<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss" xmlns:geo="http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#" > <channel> <title>Jamila Kekulah - The Visualist</title> <atom:link href="http://thevisualist.org/tag/jamila-kekulah/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /> <link>http://thevisualist.org</link> <description>Chicago Visual Arts Calendar</description> <lastBuildDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2024 13:49:50 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en-US</language> <sy:updatePeriod> hourly </sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency> 1 </sy:updateFrequency> <generator>https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1</generator> <image> <url>http://thevisualist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/13715238_1656465681341114_192907186_a1-200x200.jpg</url> <title>Jamila Kekulah - The Visualist</title> <link>http://thevisualist.org</link> <width>32</width> <height>32</height> </image> <site xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">232801582</site> <item> <title>2024 Co-MISSION Festival of New Works | Spring Fellow: Lani T. Montreal</title> <link>http://thevisualist.org/2024/06/2024-co-mission-festival-of-new-works-spring-fellow-lani-t-montreal/</link> <comments>http://thevisualist.org/2024/06/2024-co-mission-festival-of-new-works-spring-fellow-lani-t-montreal/#respond</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[flor123]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sun, 23 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Performance]]></category> <category><![CDATA[2024 Co-MISSION Festival of New Works | Spring Fellow: Lani T. Montreal]]></category> <category><![CDATA[AiRos 頌恩 medill]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Alexa Bermudez]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ava Bermudez]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Cameron Barrett Bermudez]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Chicago]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Christina Luis Bermudez]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Daisy Castro]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Demetrio Cardona-Maguigad]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Eshan Rafi]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jamila Kekulah]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Joanah Torre]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Lani T. Montreal]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Links Hall]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Melanya Liwanag Aguila]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Michael Querubin]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Najee-Zaid Searcy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Nejla Yatkin]]></category> <category><![CDATA[North Center]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://thevisualist.org/?p=162182</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>We invite our audience to stay after this performance for a karaoke party! Lani T. Montreal’s Anak ni Tapia: Leaving Mother Part of Links Hall’s 2024 Co-MISSION Festival of New Works Anak ni Tapia: Leaving Mother is a story about what it’s like for someone to grow up in the shadow of a celebrity mother<a href="http://thevisualist.org/2024/06/2024-co-mission-festival-of-new-works-spring-fellow-lani-t-montreal/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p> <p>The post <a href="http://thevisualist.org/2024/06/2024-co-mission-festival-of-new-works-spring-fellow-lani-t-montreal/">2024 Co-MISSION Festival of New Works | Spring Fellow: Lani T. Montreal</a> first appeared on <a href="http://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We invite our audience to stay after this performance for a karaoke party!<br /> Lani T. Montreal’s Anak ni Tapia: Leaving Mother<br /> Part of Links Hall’s 2024 Co-MISSION Festival of New Works</p> <p>Anak ni Tapia: Leaving Mother is a story about what it’s like for someone to grow up in the shadow of a celebrity mother with a dark past in a patriarchal and deeply religious society.</p> <p>Collaborators: Daisy Castro (Director) and Nejla Yatkin (Movement Coach)</p> <p>Music/Sound: Demetrio Cardona-Maguigad & Michael Querubin</p> <p>Special Thanks: Evanthia Georges, Joanah Torre, Alexa Bermudez, Ava Bermudez, Christina Luis Bermudez, Cameron Barrett Bermudez, Melanya Liwanag Aguila, and the Links Hall Team<br /> Artist Bios</p> <p>Lani T. Montreal is a queer feminist Filipina writer, educator, and performer based in Chicago. Her plays have been read and produced in the U.S., Canada, and the Philippines, mostly by CIRCA-Pintig Filipino-American Theatre Group. Likewise, her essays and poetry have been published in journals and anthologies, among them LitBop Magazine, Rattle, MiPoesias, Riksha and others. Lani writes to create her home in the diaspora. She is currently a Chicago Dramatist Network Playwright, was a Resident Artist at Free Street Theater (2017), two-time recipient of 3Arts Residency Awards (2016 and 2009), and a 2017 alumni of VONA Writers of Color Workshop.