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Murmurations: Performance (Copy)
Who or what do you surround yourself with?
How do you want to live?
Performance as installation//
World building from the archives
Safety in numbers? (Community is complicated.)
a low constant sound made up of many voices
Murmurations is funded by a grant from The National Endowment for the Arts.
Gabrielle Civil is a black feminist performance artist, poet, and writer originally from Detroit. Her latest performance memoir is the déjà vu: black dreams and black time. The aim of her work is to open up space.
Ellen Marie Hinchcliffe is a Queer Mama, feminist creatrix of poems, performances, books & films and also curates placekeeping art projects with Pangea World Theater. Ellen lives her art as spells cast.
Murmurations: Performance
Who or what do you surround yourself with?
How do you want to live?
Performance as installation//
World building from the archives
Safety in numbers? (Community is complicated.)
a low constant sound made up of many voices
Murmurations is funded by a grant from The National Endowment for the Arts.
Gabrielle Civil is a black feminist performance artist, poet, and writer originally from Detroit. Her latest performance memoir is the déjà vu: black dreams and black time. The aim of her work is to open up space.
Ellen Marie Hinchcliffe is a Queer Mama, feminist creatrix of poems, performances, books & films and also curates placekeeping art projects with Pangea World Theater. Ellen lives her art as spells cast.
Migration Stories
Dance Projects by ME
Movement as Language 2023: Migration Stories
Performance Dates: June 16, 17 at 7:30PM
June 17 at 1:30PM* (*Sliding Scale for pre-sale and Pay-What-You-Can at the door)
Performance Length: Approximately 60 minutes.
Migration Stories
Migration Stories is a collection of unique and sacred stories honoring the transformational experiences of ten artists. This collaborative performance developed from the Movement as Language Dance Program, where community members were guided through movement exercises and encouraged to develop their own choreography as a way of storytelling. When words are not enough - movement becomes our common language. The piece examines migration from our unique perspectives. Every human experiences migration in one way or another, for some movers the migration experience is literal, moving from one country to another, for others it is a recovery from an accident, the transition to parenthood, or their relationship to a butterfly migrating from Mni Sota to Mexico. We invite you to witness with compassion our vulnerable memories that seek to speak.
Masks will be required to attend this performance.
Flamenco in the Garden
Join Twin Cities Flamenco Collective for the Summer outdoor performance at the Modus Locus Graffiti Garden next to Reverie Cafe.
Free performance. Donations appreciated.
Yummy plant-based food and drinks available for purchase at Reverie Cafe+Bar
Locked In: A Theatrical Dialogue on Healthcare & Homelessness
Assumption and bias, in the context of structural racism, time pressure, and health worker burnout, create clinical encounters that inhibit listening, breed distrust, and ultimately harm of the health of unsheltered populations. Health workers, often unknowingly, also criminalize homelessness and addiction through their reproduction of social forces, such as structural racism, patriarchy, and settler colonialism, that are root causes of health inequities.
In this participatory theater event, audience members can step on stage and “practice revolution” by intervening in situations where systemic oppression is playing out.
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ABOUT THE HOSTS
The workshop style performance is co-hosted by zAmya Theater Project and Campaign Against Racism. zAmya is a Twin Cities based theater company with a mission to inspire community and advocacy for housing justice. CAR is a global movement of health workers organizing to dismantle structural racism in healthcare.
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WHO IS THIS EVENT FOR?
Everyone is welcome; the primary audiences for this event are healthcare workers and people who have experience with housing instability.
This workshop is eligible for 2.5 hours of CME (continuing medical education) for physicians and nurses.
People with the lived experience of homelessness - $20 Target gift cards available as thanks for attending.
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TICKETS AND REGISTRATION
Register through Eventbrite at: https://bit.ly/3KHGiXK
Online registration ends 4/12/23 at 6pm.
Ticket prices vary, starting at $0: For those with lived experience of homelessness - attendance is FREE
For healthcare workers seeking CME credit - tickets are $250
*A limited number of seats will be available for walk ups, but these are intended for attendees with the lived experience of homelessness.
