Piece: On Sacred Ground The art of flying starts with feet rooted on the earth. Director Choreographer Marlies Yearby joins collaborators Cooper-Moore, Nioka Workman, Marcelle Lashley and Leslie Parker in music, dance, life and performance. Marlies Yearby (Choreographer) is the Tony-nominated choreographer of RENT. She was the recipient of a Drama League Award for the […]
DJ Chamun is Chamindika Wanduragala, a Sri Lankan American visual artist, DJ, puppeteer, stop motion animation filmmaker and Artistic Director of Monkeybear’s Harmolodic Workshop, an arts nonprofit nurturing Native and POC artists in contemporary puppet theater. For more info check out chamindika.com and Monkeybear’s Harmolodic Workshop
Founder & Executive Director of TruArtSpeaks, Tish Jones is a poet, performer, educator and organizer from Saint Paul, Minnesota. She has performed at CBGB, Kaplan Theater, The Walker Art Center, Intermedia Arts, The Cedar Cultural Center and more. Her work can be found in the Minnesota Humanities Center’s anthology entitled, Blues Vision: African American Writing […]
Junauda Petrus is a creative activist, writer, playwright, and multi-dimensional performance artist who is Minneapolis-born, West-Indian descended, and African-sourced. Her work centers around Black wildness, Afro-futurism, ancestral healing, sweetness, spectacle and shimmer. She has received a Givens Collection Archive residency, a Jerome Travel and Study grant in choreography, Many Voices Mentorship with the Playwright’s Center, […]
Truth Maze is a cornerstone of the Twin Cities music scene and a major contributor and pioneer of Minneapolis hip hop culture. Born William Harris, a native of Minneapolis, MN, his career started with having a strong rhythmic sense making him a natural drummer from birth. This natural ability would later connect to his uncanny […]
