When:
Saturday, June 22, 2024
7:30 PM - 9:00 PM CT
Where: Abbott Hall, Wirtz Center for the Performing Arts, Virginia Wadsworth (Abbott Hall), 710 N. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60611 map it
Cost: General Public $15
Senior Citizens $15
NU Faculty Staff $15
Full-Time Students $12
Full-Time NU Students $8 in advance, $12 at the door
A per ticket service charge will be added to all online ($3 per ticket) and phone ($2 per
ticket) purchases
Contact:
Wirtz Center
(847) 491-7282
Group: Virginia Wadsworth Wirtz Center for the Performing Arts
Category: Fine Arts, Multicultural & Diversity
Original script and performance by: Felicia Holman, Abra Johnson & Meida McNeal
Contributing Artists & Authors: Paige Brown, Elizabeth Nichole Griffin, Aisha Jean-
Baptiste*, Abra Johnson*, Jennifer Ligaya*, Cat Mahari, Meida McNeal*, Sea M. Miller,
Kimeco Roberson*, Jessica Williams
*Denotes Honey Pot Performance Core Member
THE LADIES RING SHOUT 2.0
is a 90 minute performance work, first performed in 2011, combining spoken word, movement, and an original soundtrack. The multimedia work journeys through contemporary women of color’s experiences. LRS meditates on four frames integrated into our lived realities – the statistics and sociological condition of women of color, our mundane everyday acts, the codes and rules we are disciplined into, and the myths we conjure to imagine our future possibilities.
Ladies Ring Shout 2.0 is a Black feminist quality-of-life performance project, first created and performed in 2011. This restaging/reimagining, features HPP’s artistic core alongside an intergenerational community cast of Black women/femmes who have worked in collaboration with HPP, to devise a new iteration of the work. Ladies Ring Shout 2.0 focuses on themes critical to Black women and femmes' lives such as representation, love and relationships, scars/trauma, work-life balance, quality of life, nurturing and parenting, spirituality, healing, and defining our communities of care. Creative writing and embodied exercises are supplemented with experiments in other artistic mediums including collective play with still image, video, audio and reading excerpts from the work of relevant BIPOC women writers and poets.
About Honey Pot Performance
Honey Pot Performance is a creative collaborative chronicling Afro-feminist and Black
diasporic subjectivities amidst the pressures of contemporary global life.
Honey Pot Performance enlists modes of creative expressivity to examine the nuances
of human relationships including the ways we negotiate identity, belonging and
difference in our lives and cultural memberships. Dismantling the vestiges of oppressive
social relationships is part of the work. Through critical performance, public humanities
programming, and deep community engagement, we emphasize everyday ways of
valuing the human.
Following in the footsteps of cultural workers such as Zora Neale Hurston, Beryl
McBurnie, Pearl Primus and Katherine Dunham, Honey Pot Performance forefronts
African diasporic performance traditions. We draw upon a central notion found in
performance studies, black feminist discourse and sociology: non-Western, everyday
popular and/or folk forms of cultural performance are valuable sites of knowledge
production and cultural capital for subjectivities that often exist outside of mainstream
communities.
When:
Sunday, June 23, 2024
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM CT
Where: Abbott Hall, Wirtz Center for the Performing Arts, Virginia Wadsworth (Abbott Hall), 710 N. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60611 map it
Cost: General Public $15
Senior Citizens $15
NU Faculty Staff $15
Full-Time Students $12
Full-Time NU Students $8 in advance, $12 at the door
A per ticket service charge will be added to all online ($3 per ticket) and phone ($2 per
ticket) purchases
Contact:
Wirtz Center
(847) 491-7282
Group: Virginia Wadsworth Wirtz Center for the Performing Arts
Category: Fine Arts, Multicultural & Diversity
Original script and performance by: Felicia Holman, Abra Johnson & Meida McNeal
Contributing Artists & Authors: Paige Brown, Elizabeth Nichole Griffin, Aisha Jean-
Baptiste*, Abra Johnson*, Jennifer Ligaya*, Cat Mahari, Meida McNeal*, Sea M. Miller,
Kimeco Roberson*, Jessica Williams
*Denotes Honey Pot Performance Core Member
THE LADIES RING SHOUT 2.0
is a 90 minute performance work, first performed in 2011, combining spoken word, movement, and an original soundtrack. The multimedia work journeys through contemporary women of color’s experiences. LRS meditates on four frames integrated into our lived realities – the statistics and sociological condition of women of color, our mundane everyday acts, the codes and rules we are disciplined into, and the myths we conjure to imagine our future possibilities.
Ladies Ring Shout 2.0 is a Black feminist quality-of-life performance project, first created and performed in 2011. This restaging/reimagining, features HPP’s artistic core alongside an intergenerational community cast of Black women/femmes who have worked in collaboration with HPP, to devise a new iteration of the work. Ladies Ring Shout 2.0 focuses on themes critical to Black women and femmes' lives such as representation, love and relationships, scars/trauma, work-life balance, quality of life, nurturing and parenting, spirituality, healing, and defining our communities of care. Creative writing and embodied exercises are supplemented with experiments in other artistic mediums including collective play with still image, video, audio and reading excerpts from the work of relevant BIPOC women writers and poets.
About Honey Pot Performance
Honey Pot Performance is a creative collaborative chronicling Afro-feminist and Black
diasporic subjectivities amidst the pressures of contemporary global life.
Honey Pot Performance enlists modes of creative expressivity to examine the nuances
of human relationships including the ways we negotiate identity, belonging and
difference in our lives and cultural memberships. Dismantling the vestiges of oppressive
social relationships is part of the work. Through critical performance, public humanities
programming, and deep community engagement, we emphasize everyday ways of
valuing the human.
Following in the footsteps of cultural workers such as Zora Neale Hurston, Beryl
McBurnie, Pearl Primus and Katherine Dunham, Honey Pot Performance forefronts
African diasporic performance traditions. We draw upon a central notion found in
performance studies, black feminist discourse and sociology: non-Western, everyday
popular and/or folk forms of cultural performance are valuable sites of knowledge
production and cultural capital for subjectivities that often exist outside of mainstream
communities.