2010
Alternate Roots- Atlanta, GA
Eternal Works, Inc.-NY, NY
Women on Wednesdays Arts and Culture Series- NY, NY
The Saartjie Project- Washington, DC
Interborough Rep. Theater- NY, NY
Black Artist as Activist-NY, NY
In collaboration with Theater for the Free People and Medgar Evers College
Fall and Winter 2009
Cucalorus Film Festival- Wilmington, NC
Race, Politics, Class and the Wilmington Ten
In The People's Hands Arts and Activism Project-Durham, NC
3rd Annual Community Writing Intennsive
www.inthepeopleshands.synthasite.com (registration required)
What started as a small writers workshop held in a Durham coffee shop and Ebony's house has grown into literary art and activism project featuring an online and print zine, scholarship program, and writing workshop series. Now in its 3rd year, Betty's Daughter teams up again with SpiritHouse-NC to bring Durham and Triangle-area residents In The People's Hands Arts and Activism Project. This year's theme is "to p.i.m.c. w/ love: the prison-industrial-military-complex edition". Betty's Daughter thanks sponsors SpiritHouse-NC, Healing with CAARE-Inc., Fund for Southern Communities, and BrokenBeautiful Press for sustained support with this initiative.
During the 3rd Annual In The People’s Hands Arts and Activism Project, artists and activists will address the increase of youth and adults entering the prison system through engaging four days of writing workshops, social justice forums, a literary publication, and community performance. Check out www.inthepeopleshands.synthasite.com, for more information.
Hip Hop Mental Health
Project- Brooklyn, NY
Hip Hop and Wellness Community Gathering
How can Hip Hop culture be used as vehicle to activate the conversation around mental and emotional wellness? During the Community Gathering, students, mental health professionals, and community organizers will engage this question and map out a possible action plan for a Durham-based Hip Hop wellness initiative. Betty's Daughter will lead the community outreach component of the UNC-Chapel Hill residency. Hip Hop and Community Wellness community gathering will happen at New Horizons school in Durham, NC on Oct. 1 12-2 pm and feature Rha Goddess, Dr. Anthony Smith, and Dr. Mark Anthony Neal. Betty's Daughter will also lead the talk back after Rha Goddess' performance of "Low" at UNC on Oct. 2. Be there!
Manhattan Theater Source-NY,NY
Estrogenius Theater Festival
http://www.theatresource.org/estro/index.html
Betty's Daughter will direct the Voices of Africa performance premiering October 23-24. All proceeds go to girls and women in Niger exploring theater.
Medgar Evers College- Brooklyn, NY
The Black Artist as Activist and Transformative Agent
Workshops held at The Space on White
Register now at http://www.theatreforthefreepeople.com. My workshops will focus on the performance of self in everyday life. Each session will allow the performers to engage social justice issues: 1. Institutional Oppression 2. Gender Equity. 3. Environmental Justice 4. Prison Industrial Complex. As each participant explores these four themes, through the technology of the body, they will consider the role of everyday performance and creative practice in actualizing power in the body and in community.
Ocean Ana Rising- New York, NY & Washington, DC
http://www.oceananarisinginc.org/
Ocean Ana Rising, a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization, was founded out of an urgent need to tell our stories. We are dedicated to healing and nurturing our community through art with a specific emphasis on performance. We are committed to cultivating greater love of self and community through artistic expression shared with the public and providing a forum for dialogue and exchange. It is only when we are able to share our life experience that we can move beyond division and isolation toward the healing powers of love. Bettty's Daughter Arts Collaborative is proud of this bright and promising collaboration. Betty's Daughter will provide development and grant writing consulting services for Ocean Ana Rising to help sustain their important and necessary creative work.
Summer 2009
We.Write.Free-Houston, TX
Performance Poetry Workshop
w/Houston Slam Team
Brecht Forum-NY,NY
Mother.Ourselves w/ Broken Beautiful Press
Alexis Pauline Gumbs and Ebony Noelle Golden present an interactive performance and writing workshop about the poetic process of community building. Using the poetry and theory of black lesbian feminist warrior mother Audre Lorde to create activities and discussion topics, this performance/workshop is especially designed for those seeking to build community through progressive organizing and creative transformation. Alexis and Ebony will be sharing and reflecting on the methods they used and learned in Durham, North Carolina as part of a women of color survivor-led coalition to end gendered violence and create sustaining transformative love day by day. (*special treat!: In honor of June Jordan's birthday participants will also find out how they can get free copies of the interactive anthology Wrong is Not My Name created by UBUNTU.)
Audre Lorde Project-Brooklyn, NY
Social Activism and Community Healing
w/ We Got Issues and Jess Violetta
The Highlander Center for Education and Research- New Market, TN
Seeds of Fire Youth Activist Camp
Performing Creative Collective Vision
Greenhope- New York, NY
From Oral History to Literary Narrative
http://www.greenhope.org/index.shtml
Greenhope, located in East Harlem, New York, has been serving women involved in the criminal justice system for over twenty-eight years. Most treatment programs, founded twenty-eight years ago, were being developed for men only, but Greenhope was visionary and understood that the new drug laws would have a dramatically adverse affect upon women. Indeed, since that time women's imprisonment has increased tenfold. Today Greenhope is one of the most comprehensive woman-centered alternative to incarceration programs in the state of New York and in the country. We serve 62 women in residence, 70 in out-patient services and over 200 women annually. Betty's Daughter will perform a monologue created during an Oral History Project with Green Hope and Columbia University Students.
