assistant), Victor Vazquez (casting), and Ebony Noelle Golden (creator and lead artist).
Cast announcement coming soon!
Closing Ceremony: Spring 2021 FREEdom Fellowship
Check back for registration information.
BLACK FEMINIST MANIFESTOS @ WEEKSVILLE
Strategies for Survival is an online public program engaging with a series of historical and contemporary manifestos resonant with the explosive reality we experience now. Written by Black feminist artists, activists, and writers and performed by Weeksville Heritage Center’s community members, these texts point to circumstances that are unacceptable and in need of change. But most importantly, they propose pathways to move forward in order to overcome the status quo and create new realities. In the midst of political uncertainty and a physically isolating pandemic, these statements offer visions that can help us connect with one another and transcend what feels like a never-ending crisis. Register Here
Dance in Revolting Time Presents... SPECTER OF SUNLIGHT// BY EBONY NOELLE GOLDEN
Dance in Revolt(ing) Times (D.I.R.T.) Festival 2021: Harriet’s Gun, Shapeshifting Towards a Radically Imagined Black Future is a ritual of black joy, possibility, and healing. As we reckon with the 30 years between Rodney King and Breonna Taylor, Black artists tell their stories, uplift creative medicine, and conjure hope.
Harriet Tubman always carried a gun and an ivory handled sword on her liberation missions. Harriet’s gun was insurance, protection, a wand, an anchor, a shield, an antenna, a sage bundle, a way out, a motivator, and a guard rail. In the same way, Harriet’s Gun, Shapeshifting Towards a Radically Imagined Black Future, offers a collective space for artists to define, speak and move power into the Black future and out into the world.
Co-curated by Sarah Crowell, Artistic Director Emeritus of Destiny Arts Center in Oakland, CA and Adia Tamar Whitaker, Artistic Director & Founder of the Brooklyn-based performance ensemble Àṣẹ Dance Theatre Collective, Harriet’s Gun features a spectrum of world class Black artists from around the country and Rhodessa Jones will be spinning the web for the evening as the Mistress of Ceremonies and homegrown San Francisco storyteller. A panel with the artists follows the performance.
WOMEN IN THE CITY AND MOBILITY PANEL @ ROSA LUXEMBURG NY & BRAZIL
The first debate of the international seminar “Right to Mobility” will be attended by Angie Schmitt, one of the United States' leading experts on sustainable mobility, and Ebony Noelle Golden, artist and activist who has organized artistic and cultural events in Harlem, New York, in addition to Brazilian Neon Cunha, Brazilian activist for the defense of the identities of trans people, and Alexandra Millonig, researcher at the Austrian Institute of Technology . The mediation will be the responsibility of Canadian Norma Rantisi, professor of Geography and Planning at the University of Concordia in Montreal, Canada.
PARTICIPANTS
Neon Cunha (Brazil)
Ebony Noelle Golden (United States)
Angie Schmitt (United States)
Alexandra Millonig (Europe)
Moderator Norma Rantisi (Canada)
Organization: Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Brussels - New York - São Paulo
Broadcast in English and Portuguese.
KEYNOTE @ BLACK SPATIAL RELICS
Join Black Spatial Relics for our second annual Convening, Happening February 23 - 27, 2021:
Now as much as ever, radical gathering spaces for rumination on Black freedoms are crucial. From February 23 - 27, 2021, Black Spatial Relics (BSR) is hosting its second annual convening. Building on our work to create Black spaces for creation, exploration, and community, this will be a free and virtual convening that will feature our 2020 artists-in-residence and several other Black performance makers and scholars from around Philadelphia and beyond. The convening will be free and open to the public.
Sharing in love, joy, hope, and freedom dreaming, together we will also celebrate our five-year anniversary, and look forward to what is in the stars next. We invite you to look back on all of our proudest moments as an initiative and join us in our future growth.
Dream With Us #BSRFIVE
About the Offerings:
Feb 23, 4:30 - 6:15 PM EST - Welcome Register Here
4:30 Viktor Ewing Givens Opening Circle Offering
4:35 Black Spatial Relics Director Arielle’s welcome
4:45 Deborah Thomas Sharing
5:00 Ebony Noelle Golden Keynote
2021 Freedom Fellow Interviews
The interviews for the 2021 Freedom Fellowship cohort will take place virtually on Monday January 25th. Please be sure to check your email and spam folder for your schedule meeting time. Application and the fellowship calendar can be viewed here. Thank you.
2021 Freedom Fellowship Applications Due
Weeksville Heritage Center and Ebony Noelle Golden are currently accepting applications for the 2021 Freedom Fellowship cohort. Created as a virtual and possible in-person community-based semester (pending on COVID-19/coronavirus restriction updates), the Freedom Fellowship at Weeksville Heritage Center brings together community members to explore genealogy, oral history, archival practice, and collaborative performance through a series of public trainings and creative activations inspired by the founding and radical roots of the Weeksville neighborhood in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, NY. The fellowship is a core aspect of Jubilee 11213, a cultural organizing and public performance project that takes place between 2020 and 2022 in digital space, in the Weeksville community, and on WHC’s campus. Jubilee 11213 is a creation of Ebony Noelle Golden of Betty’s Daughter Arts Collaborative, who is the current Weeksville Artist-In-Residence.
Apply Here: https://www.weeksvillesociety.org/thefreedomfellowship
The Impact Agenda: Evaluation for Liberation Practice Group
The Impact Agenda is an evaluation and impact measurement practice group for creatives who are invested and committed to community-engaged arts and culture programs for education, transformation and liberation. Designed and facilitated by Ebony Noelle Golden, the group will co-learn and train in this four-day intensive before being "virtually” dispatched to observe, witness and measure the impact of a national cohort of artists working for racial and social justice. The group will function for a total of four months under Golden’s leadership.
For more information or to join the next cohort, email BDAC at info@bettysdaughterarts.com.
black/water: The Digital Ceremony
Join us for black/water: The Digital Ceremony.
The broadcast features performances, artist talks, and music to explore and celebrate blackness and water as liberation technologies. black/water was commissioned by Betty’s Daughter Arts Collaborative’s Jupiter Performance Studio and curated by Ebony Noelle Golden.
The broadcast will be presented via bettysdaughterarts.com.
Live Interview: What's the Big Idea!? with Ron Ragin
What’s The Big Idea!? With Ron Ragin
WTBI | What’s the Big Idea!? A talk+ show for audacious visionaries
Two Thursdays of each month, I’ll sit down (virtually) with a visionary light beam/co-dreamer/guest, and we will talk about what we want, about our dreams, about our visions, and about our work towards liberation.
The idea for this show was seeded in conversations Ron had with many a loved one over the spring. As the pandemic was unfolding and as worldwide protests boiled over in response to George Floyd’s murder, Ron was deeply dissatisfied with the demands we as Black artists, culture workers, and creatives were making. As our economy collapsed under the weight of a mismanaged pandemic response and public calls for police and prison abolition rang out far wider than before, I couldn’t sign on to another petition for more Black curators at museums or for better contract terms for performing artists.
Ron’s thoughts were something like: WE HAVE TO BE BOLDER THAN THIS! WE HAVE TO ANCHOR IN A FUNDAMENTALLY DIFFERENT AND MORE LIBERATORY AND POWER-FULL VISION!