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ANCESTORS RISING // MAPPING BLACK JOY

Yo I wish I could tell you how much joy this project is giving me—but ya’ll just gonna have to get use to me posting about it for the next two weeks until you can experience it for yourself!!

These are photos from the last time we did the production featuring over 20 interdisciplinary artists telling a story of healing and transformation.

This time we have even more surprises, including the immersive afrofuturistic play July 21 & 22 plus the launch of a new project from the Healing Justice Foundation with a community conversation and interactive art installation on July 23.

I’ll be sharing more info, photos, and videos everyday, but you can purchase tickets now: https://bit.ly/AncestorsRising

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📷 Dan Norman Photography

“This joy that I have, the world can’t take it away.
The world didn’t give it and the world can’t take it away.”

We’re hosting a LIVE WATCH PARTY of the Radical Joy Session - Black History Month 2022 virtual concert.

Join us live! Joe Davis and Ashley DuBose will be watching at 7pm cst Friday, February 4th. Joe Davis and Courtland Pickens will be watching 7 pm cst Saturday, February 5th.

If you wanna kickit with us online while we watch the concert, cop your tickets, pop your popcorn, and hit us up on here or at [email protected] to get the watch party info.

The concert is available all month long for Black History Month, but this is your chance to enjoy it live and direct with the artists who made it possible!

Tickets: RadicalJoySession2022.Eventbrite.com
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IT'S LIVE!

SHOW UP: The Music Project is officially released into the world. You can listen to the full project right here, right now, and it'll soon be available on Spotify and all streaming platforms.

Celebrate Juneteenth and vibe to all new poetry and music created to serve as radical reminders of what it means to show up unapologetically.

And if you have the means, give money to Black people and Black organizations, 'cuz we already know the government ain't gonna do it. Let's keep showing up to honor and affirm each other the best we can!

SHOW UP: The Music Project SHOW UP is a 5-track EP of original music and poetry from Joe Davis in collaboration with over a dozen artists, activists, and community folks exploring what it means to show up unapologetically, auth

I’m grateful to have the work of the Radical Joy Session - Spring 2021 featured throughout today on 89.9 KMOJ "THE PEOPLES STATION" and the other 20 Ampers radio stations statewide. You can hear excerpts of the interview below—big shout out to Georgia Fort!

Making Space for Black Joy – Racial Reckoning Making Space for Black Joy Poet and artist Joe Davis has been inspired by the experiences of the past year to co-create the “Radical Joy Sessions,” featuring music, dance and storytelling. Davis says radical joy is more powerful than oppression. — Georgia Fort reports: The trial for three form...

Every week this month we’ll be releasing new photos and videos from The New Renaissance, a space created to celebrate and carry forward our ancestral legacy of Black artistic excellence. Stay connected for more to come!
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The stories we tell the most become true. I want to tell the stories of freedom.

This is a cast photo from the immersive afrofuturistic theater production, Ancestral Origins, following time-traveling afrophysicist JahDavis and the clairvoyant Oracle as they trace their ancestral lineage to learn how generations beyond their own found freedom.