Upcoming Events & Performances: Summer 2017

06.03.2017 | 8:00pm

Brooklyn Museum's Target First Saturdays

Brooklyn, NY

The Bag Lady Manifesta performance excerpt and remix

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06.2017 | Thursdays in June

Black Queer Brooklyn on Film

Brooklyn Museum

Brooklyn, NY

"This Ain't A Eulogy: A Ritual for Re-Membering " Film Screening

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06.18.2017 | 1:00pm - 2:30pm

Allied Media Conference

Detroit, MI

"How to Re-Imagine the World: Collaborating as Artists and Organizers" panelist

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06.24.2017 | 9:00pm

Switch n' Play at Branded Saloon

Brooklyn, NY

Performance as sassaBrass

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06.28.2017 | 9:00pm

SHADES of Burlesque

Brooklyn, NY

Performance as sassaBrass

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08.04.2017 - 08.05.2017 | 8:30pm

House of Whimsy

Spiegeltent. Bard College

Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

Performance as sassaBrass

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08.20.2017 | 3:00pm

Black Magic Film Festival

Washington, D.C.

"This Ain't A Eulogy: A Ritual for Re-Membering " Film Screening

Performance and Film Screening at Brooklyn Museum

In honor of the Brooklyn Museums latest exhibition We Wanted A Revolution: Black Radical Women 1965-85, Taja Lindley will be performing a remixed excerpt of her one woman show The Bag Lady Manifesta during the Museum's Target First Saturdays Programming on June 3rd. In addition, Taja Lindley's film This Ain't A Eulogy: A Ritual for Re-Membering will be featured in Black Queer Brooklyn on Film - an adjacent exhibit to We Wanted A Revolution in the Elizabeth Sackler Center. This film series riffs on the contributions of the Combahee River Collective, a black lesbian feminist organization formed in 1974, and their Black Feminist Statement. It features new releases by young, black, queer, female-identified, and gender-nonconforming artists and filmmakers working in Brooklyn today. With work by Frances Bodomo, Dyani Douze, Ja’Tovia Gary, Reina Gossett, Lindsay Catherine Harris, Carrie Hawks, Taja Lindley, Tiona Nekkia McClodden, Nontsikelelo Mutiti, Chanelle Aponte Pearson, D’hana Perry, Naima Ramos-Chapman, Isabella Reyes, and Stefani Saintonge.The series kicks off at June’s Target First Saturday and continues on subsequent Thursdays throughout the month. Free with Museum admission.

Upcoming Presentations & Panels: April 2017

04.08.2017

A Media Maker's Roundtable on Racial Justice

Civil Liberties and Public Policy Conference

Amherst, MA

From articulating the needs of our communities to affirming our multi-faceted lives, to visioning new worlds and just futures, media-makers play an integral role in our movements. Join this distinguished panel of media makers using multi-pronged media strategies, written communications, podcasts, music, performance, and multi-media art to make critical political and cultural interventions that guide our activist movements. Moderated by Verónica Bayetti Flores, panelists include: Sasha Alexander, Pamela Merritt, Shanelle Matthews, and Taja Lindley.

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04.08.2017

Artivism 101: How Arts and Culture Are Integral to Our Fight for Reproductive Freedom

Civil Liberties and Public Policy Conference

Amherst, MA

In order to build new futures, we must first imagine them. And it will take creativity to address long-standing problems facing our communities. Now, more than ever, the role of artists and cultural workers are essential in our social movements. In this session, we will identify and discuss how artists and cultural workers work on their own and partner with institutions to create performances, illustrations and other works that advance reproductive freedom. Using the technology of improvisation and freestyle, the workshop will culminate with the sacred tradition of the cypher. We will devise mantras, call and responses, poetry, rap, rhythm and movement to co-create a collective freedom song that honors our visions for bodily autonomy and reproductive justice. Workshop conceived and led by Taja Lindley.

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04.26.2017

Martha Wilson Activist History Teach-In

The 8th Floor

New York, NY

Performance artist Martha Wilson, founder of Franklin Furnace, instigated an evening of presentations and performances as a “teach-in” with a selection of activist artists from the 1960s to the present, looking at the history of performance art as protest to consider which methods and strategies remain effective in today’s political climate. Wilson, known for her political drag performances as first ladies Barbara Bush and Nancy Reagan, will perform her recent work Martha Does Donald, in which she impersonates Donald Trump. In addition, the event will include presentations by artists Ann Agee, Rehan Ansari, Tomie Arai and Betty Yu (Chinatown Art Brigade), Todd Ayoung (REPOhistory), Avram Finkelstein (ACT UP and Gran Fury), Alicia Grullón (Percent for Green), Amin Husain and Nitasha Dhillon (MTL), Rasu Jilani, Taja Lindley (Harriet’s Apothecary), Katharine Perko, Gregory Sholette (Gulf Labor Artists Coalition), Lise Soskolne (W.A.G.E.), and Barbara Zucker (A.I.R. Gallery).