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Altar of the Afrotransfuture was my first performance bringing my poetry to life with theater, soundscapes, folklore, and more. i’ve never felt so alive, it really felt like i was flying that day.

thank you to everyone that came to witness & commune wit me on the stage and @hydeparkartcenter Bridge Performance Incubator for believing in me and my vision. y’all shoulda never got me started, ima be chasing this feeling forever. i hope it’s chasing me too 🤍

📸: @colectivomultipolar

Altar of the Afrotransfuture was my first performance bringing my poetry to life with theater, soundscapes, folklore, and more. i’ve never felt so alive, it really felt like i was flying that day.

thank you to everyone that came to witness & commune wit me on the stage and @hydeparkartcenter Bridge Performance Incubator for believing in me and my vision. y’all shoulda never got me started, ima be chasing this feeling forever. i hope it’s chasing me too 🤍

📸: @colectivomultipolar

Altar of the Afrotransfuture was my first performance bringing my poetry to life with theater, soundscapes, folklore, and more. i’ve never felt so alive, it really felt like i was flying that day.

thank you to everyone that came to witness & commune wit me on the stage and @hydeparkartcenter Bridge Performance Incubator for believing in me and my vision. y’all shoulda never got me started, ima be chasing this feeling forever. i hope it’s chasing me too 🤍

📸: @colectivomultipolar

Altar of the Afrotransfuture was my first performance bringing my poetry to life with theater, soundscapes, folklore, and more. i’ve never felt so alive, it really felt like i was flying that day.

thank you to everyone that came to witness & commune wit me on the stage and @hydeparkartcenter Bridge Performance Incubator for believing in me and my vision. y’all shoulda never got me started, ima be chasing this feeling forever. i hope it’s chasing me too 🤍

📸: @colectivomultipolar

Altar of the Afrotransfuture was my first performance bringing my poetry to life with theater, soundscapes, folklore, and more. i’ve never felt so alive, it really felt like i was flying that day.

thank you to everyone that came to witness & commune wit me on the stage and @hydeparkartcenter Bridge Performance Incubator for believing in me and my vision. y’all shoulda never got me started, ima be chasing this feeling forever. i hope it’s chasing me too 🤍

📸: @colectivomultipolar

Altar of the Afrotransfuture was my first performance bringing my poetry to life with theater, soundscapes, folklore, and more. i’ve never felt so alive, it really felt like i was flying that day.

thank you to everyone that came to witness & commune wit me on the stage and @hydeparkartcenter Bridge Performance Incubator for believing in me and my vision. y’all shoulda never got me started, ima be chasing this feeling forever. i hope it’s chasing me too 🤍

📸: @colectivomultipolar

Altar of the Afrotransfuture was my first performance bringing my poetry to life with theater, soundscapes, folklore, and more. i’ve never felt so alive, it really felt like i was flying that day.

thank you to everyone that came to witness & commune wit me on the stage and @hydeparkartcenter Bridge Performance Incubator for believing in me and my vision. y’all shoulda never got me started, ima be chasing this feeling forever. i hope it’s chasing me too 🤍

📸: @colectivomultipolar

Altar of the Afrotransfuture was my first performance bringing my poetry to life with theater, soundscapes, folklore, and more. i’ve never felt so alive, it really felt like i was flying that day.

thank you to everyone that came to witness & commune wit me on the stage and @hydeparkartcenter Bridge Performance Incubator for believing in me and my vision. y’all shoulda never got me started, ima be chasing this feeling forever. i hope it’s chasing me too 🤍

📸: @colectivomultipolar

Altar of the Afrotransfuture was my first performance bringing my poetry to life with theater, soundscapes, folklore, and more. i’ve never felt so alive, it really felt like i was flying that day.

thank you to everyone that came to witness & commune wit me on the stage and @hydeparkartcenter Bridge Performance Incubator for believing in me and my vision. y’all shoulda never got me started, ima be chasing this feeling forever. i hope it’s chasing me too 🤍

📸: @colectivomultipolar

Altar of the Afrotransfuture was my first performance bringing my poetry to life with theater, soundscapes, folklore, and more. i’ve never felt so alive, it really felt like i was flying that day.

thank you to everyone that came to witness & commune wit me on the stage and @hydeparkartcenter Bridge Performance Incubator for believing in me and my vision. y’all shoulda never got me started, ima be chasing this feeling forever. i hope it’s chasing me too 🤍

📸: @colectivomultipolar

i’m not crying, you are 😭 4 more chances to see Amari’s beautiful play alongside 2 other one-acts!

Answer the Caul by Amari Amari is an afrosurrealist play taking place in the Black present, past, and future, all at the same time. We time travel with Relic and Uncle Frank through a journey of reclamation of the body and ancestral inheritance.

Second and Final Weekend @greenwaycourttheatre
Thursday December 11th - Doors: 7:30pm, Show 8pm
Friday December 12th - Doors: 7:30pm, Show 8pm
Saturday December 13th - Doors: 2:30pm, Show 3pm - *ASL Interpreted* Show followed by Actors Talkback
Saturday December 13th - Doors: 7:30pm, Show 8pm

#lathtr

wow wow wow, i don’t even have the right words to express what this experience did for me!!!! i’m so grateful to have written my first play ever alongside such an amazing team of talented people @celebrationthtr i’m in awe of how you all brought my play to life, it was so magical and healing for me. the actors left me speechless! sound design and projections was crazy! everything felt just right, it felt like coming home each night i witnessed it. thank you for handling my work with so much care and intention, and for riding wit me and guidingme through all my risk taking. i’m so proud of little me, she so special. we so special.

Answer the Caul is an afrosurrealist play taking place in the Black present, past, and future, all at the same time. We time traveled with Relic and Uncle Frank through a journey of reclamation of the body and ancestral inheritance 🤍

A griot, a nun, and a twink walked into a bar and left everybody born anew! If you in Los Angeles, I’d love for you to go see the magic we made ✨

Production photography Jill Petracek @jill.petracek

Cast
Phi Kenzie @phikenzie
Shawn Christopher Lovell Nabors @thechristopherlovell
Lee Baladejo @leebaladejo
Alex Song-Xia @alexsongxia
Olabisi Kovabel @olabisi_kovabel

Creative team
Produced by Petey Gibson @petey_gibson
Directed by Nico Pang @nico__pang
Assistant Director/Dramaturg Sarah Showich @sarahshowich
Lighting design by Niall Sulcer @niallnotniles
Sound design by Malick Ceesay
Projection design by Jennifer Gonzalez @_jgodesigns_
Costume design by Leah Morrison @lay.uh.design
Prop design by Emme Standerford @emmetheprince
Stage managed by Kimberly Sanchez Garrido
Technical direction by Kathleen Jaffe
Casting directing by Jami Rudofsky @jamirudofsky

wow wow wow, i don’t even have the right words to express what this experience did for me!!!! i’m so grateful to have written my first play ever alongside such an amazing team of talented people @celebrationthtr i’m in awe of how you all brought my play to life, it was so magical and healing for me. the actors left me speechless! sound design and projections was crazy! everything felt just right, it felt like coming home each night i witnessed it. thank you for handling my work with so much care and intention, and for riding wit me and guidingme through all my risk taking. i’m so proud of little me, she so special. we so special.

Answer the Caul is an afrosurrealist play taking place in the Black present, past, and future, all at the same time. We time traveled with Relic and Uncle Frank through a journey of reclamation of the body and ancestral inheritance 🤍

A griot, a nun, and a twink walked into a bar and left everybody born anew! If you in Los Angeles, I’d love for you to go see the magic we made ✨

Production photography Jill Petracek @jill.petracek

Cast
Phi Kenzie @phikenzie
Shawn Christopher Lovell Nabors @thechristopherlovell
Lee Baladejo @leebaladejo
Alex Song-Xia @alexsongxia
Olabisi Kovabel @olabisi_kovabel

Creative team
Produced by Petey Gibson @petey_gibson
Directed by Nico Pang @nico__pang
Assistant Director/Dramaturg Sarah Showich @sarahshowich
Lighting design by Niall Sulcer @niallnotniles
Sound design by Malick Ceesay
Projection design by Jennifer Gonzalez @_jgodesigns_
Costume design by Leah Morrison @lay.uh.design
Prop design by Emme Standerford @emmetheprince
Stage managed by Kimberly Sanchez Garrido
Technical direction by Kathleen Jaffe
Casting directing by Jami Rudofsky @jamirudofsky

wow wow wow, i don’t even have the right words to express what this experience did for me!!!! i’m so grateful to have written my first play ever alongside such an amazing team of talented people @celebrationthtr i’m in awe of how you all brought my play to life, it was so magical and healing for me. the actors left me speechless! sound design and projections was crazy! everything felt just right, it felt like coming home each night i witnessed it. thank you for handling my work with so much care and intention, and for riding wit me and guidingme through all my risk taking. i’m so proud of little me, she so special. we so special.

