Original script and performance by: Felicia Holman, Abra Johnson & Meida McNeal
Contributing Artists & Authors: Paige Brown, Elizabeth Nichole Griffin, Aisha Jean-Baptiste*, Abra Johnson*, Jennifer Ligaya*, Cat Mahari, Meida McNeal*, Sea M. Miller, Kimeco Roberson*,  Patricia Ruby Simmons, Jessica Williams

*Denotes Honey Pot Performance Core Member

THE LADIES RING SHOUT 2.0

The Ladies Ring Shout 2.0 is a Black feminist quality-of-life performance project, first created and performed in 2011. This restaging/reimagining, features HPP’s artistic core alongside an intergenerational community cast of Black women/femmes who have worked in collaboration with HPP, to devise a new iteration of the work. The Ladies Ring Shout 2.0 focuses on themes critical to Black women and femmes’ lives such as representation, love and relationships, scars/trauma, work-life balance, quality of life, nurturing and parenting, spirituality, healing, and defining our communities of care. Creative writing and embodied exercises are supplemented with experiments in other artistic mediums including collective play with still image, video, audio and reading excerpts from the work of relevant BIPOC women writers and poets. 
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About Honey Pot Performance

Honey Pot Performance is a creative collaborative chronicling Afro-feminist and Black diasporic subjectivities amidst the pressures of contemporary global life.

Honey Pot Performance enlists modes of creative expressivity to examine the nuances of human relationships including the ways we negotiate identity, belonging and difference in our lives and cultural memberships. Dismantling the vestiges of oppressive social relationships is part of the work. Through critical performance, public humanities programming, and deep community engagement, we emphasize everyday ways of valuing the human.

Following in the footsteps of cultural workers such as Zora Neale Hurston, Beryl McBurnie, Pearl Primus and Katherine Dunham, Honey Pot Performance forefronts African diasporic performance traditions. We draw upon a central notion found in performance studies, black feminist discourse and sociology: non-Western, everyday popular and/or folk forms of cultural performance are valuable sites of knowledge production and cultural capital for subjectivities that often exist outside of mainstream communities.

Runtime:  Approximately one hour and 45 minutes with one 10-minute intermission.