2025 Co-MISSION Festival of New Works | Jaquanda Saulter-Villegas and Jacinda Bullie’s “FILLINZ, Put Some Respect on It!”
@ Links Hall
3111 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Friday, June 27th, at 7PM
On view through Saturday, June 28th
Jaquanda Saulter-Villegas and Jacinda Bullie present:
FILLINZ, Put Some Respect on It!
2025 Co-MISSION Festival of New Works
The Kuumba Lynx Co-Founders are activating some of their prose & coloring pages from a previously-published work entitled FILLINZ, Put Some Respect on It!
TICKETS $16-$42
Dates:
Fri, June 22th at 7pm
Sat, June 26st at 7pm
FEATURED ARTISTS
Jaquanda Saulter-Villegas
SPRING 2025 CO-MISSION FELLOW
Executive Director & Co-Lead Creative, Jaquanda Saulter-Villegas is a Fly Girl Chicagoan by way of South Carolina, Jaquanda is one of the three Founders, and a Co- Creative Lead of Kuumba Lynx. She has been engaging youth and their families in Hip Hop Arts Activism and Culturally Relevant programming for 25 years. Jaquanda get’s FREE as an Arts Educator, Mentor, Yoga Instructor, Shamanic Reiki Healer, Performance Artist, Arts Administrator, International Peace Movement Honorary Ambassador, and Hip Hop Theater Director. As a healer Jaquanda is dedicated to holding space for community to address harm, break generational curses, and interrupting systematic sabotage by re-engaging in indigenous and African healing practices.
Jacinda Bullie
SPRING 2025 CO-MISSION FELLOW
Jacinda Bullie (aka Jah da Amp Mouth) is an instigating art maker, creative activator, and practicing heart soother. This sage burning Muslim seeks to practice gratitude & presence. Jacinda likes to write, perform, paint, talk story, move and engage in radical love play. She is a Hip Hop Theater producer, host, arts facilitator & manager who finds freedom in remembering that she is simply a spiritual being having an earthly experience.
ABOUT THE CO-MISSION PROGRAM
This event is part of Links Hall’s 2025 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 2024-2025 season. Featured artists include: Links Hall Residents Dani Oblitas, Selena Lasley, Kevin Michael Wesson, and Amanda Maraist; and Fellows Jaquanda Saulter-Villegas & Jacinda Bullie and Tuli Bera.
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