This is Our House: Installation Performance by Haus of Glitter
Thursday, October 24, 2024
6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Brown Sculpture Terrace; AT&T Lobby; Tobin Exhibition Galleries entrance
Free
Photo credit: Stephanie Alvarez-Ewens
This is Our House: Installation Performance by Haus of Glitter
Thursday, October 24, 2024
6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Brown Sculpture Terrace; AT&T Lobby; Tobin Exhibition Galleries entrance
Free
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Celebrate the opening of Whitfield Lovell: Passages with a powerful live performance installation by the internationally renowned Haus of Glitter. This free, all-ages, all-gender event begins outdoors on the sculpture terrace and progresses indoors, concluding at the exhibition entrance.
This is Our House will activate the themes of the exhibition, exploring African American history, identity, and memory. After the performance, guests are invited to view the exhibition and experience its powerful storytelling.
In collaboration + partnership with the San Antonio African American Community Archive & Museum (SAAACAM), this celebration honors heritage, memory and community. This site-specific performance installation, initially developed with social practice artist Jess Brown, has been previously shared at The RISD Museum (Providence, RI), Cedarhurst Center for the Arts (Mt. Vernon, IL), The Providence HONK! Festival, and in front of the former home of Esek Hopkins, commander of the slavery ship “Sally” in cooperation with the City of Providence.
About Haus of Glitter
The Haus of Glitter is a world-touring Dance Company + Performance Lab + Preservation Society that works to shift the energetic center of the universe towards care, healing, justice and liberation. Through their community-centered dance and multidisciplinary performance practice, The Haus of Glitter gained international recognition for their 3 year historic intervention at the national monument dedicated to the notorious slavery ship commander, Esek Hopkins. Through educational + wellness programming, community engagement, multidisciplinary collaborative artistic process and their award winning activist dance opera, The Historical Fantasy of Esek Hopkins, The Haus of Glitter is touring internationally with descendant communities, culture-bearers, artists, activists, heritage + historic preservation practitioners to bring communities together in historic sites, public spaces, festivals and performance spaces to remember underrepresented histories + herstories and rehearse for a better world together. Now, The Haus of Glitter’s work has traveled across New England, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, New Orleans, South Texas, Washington, D.C., West Africa, South Korea and Israel-Palestine.