CEE NEWS #65Aftermaths are as devastating as the events themselves as people contend with the long-term realities of catastrophe, realities that are both immediate and enduring, seen and invisible, within economies driven by small-scale agricultural production and tourism. Aftermaths also remind us of the networks and communities that care for us and hold us, that check in on us and remind us to breathe and laugh.
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STUDENT SHOWCASE: ACTIVISM, ECOLOGY, DANCE
Upcoming events |
NOV. 20th | 1:00pm | CEE Lounge 438 |
NOVEMBER Third ThursdayPlease join us for our monthly CEE Third Thursday event. This month, CEE affiliated faculty Margit Edwards will be hosting a discussion with Nicosia Shakes, Profesor and Author of Women's Activist Theatre in Jamaica and South Africa: Gender, Race, and Performance Space . Please join us for an exciting conversation over lunch and refreshments
. CEE Fall FELLOW final EVENT: ṢèègèsíPlease join us for Ṣèègèsí
, our CEE Fall Fellow Courtney Desiree Morriss Final Event! Ṣèègèsí (pronounced shay-gay-see) is a durational performance that explores the ritual of hair braiding as a practice of survival. Over 8 hours, performance and visual artist Courtney Desiree Morris will install a set of braid extensions in her hair in the museum. The performance will be accompanied by a soundscape of five mixtapes. Audience members are invited to make offerings of pennies, flowers, sweets, honey, stones/minerals, or shells. |
NOV. 29th | PENN MUSEUM | 10am- 5pm
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Recent events
Immanuel Wilkins BLues blood, Sonia Sanchez and Imani PerryThis performance and conversation was an offering in color, and sound, transmuting the violence of state and carceral systems in ways that Black people have always embodied through relationship to community, self and spirit. The performance reflects on the idea of home places and witness, with Sonia Sanchez and Immanuel Wilkins sharing roots, inheritances and formational experiences in Philadelphia. The performance also involved cooking by chef, farmer and educator Laquanda Dobson, and was followed by a conversation with the writer and professor Imani Perry, author of the recently published and critically acclaimed Black in Blues.
ASMR4apocalypseFor our Spring Fellow s final event , zavé martohardjono took us into a soundscape of multichannel sound and performance, to set the room to facilitate our visualization of geological futures. Expanding a solo performance into a collaborative work with Philadelphia artists, zavé martohardjono was joined by performance into a collaborative work with Philadelphia artists Mel Rodman and Amalía Colon-Nava and features the biomaterial sculptures of Cecilia McKinnon. Music by Daphne Silbiger and spatialized sound design by Mike Clemow. New choreographic research for this iteration was cultivated in zavé's CEE course and local dance workshop made possible by the support of Leah Stein Dance Studios.
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APRIL 23rd | 6Pm | Harrison Auditorium, Penn Museum
APRIL 26th | 7:30Pm | vox populi
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RESTITUTION CINEMA PRoGRAM
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Restitution Cinema is a film program that considers the impossibility of repair, and the traction and possibility in reaching for it anyways. It is about the many errant pathways towards recovery, removed from the idealism of a pure precolonial, pre-contact past, and rooted in the material, psychic and embodied ways of restoring our cultural endowments in the current anti-colonial terrain.
PAST EVENTSLove Sent Across Seas: Preserving Connection in Philadelphia’s Caribbean Disapora Love Sent Across Seas: Preserving Connection in Philadelphia’s Caribbean Disapora was a a collaborative CEE + Caribbean Community of Philadelphia pop-up art exhibit at the Penn Museum
For Caribbean migrants living in Philadelphia, a simple shipping barrel can hold a whole lot of love for families back home. Stories of remembrance and care sent from afar, alongside personal histories, in this special exhibition of painted shipping barrels and artwork from diaspora communities. This exhibit included the work of Frito Bastien, Leniqueca Welcome, Dori Stewart, Joy O. Ude and Edwin Nwaoguegde, Rebecca Rose Metzger, Neisha Terry and Tennecia Dacass. Curated by Alissa Jordan and Miranda Alexander |
CREATOR:
Alissa Jordan and Miranda Alexander SITE Penn Museum Nov. 8 - 30th |
From GUlf to gulf to gulfFrom Gulf to Gulf to Gulf, was a film screening on Thursday, November 14, 2024 from 6-8:00pm that follows trade journeys between western India, eastern Africa and the Persian/Arabian gulf across a sea of piracy and sanctions. The event will also feature a public conversation with artists and CEE Fall Fellows Shaina Anand and Ashok Sukumaran of the collaborative studio CAMP.
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