I'm continuing my collaboration with Alonzo Davis' "A Reflection on Current Social Justice Issues" with Blue Door Studios at Gateway Arts District's Open Studios in Mt. Rainier, MD, in a one hour collaborative intervention.
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I'm thrilled to be presenting new work this year at the Light City Festival. The Light Bringers is an Emergency Choral Response Team that will make it's debut in two shows on two consecutive nights of the festival: Wednesday, April 18th between 7 and 10pm and Thursday, April 19th in the same time slot. Calling attention to not often talked about aspects of Baltimore's and in particular the Inner Harbor's slavery legacies, The Light Bringers will provoke collective awareness and healing through a caroling ritual performance. We will perform all along the main harbor-adjacent drag of the festival—and then some—so feel free to wander around and see us when you see us. It will be a night to remember and, more importantly, for remembering.
It'll be a grand ol' time once again when I reprise the role of Zeg in Theresa Columbus's whimsical, musical exploration of friendship and creativity. This time we'll be blessing DC with the work, which I hear features a couple of new songs this time around! It will definitely be a riot. Check back for details.
I'll be making my solo LABBODIES debut this December as part of their annual performance art review at SpaceCamp Gallery in Baltimore. I will be presenting new work that explores the theme of freedom, specifically, the black political body in America. The work is called, "Freedom Tarot/The Nigga Body Politic/What to the Slave is the 4th of July," which may or may not be what it sounds like, depending on what it sounds like.
I will be joining over 400 female and female identified DC/MD/VA-based artists in a photograph taken at the National Museum of Women in the Arts for the fourth and final installment of artist Kim Schoenstadt's Now Be Here, which began in Los Angeles at Hauser, Wirth and Schimmel and made stops in New York and Miami on its way to DC. Programming highlighting women in the arts bolsters between October 17 and 30 in the DMV area, and following the taking of the photograph on October 25 there will be a cocktail reception and Artist Resource Fair.
I'll be performing a set with the incredible Baltimore guitarist Quinton Randall to celebrate with a community I am delighted to be building a relationship with. Tucked on the edge of suburban development, Inshirah is set on a naturally beautiful, expansive piece of land, once a farm, that still has the old farmhouse on it. During the week, the farmhouse serves as a school (where I teach part time) that serves the community at large. I can't wait to have this opportunity to show my gratitude through my art.
This year commemorates the 50th Anniversary of the 5th annual Avant Garde Festival that took place over 24 hours on the Staten Island Ferry in 1967. My work, Give You My Money, For You Make My Song (Reverse Busking Chorus Love Tactic), will be performed for the very first time as my contribution to this jam.
Sometime during the not-so spring we had here in Baltimore 2017 I wrote Miss Ona, an interlude (track 6) to Anti- recording artist Son Little's spectacular sophomore effort. It's an excerpt from my as-yet unreleased song Miss Ona Henrietta, performed by the artist himself.
Preorder the LP here:
https://kingsroadmerch.com/anti-records/view/?id=11902&artist=503
Come see me add a little vocal sweetness to Son Little's debut AfroPunk set.
I'll be traveling to Ghana with Washington, DC Ethiopian-American artist Tsedaye Makonnen and Brooklyn, NY Ghanaian-American artist Nana Ama Bentsi-Enchill to perform a collective work called The African Body Snatcher. See project page in Work section of this website for more details. Visit https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/african-body-snatcher-art/x/16913060#/ for even more details and to DONATE!!!!
Come party with us!!!! Donate to the successful completion of our work in Accra, Ghana August 2017. Celebrate the genius of our Creator for giving us Ayana Evans. This is a win-win-win for the win. Tix available at EventBrite or if you know somebody (like) me you can get the address and bring your coin the old school way.
