Black Arts Matter Festival 2019

Join us in the Anderson Auditorium on March 6, 2019, at 7:30 pm for a FREE one woman show! Doors open at 7:00 pm.

Facebook Page for the Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/247647536158118/

Website for Black Arts Mattter: https://bamfestival.wixsite.com/madison

What the festival is:

Black Arts Matters ( B.A.M) Festival is an interdisciplinary arts festival whose mission is to promote the art of Black people (including African-American, Caribbean, Afro-Latinx, and African Diaspora).  A Spring 2019 celebration that will include visual art, poetry,film, theatre, dance, and music, B.A.M Fest will highlight bold, innovative, and authentic works that celebrate blackness and its many intersections,  as well as engage the greater Madison community on topics of representation and diversity. It will redefine the landscape of arts in the Madison community and support Black artists who may have been underrepresented. The festival will engage over 50 artists, 70 Festival volunteers and event staff, and around 500 event attendees and audience members. 

 Here is the synopsis of the show on March 6:

Porsha Olayiwola's,  Black & Ugly as Ever is a one-person choreopoem that explores what it means to move through reality as a queer, fat, dark-skinned woman.  The production utilizes original song, poetry, and movement to discover love of self in a body that occupies multiple marginalized identities. This hour-long production is split between two halves: one that scrutinizes society's norms and the other that praise the defiance of rigid normalities. Be prepared to laugh, cry, think critically and be a little uncomfortable in this dangerous love story.  http://www.porshaolayiwola.com/black-ugly-as-ever/?fbclid=IwAR0pIC9aPM5WN54t5IJcHKj1wFeOVC5fUIaHe21OYTVGvJ--MCPv6SfDrow