Answer the Caul is an afrosurrealist play taking place in the Black present, past, and future, all at the same time. We time traveled with Relic and Uncle Frank through a journey of reclamation of the body and ancestral inheritance 🤍

A griot, a nun, and a twink walked into a bar and left everybody born anew! If you in Los Angeles, I’d love for you to go see the magic we made ✨

Production photography Jill Petracek @jill.petracek

Cast
Phi Kenzie @phikenzie
Shawn Christopher Lovell Nabors @thechristopherlovell
Lee Baladejo @leebaladejo
Alex Song-Xia @alexsongxia
Olabisi Kovabel @olabisi_kovabel

Creative team
Produced by Petey Gibson @petey_gibson
Directed by Nico Pang @nico__pang
Assistant Director/Dramaturg Sarah Showich @sarahshowich
Lighting design by Niall Sulcer @niallnotniles
Sound design by Malick Ceesay
Projection design by Jennifer Gonzalez @_jgodesigns_
Costume design by Leah Morrison @lay.uh.design
Prop design by Emme Standerford @emmetheprince
Stage managed by Kimberly Sanchez Garrido
Technical direction by Kathleen Jaffe
Casting directing by Jami Rudofsky @jamirudofsky

wow wow wow, i don’t even have the right words to express what this experience did for me!!!! i’m so grateful to have written my first play ever alongside such an amazing team of talented people @celebrationthtr i’m in awe of how you all brought my play to life, it was so magical and healing for me. the actors left me speechless! sound design and projections was crazy! everything felt just right, it felt like coming home each night i witnessed it. thank you for handling my work with so much care and intention, and for riding wit me and guidingme through all my risk taking. i’m so proud of little me, she so special. we so special.

Answer the Caul is an afrosurrealist play taking place in the Black present, past, and future, all at the same time. We time traveled with Relic and Uncle Frank through a journey of reclamation of the body and ancestral inheritance 🤍

A griot, a nun, and a twink walked into a bar and left everybody born anew! If you in Los Angeles, I’d love for you to go see the magic we made ✨

Production photography Jill Petracek @jill.petracek

Cast
Phi Kenzie @phikenzie
Shawn Christopher Lovell Nabors @thechristopherlovell
Lee Baladejo @leebaladejo
Alex Song-Xia @alexsongxia
Olabisi Kovabel @olabisi_kovabel

Creative team
Produced by Petey Gibson @petey_gibson
Directed by Nico Pang @nico__pang
Assistant Director/Dramaturg Sarah Showich @sarahshowich
Lighting design by Niall Sulcer @niallnotniles
Sound design by Malick Ceesay
Projection design by Jennifer Gonzalez @_jgodesigns_
Costume design by Leah Morrison @lay.uh.design
Prop design by Emme Standerford @emmetheprince
Stage managed by Kimberly Sanchez Garrido
Technical direction by Kathleen Jaffe
Casting directing by Jami Rudofsky @jamirudofsky

wow wow wow, i don’t even have the right words to express what this experience did for me!!!! i’m so grateful to have written my first play ever alongside such an amazing team of talented people @celebrationthtr i’m in awe of how you all brought my play to life, it was so magical and healing for me. the actors left me speechless! sound design and projections was crazy! everything felt just right, it felt like coming home each night i witnessed it. thank you for handling my work with so much care and intention, and for riding wit me and guidingme through all my risk taking. i’m so proud of little me, she so special. we so special.

Answer the Caul is an afrosurrealist play taking place in the Black present, past, and future, all at the same time. We time traveled with Relic and Uncle Frank through a journey of reclamation of the body and ancestral inheritance 🤍

A griot, a nun, and a twink walked into a bar and left everybody born anew! If you in Los Angeles, I’d love for you to go see the magic we made ✨

Production photography Jill Petracek @jill.petracek

Cast
Phi Kenzie @phikenzie
Shawn Christopher Lovell Nabors @thechristopherlovell
Lee Baladejo @leebaladejo
Alex Song-Xia @alexsongxia
Olabisi Kovabel @olabisi_kovabel

Creative team
Produced by Petey Gibson @petey_gibson
Directed by Nico Pang @nico__pang
Assistant Director/Dramaturg Sarah Showich @sarahshowich
Lighting design by Niall Sulcer @niallnotniles
Sound design by Malick Ceesay
Projection design by Jennifer Gonzalez @_jgodesigns_
Costume design by Leah Morrison @lay.uh.design
Prop design by Emme Standerford @emmetheprince
Stage managed by Kimberly Sanchez Garrido
Technical direction by Kathleen Jaffe
Casting directing by Jami Rudofsky @jamirudofsky

wow wow wow, i don’t even have the right words to express what this experience did for me!!!! i’m so grateful to have written my first play ever alongside such an amazing team of talented people @celebrationthtr i’m in awe of how you all brought my play to life, it was so magical and healing for me. the actors left me speechless! sound design and projections was crazy! everything felt just right, it felt like coming home each night i witnessed it. thank you for handling my work with so much care and intention, and for riding wit me and guidingme through all my risk taking. i’m so proud of little me, she so special. we so special.

Answer the Caul is an afrosurrealist play taking place in the Black present, past, and future, all at the same time. We time traveled with Relic and Uncle Frank through a journey of reclamation of the body and ancestral inheritance 🤍

A griot, a nun, and a twink walked into a bar and left everybody born anew! If you in Los Angeles, I’d love for you to go see the magic we made ✨

Production photography Jill Petracek @jill.petracek

Cast
Phi Kenzie @phikenzie
Shawn Christopher Lovell Nabors @thechristopherlovell
Lee Baladejo @leebaladejo
Alex Song-Xia @alexsongxia
Olabisi Kovabel @olabisi_kovabel

Creative team
Produced by Petey Gibson @petey_gibson
Directed by Nico Pang @nico__pang
Assistant Director/Dramaturg Sarah Showich @sarahshowich
Lighting design by Niall Sulcer @niallnotniles
Sound design by Malick Ceesay
Projection design by Jennifer Gonzalez @_jgodesigns_
Costume design by Leah Morrison @lay.uh.design
Prop design by Emme Standerford @emmetheprince
Stage managed by Kimberly Sanchez Garrido
Technical direction by Kathleen Jaffe
Casting directing by Jami Rudofsky @jamirudofsky

wow wow wow, i don’t even have the right words to express what this experience did for me!!!! i’m so grateful to have written my first play ever alongside such an amazing team of talented people @celebrationthtr i’m in awe of how you all brought my play to life, it was so magical and healing for me. the actors left me speechless! sound design and projections was crazy! everything felt just right, it felt like coming home each night i witnessed it. thank you for handling my work with so much care and intention, and for riding wit me and guidingme through all my risk taking. i’m so proud of little me, she so special. we so special.

