we (been) here: collective workshop offering for Black artistsGibney Dance: Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center280 Broadway, Entrance at 53A Chambers New York, NY 10007
The Skeleton Architecture is a vessel of Black womyn and gender nonconforming artists rooted in the rigor and power of the collective in practice. We create, organize, advocate, gather, curate,
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The Skeleton Architecture is a vessel of Black womyn and gender nonconforming artists rooted in the rigor and power of the collective in practice. We create, organize, advocate, gather, curate, perform, play, challenge, and teach through the deep of our ancestral knowledges toward the liberated future of our worlds.
we (been) here is a communing of members of The Skeleton Architecture to explore embodied archive, communal selfhood, and the divine everyday. Inspired by Dr. Kariamu Welsh Asante’s description of Africanist memory as “a conscious and subconscious calling upon the ancestors, gods, mind to permit the flow of energy,” we will move, sit, talk, write, draw, conjure and vision, through both private and public practices.
Presented in partnership with EYA Projects, Angela’s Pulse/Dancing While Black and Gibney Dance.
These workshops are offered as a safer space for Black bodies to collect and center ourselves in particular solidarity.
Roots and Relativity: 10:30 – 11:45 am
Facilitated by Maria Bauman and Samantha Speis
we free/with you: 1:00 – 2:15 pm
Facilitated by Marguerite Hemmings and Angie Pittman
Epic Memory Lab: 2:30 – 4:00 pm
Facilitated by Nia Love, in collaboration with TSA members