Imaging Justice for the Dark Divine is a three-day, multi-disciplinary performance and activism festival, for which Jaamil Kosoko + Kate Watson-Wallace, co-founders of the performance company anonymous bodies, will gather together scholars, curators, artists and various communities of the dark divine to consider what performative strategies we can use to imagine and realize the justice we deserve in the world. Through a series of actions, installations, dialogues, offerings, medicinal practices, rituals, and readings, Imaging Justice For The Dark Divine will attempt to collectively answer these difficult but vital questions.

FULL SCHEDULE:

Friday Nov. 13
6pm: Opening Reception (screening of Joyride by Joy Mariama Smith) 7:30pm: Performance
Andre Zachery | Renegade Performance Group - Fire on the Mountain
Brother(hood) Dance! - Passport: Traveling through Resistance
featuring
Boutiliers by Maxine Montilus (Text and Songs by: Jean Montilus and Maxine Montilus)
The Black That I Am by Andrew Clarke
#ourwombtruth by Jaime’ Dzandu & Brittany L. Williams
Up North by Brother(hood) Dance! (Ricarrdo Valentine and Orlando Hunter)

Opening Keynote Panel Session - Imaging Justice for the Dark Divine
with Mahogany L. Brown, Christina Knight, Brittany L. Williams (Million Hoodies), Paloma McGregor (Dancing While Black), Brother(hood) Dance!, and Jaamil Olawale Kosoko

Saturday Nov. 14
7:30pm: Taja Lindley - This Ain't A Eulogy: A Ritual for Re-Membering
8:30pm: Panel Session - I AM YOUR SISTER: Women Artists and Activists in Conversation with Charlotte Brathwaite, Taja Lindley and Mersiha Mesihovic

Break

9:30pm: Electronic Performance Set by internationally celebrated composers and DJ's King Britt and HPrizm

Sunday Nov. 15
3:30pm: Performance
Masked Down and Dirty (excerpt) - Brittany L. Williams
mama, am I clean yet? - Jasmine Hearn

Discussion

Poetry and Citizenship - Discussing the poetry of Audre Lorde and Claudia Rankine
Moderated by Scholar and writer Syreeta McFadden

5pm: Scholarship Presentations Imagining Otherwise: Performance, Photography and Embodied Resistance in Urban Haiti (Dasha Chapman, PhD, Postdoctoral Associate, Duke AAAS)
Presentation: Gran Lakou: Erotic Subjectivity and Artful Survival in Jacmel, Haiti (Mario LaMothe, Ph.D, Sexuality Studies Postdoctoral Associate, Women’s Studies, Duke University)
Presentation: Our Love on Fire (a series of photos by Haitian photographer Josué Azor that documents queer nightlife in Port-au-Prince)
6:30: Music Performance
Samita Sinha, Tongues in Trees

Pause

Dance Performance
Mash Up Body (excerpt) - Kate Watson-Wallace
Closing Panel Session - Pleasure as Resistance - Artistic Practices and Self Care
with Piper Anderson, luciana achugar, Kate Watson-Wallace, Mario LaMothe, and Samita Sinha.