Black Spatial Relics: Performance Showcase

This Friday, November 15, 2019 | 7pm - 9pm
Painted Bride Art Center
FREE

Gather with Black artists investigating freedom amongst narrative, storytelling, and an array of embodied practices at the Black Spatial Relics Performance Showcase. Hosted by activist, artist, writer and co-founder of the Black and Brown Workers Collective, Abdul-Aliy Muhammad, the evening features the brilliant works and practices of Vitche-Boul Ra, Rayla Reshawn, Misty Sol and Denise Valentine.

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Black Womxn Temporal Portal

Installation open now through November 28
Gallery hours: Wednesday - Friday | 12pm - 5pm
FREE

The Black Womxn Temporal Portal is a sculptural portal/booth that serves as a temporary temporal sanctuary for self-identified Black women, femmes, nonbinary folks, and girls. The portal activates the plural, subjective, and quantum nature of the future(s) where Black woman, femmes, girls, and nonbinary folks exist and are safe, loved, and valued. The portal contains an open access, interactive nonlinear timescape/tapestry/temporal map/toolkit of Black womanist temporal rituals and tech preparing us for Black quantum womanist future(s).

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Hannibal Lokumbe’s “First Breath, Last Sigh: A Journey Called Life” and “Children of the Fire”

The Philadelphia Episcopal Cathedral
23 South 38th Street, 19104
December 7, 2019, 6:30pm
FREE

Presented by Philadelphia Episcopal Cathedral and Painted Bride Art Center, this performance, created in honor of Kim Phuc PHAN THI, was “composed immediately after viewing a televised news segment of a young Vietnamese girl running naked on a road outside her village. She was in obvious agony from the napalm attack which burned her skin. “Children of The Fire” was my immediate music and human response to that horrific sight. First Breath Last Sigh: A Journey Called Life” is a composition in three veils, the first of which is dedicated to young Kevon, a superb singer with The great Morgan State University Choir. As is too often the case, he was gunned down in the streets of Baltimore, Maryland. The work is the symbolism of a force used to clear all obstacles which would hinder the return passage of Kevon’s spirit its original source.” – Hannibal Lokumbe
Performed with the Play on Philly Symphony Orchestra and CAPA Choir of The Philadelphia High School for the Creative and Performing Arts.

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