About the Workshop
With Weeksville Heras a core inspiration and motivation, Jubilee 11213: The Keeping explores practices of social good, self-determination, spirituality, sensuality, and sovereignty as critical components of the Black liberation continuum discovered through Ebony’s archival research and dramaturgical field work over the last three years. May 2023 marks the culmination of the project with a public sharing of The Keeping, a theatrical ceremony that activates the entire Weeksville campus and surrounding area. The Keeping has catalytic support from Weeksville, Creative Capital, and the Coalition of Theatres of Color, and was conceptualized, devised, and produced by Ebony Noelle Golden and Jupiter Performance Studio.
***This workshop will stream on Youtube
About the Facilitator
Ebony Noelle Golden is a theatrical ceremonialist, culture strategist, entrepreneur, and public scholar. In 2009, Ebony founded Betty's Daughter Arts Collaborative, a culture consultancy that devises systems, strategies, and social justice solutions nationally. In 2020, she founded Jupiter Performance Studio, a space to study and practice Black diasporic performance traditions. Winner of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education’s Transformational Practice Award, Golden works to incite and ignite the creative capacity of everyday folks in service of liberation and collective wellbeing. Her practice is rooted in community-design, ritual performance, and leadership development through a womanist and Black feminist praxis. Invoking messy, magical, and medicinal processes, Ebony and her collaborators, work to conjure a better world.
