Friday, 12/4, 5:00-6:00PM EST (First Friday) - April Parker
“Unveiling Monuments and How Elsewhere Presents the Future”
Inaugural Creative Catalyst Fellow, April Parker, will share about her long-term collaborative relationship with Elsewhere, from volunteer to organizing Black Lives Matter and Queer People of Color Collective at the space. She will share her current work, Unveiling Monuments, a series of art actions, protests, and public acts that explore the unveiling of memory, memorial, and mourning. April states there are alot of spaces that present history, but Elsewhere is rare in that it presents the future.
April Parker is a cultural worker and architect of black spaces using public scholarship, radical librarianship, performance art, and direct action. As a community organizer and archivist April centers the lives, histories, legacies, resiliency, and magic of queer and trans-Black people; while working exhaustively at the intersections of social justice movements to create opportunities for institutional accountability, intergenerational relationship building and creative expressions of resistance. April is a black queer femme, a revolutionary mama, and a twin. Her heart work of grassroots organizing emphasizes the liberation and prosperity of Black folks. Parker drives movements forward, agitating public discourse to address systemic oppression and institutional racism to uplift Blackness.
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Elsewhere Stories is a new, ongoing series that explores Elsewhere’s history and futures. This is storytelling about Elsewhere, brought to you by the community of artists, innovators, and creatives who know it best. Each session will reflect on different themes that show how local and global activity are reflected in the world of Elsewhere.
Each session is held on Zoom and lasts one hour, featuring a 45 minute presentation or conversation and a 15 minute facilitated Q+A with the audience.
