The Center for the Humanities Presents Mind, Body & Soul: Afrofuturist Sacred Sounds (Part 2), 2/2
Mind, Body & Soul:
Afrofuturist Sacred Sounds (Part 2)
Tuesday, February 2nd, 4:00 PM (EST)
Featuring: Dr. Kyrah Malika Daniels, Maxine Montilus, Stephanie “Soli” Araujo, Ayanna Legros, and hosted by Jadele McPherson and Joseph A. Torres-Gonzáles
Dancer Rita Macias dancing for Yemaya (in blue dress in left image) and dancing for Oyá (in right image); photos by Lin Benitez.
Tue, Feb 2nd, 4:00 PM (EST). This event will take place online via Zoom. Register here to access the Zoom link. This event will be ASL Interpreted and closed captioned.
Join us for “Mind, Body & Soul: Afrofuturist Sacred Sounds (Part 2)” a community discussion and performance series with artists and scholars Dr. Kyrah Malika Daniels, Maxine Montilus, Stephanie “Soli” Araujo, Ayanna Legros and hosts Jadele McPherson and Joseph A. Torres-Gonzáles whose work will expand our ongoing conversation about Afro-Latinx artistry, ecology and wellness.
On February 2nd Lucumí practitioners celebrate the Virgen de la Candelaria, syncretized with the orisa Oyá who symbolizes the wind, societal transformation, and owner of the marketplace. In Brazil, Candomblé practitioners celebrate Yemaya’s feast day. Yemaya and Oya are feminine orishas that represent cosmological counterpoints, death and maternity, in their embodiment of the black feminine divine in West African and diasporic epistemologies. The second part of our series will consider these feminine energies in Afro Atlantic spiritualities in tandem with the sonic and historic legacies of Quisqueya, Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
Please join us as we continue to grapple with social distancing, keeping our creativity alive and practicing wellness as we experience a new phase of compounded duress during this global pandemic. Our series invokes our ancestral voices for wisdom as we chat as if we were hanging out in someone’s living room, and share intimate, live performances that will inspire us to begin this New Year refreshed and fortified.
This event is free and open to the public, but please register here to access the Zoom link and attend.