QUESTIONS? ACCESS NEEDS?. Email or call / text our Company Manager, Esther: esther [at] zamyatheater.org / 612.760.4804
COVID SAFETY. Masks are encouraged. Please do not attend if you feel sick.
GRATITUDE. This initiative received financial support from the National Institutes of Health via the University of Minnesota’s Clinical and Translational Science Institute. Special thanks to Health Partners for sponsoring the CME.
the bull-jean stories
Pillsbury House + Theatre is thrilled to announce the bull-jean stories, the first show of the 2023 season, performing January 12 through February 5, 2023. Continuing a series of Windham-Campbell prize winner Sharon Bridgforth’s work at PH+T, the bull-jean stories stars Ivey award winner and PH+T Resident Teaching Artist Aimee K. Bryant as she embodies a variety of characters that invite audiences to travel through the warm, hilarious, and poetic world of Bridgforth’s woman-loving-woman bull-dog-jean. Celebrating African-American herstory, survival, healing, and sapphic love, the bull-jean stories navigates tales of grief while chronicling the course of love returning again and again.
Re-Connect Rondo Rejoice & Imagine
Join us for an evening of seasonally-inspired cuisine and nostalgic holiday music from Penumbra Theatre’s Black Nativity, performed by Jamela Pettiford. Not only will you have the opportunity to experience music from this legacy jewel in Rondo, you may be blessed with tickets to the live performance of Black Nativity.
After the performance, the team developing the master plan will share their role to create an African American cultural enterprise district connected by a community land bridge. The team will also seek additional guidance about community aspirations and priorities. So don’t miss your opportunity to rejoice, reimagine and help build a bridge to better.
Say Their Names - A Free Reading
Please join us for a free reading of Say Their Names by Marcie Rendon in collaboration with Ernest Briggs and Turtle Theater Collective on Monday, November 7. This is a new play about missing and murdered Indigenous women in the United States.
Ticket reservations are required, reserve yours here
The bull-jean Experience
The series will continue into the 2023 season with the bull-jean stories starring Aimee K. Bryant from January 12 to February 5, 2023, and bull-jean/we wake directed by Daniel Alexander Jones from June 22 to July 2, 2023.
Minagi kin dowan: a Zitkala-Sa opera
Pay-As-Able tickets available for each show in limited quantities.
zAmya Theater's Second Chance performance
As the truth gets louder around racial covenants in housing practice, Criminal Justice System as the new Jim Crow, huge racial disparities in shelters and on the streets – it must be asked – was there ever a first chance? Maybe it is America that needs a Second Chance to fulfill the dream for all Americans?
These are the questions and contradictions that fuel Second Chance.
Kumbayah: The Juneteenth Story Reception and Evening Performance
In 2021, Juneteenth was written into law as a national day of observance, yet many people are unfamiliar with its meaning and the insight it offers in addressing current social injustice. Minnesota Humanities Center is honored to collaborate with Sweet Potato Comfort Pie and community to bring the significance of this day to life.
Kumbayah The Juneteenth Story written by Rose McGee is a 90-minute fictitious, two-act play that addresses a factual and traumatic time in our history – when news was deliberately withheld that Black people were no longer to be kept as slaves in this country. Storytelling and music weave together mesmerizing scenes. Although tragedy is depicted, this play within a play is tremendously uplifting. The story begins with a Prologue set in the early 1800s in a small West African village where a young mother and her small son are being abducted from their home by slave catchers. Act One: Scene One is set in present time in a popular North Minneapolis soul-food restaurant where a group of youths and adults ultimately end up discussing what Juneteenth means. Before long they all agree to attend a play about Juneteenth. The story then shifts into 1863 on the Turner Plantation in Tyler, Texas with the character Frederick Douglass as Narrator.
Although interpretation is best suited for ages 8 and up, children of all ages are welcome to attend. A special reception with light refreshments and emphasis on the significance of voting precedes the 7:00 p.m. show from 5:30 p.m. to 6:50 p.m.
The Sabathani Vintage Voices in Concert
In performance at the Grand Opening celebration for Sabathani Senior Housing 6.8.22
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