Sunday Dinner: An Acestral Feast

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Suppor the Praise House Project by helping to make its programming accessible to all. Sponsor a guest for Sunday Dinner. Your ticket purchase from this site, will be used for our honord guests of the project from the communities the project serves.

Here are the details.

The exhibition Indigo Prayers: A Creation Story at Emory University’s Michael C. Carlos Museum, is presented in conjunction with Atlanta artist Charmaine Minniefield’s ongoing Praise House Project, in which she recreates the small, single-room structures used for gathering and worship. The project grew out of the artist’s research of the Ring Shout, a full-body, rhythmic movement and prayer, whose West African origins predate enslavement.

On Sunday, August 28, a series of public events will take place to celebrate the closing of the exhibition and the launch of the Praise House Project at Emory.

Conversation and Dance Performance

1:30 p.m.

Cannon Chapel

FREE

Dr. Julie B. Johnson, chair of the Dance Department at Spelman College, and Tamara Williams, associate professor of dance at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, will join Charmaine Minniefield for a conversation about movement as medicine, embodied memory, and the Ring Shout as resistance.

The conversation will be followed by a performance by the Gullah Geechee Ring Shouters from Darien, Georgia.

The program is free and open to the public and is co-sponsored by the Emory Office of Spiritual and Religious Life.

Sunday Dinner - An Ancestral Feast

4:30 p.m.

Michael C. Carlos Museum

Ackerman Hall

SPONSOR A TICKET

Feasting was a part of Praise House gatherings across the South. Join artist activist Charmaine Minniefield for a contemporary take on the traditional gathering, prepared by Chef Cleophus Hethington, a James Beard finalist for "Emerging Chef," renowned in Atlanta for his Ębí Chop Bar pop-ups and his work at Lazy Betty. Break bread in honor of those who have come before as Minniefield shares her vision for the Praise House Project over the next two years, culminating with a Praise House on the Emory campus in 2023.

Fee: $60 for Carlos Museum members; $85 for non-members. Space is limited and registration is required for this event.

Your purchase of this ticket will allow for a the Praise House Project to host someone from the community this project serves as well as an artist or a community partner. Thank you for your support.

Special thanks to Stephen Satterfield and Whetstone Media for assistance in organizing this event.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Michael C. Carlos Museum, 571 South Kilgo Circle Northeast, Atlanta, United States