Answer the Caul is an afrosurrealist play taking place in the Black present, past, and future, all at the same time. We time traveled with Relic and Uncle Frank through a journey of reclamation of the body and ancestral inheritance 🤍

A griot, a nun, and a twink walked into a bar and left everybody born anew! If you in Los Angeles, I’d love for you to go see the magic we made ✨

Production photography Jill Petracek @jill.petracek

Cast
Phi Kenzie @phikenzie
Shawn Christopher Lovell Nabors @thechristopherlovell
Lee Baladejo @leebaladejo
Alex Song-Xia @alexsongxia
Olabisi Kovabel @olabisi_kovabel

Creative team
Produced by Petey Gibson @petey_gibson
Directed by Nico Pang @nico__pang
Assistant Director/Dramaturg Sarah Showich @sarahshowich
Lighting design by Niall Sulcer @niallnotniles
Sound design by Malick Ceesay
Projection design by Jennifer Gonzalez @_jgodesigns_
Costume design by Leah Morrison @lay.uh.design
Prop design by Emme Standerford @emmetheprince
Stage managed by Kimberly Sanchez Garrido
Technical direction by Kathleen Jaffe
Casting directing by Jami Rudofsky @jamirudofsky

wow wow wow, i don’t even have the right words to express what this experience did for me!!!! i’m so grateful to have written my first play ever alongside such an amazing team of talented people @celebrationthtr i’m in awe of how you all brought my play to life, it was so magical and healing for me. the actors left me speechless! sound design and projections was crazy! everything felt just right, it felt like coming home each night i witnessed it. thank you for handling my work with so much care and intention, and for riding wit me and guidingme through all my risk taking. i’m so proud of little me, she so special. we so special.

Answer the Caul is an afrosurrealist play taking place in the Black present, past, and future, all at the same time. We time traveled with Relic and Uncle Frank through a journey of reclamation of the body and ancestral inheritance 🤍

A griot, a nun, and a twink walked into a bar and left everybody born anew! If you in Los Angeles, I’d love for you to go see the magic we made ✨

Production photography Jill Petracek @jill.petracek

Cast
Phi Kenzie @phikenzie
Shawn Christopher Lovell Nabors @thechristopherlovell
Lee Baladejo @leebaladejo
Alex Song-Xia @alexsongxia
Olabisi Kovabel @olabisi_kovabel

Creative team
Produced by Petey Gibson @petey_gibson
Directed by Nico Pang @nico__pang
Assistant Director/Dramaturg Sarah Showich @sarahshowich
Lighting design by Niall Sulcer @niallnotniles
Sound design by Malick Ceesay
Projection design by Jennifer Gonzalez @_jgodesigns_
Costume design by Leah Morrison @lay.uh.design
Prop design by Emme Standerford @emmetheprince
Stage managed by Kimberly Sanchez Garrido
Technical direction by Kathleen Jaffe
Casting directing by Jami Rudofsky @jamirudofsky

wow wow wow, i don’t even have the right words to express what this experience did for me!!!! i’m so grateful to have written my first play ever alongside such an amazing team of talented people @celebrationthtr i’m in awe of how you all brought my play to life, it was so magical and healing for me. the actors left me speechless! sound design and projections was crazy! everything felt just right, it felt like coming home each night i witnessed it. thank you for handling my work with so much care and intention, and for riding wit me and guidingme through all my risk taking. i’m so proud of little me, she so special. we so special.

Answer the Caul is an afrosurrealist play taking place in the Black present, past, and future, all at the same time. We time traveled with Relic and Uncle Frank through a journey of reclamation of the body and ancestral inheritance 🤍

A griot, a nun, and a twink walked into a bar and left everybody born anew! If you in Los Angeles, I’d love for you to go see the magic we made ✨

Production photography Jill Petracek @jill.petracek

Cast
Phi Kenzie @phikenzie
Shawn Christopher Lovell Nabors @thechristopherlovell
Lee Baladejo @leebaladejo
Alex Song-Xia @alexsongxia
Olabisi Kovabel @olabisi_kovabel

Creative team
Produced by Petey Gibson @petey_gibson
Directed by Nico Pang @nico__pang
Assistant Director/Dramaturg Sarah Showich @sarahshowich
Lighting design by Niall Sulcer @niallnotniles
Sound design by Malick Ceesay
Projection design by Jennifer Gonzalez @_jgodesigns_
Costume design by Leah Morrison @lay.uh.design
Prop design by Emme Standerford @emmetheprince
Stage managed by Kimberly Sanchez Garrido
Technical direction by Kathleen Jaffe
Casting directing by Jami Rudofsky @jamirudofsky

wow wow wow, i don’t even have the right words to express what this experience did for me!!!! i’m so grateful to have written my first play ever alongside such an amazing team of talented people @celebrationthtr i’m in awe of how you all brought my play to life, it was so magical and healing for me. the actors left me speechless! sound design and projections was crazy! everything felt just right, it felt like coming home each night i witnessed it. thank you for handling my work with so much care and intention, and for riding wit me and guidingme through all my risk taking. i’m so proud of little me, she so special. we so special.

Answer the Caul is an afrosurrealist play taking place in the Black present, past, and future, all at the same time. We time traveled with Relic and Uncle Frank through a journey of reclamation of the body and ancestral inheritance 🤍

A griot, a nun, and a twink walked into a bar and left everybody born anew! If you in Los Angeles, I’d love for you to go see the magic we made ✨

Production photography Jill Petracek @jill.petracek

Cast
Phi Kenzie @phikenzie
Shawn Christopher Lovell Nabors @thechristopherlovell
Lee Baladejo @leebaladejo
Alex Song-Xia @alexsongxia
Olabisi Kovabel @olabisi_kovabel

Creative team
Produced by Petey Gibson @petey_gibson
Directed by Nico Pang @nico__pang
Assistant Director/Dramaturg Sarah Showich @sarahshowich
Lighting design by Niall Sulcer @niallnotniles
Sound design by Malick Ceesay
Projection design by Jennifer Gonzalez @_jgodesigns_
Costume design by Leah Morrison @lay.uh.design
Prop design by Emme Standerford @emmetheprince
Stage managed by Kimberly Sanchez Garrido
Technical direction by Kathleen Jaffe
Casting directing by Jami Rudofsky @jamirudofsky

wow wow wow, i don’t even have the right words to express what this experience did for me!!!! i’m so grateful to have written my first play ever alongside such an amazing team of talented people @celebrationthtr i’m in awe of how you all brought my play to life, it was so magical and healing for me. the actors left me speechless! sound design and projections was crazy! everything felt just right, it felt like coming home each night i witnessed it. thank you for handling my work with so much care and intention, and for riding wit me and guidingme through all my risk taking. i’m so proud of little me, she so special. we so special.

Answer the Caul is an afrosurrealist play taking place in the Black present, past, and future, all at the same time. We time traveled with Relic and Uncle Frank through a journey of reclamation of the body and ancestral inheritance 🤍

A griot, a nun, and a twink walked into a bar and left everybody born anew! If you in Los Angeles, I’d love for you to go see the magic we made ✨

Production photography Jill Petracek @jill.petracek

Cast
Phi Kenzie @phikenzie
Shawn Christopher Lovell Nabors @thechristopherlovell
Lee Baladejo @leebaladejo
Alex Song-Xia @alexsongxia
Olabisi Kovabel @olabisi_kovabel

Creative team
Produced by Petey Gibson @petey_gibson
Directed by Nico Pang @nico__pang
Assistant Director/Dramaturg Sarah Showich @sarahshowich
Lighting design by Niall Sulcer @niallnotniles
Sound design by Malick Ceesay
Projection design by Jennifer Gonzalez @_jgodesigns_
Costume design by Leah Morrison @lay.uh.design
Prop design by Emme Standerford @emmetheprince
Stage managed by Kimberly Sanchez Garrido
Technical direction by Kathleen Jaffe
Casting directing by Jami Rudofsky @jamirudofsky

wow wow wow, i don’t even have the right words to express what this experience did for me!!!! i’m so grateful to have written my first play ever alongside such an amazing team of talented people @celebrationthtr i’m in awe of how you all brought my play to life, it was so magical and healing for me. the actors left me speechless! sound design and projections was crazy! everything felt just right, it felt like coming home each night i witnessed it. thank you for handling my work with so much care and intention, and for riding wit me and guidingme through all my risk taking. i’m so proud of little me, she so special. we so special.

