June 3, 2021 7:30PM & June 6, 2021 7:00PM Revivals of Blackness Streamed from World Cafe Live

 

Revivals of Blackness is an artistic offering to our kindred, honoring the life-giving contributions of global Black folks by staying real and more than well as we navigate legacies of U.S. racial violence. This innovative multimedia performance centers and challenges the ways we think about how Blackness intersects with ancestry, archive, ritual, and tradition.

Created collaboratively by artists Lela Aisha Jones, Luke Carlos O’Reilly, Alex Shaw, and filmmaker Aidan Un, this dynamic virtual ceremony interweaves music, dance, poetry, interviews, and visuals to illustrate the collective lived experiences of diasporic Blackness as effervescent, fluid, infinite, wayward, and always right on time. It invites us all to question and reflect upon the multitude of luscious ways that Blackness shapes our lives.

This project is supported by a Special Projects Grant from The Presser Foundation.

Join us virtually for the world premiere of Revivals of Blackness on Thursday, June 3rd at 7:30pm ET or Sunday, June 6th at 7pm ET. The film screenings will be followed by a live Q&A with the creators. RSVP for free to receive an email with the premiere link on the day of the event.