CEE/CAMRA will document a collaborative residency between Partners for Sacred Places, Philadelphia Contemporary, and award-winning choreographer Reggie Wilson. The project, funded by the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage, is called Grounds that Shout! (And Others Merely Shaking). Grounds that Shout! Will be a series of performances exploring relationships among religion, movement, race, and the body, with a focus on the African American religious experience and the specific context of Philadelphia’s historic sacred spaces. Wilson will curate performances by Philadelphia-based artists at religious sites along the Lombard Street corridor—host to a unique density of historic churches—highlighting both the broad narrative history of these spaces and their present-day status in a rapidly changing city. The project extends Wilson’s recent work with New York’s Danspace Project interrogating the history of St. Mark’s Church. Danspace’s Judy Hussie-Taylor will serve as a curatorial advisor to Wilson as he brings these concepts to Philadelphia. The series will conclude with a week-long residency by Wilson and his Fist and Heel Performance Group at the Church of the Advocate in North Philadelphia. For more on Reggie’s choreography, SEE HERE!
Photovoice Project with Transgender Youth
CEE is collaborating withNadia Dowshen (Penn Med) and Joshua Franklin (MD-PhD student) on a photovoice project with transgender youth. This project seeks to make use of multi-modal techniques in order to work collaboratively to develop a community-driven agenda for transgender health research, to identify targets and strategies for developing new tailored interventions for trans women, and to use multimodal ethnography in the dissemination of public health research findings on HIV prevention and treatment within the trans community. For more information, SEE HERE!
