WHAT IF…
A Conversation on Institutional Fear,
Cultural Safety & Collective Healing
Webinar Rebroadcast | 90 minutes
WHAT IF…
A Conversation on Institutional Fear, Cultural Safety & Collective Healing
FEATURING:
EMILY JOHNSON
MARC BAMUTHI JOSEPH
JOSEPH M. PIERCE
DANIEL BERNARD ROUMAIN (DBR)
HOSTS:
RIKA IINO
CHISA YAMAGUCHI
We're living in a liminal space of concurring realities, reckoning with myriad pandemics while fiercely fighting for a world of abundance, freedom, and justice. As the future barrels towards us, we take pause. What if? A Conversation on Institutional Fear, Cultural Safety & Collective Healing is an invitation to gather in community for an expansive discussion guided by artists and thought leaders centered in process.
Produced and hosted by Sozo Creative in partnership with Emily Johnson, Marc Bamuthi Joseph, Joseph M. Pierce and Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR), the creative change makers will offer personal perspectives in mapping equitable pathways informed by their art practices in relationship with and to, cultural institutions in the United States. Anchored in urgency, deep care, and vehemently confronting oppression, the artists imagine a landscape where current practices are held accountable to the past and dramatic change is employed toward creating honest, brave spaces of transformation where true healing is the revolution; we cannot heal what we don't reveal.
This program originally streamed in May 2021 and features commissioned writing narrated by these thinkers, with original musical scores by Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR).
Produced by Chisa Yamaguchi & Rika Iino, Sozo Creative
Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR) is a prolific and endlessly collaborative Black Haitian composer, performer, educator, and social entrepreneur. His career spans more than two decades, earning commissions by venerable artists and institutions worldwide. DBR is currently Institute Professor and Professor of Practice At Arizona State University.
Joseph M. Pierce (Cherokee Nation) is Associate Professor at Stony Brook University. He is the author of Argentine Intimacies: Queer Kinship in an Age of Splendor (1890-1910) (SUNY Press 2019) and is co-curator with SJ Norman (Koori of Wiradjuri descent) of the performance series Knowledge of Wounds.
Emily Johnson is a Yup'ik artist who makes body-based work; she is a land and water protector and an activist for justice, sovereignty and well-being who lives on the Lower East Side of Manahatta in Lenapehoking.
Marc Bamuthi Joseph investigates cultural erasure through performances that range from opera to film. While engaging in a deeply fulfilling and successful artistic career, Bamuthi also proudly serves as Vice President and Artistic Director of Social Impact at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC.
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