Panel Schedule
How Did We Get Here? | Arriving at Grounds That Shout! (and others merely shaking)
May 3 at Temple Contemporary
The curator, partners, and producers of Grounds that Shout! (and others merely shaking) reflected on the project’s development process. This panel featured Kerry Bickford, Karen DiLossi, Judy Hussie-Taylor, Harry Philbrick, Robin Stamey, and Reggie Wilson, moderated by Arielle Julia Brown.
In Observance: Blackness within Ethnographic, Liturgical, and Movement Practices
May 6 at Church of the Advocate
How do practices across ethnography, liturgical dance, and post-African/Neo-HooDoo Modern Dance intersect in movement practice, cultural transmission, and text-based articulation? Dance scholars and makers meditated on historical, contemporary, and emergent repertoires of Black sacred dance. This panel featured scholars Josie Hoover and Deborah A. Thomas and Grounds that Shout! curator Reggie Wilson, moderated by Arielle Julia Brown.
Rights, Rites, and Ashes: On Public Remembering on Lenape Land
May 7 at Old Pine Street Church
Respective community leaders across St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, Old Pine Street Church, and Mother Bethel A.M.E Church engaged with the public histories of these three neighboring colonial-era churches. Ranging from topics of precolonial land histories to histories of slavery and enduring memorial rites and practices, this panel contends with the question, “What does it mean to be an enduring neighbor across shared and divergent practices of land occupancy, faith tradition, and legacies of subjugation and freedom?”
This panel featured Libby Browne, Consultant, Becoming Beloved Community, The Episcopal Church; Katrina Browne, Producer/Director of Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North; Chuck DeMund, the Ceremonial Chief of the Lenape Nation of Pennsylvania; Jason Ferris, Pastor at Old Pine Street Church; and Crawford Wilson, public historian at Mother Bethel A.M.E; moderated by Arielle Julia Brown.