</p> <p>Collaborators</p> <p>Daisy Castro has been involved in Chicago theatre for 25+ years both on and off stage as a dancer, performer, tech hand, administrator, producer and director. She was part of the second generation of Stir-Friday Night! as writer, actor and development coordinator. In 1991, she was cast as the love interest of Carlos Bulosan in Pintig Theatre group’s maiden production, America’s in the Heart. This started her long, complicated, and fulfilling relationship with the organization. What a privilege to witness its evolution from concept to the present incarnation.</p> <p>Demetrio P. Maguigad is a multidisciplinary experience designer and strategist. He is a longtime music producer and sound designer to CIRCA Pintig theatrical and musical productions including Mr & Mrs Laquesta Go Dancing, Sister Outlaw, Game of Trolls, and most recently Daryo’s All American Diner. He was the Principal and Director of Design Strategy at LimeRed, and now founder and owner of Polyrhythmic Design & Co.</p> <p>Michael Querubin is a musician who has collaborated on a few productions with the community theatre group, Circa-Pintig. He is also a member of the Bagwis Collective, a Chicago based progressive Filipino fusion band.</p> <p>This event is part of Links Hall’s 2024 Co-MISSION Festival of New Works, two groundbreaking weekends of new performance and public events. Representing some of the most talented makers in Chicago from dance, performance art, installation, and performance as social practice, six artists present works developed while in-residence at Links during the 2023-2024 season. Featured artists include: Links Hall Residents AiRos 頌恩 medill, Jamila Kekulah, and Eshan Rafi, and Fellows Najee-Zaid Searcy and Lani T. Montreal.</p><p>The post <a href="http://thevisualist.org/2024/06/2024-co-mission-festival-of-new-works-spring-fellow-lani-t-montreal/">2024 Co-MISSION Festival of New Works | Spring Fellow: Lani T. Montreal</a> first appeared on <a href="http://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://thevisualist.org/2024/06/2024-co-mission-festival-of-new-works-spring-fellow-lani-t-montreal/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">162182</post-id> </item> <item> <title>2024 Co-MISSION Festival of New Works | Fall Residents: AiRos 頌恩 medill, Jamila Kekulah, and Eshan Rafi</title> <link>http://thevisualist.org/2024/06/2024-co-mission-festival-of-new-works-fall-residents-airos-%e9%a0%8c%e6%81%a9-medill-jamila-kekulah-and-eshan-rafi/</link> <comments>http://thevisualist.org/2024/06/2024-co-mission-festival-of-new-works-fall-residents-airos-%e9%a0%8c%e6%81%a9-medill-jamila-kekulah-and-eshan-rafi/#respond</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[flor123]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 22 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Performance]]></category> <category><![CDATA[2024 Co-MISSION Festival of New Works | Fall Residents: AiRos 頌恩 medill]]></category> <category><![CDATA[AiRos 頌恩 medill]]></category> <category><![CDATA[and Eshan Rafi]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Chicago]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Eshan Rafi]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jamila Kekulah]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Links Hall]]></category> <category><![CDATA[North Center]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://thevisualist.org/?p=162129</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>AiRos 頌恩 medill’s ZÌRÁN // 自然 | in {sharing} my solitude Part of Links Hall’s 2024 Co-MISSION Festival of New Works metal. earth. fire. wood. water grief. worry. joy. anger. wisdom is a series of {7} gathered movements from songs that have come through to me since 2018 mapping my travel through the aftermath of<a href="http://thevisualist.org/2024/06/2024-co-mission-festival-of-new-works-fall-residents-airos-%e9%a0%8c%e6%81%a9-medill-jamila-kekulah-and-eshan-rafi/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p> <p>The post <a href="http://thevisualist.org/2024/06/2024-co-mission-festival-of-new-works-fall-residents-airos-%e9%a0%8c%e6%81%a9-medill-jamila-kekulah-and-eshan-rafi/">2024 Co-MISSION Festival of New Works | Fall Residents: AiRos 頌恩 medill, Jamila Kekulah, and Eshan Rafi</a> first appeared on <a href="http://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>AiRos 頌恩 medill’s ZÌRÁN // 自然 | in {sharing} my solitude<br /> Part of Links Hall’s 2024 Co-MISSION Festival of New Works</p> <p>metal. earth. fire. wood. water</p> <p>grief. worry. joy. anger. wisdom</p> <p>is a series of {7} gathered movements from songs that have come through to me since 2018 mapping my travel through the aftermath of remembering. i spent much time alone- recalculating-listening- expressing -& Billie Holiday’s solitude played on repeat. i would greet the earth daily, witnessed & held. so now i share this ritual to be witnessed weaving in of others in rebuilding.</p> <p>this iteration is the beginning of this sharing<br /> Jamila Kekulah’s Lay Your Burdens Down: Commune<br /> Part of Links Hall’s 2024 Co-MISSION Festival of New Works</p> <p>Prayer is the unseen labor that extends beyond time and location. Prayer wraps us up in wisdom, in love, in care, in concern, in protection; offered from the many souls who wish it so.