Answer the Caul is an afrosurrealist play taking place in the Black present, past, and future, all at the same time. We time traveled with Relic and Uncle Frank through a journey of reclamation of the body and ancestral inheritance 🤍

A griot, a nun, and a twink walked into a bar and left everybody born anew! If you in Los Angeles, I’d love for you to go see the magic we made ✨

Production photography Jill Petracek @jill.petracek

Cast
Phi Kenzie @phikenzie
Shawn Christopher Lovell Nabors @thechristopherlovell
Lee Baladejo @leebaladejo
Alex Song-Xia @alexsongxia
Olabisi Kovabel @olabisi_kovabel

Creative team
Produced by Petey Gibson @petey_gibson
Directed by Nico Pang @nico__pang
Assistant Director/Dramaturg Sarah Showich @sarahshowich
Lighting design by Niall Sulcer @niallnotniles
Sound design by Malick Ceesay
Projection design by Jennifer Gonzalez @_jgodesigns_
Costume design by Leah Morrison @lay.uh.design
Prop design by Emme Standerford @emmetheprince
Stage managed by Kimberly Sanchez Garrido
Technical direction by Kathleen Jaffe
Casting directing by Jami Rudofsky @jamirudofsky

wow wow wow, i don’t even have the right words to express what this experience did for me!!!! i’m so grateful to have written my first play ever alongside such an amazing team of talented people @celebrationthtr i’m in awe of how you all brought my play to life, it was so magical and healing for me. the actors left me speechless! sound design and projections was crazy! everything felt just right, it felt like coming home each night i witnessed it. thank you for handling my work with so much care and intention, and for riding wit me and guidingme through all my risk taking. i’m so proud of little me, she so special. we so special.

Answer the Caul is an afrosurrealist play taking place in the Black present, past, and future, all at the same time. We time traveled with Relic and Uncle Frank through a journey of reclamation of the body and ancestral inheritance 🤍

A griot, a nun, and a twink walked into a bar and left everybody born anew! If you in Los Angeles, I’d love for you to go see the magic we made ✨

Production photography Jill Petracek @jill.petracek

Cast
Phi Kenzie @phikenzie
Shawn Christopher Lovell Nabors @thechristopherlovell
Lee Baladejo @leebaladejo
Alex Song-Xia @alexsongxia
Olabisi Kovabel @olabisi_kovabel

Creative team
Produced by Petey Gibson @petey_gibson
Directed by Nico Pang @nico__pang
Assistant Director/Dramaturg Sarah Showich @sarahshowich
Lighting design by Niall Sulcer @niallnotniles
Sound design by Malick Ceesay
Projection design by Jennifer Gonzalez @_jgodesigns_
Costume design by Leah Morrison @lay.uh.design
Prop design by Emme Standerford @emmetheprince
Stage managed by Kimberly Sanchez Garrido
Technical direction by Kathleen Jaffe
Casting directing by Jami Rudofsky @jamirudofsky

wow wow wow, i don’t even have the right words to express what this experience did for me!!!! i’m so grateful to have written my first play ever alongside such an amazing team of talented people @celebrationthtr i’m in awe of how you all brought my play to life, it was so magical and healing for me. the actors left me speechless! sound design and projections was crazy! everything felt just right, it felt like coming home each night i witnessed it. thank you for handling my work with so much care and intention, and for riding wit me and guidingme through all my risk taking. i’m so proud of little me, she so special. we so special.

Answer the Caul is an afrosurrealist play taking place in the Black present, past, and future, all at the same time. We time traveled with Relic and Uncle Frank through a journey of reclamation of the body and ancestral inheritance 🤍

A griot, a nun, and a twink walked into a bar and left everybody born anew! If you in Los Angeles, I’d love for you to go see the magic we made ✨

Production photography Jill Petracek @jill.petracek

Cast
Phi Kenzie @phikenzie
Shawn Christopher Lovell Nabors @thechristopherlovell
Lee Baladejo @leebaladejo
Alex Song-Xia @alexsongxia
Olabisi Kovabel @olabisi_kovabel

Creative team
Produced by Petey Gibson @petey_gibson
Directed by Nico Pang @nico__pang
Assistant Director/Dramaturg Sarah Showich @sarahshowich
Lighting design by Niall Sulcer @niallnotniles
Sound design by Malick Ceesay
Projection design by Jennifer Gonzalez @_jgodesigns_
Costume design by Leah Morrison @lay.uh.design
Prop design by Emme Standerford @emmetheprince
Stage managed by Kimberly Sanchez Garrido
Technical direction by Kathleen Jaffe
Casting directing by Jami Rudofsky @jamirudofsky

wow wow wow, i don’t even have the right words to express what this experience did for me!!!! i’m so grateful to have written my first play ever alongside such an amazing team of talented people @celebrationthtr i’m in awe of how you all brought my play to life, it was so magical and healing for me. the actors left me speechless! sound design and projections was crazy! everything felt just right, it felt like coming home each night i witnessed it. thank you for handling my work with so much care and intention, and for riding wit me and guidingme through all my risk taking. i’m so proud of little me, she so special. we so special.

Answer the Caul is an afrosurrealist play taking place in the Black present, past, and future, all at the same time. We time traveled with Relic and Uncle Frank through a journey of reclamation of the body and ancestral inheritance 🤍

A griot, a nun, and a twink walked into a bar and left everybody born anew! If you in Los Angeles, I’d love for you to go see the magic we made ✨

Production photography Jill Petracek @jill.petracek

Cast
Phi Kenzie @phikenzie
Shawn Christopher Lovell Nabors @thechristopherlovell
Lee Baladejo @leebaladejo
Alex Song-Xia @alexsongxia
Olabisi Kovabel @olabisi_kovabel

Creative team
Produced by Petey Gibson @petey_gibson
Directed by Nico Pang @nico__pang
Assistant Director/Dramaturg Sarah Showich @sarahshowich
Lighting design by Niall Sulcer @niallnotniles
Sound design by Malick Ceesay
Projection design by Jennifer Gonzalez @_jgodesigns_
Costume design by Leah Morrison @lay.uh.design
Prop design by Emme Standerford @emmetheprince
Stage managed by Kimberly Sanchez Garrido
Technical direction by Kathleen Jaffe
Casting directing by Jami Rudofsky @jamirudofsky

wow wow wow, i don’t even have the right words to express what this experience did for me!!!! i’m so grateful to have written my first play ever alongside such an amazing team of talented people @celebrationthtr i’m in awe of how you all brought my play to life, it was so magical and healing for me. the actors left me speechless! sound design and projections was crazy! everything felt just right, it felt like coming home each night i witnessed it. thank you for handling my work with so much care and intention, and for riding wit me and guidingme through all my risk taking. i’m so proud of little me, she so special. we so special.

Answer the Caul is an afrosurrealist play taking place in the Black present, past, and future, all at the same time. We time traveled with Relic and Uncle Frank through a journey of reclamation of the body and ancestral inheritance 🤍

A griot, a nun, and a twink walked into a bar and left everybody born anew! If you in Los Angeles, I’d love for you to go see the magic we made ✨

Production photography Jill Petracek @jill.petracek

Cast
Phi Kenzie @phikenzie
Shawn Christopher Lovell Nabors @thechristopherlovell
Lee Baladejo @leebaladejo
Alex Song-Xia @alexsongxia
Olabisi Kovabel @olabisi_kovabel

Creative team
Produced by Petey Gibson @petey_gibson
Directed by Nico Pang @nico__pang
Assistant Director/Dramaturg Sarah Showich @sarahshowich
Lighting design by Niall Sulcer @niallnotniles
Sound design by Malick Ceesay
Projection design by Jennifer Gonzalez @_jgodesigns_
Costume design by Leah Morrison @lay.uh.design
Prop design by Emme Standerford @emmetheprince
Stage managed by Kimberly Sanchez Garrido
Technical direction by Kathleen Jaffe
Casting directing by Jami Rudofsky @jamirudofsky

wow wow wow, i don’t even have the right words to express what this experience did for me!!!! i’m so grateful to have written my first play ever alongside such an amazing team of talented people @celebrationthtr i’m in awe of how you all brought my play to life, it was so magical and healing for me. the actors left me speechless! sound design and projections was crazy! everything felt just right, it felt like coming home each night i witnessed it. thank you for handling my work with so much care and intention, and for riding wit me and guidingme through all my risk taking. i’m so proud of little me, she so special. we so special.

