This year's Radical Futures is a celebration of artistic practice, healing, and ritual reflected in QTPOC femme-led art. Through intentional collaborations with three QTPOC femme artists we will investigate themes of wholeness, unrealities, space and segregation, healing, lineage & time travel, and belonging to write a love letter to the craft and ourselves. Radical Futures goals are:
To HONOR Black Feminism, its legacy, and crucial role in Queer liberation.
To ACKNOWLEDGE that Black women and femmes are inherently valuable, and that our joy and artistic practice is inherent activism.
To PRACTICE collective care as an essential ingredient to solidarity in collective liberation.
To AMPLIFY Black women, femmes, and gender expansive individuals.
Affirmational Drawing for Love & Liberation with Chetna Mehta
This episode helps us set our space and mindframe for permission-giving expression, freedom-oriented play, and invitation to draw the world we want to live in. This practice is open to people with all relationships to "drawing": rather than focusing on technique, we center our inherent birthright and ability to put pen to paper as we uplift messages of love for ourselves, each other and the planet.
The Keeping with Ebony Noelle Golden
With Weeksville Heras a core inspiration and motivation, Jubilee 11213: The Keeping explores practices of social good, self-determination, spirituality, sensuality, and sovereignty as critical components of the Black liberation continuum discovered through Ebony’s archival research and dramaturgical field work over the last three years. May 2023 marks the culmination of the project with a public sharing of The Keeping, a theatrical ceremony that activates the entire Weeksville campus and surrounding area. The Keeping has catalytic support from Weeksville, Creative Capital, and the Coalition of Theatres of Color, and was conceptualized, devised, and produced by Ebony Noelle Golden and Jupiter Performance Studio.
AKTIV8 Portal (6): Angel Music for the Weelaunee Forest with Anaka
As a continuation of the AKTIV8 PORTAL series, AnAkA will create AKTIV8 PORTAL (6) in Atlanta, GA by performing to the trees and revolutionaries protecting them in the sacred Weelaunee Forest. As a descendant of these Muskogee and Cherokee lands, AnAkA will perform Angel Music as a bio frequency medicine for the land, the people and beyond.