A series of site-specific events featuring poetry, video, music, performance + sermons that embrace the sacred and interstellar
Featuring King Britt, Samuel R. Delany, V. Shayne Frederick, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Husnaa Hashim, Madison McFerrin, Sirius Juju, Moor Mother, Raquel Salas Rivera, Ursula Rucker, and Marvin K. White, among others, and short films by Renee Cox, Terence Nance, Frances Bodomo, Johan Grimonprez, and Saya Woolfalk.
Organized as a series of gatherings that explore the sacred roots and interstellar potential of spoken word practices, Stellar Masses upholds the spoken word as at once ancient and futuristic, capable of testifying, time traveling, and spellbinding. The site-specific events will feature writers, musicians, and filmmakers, guiding attendees through a mind-expanding continuum of ritual and performance. Curated by Curator of Spoken Word Yolanda Wisher.