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a collaborative partnership between:
Let ‘im Move You and the Black and Brown Workers Cooperative
The Let ‘im Move You squad — with partnered support from the Black and Brown Workers Cooperative (BBWC) — will bring together six Black queer, Black queer affirming, and Black weirdo artists working between worlds of social space performance (ie. clubs, street, outdoor festival) and institutional space art performance (ie. theater, art warehouse, museum, gallery works) rooted in queer performance emerging from the worlds of Black aesthetics for a workshop, to publicly examine the following:
- What is our responsibility to the forms and our practice of them within White supremacist societies?
- How do we promote and invest in sources/institutions/folks that are Black and queer affirming?
- What best practices are currently being utilized by Black artists and cultural producers in creative space?
- What concerns currently occupy the minds of Black Queer, Queer affirming, and Black weirdo artists and cultural producers?
- What challenges do Black Queer, Queer affirming, and Black weirdo artists face?
- What is our responsibility – to ourselves and artistic will to explore and to our chosen forms?
- What disruptive possibilities for social transformation live in Black art and Black cultural production?
This public presentation will take place on Friday, February 1st, at 7pm at Church of the Advocate.
About the Black and Brown Workers Cooperative
We the Black and Brown Workers Cooperative (BBWC), a direct action labor organizing collective, have come together to combat injustices that manifest both in and out of the non-profit organizational structure and in the broader community of Philadelphia Pennsylvania. Our mission is to actively challenge, resist and dismantle, those colonialist, white supremacist and oppressive systems that impact our lives as Black and Brown workers who live at the intersections of race, gender, and sexuality.