Queerteenth Performance Art Festival: Black is Queer is Freedom Performance Art

"On June 19, 1865 in Galveston, Texas, enslaved black people discovered they had been released from slavery even though the Emancipation Proclamation had been made into law two and half years earlier.
The Queerteenth: Black is Queer is Freedom Performance Art Festival celebrates the intersectionality of our freedom paths. The festival centers queer black voices because they are often subsumed and by-passed by white supremist and cis-sexist culture in our communities.

Queerteenth goes beyond a monolithic Blackness to highlight queerness and to hold space for multiplicity. BQF remembers the fluid genders and sexualities of our ancestors and by doing so, honors their humanity, agency and power.

Works by digital artist and afro-fractalist, Char, experimental sound and durational performance artist, Mina Barden, dance and spoken word duo Nia and Ness, Shola Cole as their time-traveling avatar, Pirate Jenny and afrofuturist filmmaker and storyteller, storäe michele. Ritual performance artist, Jaguar Mary X will open the festival with a mugwort initiation on Friday, June 18th.The portal will be closed the morning of Juneteenth by dream teacher and Ministry of Maat founder, IONE. The Festival ends with a dance party featuring DJ TinOra"
                                        
                                                                            - Jaguar Mary X, ArtLife Institute, Queerteenth Kingston (7/21)

PIrate.Jenny.Tools:.Implement Res[e]t

Layering upon PJ's tool foundations,
Implementing new territories centering rest and care in tool building systems ...
Tuning in... Tuning Out...

Radio-Waves, Water, Bamboo, Reed, Mugwort, Soft Mat for rest & engagement
Queerteenth Kingston Performance Art Festival;  ArtLife Institute,  (Juneteenth,2021)

Photos: Nina Isabelle