Conversations
In this conversation with Marlène Ramírez-Cancio (Hemi's Associate Director, Arts & Media), Ebony Golden discusses her womanist trajectory in art, activism, pedagogy, cultural organizing — and her deep commitment to the movement for Black lives, collective action, and the daily practice of creative emancipation.
“Liberation of a People: The Ritual of Resilience”
Disrupting norms, forging new paths, and honoring your roots — these are the core principles of NBT’s original Liberators who founded the National Black Theatre company and set the mission for the next generation of Black artists. Join us as we connect our legacy to our future. Featuring inaugural SOUL Directing Resident and director of 125th&FREEdom, Ebony Noelle Golden, cast members Alec Stephens III and SheShe Dance, as well as two of NBT’s original Liberators, Ayodele Moore and Adé Faison. About the Series: NBT @ HOME: Founder’s Month Edition is a four-part conversations series with artists and NBT Family around Dr. Barbara Ann Teer's legacy. Originally streamed on National Black Theatre's Facebook Live
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Join our inaugural SKY LAB Artist in Residence Ebony Noelle Golden in conversation with Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs, moderated by the Hi-ARTS Curator in Residence Kirya Traber. Inspired by Black Eco-feminists such as June Jordan and Gumbs, “In The Name Of,” a new interdisciplinary work-in-progress by Golden, engages Harlem as a uniquely charged site for activating Black feminist cosmologies. The artists will discuss the legacy of this critical work, and how it might reveal a roadmap for collective liberation. Originally premiered on Facebook on September 1, 2020.
Featuring: Rashida Bumbray, Ebony Noelle Golden, and Adia Tamar Whitaker. On February 25, 2014 audiences joined the founders of Ase Dance Theatre Collective, Dance Diaspora Collective and The Body Ecology Performance Ensemble, who have developed potent, virtuosic performance practices rooted in cultivating collectivism. In a field that is so often individualistic or product-driven, how and why are Rashida Bumbray, Ebony Noelle Golden and Adia Tamar Whitaker making contemporary performance work aligned with community building? Paloma McGregor, founder of Dancing While Black and Artist in Residence at Hemispheric Institute, shares the experience of these artists' work and vision. WHAT IS DANCING WHILE BLACK? Dancing While Black is an artist-driven effort developed by Paloma McGregor, who is also an Artist in Residence at Hemispheric Institute, to support and illuminate the diverse work and experiences of black dance artists through production, process, dialogue and documentation.
The Foundry Theatre is pleased to present their 2015 Dialogue series This Changes Everything with events in New York City.
The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center presents SEGAL TALKS: Kemi Ilesanmi and Ebony Noelle Golden livestreaming on the global, commons-based, peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Monday 29 June 2020.
SEGAL TALKS is a daily one-hour LIVE online conversation from Monday to Friday about making art and making sense in the Time of Corona. SEGAL TALKS was conceived, created and curated by Frank Hentschker in March 2020. SEGAL TALKS has been made possible by the support of Susan and Jack Rudin, the Hearst Foundation, and Marvin Carlson, Sidney E. Cohn Chair, The Graduate Center CUNY.
Ebony sits down with Ron Ragin to talk liberation and creativity for his show What’s The Big Idea.
Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán (artist and organizer), Kamilah Forbes (Executive Producer, Apollo Theater), Ebony Noelle Golden (artist and strategist), and lê thi diem thúy (poet) discuss the impact of history on literary and artistic practices with moderator Roberta Uno (theatre director and Director, Arts in a Changing America). Discussion is followed by a performance of selections from 125th & FREEdom by Ebony Noelle Golden and ensemble. Looking Back | Looking Forward: Culture in a Changing America is a Collaboration with The Aspen Institute Arts Program & ArtChangeUS.
Join our inaugural SKY LAB Artist in Residence Ebony Noelle Golden in conversation with DRAGONFLY and Kristen Adele, moderated by the Hi-ARTS Curator in Residence Kirya Traber. Social distance during the pandemic has forced many artists to halt their plans for new work in 2020. With the support of Hi-ARTS' newest residency program, SKY LAB, Golden invites us to see virtual art making as a means to deepen our commitment to Black feminist values through artistic practice.
During the summer of 2014, Dr. Barbara Ann Teer’s National Black Theatre (NBT) hosted Catalyst: Moving the Black Theatre Legacy Forward, the first national convening of its kind in the 21st century for 21 of America’s leading black theater institutions. Here, panelists Shay Wafer (Executive Director, 651 ARTS), Sade Lythcott (CEO, National Black Theatre), Ebony Golden (Founding CEO and Principal Strategist, Betty’s Daughter Arts Collaborative, LLC) and Dafina McMillan (Director of Communications & Conferences, TCG) with moderator Jonathan McCrory (Director of Theatre Arts, National Black Theatre) discuss the financial and structural crisis facing black theaters nationwide.
Join the AIANY Cultural Facilities Committee for “Transforming Lives, Practices and Places," a lively breakfast discussion about how museums and the architects who design them are transforming lives, practices, and places.
Print Media
In this June 2019 article in the New York Times, Siobhan Burke talks with Ebony Noelle Golden about her processional “love poem to Harlem,” 125th and Freedom.
“This month I had the pleasure of chatting with Ebony Golden, CEO of Betty’s Daughter Arts Collaborative (BDAC) in New York City. Golden works with cultural, political, and educational organizations to help them develop community-based cultural strategies aimed at justice and liberation.”
Key Note Presentations
Ebony delivers opening key note for Black Spatial Relics’ covening.
Performances
Part protest, part parade, part processional, Ebony Noelle Golden's 125th and Freedom is a public performance comprised of ten choreopoetic rituals staged along 125th Street between the Harlem and Hudson Rivers.
Some of us no longer fight with guns. We are children of the sun. With revolution in mind, this is a visual ceremony. Here, I ask what it means for the hunted to haunt. I ask how the ghosted ghost with unavoidable light. Perplexing and obtuse. On purpose and never on cue. SPECTER OF SUNLIGHT// is a telling and a witnessing of how Black women multiply themselves to be many in the collective work and ritual of liberation. In intimate and impactful ways. Waking the earth beneath them. You hear? They are working on this side and the others. This work is a work that invites the “allness” of us. Legions of light-bringers that surround. Teeth glinted. A miracle in their eyes. This moment, I dedicate to my dear, too soon departed, sister of the heart Elandria Williams who took her last breath strategizing Black liberation. May the ancestors in us rise up and shine. Conjurings of this work were generously supported by: National Black Theatre, Harlem, NY, Dancing Futures: Artist Mentor Collaborative Residency in collaboration with BAAD! in Bronx, NY Texas Equal Access Fund (Tour Producer/Presenter) in Dallas, TX.
Commissioned by The National Black Theatre, "wash'd//" is a performance ritual for the women of the Student Non Violent Coordinating Committee. The piece was inspired by an anonymous white paper which outlined eleven counts of harm incurred by women organizers inflicted by men in the movement.
"Litany for Water" from In The Name Of: The Mother Tree by Ebony Noelle Golden—100 Years | 100 Women