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Join us in the garden to celebrate Black women's friendship, stories, joy, and contributions to American culture through dance and music.Music. Dance. Food. Games. Crafts. Historic Garden.
Food (vegan, meat, allergy sensitive options) & non-alcoholic beverages for purchase. Bring your own lawn chairs & blankets. BYOB.
Come feeling yourself with garden vibe looks! Bright colors encouraged.
Tickets: $25, pay-what-you-can, and donation options available!
Join us for this famiy-friendly outdoor celebration to experience an excerpt of the Renaissance Gyal project. Renaissance Gyal is a choreographic work, set on a cast of Hartford area Black women, that explores the ways in which Black women have set a precedent for culture in America, while simultaneously being erased. Inspired by the renaissance, this piece frames Black creativity in movement, music, art and style as a continuous cultural boom deserving of both deference and celebration. Through each movement, song, and testimony it tells the stories of those of Afro-Caribbean, Afro-Latine, Afro-American and African heritage who have come to make America home.
Choreographer & Executive Producer: Lauren Horn // Subira Vs. Movement.
Performers and Collaborators: Chantal Edwards-Matthew, Lauren Horn, Jasmine McPherson and Loren Milledge
Live Music: The Lost Tribe led by Jocelyn Pleasant
Garden Party DJ: Michelle Bee
Co-Producer: Jasmin Agosto, Sageseeker Productions
Rain Date: Monday, June 12, 6pm | Full Production: Saturday, July 22, 5-8pm
More details coming soon!
Our Renaissance Gyal Summer Series is made possible in major part by the Greater Hartford Arts Council through the fiscal sponsorship of HartBeat Ensemble. The project is also supported by the Connecticut Office of the Arts in partnership with MASS MoCA’s Assets for Artists program (A4A), Connecticut Landmarks, and individual donations through supporters of our film screenings. The piece was created though the Free Center's Independent Artist Fund Grant in 2022, and it's continual development is funded in part by New England Foundation for the Arts’ New England Dance Fund, with generous support from the Aliad Fund at the Boston Foundation.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Butler-McCook House & Garden, 396 Main St,Hartford,CT,United States
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