</p> <p>We begin in the lobby.</p> <p>Prayer cards will be offered for you to extend a prayer/intention. They will be collected and read aloud in the collective.</p> <p>(ex.1 For T.J experiencing difficulty | ex.2 for myself, in need of support…)</p> <p>Collaborator: Isabelle Taylor</p> <p>Music/Sound: “Spirit Call” (SAULT); “Bridge Over Troubled Water” (Jacob Collier, John Legend, and Tori Kelly); “Agape” (Nicholas Britell); “Lay My Burdens Down” (Billy Preston); “Total Praise” (Sunday Service Choir)<br /> Eshan Rafi’s the scatter (let us begin)<br /> Part of Links Hall’s 2024 Co-MISSION Festival of New Works</p> <p>the scatter is a game and a structure;<br /> a portal for potential histories;<br /> a laboratory for political imaginaries;<br /> a heterogeneous mass,<br /> a place for commoning and communing.</p> <p>Music/Sound: Erin Thomas</p> <p>Costumes: Jeff Hancock</p> <p>Dramaturgy + Choreography Advice: Luiza Moraes and Connie Kang</p> <p>Special Thanks: Rafi Ahmed Khan, the rocks in Joshua Tree, and E, for bringing the phrase ‘the scatter’ into my world.</p> <p>We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.</p> <p>AiRos 頌恩 medill is a yellow hapa nonbinary trans Taiwanese american circle keeper, care worker, storyteller, facilitator, bodyworker, and culture bearer who is moving to organize abundance in the ecology of home. AiRos practices with the 5 elements (water, wood, fire, metal, earth) to align bodies to heaven and earth in reciprocity and reverence of feeling and the distribution of energies. As part of the diaspora air has a lifelong practice of traveling, moving through and shifting culture.</p> <p>Jamila Kekulah is ever evolving. They are a mover, an observer, a movement creator, a lifelong learner, and a deep listener of the body. Jamila is interested in investigating how we inhabit ourselves and each other in this human experience.</p> <p>Eshan Rafi is an interdisciplinary artist working across performance, expanded photography, and video. Their works deal with the intersection of political events and personal archives, often staging the impossibility of representation. Their work has been exhibited, performed, and screened internationally including at SummerWorks Lab, Toronto; Sharjah Film Platform; M:ST 9 Performance Art Biennale, Calgary; and neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst, Berlin. Rafi holds an MFA in Art, Theory, and Practice from Northwestern University, Evanston.</p> <p>Collaborators</p> <p>Alyssa Vera Ramos (collaborator, ZìRán // 自然) (she/her/ella) is a Boricua devising artist, theatre director, cultural strategist, and blossoming intimacy director dedicated to dreaming and practicing a liberated world. Her artistic work includes shaping many collaboratively written, often participatory plays, and explores themes of reproductive and racial justice and getting in right relationship with ancestors and each other. Alyssa is a curator of Swarm Artist Residency and a student at La Escuelita Bombera de Corazón.</p> <p>Crystle LiWayway Diño (collaborator, ZìRán // 自然) is a Pinay Chicago native guided by her passions in the visual, performance, and healing arts rooted in community and her cultural upbringings. She unearths herstory and investigates time, place, and relation by incorporating elements of the body, participation, and memory and by creating movement using repetition in patterns immersed in personal stories, collective experiences, and folklore. She practices as a folk art therapist, performance and visual artist, mover & dancer, cultural worker, and youth development worker. She embodies her freedom by training in Filipino Martial Arts and dance and utilizes the concepts of Chicago House culture of freedom, love, and empowerment, as well as the Babaylan consciousness as foundation and impetus for her practices.</p> <p>This event is part of Links Hall’s 2024 Co-MISSION Festival of New Works, two groundbreaking weekends of new performance and public events. Representing some of the most talented makers in Chicago from dance, performance art, installation, and performance as social practice, six artists present works developed while in-residence at Links during the 2023-2024 season. Featured artists include: Links Hall Residents AiRos 頌恩 medill, Jamila Kekulah, and Eshan Rafi, and Fellows Najee-Zaid Searcy and Lani T. Montreal.</p> <p>Get tickets here: <a href="https://secure.qgiv.com/for/linhal/event/2024-festival-of-new-works-june-21/">https://secure.qgiv.com/for/linhal/event/2024-festival-of-new-works-june-21/</a></p><p>The post <a href="http://thevisualist.org/2024/06/2024-co-mission-festival-of-new-works-fall-residents-airos-%e9%a0%8c%e6%81%a9-medill-jamila-kekulah-and-eshan-rafi/">2024 Co-MISSION Festival of New Works | Fall Residents: AiRos 頌恩 medill, Jamila Kekulah, and Eshan Rafi</a> first appeared on <a href="http://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://thevisualist.org/2024/06/2024-co-mission-festival-of-new-works-fall-residents-airos-%e9%a0%8c%e6%81%a9-medill-jamila-kekulah-and-eshan-rafi/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">162129</post-id> </item> </channel> </rss>