Answer the Caul is an afrosurrealist play taking place in the Black present, past, and future, all at the same time. We time traveled with Relic and Uncle Frank through a journey of reclamation of the body and ancestral inheritance 🤍

A griot, a nun, and a twink walked into a bar and left everybody born anew! If you in Los Angeles, I’d love for you to go see the magic we made ✨

Production photography Jill Petracek @jill.petracek

Cast
Phi Kenzie @phikenzie
Shawn Christopher Lovell Nabors @thechristopherlovell
Lee Baladejo @leebaladejo
Alex Song-Xia @alexsongxia
Olabisi Kovabel @olabisi_kovabel

Creative team
Produced by Petey Gibson @petey_gibson
Directed by Nico Pang @nico__pang
Assistant Director/Dramaturg Sarah Showich @sarahshowich
Lighting design by Niall Sulcer @niallnotniles
Sound design by Malick Ceesay
Projection design by Jennifer Gonzalez @_jgodesigns_
Costume design by Leah Morrison @lay.uh.design
Prop design by Emme Standerford @emmetheprince
Stage managed by Kimberly Sanchez Garrido
Technical direction by Kathleen Jaffe
Casting directing by Jami Rudofsky @jamirudofsky

June is feeling like the month to rejoice! I been hard at work on a number of projects that I am excited to share soon. In the meantime, you can find me at these upcoming events and celebrations! I’ll be sharing all new works and sneak peeks of my upcoming projects.

ya girl was named one of @windycitytimes 30 Under 30 LGBTQ+ Trailblazers! i’m always so grateful for all yall that go out your way to see about me, it makes me giddy when i see familiar faces in the crowd. if you carried my stories with you and shared em around the city, thank you sooo so much. that’s all i ever wanted my work to do. i hope to see you soon 🩵

June 3rd- Windy City Times 30 Under 30 Ceremony Honoree at Chicago History Museum 🤭

June 4th- Orange by @noelpquinones Poetry Reading at Pilsen Community Books @chicagopoetrycenter

June 5th- @puppetqueers Puppetry Perfomance at Wirtz Center 710 North Lake Shore Drive

June 6th- Performance Lab at Honey Pot Performance First Church of the Brethren @honeypotchicago

June 9th- Host at Blatant Gold Poetry ReadingChicago Poetry Center @chicagopoetrycenter

June 12 and June 13th- Soccer Island by @citrus.history Play Reading at Berger Park Cultural Center @romansusanart

June 22nd- Featured Poet at Poetry on the Green - The Green at 320 @chicagopoetrycenter

June is feeling like the month to rejoice! I been hard at work on a number of projects that I am excited to share soon. In the meantime, you can find me at these upcoming events and celebrations! I’ll be sharing all new works and sneak peeks of my upcoming projects.

ya girl was named one of @windycitytimes 30 Under 30 LGBTQ+ Trailblazers! i’m always so grateful for all yall that go out your way to see about me, it makes me giddy when i see familiar faces in the crowd. if you carried my stories with you and shared em around the city, thank you sooo so much. that’s all i ever wanted my work to do. i hope to see you soon 🩵

June 3rd- Windy City Times 30 Under 30 Ceremony Honoree at Chicago History Museum 🤭

June 4th- Orange by @noelpquinones Poetry Reading at Pilsen Community Books @chicagopoetrycenter

June 5th- @puppetqueers Puppetry Perfomance at Wirtz Center 710 North Lake Shore Drive

June 6th- Performance Lab at Honey Pot Performance First Church of the Brethren @honeypotchicago

June 9th- Host at Blatant Gold Poetry ReadingChicago Poetry Center @chicagopoetrycenter

June 12 and June 13th- Soccer Island by @citrus.history Play Reading at Berger Park Cultural Center @romansusanart

June 22nd- Featured Poet at Poetry on the Green - The Green at 320 @chicagopoetrycenter

June is feeling like the month to rejoice! I been hard at work on a number of projects that I am excited to share soon. In the meantime, you can find me at these upcoming events and celebrations! I’ll be sharing all new works and sneak peeks of my upcoming projects.

ya girl was named one of @windycitytimes 30 Under 30 LGBTQ+ Trailblazers! i’m always so grateful for all yall that go out your way to see about me, it makes me giddy when i see familiar faces in the crowd. if you carried my stories with you and shared em around the city, thank you sooo so much. that’s all i ever wanted my work to do. i hope to see you soon 🩵

June 3rd- Windy City Times 30 Under 30 Ceremony Honoree at Chicago History Museum 🤭

June 4th- Orange by @noelpquinones Poetry Reading at Pilsen Community Books @chicagopoetrycenter

June 5th- @puppetqueers Puppetry Perfomance at Wirtz Center 710 North Lake Shore Drive

June 6th- Performance Lab at Honey Pot Performance First Church of the Brethren @honeypotchicago

June 9th- Host at Blatant Gold Poetry ReadingChicago Poetry Center @chicagopoetrycenter

June 12 and June 13th- Soccer Island by @citrus.history Play Reading at Berger Park Cultural Center @romansusanart

June 22nd- Featured Poet at Poetry on the Green - The Green at 320 @chicagopoetrycenter

June is feeling like the month to rejoice! I been hard at work on a number of projects that I am excited to share soon. In the meantime, you can find me at these upcoming events and celebrations! I’ll be sharing all new works and sneak peeks of my upcoming projects.

ya girl was named one of @windycitytimes 30 Under 30 LGBTQ+ Trailblazers! i’m always so grateful for all yall that go out your way to see about me, it makes me giddy when i see familiar faces in the crowd. if you carried my stories with you and shared em around the city, thank you sooo so much. that’s all i ever wanted my work to do. i hope to see you soon 🩵

June 3rd- Windy City Times 30 Under 30 Ceremony Honoree at Chicago History Museum 🤭

June 4th- Orange by @noelpquinones Poetry Reading at Pilsen Community Books @chicagopoetrycenter

June 5th- @puppetqueers Puppetry Perfomance at Wirtz Center 710 North Lake Shore Drive

June 6th- Performance Lab at Honey Pot Performance First Church of the Brethren @honeypotchicago

June 9th- Host at Blatant Gold Poetry ReadingChicago Poetry Center @chicagopoetrycenter

June 12 and June 13th- Soccer Island by @citrus.history Play Reading at Berger Park Cultural Center @romansusanart

June 22nd- Featured Poet at Poetry on the Green - The Green at 320 @chicagopoetrycenter

June is feeling like the month to rejoice! I been hard at work on a number of projects that I am excited to share soon. In the meantime, you can find me at these upcoming events and celebrations! I’ll be sharing all new works and sneak peeks of my upcoming projects.

ya girl was named one of @windycitytimes 30 Under 30 LGBTQ+ Trailblazers! i’m always so grateful for all yall that go out your way to see about me, it makes me giddy when i see familiar faces in the crowd. if you carried my stories with you and shared em around the city, thank you sooo so much. that’s all i ever wanted my work to do. i hope to see you soon 🩵

June 3rd- Windy City Times 30 Under 30 Ceremony Honoree at Chicago History Museum 🤭

June 4th- Orange by @noelpquinones Poetry Reading at Pilsen Community Books @chicagopoetrycenter

June 5th- @puppetqueers Puppetry Perfomance at Wirtz Center 710 North Lake Shore Drive

June 6th- Performance Lab at Honey Pot Performance First Church of the Brethren @honeypotchicago

June 9th- Host at Blatant Gold Poetry ReadingChicago Poetry Center @chicagopoetrycenter

June 12 and June 13th- Soccer Island by @citrus.history Play Reading at Berger Park Cultural Center @romansusanart

June 22nd- Featured Poet at Poetry on the Green - The Green at 320 @chicagopoetrycenter

June is feeling like the month to rejoice! I been hard at work on a number of projects that I am excited to share soon. In the meantime, you can find me at these upcoming events and celebrations! I’ll be sharing all new works and sneak peeks of my upcoming projects.

ya girl was named one of @windycitytimes 30 Under 30 LGBTQ+ Trailblazers! i’m always so grateful for all yall that go out your way to see about me, it makes me giddy when i see familiar faces in the crowd. if you carried my stories with you and shared em around the city, thank you sooo so much. that’s all i ever wanted my work to do. i hope to see you soon 🩵

June 3rd- Windy City Times 30 Under 30 Ceremony Honoree at Chicago History Museum 🤭

June 4th- Orange by @noelpquinones Poetry Reading at Pilsen Community Books @chicagopoetrycenter

June 5th- @puppetqueers Puppetry Perfomance at Wirtz Center 710 North Lake Shore Drive

June 6th- Performance Lab at Honey Pot Performance First Church of the Brethren @honeypotchicago

June 9th- Host at Blatant Gold Poetry ReadingChicago Poetry Center @chicagopoetrycenter

June 12 and June 13th- Soccer Island by @citrus.history Play Reading at Berger Park Cultural Center @romansusanart

June 22nd- Featured Poet at Poetry on the Green - The Green at 320 @chicagopoetrycenter

June 6th, witness 5 artists use improvisational performance as a pathway to ancestral wisdom, storytelling, and social innovation.

