REIMAGINING BLACK FEMME FUTURES

In reference to Legacy Russell's Glitch Feminism, we choose to stay alive, against all odds, because our lives matter. We choose to support one another in living, as an act of world building.

_origins is an ode to Black femmes, womxn, gender non-conforming and beyond. It is future through art as practice. A liminal space of restoration. The non-linear orbit, resisting violent erasure.

_origins asks what is preservation? Where is restoration? How do we uplift Black femmes? How do we find collective healing amidst the apocalypse? How do we reimagine mythologies to redefine our state of being? An alternate reality to reclaim our sacred energy? Where is the Black femme paradise?

_origins reasserts time into virtual space to reclaim our power through conversations, workshops, art and sound rituals. Activating a site of embodied thinking, healing and world building.

SCHEDULE

THURSDAY JUNE 17
OPENING RECEPTION

5PM ET

GALLERY OPENING

@ NEW ART CITY

6PM - 7PMET

ARTIST TALK

JOJO ABOT with RHEA BECKETT

7PM - 9PMET

WORKSHOP

BIRHTING WORKSHOP with THE RENEE, led by WHITNEY ROBINSON

9PM - 10PMET

PERFORMANCE

TYGAPAW

FRIDAY JUNE 18

4PM - 5PMET

ARTIST TALK

PANELwith DANIELLE BRAITHWAITE-SHIRLEY and KAMRA moderated by MYLES E. JOHNSON aka RAPTURE

5PM - 7PMET

WORKSHOP

BLACK ROMANCEwith KENNEDI CARTER and MARCELLA ZIGBUO CAMARA

7PM - 8:30PM ET

ARTIST TALK

PANEL withHEAUX HISTORY and DECODED STIGMA

SATURDAY JUNE 19

4PM - 5PM ET

ARTIST TALK

BLACK WOMXN'S REBUTTAL with MIKA GADSEN and LEXI COBURN

5PM - 7PMET

WORKSHOP

HEALING SOUND BATH,with YVES B GOLDEN of HERBAL MUTUAL AID NETWORK

SUNDAY JUNE 20
CLOSING MEDITATIONS

1PM - 1:15PMET

PERFORMANCE

AHYA SIMONE

1:15PM - 1:50PMET

WORKSHOP

SOUND BATH MEDITATIONwith RENA ANAKWE

EXHIBITORS

ZAINAB ALIYU
VITORIA CRIBB
MIKA GADSEN
ASHA HASSAN NOOLI
JAZSALYN
KIARA KALINDA & AMIRAH
ELIZABETH MPUTU
MALIYAMUNGU MUHANDE
OLIVIA MCKAYLA ROSS
TERRI WRIGHT
AKEEMA-ZANE