UPDATE:
Fam, Friends and Folx!
Thank you for joining us in San Francisco and the encore live stream of Octavia’s Brood: Riding the Ox Home (OBROH) at ODC!
We are still raising funds, but this time to support a beloved OBROH Family Member, LaTefia Bradley. LaTefia was in both the original OBROH ensemble (at Univ. of MD in 2015) AND joined us for a performance in San Francisco (where she now lives, works and dances).
The day of our last performance, LaTefia experienced a severe heart failure. She has since stabilized, but remains in hospital care, where bills and anticipatory at-home care costs are adding up. MKArts is shifting our fundraising to support LaTefia, with a goal to raise the remaining $3,500 to support her recovery.
We know times are tight and inflation has us all being extra mindful of our wallets. We so appreciate any and all that you can give to support LaTefia!
LaTefia in "Bamboo and Rain," by MKArts Univ. of MD Graduate Family, Allen Xing
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Family, Friends and Folks,
Fam, Friends and Folx!
Thank you for joining us in San Francisco and the encore live stream of Octavia’s Brood: Riding the Ox Home (OBROH) at ODC!
We are still raising funds, but this time to support a beloved OBROH Family Member, LaTefia Bradley. LaTefia was in both the original OBROH ensemble (at Univ. of MD in 2015) AND joined us for a performance in San Francisco (where she now lives, works and dances).
The day of our last performance, LaTefia experienced a severe heart failure. She has since stabilized, but remains in hospital care, where bills and anticipatory at-home care costs are adding up. MKArts is shifting our fundraising to support LaTefia, with a goal to raise the remaining $3,500 to support her recovery.
We know times are tight and inflation has us all being extra mindful of our wallets. We so appreciate any and all that you can give to support LaTefia!
LaTefia in "Bamboo and Rain," by MKArts Univ. of MD Graduate Family, Allen Xing
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Family, Friends and Folks,
MKArts is so excited to be performing our work, “Octavia’s Brood: Riding the Ox Home,” (OBROH) on the west coast for the first time. We’re thrilled to be a featured, mainstage production at ODC’s State of Play Festival .
OBROH is MKArt’s largest work, and requires a team of 7 folks to travel across the country, to be joined by a California cast of dancers.
We’re reaching out to our communities to make it all happen.
The show is in two weeks, and we’re trying to raise $5,000 to support this endeavor and community of black, women, queer, trans and gender nonconforming artists.
We thank you so much for your support!
Learn more about MKArts on mkabadoo.com and be in community with us on Instagram @mkartsconnect and Facebook https://m.facebook.com/MKArtsConnect/
OBROH premiered in 2015 to sold out audiences and has been re-staged twice thus far in Washington, DC and Richmond, VA. It is an immersive, site-expansive dance work inspired by the prophetic envisioning of science fiction author, Octavia Butler, and abolitionist, Harriet Tubman. OBROH is a liberatory space to explore the comingling of race, gender, otherness, and story-telling wrapped up in Black people’s bodies. It borrows its title, ”Octavia’s Brood,” from a collection of “short stories for social justice movements” co-edited by Walidah Imarisha and adrienne maree brown. Like Imarisha and brown’s anthology, OBROH is inspired by Octavia Butler’s use of “visionary fiction”, where science fiction is a foundation for imagining socially just worlds, inhabited by richly diverse protagonists. The dance leaps back and forth through time, landing between antebellum South of the mid-1800s to an unknown place at an unknown date in a foreseen future.
We’re reaching out to our communities to make it all happen.
The show is in two weeks, and we’re trying to raise $5,000 to support this endeavor and community of black, women, queer, trans and gender nonconforming artists.
We thank you so much for your support!
Learn more about MKArts on mkabadoo.com and be in community with us on Instagram @mkartsconnect and Facebook https://m.facebook.com/MKArtsConnect/
OBROH premiered in 2015 to sold out audiences and has been re-staged twice thus far in Washington, DC and Richmond, VA. It is an immersive, site-expansive dance work inspired by the prophetic envisioning of science fiction author, Octavia Butler, and abolitionist, Harriet Tubman. OBROH is a liberatory space to explore the comingling of race, gender, otherness, and story-telling wrapped up in Black people’s bodies. It borrows its title, ”Octavia’s Brood,” from a collection of “short stories for social justice movements” co-edited by Walidah Imarisha and adrienne maree brown. Like Imarisha and brown’s anthology, OBROH is inspired by Octavia Butler’s use of “visionary fiction”, where science fiction is a foundation for imagining socially just worlds, inhabited by richly diverse protagonists. The dance leaps back and forth through time, landing between antebellum South of the mid-1800s to an unknown place at an unknown date in a foreseen future.