The Creative Design Lab welcomes @amarixamai, @itspochop , @faylitahicks, @erenbergstacy and jireh into a vibrant space where Black, Brown, and Indigenous voices lead the way in reimagining performance. Join us for a transformational afternoon of art, insight, and collective dreaming.

Register now at the link in our bio.

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Come see about me & celebrate Trans Day of Visibility the right way!

March 27th, I’ll be performing an immersive storytelling experience at Pansy Craze, a pop up art exhibition dedicated to the whimsical and surreal of trans life @thefultonstreetcollective

March 31st, I’ll be performing some poetry alongside other wonderful trans poets @elasticarts

Tickets to both events are in my bio!

Come see about me & celebrate Trans Day of Visibility the right way!

March 27th, I’ll be performing an immersive storytelling experience at Pansy Craze, a pop up art exhibition dedicated to the whimsical and surreal of trans life @thefultonstreetcollective

March 31st, I’ll be performing some poetry alongside other wonderful trans poets @elasticarts

Tickets to both events are in my bio!

awp26 in Baltimore was a sweet time, i haven’t left a party musty wit my hair sweated out in a real long time, i needed that. i love getting to see everybody, i didn’t get nearly as many pics as i should have! pls send them to me. i’m looking forward to next year in the best city in the land 🤭

awp26 in Baltimore was a sweet time, i haven’t left a party musty wit my hair sweated out in a real long time, i needed that. i love getting to see everybody, i didn’t get nearly as many pics as i should have! pls send them to me. i’m looking forward to next year in the best city in the land 🤭

awp26 in Baltimore was a sweet time, i haven’t left a party musty wit my hair sweated out in a real long time, i needed that. i love getting to see everybody, i didn’t get nearly as many pics as i should have! pls send them to me. i’m looking forward to next year in the best city in the land 🤭

awp26 in Baltimore was a sweet time, i haven’t left a party musty wit my hair sweated out in a real long time, i needed that. i love getting to see everybody, i didn’t get nearly as many pics as i should have! pls send them to me. i’m looking forward to next year in the best city in the land 🤭

awp26 in Baltimore was a sweet time, i haven’t left a party musty wit my hair sweated out in a real long time, i needed that. i love getting to see everybody, i didn’t get nearly as many pics as i should have! pls send them to me. i’m looking forward to next year in the best city in the land 🤭

awp26 in Baltimore was a sweet time, i haven’t left a party musty wit my hair sweated out in a real long time, i needed that. i love getting to see everybody, i didn’t get nearly as many pics as i should have! pls send them to me. i’m looking forward to next year in the best city in the land 🤭

awp26 in Baltimore was a sweet time, i haven’t left a party musty wit my hair sweated out in a real long time, i needed that. i love getting to see everybody, i didn’t get nearly as many pics as i should have! pls send them to me. i’m looking forward to next year in the best city in the land 🤭

awp26 in Baltimore was a sweet time, i haven’t left a party musty wit my hair sweated out in a real long time, i needed that. i love getting to see everybody, i didn’t get nearly as many pics as i should have! pls send them to me. i’m looking forward to next year in the best city in the land 🤭

awp26 in Baltimore was a sweet time, i haven’t left a party musty wit my hair sweated out in a real long time, i needed that. i love getting to see everybody, i didn’t get nearly as many pics as i should have! pls send them to me. i’m looking forward to next year in the best city in the land 🤭

awp26 in Baltimore was a sweet time, i haven’t left a party musty wit my hair sweated out in a real long time, i needed that. i love getting to see everybody, i didn’t get nearly as many pics as i should have! pls send them to me. i’m looking forward to next year in the best city in the land 🤭

awp26 in Baltimore was a sweet time, i haven’t left a party musty wit my hair sweated out in a real long time, i needed that. i love getting to see everybody, i didn’t get nearly as many pics as i should have! pls send them to me. i’m looking forward to next year in the best city in the land 🤭

awp26 in Baltimore was a sweet time, i haven’t left a party musty wit my hair sweated out in a real long time, i needed that. i love getting to see everybody, i didn’t get nearly as many pics as i should have! pls send them to me. i’m looking forward to next year in the best city in the land 🤭

awp26 in Baltimore was a sweet time, i haven’t left a party musty wit my hair sweated out in a real long time, i needed that. i love getting to see everybody, i didn’t get nearly as many pics as i should have! pls send them to me. i’m looking forward to next year in the best city in the land 🤭

awp26 in Baltimore was a sweet time, i haven’t left a party musty wit my hair sweated out in a real long time, i needed that. i love getting to see everybody, i didn’t get nearly as many pics as i should have! pls send them to me. i’m looking forward to next year in the best city in the land 🤭

“ I Heard the Voice” @hydeparkartcenter January 2026

+ a lil behind the scenes from my living room studio!

In this performance I embodied a spirit named Somebody, inspired by MLK’s “Life’s Blueprint” speech. Somebody was hung on a plantation in the Delta, went to heaven, and found out The King was on his way up there too. So he decided to cross back over and follow The King up north to the West Side of Chicago. Somebody spent his time out west with the Vice Lords, contemplating his stance on violence and nonviolence, making his final choice by the time the 1968 riots broke out following The King’s assassination.

At the bottom of Somebody’s pure whites, is a mixture of broken mirror glass, plastics, and shards of glass bottles I found on my walks around my home out west. I wanted Somebody to glisten in the light of the projection, just like how the West Side still does. The rest of the pics are a few test runs of me rehearsing, filling my house with smoke and playing with the whip

The soundscape playing on the first picture was created and edited by me using audio clips from various MLK speeches and found media/sound effects. You can listen to the full version of RIOT on my website, along with source credits!

If you were there to witness, I hope you left wit some hope on you. and if you didn’t have the chance to see, I hope I get to see you next time 🫶🏾 thank you @colectivomultipolar for the wonderful pictures!!

“ I Heard the Voice” @hydeparkartcenter January 2026

+ a lil behind the scenes from my living room studio!

In this performance I embodied a spirit named Somebody, inspired by MLK’s “Life’s Blueprint” speech. Somebody was hung on a plantation in the Delta, went to heaven, and found out The King was on his way up there too. So he decided to cross back over and follow The King up north to the West Side of Chicago. Somebody spent his time out west with the Vice Lords, contemplating his stance on violence and nonviolence, making his final choice by the time the 1968 riots broke out following The King’s assassination.

At the bottom of Somebody’s pure whites, is a mixture of broken mirror glass, plastics, and shards of glass bottles I found on my walks around my home out west. I wanted Somebody to glisten in the light of the projection, just like how the West Side still does. The rest of the pics are a few test runs of me rehearsing, filling my house with smoke and playing with the whip

The soundscape playing on the first picture was created and edited by me using audio clips from various MLK speeches and found media/sound effects. You can listen to the full version of RIOT on my website, along with source credits!

If you were there to witness, I hope you left wit some hope on you. and if you didn’t have the chance to see, I hope I get to see you next time 🫶🏾 thank you @colectivomultipolar for the wonderful pictures!!

“ I Heard the Voice” @hydeparkartcenter January 2026

+ a lil behind the scenes from my living room studio!

In this performance I embodied a spirit named Somebody, inspired by MLK’s “Life’s Blueprint” speech. Somebody was hung on a plantation in the Delta, went to heaven, and found out The King was on his way up there too. So he decided to cross back over and follow The King up north to the West Side of Chicago. Somebody spent his time out west with the Vice Lords, contemplating his stance on violence and nonviolence, making his final choice by the time the 1968 riots broke out following The King’s assassination.

