Homebrew @ Home
This season’s productions were developed under our new virtual series Homebrew @ Home as a response to the need to reach out and explore during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Our virtual productions offer advice from the light through vital conversations and artistic collaboration. All programming is the product of our new work in development series, Home Brew – offers virtual productions in the very early stages of creation as a first look or re-work, with one celebrating the world première as an original film!
Each project will offer a virtual première at 7pm on Thursday with a post-show talk back with artists, a chance to offer a virtual cheers on Friday at 5pm with Happy Hour with Heidi, engage with our community on Service Saturdays, and join in the discussion during our virtual Art of Activism brunch on Sunday from 11am – 1pm.
Blood Flow
September 24-27, 2020
A multimedia artwork that reflects the continuous role of art as a force of resistance to crimes against humanity past, present and future.
We offer, in these times of pandemic, racial strife and economic exploitation and oppression.
A war dance, a battle cry, a chant that challenges time in all tenses, and an inspiring vision of our world that we cannot turn away from.
The original film is inspired by the text of Mr. Price’s new collection of poetry and will feature local artists and community members including, but not limited to Dorothy Bell, Jaden Gustin and his family, Parris Sarter, Abbie Richards and her mother, Eugene Russell, Darrell Grant, Destiny Renee,Tyra Watkins, and Mama Yeye.
Then They’ll Tell You It’s All In Your Head
October 8-11, 2020
In her first scripted Home Brew, Theresa Davis took the stage with her visceral words while embracing storytelling in a one-woman manifesto of what it means to be black, human, female, mother in America. Now with director Dawn Axam, and collaborators Destiny Renee, daughter Tia and son Zion, we invite you to enter her world via this original Film – offering a sanctuary of bars and stages, places where honest spirits haunt and share, where muses make the world make sense and assure her that she is walking in her purpose visible to all who choose to see.
Intertwined with movement, sound score, characters and poetry from her collection Drowned: A Mermaid’s Manifesto, with Sibling Rivalry Press, Davis makes it clear that these issues are not all in her head, and that NO, you cannot drown a mermaid. Read for the first time in 2017, in this church of prose and poetry, we find things have not changed and it’s not in our heads.
BLACK LIVES MATTER!
TIT
October 29-November 3, 2020
True North
December 10-13, 2020
In 2000, Magnetic North began moving at an erratic, sudden speed. It’s averaging 34 to 40 miles per year. It’s been scientifically proven that human beings can feel this, and we’re learning that it’s affecting us in wide-ranging ways.
When magnetic fields move erratically and quickly around us, the part of our brain that makes ethical decisions becomes impaired. Changes in electromagnetic energy, caused by magnetic movement in the Earth’s core and in the magnetosphere around the Earth, can affect our health, our potential, and our physical and mental well-being.
True North is a guidebook for all of us, combining the latest scientific research with ancient practices that enable each of us to ground ourselves in the midst of uncertainty.
