Hosted by WILLIE the GENIUS
[In-Person & Virtual]
*PLEASE UPLOAD YOUR LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT VIDEOS HERE NO LATER THAN SUNDAY, JAN. 30th**
This event is a ceremony which will serve as a conduit for the ancestors. We will focus on honoring the sacred dead with our intentions, words, and songs of praise and adoration. The goal of this event is to invite the divine and earthly power and authority of the ancestors while making ourselves the perfect vessels for them to dwell in and continue their work here in the physical realm.
The grounding meditation for this ritual and one that I’d like for us to invoke for the entire month (and for those who can, in perpetuity) are the words from our esteemed ancestor Audre Lorde, “I am deliberate and afraid of nothing”.
Tentative Ceremony:
Collective Intention Setting “Words from our Black Luminary Ancestors”
Create Sacred Space
Land Acknowledgements
Libations
Ancestral Roll Call
Performance Offering (2-3 performers in music, song, drumming, dance)
Individual Intention Setting “
Prayer
Benediction
(The ceremony will close at the end “On AfroPresentism” presented by Neema Githere on Monday, February 28, 2022)
ARTIST BIO
WILLIE the GENIUS is an unapologetic Afro-Queer performing artist and community resource advocate from Houston, Texas currently residing in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, NY who creates radical revolutionary art. WILLIE served as a member of the 2021 Transjustice Community School cohort of the Audre Lorde Project. As an artist-in-resident at the People’s Theatre Project, WILLIE the GENIUS is currently producing, writing, and starring in their solo theatre and late-night talk show, “WILLIE GETS NAKED!” and planning an off-Broadway debut Fall 2022 as well as in pre-production of their scripted comedy-drama series “Will of Fortune”.
Event Co-Sponsors: The Ancestral House of Genius