Freedom: A Mixtape - Live and Unplugged

NAC Hip Hop Theatre Festival

2024-02-01 20:00 2024-02-01 21:30 60 Canada/Eastern 🎟 NAC: Freedom: A Mixtape - Live and Unplugged

https://nac-cna.ca/en/event/35006

In-person event

This multidisciplinary work blends original songs, stories, poems, anecdotes, and spoken word pieces from artists around the Niagara Region. Originally conceived as a digital compilation album, this will be its in-person premiere. An ensemble of actors and a live band will breathe life into this community conversation about joy, ancestral healing, generational trauma, police brutality, the complexities of Black identity, and the human right to be free. b current Performing Arts
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Azrieli Studio,1 Elgin Street,Ottawa,Canada
Thu, February 1, 2024
Thu, February 1, 2024
8 PM EST
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Designed by Chance Mutuku, Founder & Creative Director at BBBBLANC* in collaboration with Suitcase in Point Multi-Arts Company
Theatre Drama
  • In-person event
  • English
  • Ages 16+
  • ≈ 90 minutes · No intermission

This multidisciplinary work blends original songs, stories, poems, anecdotes, and spoken word pieces from artists around the Niagara Region. Originally conceived as a digital compilation album, this will be its in-person premiere. An ensemble of actors and a live band will breathe life into this community conversation about joy, ancestral healing, generational trauma, police brutality, the complexities of Black identity, and the human right to be free.

b current Performing Arts
Founded by award-winning poet/performer and stage director ahdri zhina mandiela, b current Performing Arts was created to provide space for black artists to train, explore, challenge mainstream notions of theatre, and engage with the community. Over its 30+ year history, b current has expanded to support artists primarily from the black and brown diaspora and intersectional artists, developing scores of internationally celebrated artists and their works. As the “current” in their name suggests, the company is focused on contemporary and relevant approaches to performing arts that speak to the issues and interests of present-day racialized audiences and communities.
 

Artists

  • marcel-stewart-hs-2
    Artistic Director, b current Performing Arts Marcel Stewart
  • Executive Director, b current Performing Arts Kira Allen
  • Cast Alana Bridgewater
  • annika-tupper
    Cast Annika Tupper
  • Cast Amoya Reé
  • Cast Emerjade Simms
  • Cast Jay (EverythingOShauN)
  • peter-n-bailey
    Cast Peter N. Bailey
  • Cast Xpress aka DJXP
  • Stage Manager Jordan Guetter
  • Production Manager Leighton Smith
  • Artistic Director, b current Performing Arts Marcel Stewart
  • Executive Director, b current Performing Arts Kira Allen
  • Original Contributors Deanna Jones, Philip Davis, Penny J Bowers, Marcel Stewart, Kattawe Henry, Barry Stewart, Diana Myrie, Vicki-Lynn Smith, Tethered the Ghost, HAUI, Alex Ring, Roselyn Kelada-Sedra, Iain Lidstone, Eve Atoms, Jermaine Marshall, Yung Dashiki, Andrew Johnson, Chance Mutuku
  • Cast Alana Bridgewater, Annika Tupper, Amoya Reé, Emerjade Simms, Jay (EverythingOShauN), Peter N. Bailey, Xpress aka DJXP.
  • Stage Manager Jordan Guetter
  • Production Manager Leighton Smith