Transpoetic experience surviving futuristic spirituality.
The Black Healing Portal (BHP) / Portal Negro de Sanación is an interdisciplinary, multidimensional performance and community offering that shatters colonially. Curated and dreamed up by the miraculous Krudxs Cubensi, unapologetic life-giving game-changers. BHP is resiliencia transformativa, es una combinación de espacio, tiempo en clave tropical. It is a collaboration that centers the lives ands artistic work of Afro Caribbean and Latin American self-created transfeminist warriors. Queer afrodiasporiques en movimiento.
Authenticity from radical self-representation.
The Black Healing Portal will take participants, Goddess and Spirits on an extraordinary, transcendental journey that explores race, religion, gender, temporality, class and sexuality through art. La música como espíritu de la práctica y el cuerpo como alma del ritual to inver the margins, subverting hierarchies and reactivating ciclos sagrados: Individualidad/Energía colective. BHP imagines that magic healing is possible. Wounded healers are unparalleled, the foremost healers. Si puedes sanarte a ti misme, puedes sanar al mundo. krudascubensi.com
Join us for an exploration of the queer origins and aesthetics of hip hop through discussion, film, performance, and food. The event includes a Black healing portal curated by Astraea award-winning duo Krudxs Cubensi, a session with Soul Fire Farm on BIPOC vegan foodways and their connection to community-centered activism, and a panel discussion centering on the queer underground hip hop scene led by Hip Hop Heresies author and scholar Dr. Shanté Paradigm Smalls.
CLAGS (The Center for LGBTQ Studies) award-winning hip hop musician and dharma teacher Shanté Paradigm Smalls leads an enlightening roundtable discussion focusing on the ways that hip hop culture in film, visual art, and music in New York City from the 1970s to today offers queer articulations of race, gender, and sexuality, and how this might affect the future of hip hop. Panelists include Creative Capital grant-winner and Priestess of Twerk Nia Witherspoon, Afro-Latina MC, artist, and activist Ms.Boogie; Founding Co-Editor of Vibe Magazine Scott Poulson-Bryant; and educator, poet, youth advocate, and hip hop artist tim’m west.
Krudxs Cubensi headlines Black Healing Portal II / Beyond Time, a queer Afro-Cuban hip hop cypher featuring dance, drumming, projections, procession, and community offerings that links Afro-Yoruba spiritual practices to modern rapping and explores race, religion, gender, class, and sexuality. This immersive session features Afro-Cuban dancer Yesenia Selier and batá drummers, MC and Executive Director of the Nuyorican Poets Café Caridad “La Bruja” De La Luz, and the music and art of Krudxs Cubensi. Group members Odaymar Cuesta and Oli Prendes adhere to vegan lifestyles and politics, and the event includes a riveting keynote address delivered by Soul Fire Farm’s Co-Founder and Farm Manager Leah Penniman that underscores the importance of BIPOC food sovereignty, food justice, and ancestral connection between food and land.
Presented in collaboration with the BLACK STUDIES COLLABORATORY AT UC BERKELEY.
Queer Hip Hop Cypher Schedule
3:00pm–4:00pm: Celebration of BIPOC Vegan Foodways
Second Floor Hallway
4:00pm–5:15pm: Hip Hop Heresies Roundtable
Veterans Room
This event will be live streamed on the Armory’s YouTube channel.
5:15pm–5:30pm: Processsion
First Floor Hallway
5:30pm–7:00pm: Black Healing Portal II / Beyond Time
Board of Officers Room
Gather with us on OMCA’s campus for our free program series, “Lunchtime Sessions: Music, Dance, and Storytelling.” Grab your favorite picnic blanket, pick up some lunch in our cafe, Town Fare, as we come together to delight in the joy of live performance and the creative process.
Sessions are family-friendly and specific children’s programs will be indicated.
Lunchtime Sessions are free and open to the public; tickets and reservations are not required. Food and beverages are not included. In order to maintain safety for all guests and staff, capacity may be limited. Please review our Safe Community Agreements in advance of your visit.
* In the event of rain, these events will be canceled.
Krudas music brings a forceful and daring mix to the world, irrepressible crispy Flow, Conscious Rap, Spoken Word, poetry and authentic Caribbean sounds to an uplifting message that makes their delivery irresistible. The Black Healing Portal (TBHP) Portal Negro de Sanación is an interdisciplinary, multidimensional experimental interactive performance and community offering curated and dreamed up by Krudas Cubensi. It is a collaboration that centers Afro Caribbean and Latin American Transfeminism. The Black Healing Portal will take participants, Goddess and Spirits on a journey that explores race, gender, temporality, class and sexuality. krudascubensi.com/
Celebrating women creators & changemakers from every nation & occupied territory on Earth.
Krudxs Cubensi – Retrospectiva Pinturas 1996 – 2021
Odaymar Pasa Kruda & Olikrude Prendes will be in attendance.
The event starts at 2 p.m. CST
LIVESTREAMING on VoxFem FB / IG / YT
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Celebrating women creators & changemakers from every nation & occupied territory on Earth.
Krudxs Cubensi – Retrospectiva Pinturas 1996 – 2021
Odaymar Pasa Kruda & Olikrude Prendes will be in attendance.
All events at 12 NOON CST / 19:00 Italy &Gabon
LIVESTREAMING on VoxFem FB / IG / YT
Clic in the “FREE” button below to access via ZOOM.