Ecstatic voices rise, feet stomping, hands clapping to rhythms made by breath and body. Our people have shuffled, danced, and sung their way in circles of multigenerational, intertribal healing for ancestral time immemorial. During the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, enslaved Africans were forbidden to play the drum. With strong roots in the West Indies, the Gulf South, and West Africa, the Ring Shout emerged as a counterclockwise circle of shuffling, polyrhythmic body percussion, and soulful vocalizing-a subversive strategy to conjure collective power and touch Freedom amidst the most oppressive circumstances. Its medicine has evolved with the influence of Native American ceremony (such as in Congo Square) and taken contemporary forms as seen in traditionally African American churches today.
This #TakinBackSunday service centers the Ring Shout as ancestral technology for healing and resistance. Join #DignityInProcess Artivist Director, ChE in an artivist talk exploring the Ring Shout as a framework for Afro-Indigenous Creatrix mythology grounded in intersectional gender justice. Then root to rise in an immersive performance ritual with Queer Black Aesc(th)estic Sonic duo, Black Moon Monastics.
* You are invited to bring an item for our ancestral altar which will be returned at the end of service
"In the midst of oppression remaining awake becomes a powerful resistance tool and a precursor to contemplation." Barbara A. Holmes, excerpt from Joy Unspeakable: Contemplative Practices of the Black Church
#TakinBackSunday is about stayin' woke. Facilitated by the gender expansive aesc(th)etic duo, Black Moon Monastics, this Trans-denominational service is an artistic act of Queering Black* Church. Celebrating intersectional Queer/Trans/Two-Spirit/Gender-Nonconforming Life, we reconnect with ritual routes of Indigenous/Creole/Afro-Diasporic* origins.
FOLLOW THE SERIES: http://che-art.life/#/takinbacksunday/
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This #TakinBackSunday service centers the Ring Shout as ancestral technology for healing and resistance. Join #DignityInProcess Artivist Director, ChE in an artivist talk exploring the Ring Shout as a framework for Afro-Indigenous Creatrix mythology grounded in intersectional gender justice. Then root to rise in an immersive performance ritual with Queer Black Aesc(th)estic Sonic duo, Black Moon Monastics.
* You are invited to bring an item for our ancestral altar which will be returned at the end of service
"In the midst of oppression remaining awake becomes a powerful resistance tool and a precursor to contemplation." Barbara A. Holmes, excerpt from Joy Unspeakable: Contemplative Practices of the Black Church
#TakinBackSunday is about stayin' woke. Facilitated by the gender expansive aesc(th)etic duo, Black Moon Monastics, this Trans-denominational service is an artistic act of Queering Black* Church. Celebrating intersectional Queer/Trans/Two-Spirit/Gender-Nonconforming Life, we reconnect with ritual routes of Indigenous/Creole/Afro-Diasporic* origins.
FOLLOW THE SERIES: http://che-art.life/#/takinbacksunday/
Ecstatic voices rise, feet stomping, hands clapping to rhythms made by breath and body. Our people have shuffled, danced, and sung their way in circles of multigenerational, intertribal healing for ancestral time immemorial. During the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, enslaved Africans were forbidden to play the drum. With strong roots in the West Indies, the Gulf South, and West Africa, the Ring Shout emerged as a counterclockwise circle of shuffling, polyrhythmic body percussion, and soulful vocalizing-a subversive strategy to conjure collective power and touch Freedom amidst the most oppressive circumstances. Its medicine has evolved with the influence of Native American ceremony (such as in Congo Square) and taken contemporary forms as seen in traditionally African American churches today.
This #TakinBackSunday service centers the Ring Shout as ancestral technology for healing and resistance. Join #DignityInProcess Artivist Director, ChE in an artivist talk exploring the Ring Shout as a framework for Afro-Indigenous Creatrix mythology grounded in intersectional gender justice. Then root to rise in an immersive performance ritual with Queer Black Aesc(th)estic Sonic duo, Black Moon Monastics.
* You are invited to bring an item for our ancestral altar which will be returned at the end of service
"In the midst of oppression remaining awake becomes a powerful resistance tool and a precursor to contemplation." Barbara A. Holmes, excerpt from Joy Unspeakable: Contemplative Practices of the Black Church
#TakinBackSunday is about stayin' woke. Facilitated by the gender expansive aesc(th)etic duo, Black Moon Monastics, this Trans-denominational service is an artistic act of Queering Black* Church. Celebrating intersectional Queer/Trans/Two-Spirit/Gender-Nonconforming Life, we reconnect with ritual routes of Indigenous/Creole/Afro-Diasporic* origins.
FOLLOW THE SERIES: http://che-art.life/#/takinbacksunday/
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This #TakinBackSunday service centers the Ring Shout as ancestral technology for healing and resistance. Join #DignityInProcess Artivist Director, ChE in an artivist talk exploring the Ring Shout as a framework for Afro-Indigenous Creatrix mythology grounded in intersectional gender justice. Then root to rise in an immersive performance ritual with Queer Black Aesc(th)estic Sonic duo, Black Moon Monastics.
* You are invited to bring an item for our ancestral altar which will be returned at the end of service
"In the midst of oppression remaining awake becomes a powerful resistance tool and a precursor to contemplation." Barbara A. Holmes, excerpt from Joy Unspeakable: Contemplative Practices of the Black Church
#TakinBackSunday is about stayin' woke. Facilitated by the gender expansive aesc(th)etic duo, Black Moon Monastics, this Trans-denominational service is an artistic act of Queering Black* Church. Celebrating intersectional Queer/Trans/Two-Spirit/Gender-Nonconforming Life, we reconnect with ritual routes of Indigenous/Creole/Afro-Diasporic* origins.
FOLLOW THE SERIES: http://che-art.life/#/takinbacksunday/
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