THEN THEY’LL TELL YOU IT’S ALL IN YOUR HEAD

Presented as a short film compilation edited by Tia Davis, this new work features Theresa Davis’ favorite clips from the original film.

Available On Demand Throughout the Festival!

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. With director Dawn Axam, original director of photography and editor Robby Myles and collaborators Destiny Renee, daughter Tia and son Zion, audiences were invited to enter her world via the 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

LIFESOUTH Emergency Blood Donation

12PM – 6PM ET

Bloodmobile located in 7 Stages’ parking lot. Be a HERO and schedule today!
Click HERE to schedule your appointment.

Service Saturday

1:00 – 4:00 PM ET

As we continue to examine our role, ask what is essential, and connect with the needs of our community, in honor of JUNETEENTH we offer our local community COMPLIMENTARY services with a Blood Drive from our partners @ LifeSouth, food provided by Just A Touch Ministry & Outreach, PPE distributions, complimentary Big Read books – Advice from the Lights, coffee from Java Lords, info and advocacy from Fair Districts GA and Covid testing and vaccines provided by our friends at the New Georgia Project. 

Look out for Artistic Associate Theresa Davis & John White with Georgia Innocence Project and members from Reforming ArtsTheatre Re-Entry Project offering in person poetry responses! Artwork by Julius Langston-Brown will be for sale and artist Nicolette Emanuelle will be sharing and collecting stories centered on the question What Are You?. 

Also check out InterPlay Atlanta offering a virtual performance workshop from 1:30 – 3pm!

InterPlay: RAGE, REBELLION & HOPE

1:30 – 3:00 PM ET

Immersive Virtual Workshop

As we celebrate Juneteenth and the liberation of the final enslaved Africans, we also recognize that liberation is ongoing. Join InterPlay Atlanta for an exploration of rage, rebellion, and hope as forces for social change. Rage and anger have lit the fire of rebellion throughout history and up to the present moment, particularly as part of the movements of marginalized groups. When we acknowledge and honor our rage, we can channel it into the quest for liberation in our personal lives, in our communities, our country, and our world. Through the movement, storytelling, and vocal forms of InterPlay, we will tap into our rebellious spirits and celebrate the hope that keeps us going.

What Are You?

Installation and Story Gathering

1:00 – 4:00 PM ET

by Nicolette Emanuelle – Live Indoor Installation and Interaction

Reforming Arts

3:00 – 4:00 PM ET

Complimentary in-person workshop

Reforming Art’s Theatre Reentry Program creates, presents staged readings of, and tours original plays about the experiences of reentering citizens. Participants are individuals who were formerly enrolled in Reforming Arts’ higher education program during their incarceration as well as other individuals who were formerly incarcerated in women’s prisons in Georgia. Participants work with Reforming Arts to create original plays that explore the struggles and complexities of reentry and the systemic problems surrounding mass incarceration in the United States. This workshop offers participants guidance from Artistic Associate and poet Theresa Davis in sharing story through connecting their lives to the creative process!

Deconstruction & Reconstruction

6:00 & 7:00 PM ET

by Nicolette Emanuelle and Lucy Eden – Live Indoor Performances

Deconstruction & Reconstruction is a blend of sculpture, live music, and virtuosic balancing acts. Lucy Eden and Nicolette Emanuelle explore the link between death and rebirth as they build an organic altar to the pieces of ourselves that we might once have seen as discarded rubble; here, they find new life. In this bittersweet symphony, every new beginning does, in fact, come from some other new beginning’s end. 

Noodles, White Rice and Fruit Loops

6:30 & 7:30 PM ET

Choreographed by Jacquelyn Pritz – Live Indoor Dance Performance

Hate speech, vandalism of Asian-owned restaurants, and acts of violence towards elderly Asian Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic have exposed America’s racist and xenophobic underbelly. In this dance work that incorporates traditional forms, hiphop, and movement research, an ensemble of Asian American artists take a stand against bigotry and injustice and vulnerably explore their complex, layered, unique selves. Through sharing their individual identity and culture, they reject the one-sided stereotypes and embrace the power of community to heal a broken political reality. 

Dancers: Patrick Otsuki, Lena Premero Curtis, Joana “Jam” Cruz, Ellie Tsuchiya, Perlizbeth De Leon, EC Fajardo, Niko Tioseco

This work was sponsored in part by the Center for Creativity and Arts at Emory University.

The Fires of Rage

8:00 PM ET

by Ember Webb – Outdoor Fire Performance

Poetry and fire play blend together to create an intimate experience exploring the power and necessity of rage. The Fires of Rage holds out a light for those who are too often pushed into the shadows of our world. 

Ember Webb is a queer poet and fire performer, born and raised in Georgia. Their work focuses on themes of social justice, mental health, and healing from trauma and abuse. Their work can take listeners into the deep and dark corners of the human experience, but they always make sure to bring a spark of fire to help light the way home.

Behind Closed Doors

(repeats throughout evening)

by Zimani Faye – Indoor Live Performance

Juneteenth Artwork by Julius Langston-Brown

This exculsive selection of sketches from our dear associate and alumni, offers audiences and buyers a world of colors, gestures, images and celebration. Julius has spent the days, months and many many moments of the pandemic finding solace in his artwork. This installation offers all a chance share in his and our healing through art.

“My name is Julius Langston Brown and I love to create master pieces! Art is my passion! Enjoy my creations!” Yes – The artwork is for SALE!