Black Creatives Revival centralizes Black Arts Power in North Carolina

Release Date:

IMMEDIATELY (April 21, 2021)

BLACK CREATIVES REVIVAL CENTRALIZES BLACK ARTS POWER IN NORTH CAROLINA

(A New Collective of Black Artists & Creatives Call for Community & Revival)

Black arts leaders from across the state of North Carolina came together as an organizing cohort in March and April of this year to co-create a new, annual, three-day “revival” for renewal in community building; a revival after isolation.

The Black Creatives Revival (BCR) aims to centralize Black artists and art leaders from around the state of North Carolina in order to connect, build community, centralize Black power, strengthen our arts communities and collectively reflect the inequities of the arts. The three day revival will accomplish this through resource and skill sharing, identifying expertise, fostering mentoring relationships and gathering shared language around equity in the arts, as well as building a space for healing. Central to all of the elements of the revival are radical thought, artistic expression, art activism, critical conversations and making commitments to consistently return to one another. 

The revival is a Black and POC autonomous space. Black cultural workers, artists, art administrators, curators, students, organizers and magic makers of all kinds are welcome. Indiginous People, Brown People and other People of color who are in these fields are also included. Institutional and individual white allies will be identified and mapped by participants of the Black Creatives Revival for involvement in future actions and programming.

BCR is a free series of both virtual and face to face social distanced gatherings taking place the first weekend of May (Friday, April 30th; Saturday, May 1st; Sunday, May 2nd). The organizing cohort consists of April Parker, Debbie The Artist, Antoine Williams, J. Andrew Speas, Karen Archia, Jordan Booker-Medley and Jordan T. Robinson. The cohort will continue to convene and build throughout the year and is committed to hosting the Black Creatives Revival annually.

Interested individuals are invited to register online at bit.ly/blackgso. The schedule and additional forthcoming information will be sent to registrants via email.

Greensboro’s Elsewhere Living Museum is providing financial sponsorship and additional support to the cohort and the Black Creatives Revival. Other historically white art organizations encouraged to support this event and participate in related future antiracism actions and meetings. For additional information and registration needs/questions, please contact Arts Administrator in Residence, April Parker, at 336.907.3271 or email aprilparker@goelsewhere.org. 

Relevant Links:

bit.ly/blackgso
https://www.elsewheremuseum.org/projects/black-creatives-revival

[Call to Action]

Register via bit.ly/blackgso ASAP

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