Home is in the Stories
Online Exhibition
Jonathan Lamont
Sienna Fekete
Aisha Shillingford
Sheila Kennedy
James Shipp
Brandi Shipp
Olivia Harris
Glenn Frye
Erica Press
Zanjabil Ghandour
Gbenga Akinnagbe
Curtis Fowlkes
Archive of Exhibit Events & Announcements
You’re invited.
Over the past few months, I have been recording stories and making portraits with participants in Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. I am building an artistic archive of their stories about making home and finding community as Black folks in Bed Stuy. The week of September 24th, I will be exhibiting the artistic archive, and would love to share it with you all.
We have been luxuriating in a space reserved for storytelling – for reflecting on, sharing, and preserving truths that rarely get to be recorded. On 9/24, that intention will remain true. The installation will be a space for connecting to community, pondering meanings of home, and imagining a future in which we all belong as full beings.
Sign up to receive more info below or here, and follow along at @kirajoyyy.
See you soon!
Find more info about each day’s events below the flier.
* You are welcome to visit the exhibit through October 1, 2022 whenever the park is open, from 10 to dark on weekends and from 12 to dark on weekdays. *
Schedule of Events
Soul & Art in the Park: A Reflective Exhibition & Gathering
Powered by Community Board 3 [CB3] & Bed-Stuy Strategy Lounge
Featuring "Home is in the Stories" - an exhibition by Kira Joy Williams
Hancock Community Backyard Park, 324 Hancock St., Brooklyn (btwn. Throop & Tompkins Aves.)
Saturday, September 24th - "Home is in the Stories" Opening Reception
1pm to 6:30pm | Experience the art installation from Kira Joy Williams
Come view portraits and listen to recorded stories featuring people of Bed Stuy!
This project is an artistic archive of stories about making home and finding community as Black folks in Bed Stuy. The artist and participants have been luxuriating in a space reserved for storytelling – for reflecting on, sharing, and preserving truths that rarely get to be recorded. The installation will be a space for connecting to community, pondering meanings of home, and imagining a future in which we all belong as full beings. Transcripts of the interviews will be available. For more info, sign up here or follow @kirajoyyy on Instagram. Drinks and snacks will be served. The exhibit will be open whenever the park is open through Oct. 1.
* You are welcome to visit the exhibit through October 1, 2022 whenever the park is open, from 10 to dark on weekends and from 12 to dark on weekdays. *
Sunday, September 25th - The Soul & Art of Bed-Stuy
1pm to 2:30pm | Dreaming Bed-Stuy Futures
In this guided meditation and art making workshop, Creative Studio Intelligent Mischief will guide attendees in visualizing and creating a vision of a future that affirms Bed Stuy as a home for a thriving, sovereign, Black community. Welcoming artists and writers of all disciplines and experience levels. Bring your desired art supplies or writing implements. Limited art supplies will be available. You are welcome to stay and make art in the park through the 4pm session!
4pm to 7pm | The Soul & Art of Bed Stuy
Come add your voice to a discussion about local artist support. This is a registration drive for the CB3 Artist Network, which will provide local artists access to Bed Stuy-based resources and opportunities. Drinks and snacks will be served. Grooves and vibes courtesy of DJ Amazin' A.
Wednesday, September 28th - Bed Stuy Sit-In Theater
6pm to 7:30pm or dark | Meet, Greet, and Groove
Come mingle and register with the CB3 Artist Network, all to the tune of funky beats from DJ Amazin' A! Drinks and snacks will be served.
7:30 to 9:15pm | Screening of Neptune Frost
A free screening of the 2021 Afrofuturist feature film by legendary slam poet Saul Williams: A group of escaped coltan miners forms an anti-colonialist computer hacker collective in the hilltops of Burundi. They soon attempt a takeover of the authoritarian regime that's exploiting the region's natural resources -- and its people.
Saturday, October 8th (attn: date has been changed from the original, 10/1) - Words of Blackness and Hope
12pm to 3pm | Closing day of Home is in the Stories Exhibition
Closing remarks and an artist talk beginning at 12pm with Kira Joy Williams, hosted by Curator/Educator Sienna Fekete. Drinks and snacks will be served.
3pm to 6pm | Friends of Macon Library Reading
A reading presented by the Friends of Macon Library. Featuring a special musical performance by SpiritEarth with Kevin Nathaniel & Jeremiah Hosea. Stay tuned for more information and artist features.
