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Mark your calendar for these important events …
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November 22, 2016 | 7:30PM
Queer Voices is the longest-running series of its kind in the country! Curated for over a decade by Andrea Jenkins and John Medeiros, this month’s reading features Eyenga Bokamba, Greg Hewett, Lucas Scheelk, and Dr. Felicia Washington Sy.
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Opening Reception: November 28 | 5:30PM
Join the artists of the new visual art exhibition Dimensions of Indigenous & Cultural Identity Politics as we celebrate the opening with snacks, performances, and visual art around the impacts of colonization that keep our communities divided.
Dimensions of Indigenous & Cultural Identity Politics is curated by Electric Machete Studios, presented in partnership with Ce Tempoxcalli, and features work by Gordon Coons, Ojibwa, Lac Courte Oreilles and Rebekah Crisanta de Ybarra, Xinka-Lenca, El Salvador.
Save the Date!
Storytelling Bus + Talking Circle: Dimensions of Indigeneity in Minnesota
January 29, 2016 | 3-5PM
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November 28, 2016 | 6:30 & 8:30PM
**One Night Only!**
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#sayhername is an immersive, multi-sensory theater performance created by Shá Cage and directed by E.G. Bailey. Co-presented with Tru Ruts, #sayhername is a work in progress responding to our media-saturated contemporary times against the backdrop of racially motivated violence against women. Theater, puppetry, song and testimony tell the story of a girl named wo*myn who demands that somebody, anybody say her name!
With New York-based cellist Nioka Workman, Twin Cities vocalist Jayanthi Kyle, and a cast of cabaret characters, #sayhername creates a utopian new world where justice and ritual can co-exist, infused with music, story, and truth. Adding hot tea and sweet potato pie to the sensory experience, the artists sweeten things when it’s needed the most.
This experimental theater performance is a ritual in reclamation, testimony, strength, and resilience. Themes in this work include police violence against women, cultural lineage, and historical cycles of trauma and healing.
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Apply by December 1, 2016
The Beyond the Pure Fellowships award grants of up to $5,000 to emerging Minnesota writers. In addition, fellows receive peer support, guidance, community, and resources throughout the program year.
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ABOUT INTERMEDIA ARTS | IntermediaArts.org
As Minnesota’s premier multidisciplinary, multicultural arts organization, Intermedia Arts builds understanding among people by catalyzing and inspiring artists to make changes in their lives and communities. We provide creative people of all ages with the opportunities, tools, and support to come together across disciplines, sectors, and boundaries to connect, create, share, collaborate, innovate, think big, and act as catalysts for positive community-driven and community-defined change. We are a nationally recognized leader in empowering artists and community leaders to use arts-based approaches to solve community issues. By stimulating deeper community engagement and providing a platform for the stories and experiences of underrepresented communities locally, nationally, and internationally, we contribute to a stronger, healthier society.
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These activities are made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a Minnesota State Arts Board Operating Support grant, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund, and a grant from the Wells Fargo Foundation Minnesota
#sayhername is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. To find out more about how National Endowment for the Arts grants impact individuals and communities, visit www.arts.gov.
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