Finding Our Way Home Event Series

4824 Penn Avenue,Pittsburgh PA 15224

11 December, 2021

Description

The Black Transformative Arts Network will host four unique events centering the positive development of Black children through the arts. Thursday October 21st, 4:00-7:00 PM Call Me When You Get Home: Arts ExhibitionFeaturing the work of Sheba Gittens, Marcè Nixon-Washington, and Jayla Patton, this exhibition is a continuation of a conversation in the praxis of Kwethu Lalilikile, Zulu for the missing. "Call Me When You Get Home" is a multi-disciplinary and multimedia call and response experience to activate the power of remembering, reclaiming, and envisioning safety centered in collective joy. Thursday October 28th, 6:30-8:30 PM Soul Science Lab's: "Creating Make a Joyful Noize" Film Screening Join us to view Make A Joyful Noize, a visual album. This album explores the affirming and unifying experiences that uplift the human spirit -- the redemptive power of self-love, happiness and the transformative potential of expressions of pleasure and joy in the face of oppression. If not for joy, we would have never survived... Make a Joyful Noize is a curated celebration of music, affirmations, rituals, spoken word and dance that explores the force we know as Black joy. It is the secular and the religious song; the spoken word and the memorialized image of unfiltered, unadulterated and unapologetic joy. Friday December 11, 10:30-12:00 PM Praxis 4: Learning and Cultural Inclusion in Educational Settings This Praxis session (professional development and learning community) is designed to expose artists and educators of color to strategies for changing the narrative of Black youth and recognizing the importance of representation through culturally responsive pedagogy.