Alternate Roots Annual Meeting-Arden, NC
Betty's Daughter Art Collaborative will lead Resist.Rebel.Rebuild: Performing Critical Greeness at this year's annual meeting. the workshop will explore the relationship between the prison system and environmental justice.
Betty's Daughter will also co-write and perform Race Dialogues and Collective Sun with RSC and SpiritHouse, respectively. Race Dialogues deals with intersecting oppressions and Collective Sun tackles the viral impact the prison industrial military complex has on intimate relationships and families.
Spring 2009 Projects
Go Green Theater Festival - New York, NY
http://web.mac.com/emel07/Site_2/Home.html
What does it mean to Go Green? To help bring a fun twist to this event GO GREEN will not use any paper. This means all advertisement will be either done electronically, though street theatre and all the scripts, and programs for the reading will be projected on the wall. The slogan for this event is No RULES, No TRASH, No PAPER. Betty's Daughter will direct two plays for this event: Land and Rain by Marjuan Canady, and Black Girls' Guide to Going Green by Joi M. Sears.
The We Are 1: Women's Conference 2009- Durham, NC
http://www.infinitydiamondclub.com/infinity_diamond_club_015.htm
The We Are 1 Women's Conference is designed to be an experience that no woman will want to miss. From all across the USA women will be coming together to grow, learn, share, and encourage one another. There will be dynamic speakers from across the country who will seek to inspire, motivate, empower, and challenge you to live your authentic truth while fulfilling your divine purpose and destiny in life.
Gumbo YaYa/ or this is why we speak in tongues- Durham, NC
www.iamnotaproject.wordpress.com
Betty's Daughter is pleased to announce that Gumbo YaYa is now running in Durham, NC. The second cycle fo Gumbo YaYa is sponsored by the North Carolina Humanities Council, SpiritHouse-NC, and Healing with CAARE-Inc. For more information about our premiere program visit, http://www.iamnotaproject.wordpress.com.
Refuge and Resistance- New York, NY
In Collaboration with Ocean Ana Rising, Betty's Daughter lends creative support to Refuge and Resistance. In January, 2005, Ocean Ana Rising produced the creation of a private mixed media installation which commemorated the lives of survivors and victims of domestic violence. In March, 2009, these same artists--along with a team of kindred artists working with Ocean Ana for the first time--will open the organization's new installation/performance piece, Refuge and Resistance (working title) at The Brecht Forum in NYC in partnership with Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory. For more information, visit http://oceananarisinginc.org/ and http://refugenresistance.blogspot.com/.
We. Write. Free.: Poetry, Performance, and Politics Workshop- New York, NY
This series is hosted in collaboration with Theater for the Free People and Urban Stages. For more information about the growing collaboration with Theater for the Free People, visit www.theaterforthefreepeople.com.
Betty's Daughter celebrates the second year of programming with Urban Stages, based in Manhattan. Through this collaboration, Betty's Daughter will engage in a series of We. Write. Free. workshops in Brooklyn-area libraries. To schedule a We. Write. Free. workshop, email Betty's Daughter at bettysdaughterarts@gmail.com. For more information about Urban Stages visit, www.urbanstages.org.
State of the Nation Arts and Performance Festival- New Orleans, LA
State of the Nation is an annual multidisciplinary arts festival and bi-monthly series that brings together student, emerging, and professional performing and visual artists from across the United States who are committed to addressing social, political, and economic issues facing the Gulf South. Co-Produced in New Orleans, LA and Jackson, MS annually since 2004, SON has presented the work of over two hundred and fifty dancers, musicians, theater artists, poets, painters, sculptors, filmmakers, activists and educators. Attended by thousands, this festival provides an opportunity to showcase projects and participate in workshops. At its best, it stands as a forum for democracy –a space for the free discussion of current affairs. For more information visit, http://www.sonfestival.org/index.html.
Betty's Daughter will present Brilliant Tomorrows: Sister(ing) as Communal Creative Performance from the Gumbo YaYa program.
Resources for Social Change- Learning Exchanges- Richmond, VA & Orangeburg, SC
Betty's Daughter Arts Collaborative is a proud member of Alternate Roots and is an active participant in the Resources for Social Change component of the organization. Resources for Social Change (RSC) is a training program developed by ROOTS that teaches ideas and techniques to create social change through art. This program began in recognition of the need to institutionalize ROOTS knowledge in the field. RSC trainers are artists experienced and schooled in the methods of using and bringing art into communities that traditionally may not have considered the important role that the arts can play in addressing oppressions and effect social change.
Betty's Daughter will co-facilitate Learning Exchanges on Orangeburg, SC in April and Richmond, VA this summer.