At the bottom of Somebody’s pure whites, is a mixture of broken mirror glass, plastics, and shards of glass bottles I found on my walks around my home out west. I wanted Somebody to glisten in the light of the projection, just like how the West Side still does. The rest of the pics are a few test runs of me rehearsing, filling my house with smoke and playing with the whip

The soundscape playing on the first picture was created and edited by me using audio clips from various MLK speeches and found media/sound effects. You can listen to the full version of RIOT on my website, along with source credits!

If you were there to witness, I hope you left wit some hope on you. and if you didn’t have the chance to see, I hope I get to see you next time 🫶🏾 thank you @colectivomultipolar for the wonderful pictures!!

“ I Heard the Voice” @hydeparkartcenter January 2026

+ a lil behind the scenes from my living room studio!

In this performance I embodied a spirit named Somebody, inspired by MLK’s “Life’s Blueprint” speech. Somebody was hung on a plantation in the Delta, went to heaven, and found out The King was on his way up there too. So he decided to cross back over and follow The King up north to the West Side of Chicago. Somebody spent his time out west with the Vice Lords, contemplating his stance on violence and nonviolence, making his final choice by the time the 1968 riots broke out following The King’s assassination.

At the bottom of Somebody’s pure whites, is a mixture of broken mirror glass, plastics, and shards of glass bottles I found on my walks around my home out west. I wanted Somebody to glisten in the light of the projection, just like how the West Side still does. The rest of the pics are a few test runs of me rehearsing, filling my house with smoke and playing with the whip

The soundscape playing on the first picture was created and edited by me using audio clips from various MLK speeches and found media/sound effects. You can listen to the full version of RIOT on my website, along with source credits!

If you were there to witness, I hope you left wit some hope on you. and if you didn’t have the chance to see, I hope I get to see you next time 🫶🏾 thank you @colectivomultipolar for the wonderful pictures!!

“ I Heard the Voice” @hydeparkartcenter January 2026

+ a lil behind the scenes from my living room studio!

In this performance I embodied a spirit named Somebody, inspired by MLK’s “Life’s Blueprint” speech. Somebody was hung on a plantation in the Delta, went to heaven, and found out The King was on his way up there too. So he decided to cross back over and follow The King up north to the West Side of Chicago. Somebody spent his time out west with the Vice Lords, contemplating his stance on violence and nonviolence, making his final choice by the time the 1968 riots broke out following The King’s assassination.

At the bottom of Somebody’s pure whites, is a mixture of broken mirror glass, plastics, and shards of glass bottles I found on my walks around my home out west. I wanted Somebody to glisten in the light of the projection, just like how the West Side still does. The rest of the pics are a few test runs of me rehearsing, filling my house with smoke and playing with the whip

The soundscape playing on the first picture was created and edited by me using audio clips from various MLK speeches and found media/sound effects. You can listen to the full version of RIOT on my website, along with source credits!

If you were there to witness, I hope you left wit some hope on you. and if you didn’t have the chance to see, I hope I get to see you next time 🫶🏾 thank you @colectivomultipolar for the wonderful pictures!!

“ I Heard the Voice” @hydeparkartcenter January 2026

+ a lil behind the scenes from my living room studio!

In this performance I embodied a spirit named Somebody, inspired by MLK’s “Life’s Blueprint” speech. Somebody was hung on a plantation in the Delta, went to heaven, and found out The King was on his way up there too. So he decided to cross back over and follow The King up north to the West Side of Chicago. Somebody spent his time out west with the Vice Lords, contemplating his stance on violence and nonviolence, making his final choice by the time the 1968 riots broke out following The King’s assassination.

At the bottom of Somebody’s pure whites, is a mixture of broken mirror glass, plastics, and shards of glass bottles I found on my walks around my home out west. I wanted Somebody to glisten in the light of the projection, just like how the West Side still does. The rest of the pics are a few test runs of me rehearsing, filling my house with smoke and playing with the whip

The soundscape playing on the first picture was created and edited by me using audio clips from various MLK speeches and found media/sound effects. You can listen to the full version of RIOT on my website, along with source credits!

If you were there to witness, I hope you left wit some hope on you. and if you didn’t have the chance to see, I hope I get to see you next time 🫶🏾 thank you @colectivomultipolar for the wonderful pictures!!

“ I Heard the Voice” @hydeparkartcenter January 2026

+ a lil behind the scenes from my living room studio!

In this performance I embodied a spirit named Somebody, inspired by MLK’s “Life’s Blueprint” speech. Somebody was hung on a plantation in the Delta, went to heaven, and found out The King was on his way up there too. So he decided to cross back over and follow The King up north to the West Side of Chicago. Somebody spent his time out west with the Vice Lords, contemplating his stance on violence and nonviolence, making his final choice by the time the 1968 riots broke out following The King’s assassination.

At the bottom of Somebody’s pure whites, is a mixture of broken mirror glass, plastics, and shards of glass bottles I found on my walks around my home out west. I wanted Somebody to glisten in the light of the projection, just like how the West Side still does. The rest of the pics are a few test runs of me rehearsing, filling my house with smoke and playing with the whip

The soundscape playing on the first picture was created and edited by me using audio clips from various MLK speeches and found media/sound effects. You can listen to the full version of RIOT on my website, along with source credits!

If you were there to witness, I hope you left wit some hope on you. and if you didn’t have the chance to see, I hope I get to see you next time 🫶🏾 thank you @colectivomultipolar for the wonderful pictures!!

“ I Heard the Voice” @hydeparkartcenter January 2026

+ a lil behind the scenes from my living room studio!

In this performance I embodied a spirit named Somebody, inspired by MLK’s “Life’s Blueprint” speech. Somebody was hung on a plantation in the Delta, went to heaven, and found out The King was on his way up there too. So he decided to cross back over and follow The King up north to the West Side of Chicago. Somebody spent his time out west with the Vice Lords, contemplating his stance on violence and nonviolence, making his final choice by the time the 1968 riots broke out following The King’s assassination.

At the bottom of Somebody’s pure whites, is a mixture of broken mirror glass, plastics, and shards of glass bottles I found on my walks around my home out west. I wanted Somebody to glisten in the light of the projection, just like how the West Side still does. The rest of the pics are a few test runs of me rehearsing, filling my house with smoke and playing with the whip

The soundscape playing on the first picture was created and edited by me using audio clips from various MLK speeches and found media/sound effects. You can listen to the full version of RIOT on my website, along with source credits!

If you were there to witness, I hope you left wit some hope on you. and if you didn’t have the chance to see, I hope I get to see you next time 🫶🏾 thank you @colectivomultipolar for the wonderful pictures!!

“ I Heard the Voice” @hydeparkartcenter January 2026

+ a lil behind the scenes from my living room studio!

In this performance I embodied a spirit named Somebody, inspired by MLK’s “Life’s Blueprint” speech. Somebody was hung on a plantation in the Delta, went to heaven, and found out The King was on his way up there too. So he decided to cross back over and follow The King up north to the West Side of Chicago. Somebody spent his time out west with the Vice Lords, contemplating his stance on violence and nonviolence, making his final choice by the time the 1968 riots broke out following The King’s assassination.

At the bottom of Somebody’s pure whites, is a mixture of broken mirror glass, plastics, and shards of glass bottles I found on my walks around my home out west. I wanted Somebody to glisten in the light of the projection, just like how the West Side still does. The rest of the pics are a few test runs of me rehearsing, filling my house with smoke and playing with the whip

The soundscape playing on the first picture was created and edited by me using audio clips from various MLK speeches and found media/sound effects. You can listen to the full version of RIOT on my website, along with source credits!

If you were there to witness, I hope you left wit some hope on you. and if you didn’t have the chance to see, I hope I get to see you next time 🫶🏾 thank you @colectivomultipolar for the wonderful pictures!!

“ I Heard the Voice” @hydeparkartcenter January 2026

+ a lil behind the scenes from my living room studio!

In this performance I embodied a spirit named Somebody, inspired by MLK’s “Life’s Blueprint” speech. Somebody was hung on a plantation in the Delta, went to heaven, and found out The King was on his way up there too. So he decided to cross back over and follow The King up north to the West Side of Chicago. Somebody spent his time out west with the Vice Lords, contemplating his stance on violence and nonviolence, making his final choice by the time the 1968 riots broke out following The King’s assassination.

