Dread Scott on the Hal Clark show talking about the Rebellion! https://wyldfm.iheart.com/featured/sunday-journal-with-hal-clark/content/2019-10-18-slave-rebellion-reenactment/
Contact: srrmedia@fenton.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Oct. 7, 2019 Large-Scale Performance to Reenact Biggest Rebellion of Enslaved People in U.S. History Visionary Artist Dread Scott Leads Hundreds of Reenactors Participating In 2-Day, 26-Mile Performance in Louisiana’s River Parishes, Reviving a Story of Resistance, Freedom and Revolutionary Action NEW ORLEANS — On Friday and Saturday November 8th-9th in Louisiana, American artist Dread Scott will examine a significant...More Please
Join us Wednesday, October 9th at 12pm in Southern University’s Hayden Hall Theater located on Elton C Harrison St. Baton Rouge, La 70807 for a discussion with New York based visual and performance artist, Dread Scott about his artistic practice and his latest collaborative project Slave Rebellion Reenactment, a large-scale, community-engaged art performance & film...More Please
Join us Friday, October 25th 6pm-7:30pm at the Contemporary Arts Center located at 900 Camp St. New Orleans, La 70130 for a discussion with New York based visual and performance artist, Dread Scott about his artistic practice and his latest collaborative project Slave Rebellion Reenactment, a large-scale, community-engaged art performance & film project reimagining the...More Please
Join artist Dread Scott in Conversation with Historian James Borders,featuring Calas prepared by Cheif Aiji Daste at New Orleans African American Museum
Join us for a Story Circle, led-by Junebug Productions, on the 1811 German Coast Uprising—it’s impacts, legacy, and meaning for freedom as the country marks the 400th anniversary of the arrival of enslaved Africans in colonial Virginia, and the 300th year anniversary of the arrival of the slave ships Aurore and the Duc du Maine with enslaved Africans...More Please
Join us in Milesville Community, 450 W 2nd St. LaPlace, La Sunday, October 6th at 11:30a for conversations about the 1811 slave uprising, St. John Parish history, reclaiming the narrative and tourism economy with Dr. Ibrahima Seck and Larry E. Sorapuru Jr. and reflections by Pastor Donald August Sr. and Pastor Freddie L. Howard.
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Political, radical, incendiary: such has been Dread Scott’s artistic practice for the past thirty years, with works that bridge art and activism by intimately connecting the visual with the social. Through mediums ranging from street performance to video, photography, and printmaking, Dread Scott confronts injustices head-on, raisng the uncomfortable question of social responsibility. Curated by...More Please
Dedicated to Victoria, Peggy, Lucy, Suzette, Francoise, Marie Rose and the other unnamed women of the 1811 “rising.” by kai lumumba barrow Raising Cain celebrates the role of enslaved women in the 1811 German Coast Slave Uprising. Using Community Book Center as a symbolic “hush harbor,” the window installation recalls the field as a site for clandestine planning...More Please
