ANNOUNCING THE ART AND SURVIVAL FELLOWSHIP COHORT
For Immediate Release
Contacts
Ebony Noelle Golden
(919)283- 9032
ebonygolden@bettysdaughterarts.com
Cariel Klein
(413)628-0277
DOUBLE EDGE THEATRE AND
BETTY’S DAUGHTER ARTS COLLABORATIVE ANNOUNCE
ART AND SURVIVAL FELLOWSHIP COHORT
HARLEM, NY. (AUGUST 13, 2021) — Double Edge Theatre and Betty’s Daughter Arts Collaborative are excited to welcome the inaugural Art and Survival Fellowship cohort composed of a cadre of artists, activists, and educators who are invested in exploring climate justice, cultural wellness, creative activation, site-responsive performance, and community-building across rural and urban geographies.
The cohort will work closely with Double Edge Theatre’s ensemble, Jupiter Performance Studio, and invited guests between 2021 and 2023. Fellows will participate in lectures, workshops, mentorship, performance training, and will present new solo works during the Art and Survival Festival in 2023.
The Art and Survival Fellowship marks the next phase of Ebony Noelle Golden’s ongoing collaboration with Double Edge Theatre, who will also host the workshop premiere In The Name Of/The Mother Tree, Golden’s second piece in a tryptic of theatrical rituals centering Harlem as a site of prismatic Black liberation. Golden’s work will be presented during Double Edge Theatre’s 40th Anniversary Festival in 2022.
Double Edge Theatre’s 40th anniversary celebration will conclude in Summer 2022 with the Double Edge Ensemble’s original rendition of Euripides’ The Bacchae, as told entirely through the women’s ritual voice.
Double Edge Theatre and Betty’s Daughter’s Arts Collaborative/Jupiter Performance Studio are members of the Consortium for Training and Place-based Ensemble Theatres: the Consortium also includes The Hinterlands of Detroit, Mondo Bizarro of New Orleans, Open Flame Theatre of Minnesota/Wisconsin, Pangea World Theater of Minneapolis, and q-Staff of Albuquerque. For more information about the Art and Survival Fellowship, visit doubleedgetheatre.org and bettysdaughterarts.com.
For more information about the Art and Survival Fellowship, visit doubleedgetheatre.org and bettysdaughterarts.com.
Fellowship Cohort
Sara Green | New Orleans, LA | saragreen.foliohd.com
Joyce LeeAnn Joseph | New York, NY | joyceleeann.com
Hernán Darío | Providence, RI | hernanjourdan.com
Chanel Loren | Los Angeles, CA | @creamos.sin.miedo
Sha’Na Smith | Houston, TX | @sheshedshay
Tomantha Sylvester | Sault Ste. Marie, MI | tomantha.com
Ebony Webster | Brooklyn, NY | ebonyholism.com
Maya Simone Zeigler | Brooklyn, NY | mayasimonez.com
Organizational Partners
Double Edge Theatre
Double Edge Theatre, founded in 1982 by Stacy Klein, is a cultural cooperative and ensemble collective -- a place of nurturing and sanctuary. We fuse the highest caliber of artistic work, a deep love of the natural environment, and an unwavering faith in human potential. Like the water that runs around and through the land it occupies, Double Edge is a river for artists who thirst -- from all ancestral legacies, cultural backgrounds, community contexts, walks-of-life. Often artists, educators, scholars come here to identify more clearly, to understand themselves, and to seek where their courage will allow them to go. https://doubleedgetheatre.org/
Betty’s Daughter Arts Collaborative/Jupiter Performance Studio
Betty’s Daughter Arts Collaborative is a cultural consultancy and arts accelerator that powers systems, strategies and solutions in support of social justice, cultural wellness, and creative emancipation. In 2020, BDAC launched Jupiter Performance Studio, a catalytic hub for the exploration, development, and production of diasporic Black performance traditions. http://bettysdaughterarts.com