At the bottom of Somebody’s pure whites, is a mixture of broken mirror glass, plastics, and shards of glass bottles I found on my walks around my home out west. I wanted Somebody to glisten in the light of the projection, just like how the West Side still does. The rest of the pics are a few test runs of me rehearsing, filling my house with smoke and playing with the whip

The soundscape playing on the first picture was created and edited by me using audio clips from various MLK speeches and found media/sound effects. You can listen to the full version of RIOT on my website, along with source credits!

If you were there to witness, I hope you left wit some hope on you. and if you didn’t have the chance to see, I hope I get to see you next time 🫶🏾 thank you @colectivomultipolar for the wonderful pictures!!

“ I Heard the Voice” @hydeparkartcenter January 2026

+ a lil behind the scenes from my living room studio!

In this performance I embodied a spirit named Somebody, inspired by MLK’s “Life’s Blueprint” speech. Somebody was hung on a plantation in the Delta, went to heaven, and found out The King was on his way up there too. So he decided to cross back over and follow The King up north to the West Side of Chicago. Somebody spent his time out west with the Vice Lords, contemplating his stance on violence and nonviolence, making his final choice by the time the 1968 riots broke out following The King’s assassination.

At the bottom of Somebody’s pure whites, is a mixture of broken mirror glass, plastics, and shards of glass bottles I found on my walks around my home out west. I wanted Somebody to glisten in the light of the projection, just like how the West Side still does. The rest of the pics are a few test runs of me rehearsing, filling my house with smoke and playing with the whip

The soundscape playing on the first picture was created and edited by me using audio clips from various MLK speeches and found media/sound effects. You can listen to the full version of RIOT on my website, along with source credits!

If you were there to witness, I hope you left wit some hope on you. and if you didn’t have the chance to see, I hope I get to see you next time 🫶🏾 thank you @colectivomultipolar for the wonderful pictures!!

“ I Heard the Voice” @hydeparkartcenter January 2026

+ a lil behind the scenes from my living room studio!

In this performance I embodied a spirit named Somebody, inspired by MLK’s “Life’s Blueprint” speech. Somebody was hung on a plantation in the Delta, went to heaven, and found out The King was on his way up there too. So he decided to cross back over and follow The King up north to the West Side of Chicago. Somebody spent his time out west with the Vice Lords, contemplating his stance on violence and nonviolence, making his final choice by the time the 1968 riots broke out following The King’s assassination.

At the bottom of Somebody’s pure whites, is a mixture of broken mirror glass, plastics, and shards of glass bottles I found on my walks around my home out west. I wanted Somebody to glisten in the light of the projection, just like how the West Side still does. The rest of the pics are a few test runs of me rehearsing, filling my house with smoke and playing with the whip

The soundscape playing on the first picture was created and edited by me using audio clips from various MLK speeches and found media/sound effects. You can listen to the full version of RIOT on my website, along with source credits!

If you were there to witness, I hope you left wit some hope on you. and if you didn’t have the chance to see, I hope I get to see you next time 🫶🏾 thank you @colectivomultipolar for the wonderful pictures!!

Announcing our 2026 IN/HOUSE artist AMARI AMAI!! 🎉✨

As we open one In/House artist show this week, we welcome Amari into the cohort

Amari Amai is a Black nonbinary storyteller and worldbuilder born and raised in Chicago. As a Great Migration baby with roots in Jackson, Mississippi, Amari’s work is rooted in oral tradition and ancestral embodiment on and off the page, using performance art, poetry, folklore, theater, and archival resurrection to bend time and immortalize the lives of the disappeared and forgotten. As a 2025 Pushcart Prize and 2026 Best of the Net Nominee, their work has received support and fellowships from The Watering Hole, Tin House, Hyde Park Art Center, Sundress Academy for the Arts, Vermont Studio Center, and more. Amari is also the founder of Crossroads Writers Collective, a communal writing group for Black queer folks based in Chicago. 

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Announcing our 2026 IN/HOUSE artist AMARI AMAI!! 🎉✨

As we open one In/House artist show this week, we welcome Amari into the cohort

Amari Amai is a Black nonbinary storyteller and worldbuilder born and raised in Chicago. As a Great Migration baby with roots in Jackson, Mississippi, Amari’s work is rooted in oral tradition and ancestral embodiment on and off the page, using performance art, poetry, folklore, theater, and archival resurrection to bend time and immortalize the lives of the disappeared and forgotten. As a 2025 Pushcart Prize and 2026 Best of the Net Nominee, their work has received support and fellowships from The Watering Hole, Tin House, Hyde Park Art Center, Sundress Academy for the Arts, Vermont Studio Center, and more. Amari is also the founder of Crossroads Writers Collective, a communal writing group for Black queer folks based in Chicago. 

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Hey, Chicago! 🌟 We would love to introduce you to Canto-Kójo’s next featured reader: Amari Amai!
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About the featured reader: Amari Amai (he/they) is a Black nonbinary storyteller, poet, playwright, and worldbuilder born and raised in Chicago. As a Great Migration baby with roots in Jackson, Mississippi, Amari’s work is rooted in oral tradition and archival resurrection on and off the page, using poetry, folklore, soundscapes, and performance to bend time towards a pre-colonial past and decolonized future. Their work has received support and fellowships from Tin House, Periplus Collective, Sundress Academy for the Arts, Hyde Park Art Center, The Watering Hole, Vermont Studio Center, and Celebration Theater of Los Angeles. Amari is the founder of Crossroads Writers Collective, a communal writing group for Black queer folks based in Chicago. As a 2025 Pushcart Prize and 2026 Best of the Net nominee, they are currently at work on their debut poetry collection and accompanying performance series.
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Entry fee for the event is $5 (suggested donation). Sign up for the open mic will begin at 7PM! Folks will get up to ✨five minutes max✨ to share. Refreshments and snacks will be served after the event.

Canto-Kójo translates to “sing together.” We can’t wait to sing with you, Chicago!

RSVP in bio and see you there! ❤️‍🔥

Hey, Chicago! 🌟 We would love to introduce you to Canto-Kójo’s next featured reader: Amari Amai!
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About the featured reader: Amari Amai (he/they) is a Black nonbinary storyteller, poet, playwright, and worldbuilder born and raised in Chicago. As a Great Migration baby with roots in Jackson, Mississippi, Amari’s work is rooted in oral tradition and archival resurrection on and off the page, using poetry, folklore, soundscapes, and performance to bend time towards a pre-colonial past and decolonized future. Their work has received support and fellowships from Tin House, Periplus Collective, Sundress Academy for the Arts, Hyde Park Art Center, The Watering Hole, Vermont Studio Center, and Celebration Theater of Los Angeles. Amari is the founder of Crossroads Writers Collective, a communal writing group for Black queer folks based in Chicago. As a 2025 Pushcart Prize and 2026 Best of the Net nominee, they are currently at work on their debut poetry collection and accompanying performance series.
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Entry fee for the event is $5 (suggested donation). Sign up for the open mic will begin at 7PM! Folks will get up to ✨five minutes max✨ to share. Refreshments and snacks will be served after the event.

Canto-Kójo translates to “sing together.” We can’t wait to sing with you, Chicago!

RSVP in bio and see you there! ❤️‍🔥

If you need somewhere to commune, wail, grieve, laugh, and be held, come out to @hydeparkartcenter on MLK Day next week and join me in an immersive storytelling experience. we looking to the hills and finding our will to hope and fight again and again and again!

I Heard The Voice is a performance in honor of King’s distinct poetic voice that swelled the calmest streams and quelled the most ferocious despair. Using storytelling, dance, hymns, soundscapes and projection, Amari Amai will take the audience on a journey through the 1968 West Side riots following King’s assasination in hopes of landing on sweeter mountaintops of collective healing, release, and renewed joy.

If you need somewhere to commune, wail, grieve, laugh, and be held, come out to @hydeparkartcenter on MLK Day next week and join me in an immersive storytelling experience. we looking to the hills and finding our will to hope and fight again and again and again!

I Heard The Voice is a performance in honor of King’s distinct poetic voice that swelled the calmest streams and quelled the most ferocious despair. Using storytelling, dance, hymns, soundscapes and projection, Amari Amai will take the audience on a journey through the 1968 West Side riots following King’s assasination in hopes of landing on sweeter mountaintops of collective healing, release, and renewed joy.