Thursday June 3, 2021
6-8 PM
Tanika I. Williams presents an intimate performance and workshop exploring mothers, migration, and the transformative teachings of seeds.
RSVP Required via Eventbrite (40 limited tickets)
Please wear comfortable clothing.
Note: This event takes place in person at EFA Project Space (323 W. 39th Street, between 8th and 9th Avenues, NYC. See Access Info below. Masks required and space is limited – RSVPS required via Eventbrite) The event will be recorded for a future online broadcast.
PARTICIPANT BIOS
Andrea Nikté Juarez Mendoza is a scholar/activist, artist, and community organizer of twenty years from San Francisco, California, currently living in New York City while completing a Ph.D. Her work and research center on de/colonizing education, transnational migration experiences, immigration, and family separation, youth activism, community organizing, and Participatory Action Research at the intersections of healing, resistance, and creativity. Mendoza specializes in professional development, community partnerships, program or project conceptualization and development.
Amanda Morell (Director, Cinematographer, Editor) is an independent filmmaker, production manager, and editor based in Bronx, New York. The Bronx-native of Dominican and Puerto Rican heritage works in the spaces where nature meets emotion, rhythmically seeking to understand the cyclical wounding of remembering. Her work employs an aesthetic inspired by mysticism and magical realism to wade in the muddy waters of suppressed or forgotten human emotion and memory. Her films have been supported by the Lift-off Global Network First Time Filmmakers Session. Her post-production work has been supported by Brooklyn Information and Culture (BRIC) and Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM). In addition to extensive work as an independent filmmaker and editor, Morell completed specialized post-production training through Made in New York.
Shahkeem Williams (Director) uses his extensive experience with exhibition viewings; gallery, museum, and art fair attendances; artist studio visits; researching and cataloging; to design inventive practices and platforms for people interested in exploring the arts. Williams has committed himself to informing and inspiring novice collectors and uses his social media platforms to highlight upcoming artists and significant events. His personal collection centers immigrant artists of color who devote their careers to telling the stories of the politically, socially and economically oppressed.
T. I. Williams is an African-Jamaican writer, video and performance artist. She investigates black women’s use of movement, mothering and medicine to produce and pass on their ancestral wisdoms of ecology, spirituality and liberation. Williams holds a BA from Eugene Lang College, New School and MDiv from Union Theological Seminary. Williams has been awarded residencies at New York Foundation for the Arts and BRIC. Additionally, she has been featured on 99.5 WBAI; and in Art in Odd Places; Creative Time; Civic Art Lab, GreenspaceNYC; Let Us Eat Local, Just Food; and Performa.
Nehemoyia Young is a Brooklyn based artist working at the intersection of art, spirituality and social impact. She is a 2019 graduate of Union Theological Seminary where she completed an interdisciplinary Masters in Theology, Performance Art & Ritual. As a 2019 Digital Undivided fellow, she launched SpiritList, a B2B platform focused on bringing indigenous healing and spiritual counseling to those who need it most. Along with co-founder Joy Havens, Nehemoyia is one half of In Liberated Company, a dance based initiative to address religious trauma among ex-fundamentalists supported in part by Gibney Dance, the Ray & Paul Foundation, and Mertz Gilmore Foundation. More recent highlights can be read from the following publications: Stance on Dance, AM New York, and NJ Tech Weekly. Nehemoyia is a 2021 Moving Toward Justice Fellow.
ACCESS INFO
EFA Project Space is located on the second floor of 323 West 39th Street. It is accessible via an elevator (whose door width is 32” and car width is 65”) or two flights of stairs. At the building’s ground-level front desk, you will be asked to sign in with your name but not to provide ID.
The exhibition is free. Chairs with backs are available to guests upon request by speaking to a gallery attendant. There are two non-gender-segregated bathrooms on the building’s third floor, accessible via the elevators, outside the Project Space. The bathrooms are cleaned twice daily. One bathroom is wide and long enough to accommodate a wheelchair; the other cannot. Neither bathroom has grab bars. Though we cannot guarantee a scent-free space, we ask that all guests, who are able, to attend the exhibition fragrance-free, out of consideration for guests with chemical sensitivities. Fragrance-free soap is available in the restrooms on the third floor.
EFA Project Space is committed to nurturing an intergenerational environment and we encourage children & kid noise at our events. Please notify us of any accessibility needs by email projectspace@efanyc.org, by phone at (212) 563-5855 x 233.