Wednesday, December 6, 7:00 pm
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Celebration of Women’s Power
I Remember Her by Moyosolaoluwa Olowokure
Moyosola is a Nigerian Poet and Digital creator. She engages with her ever-growing audience through mindful audio-visual content geared toward psycho-social and cultural development.
Sistersongs by Rachael Sage
Rachael brings selections from her critically acclaimed “Sistersongs” to the IHRAF on the heels of releasing her 15th full-length album, “The Other Side”. Sage has been at the forefront of the NYC indie women’s music scene for over 20 years, having founded MPress Records to release her and many other artists’ work. Sage’s empowering lyrics and genre-crossing musical compositions have been described as “wildly expressive” by Paste Magazine. Informed by her own experiences as a survivor of domestic abuse, sexual assault, and cancer while also harnessing a seemingly unlimited amount of idealism and hope for a better future, Sage’s “Sistersongs” take the listener on a journey exploring our common humanity while challenging us with difficult questions and a world reimagined, where inclusion and compassion reign supreme. www.rachaelsage.com
Rachael is a New York-based singer-songwriter and visual artist; a 6-time Independent Music Award Winner and recipient of the Grand Prize in the John Lennon Songwriting Contest, Sage has collaborated with Judy Collins, Dar Williams, and Ani DiFranco.
Sacred Women by Moving Spirits
Sacred Women is a dance that honors Black women and their role in society as healers through the traditional dances of Oya, coming from the sacred Yoruba movements; the Cabolco, coming from the sacred Indigenous movements from present-day Brazil; and movements coming from the descendants of African ancestors in the United States.
Monique LeFlore, Suzi Alila, and Tamara Williams. Moving Spirits, Inc. is a contemporary arts organization dedicated to performing, researching, documenting, cultivating, and producing arts of the African diaspora; we believe that the creative arts should be used as a vehicle to bring awareness to injustices and obstacles impacting our communities.
No More Fairy Mary’s by Steph Prizhitomsky
Girlhood in motion is a ballet up close. Sweat, blood, tears, and all. Mary wakes up in a body that does not feel her own, in a world she knows not the rules of, with only the choices to sink or to swim.
Steph Prizhitomsky (playwright/director) is a playwright/screenwriter, co-founder of the White Rabbit Film Festival, and editor in chief of Suits and Sage Magazine, currently studying film at New York University. Daniel Oliver Lee (production designer) is three rats in a trench coat who are often mistaken for an award winning multidisciplinary artist. Haley Odum (Mary) is a multi-hyphenated artist and creative director; she currently attends New York University as a filmmaker.
Viable by Cate Wiley
In a comic triptych, Viable probes the paradox of the female body in twenty-first century America. On the one hand, sex positivity, SlutWalks, no more fat shaming! On the other, the end of legal abortion in half the country. Why is half the American body politic still a problem, and what’s a person with a uterus to do?
Madelyn Chapman trained at the Drama Studio in London and Oberlin College and then hung her creative hat at the Castillo Theatre, where for over 30 years she worked as a performer, director, teacher, producer, and fundraiser. Aurélie Harp is a French American actress and improviser, a filmmaker, a creative coach and a performance activist who trained and worked in Paris, London and NYC. https://eastsideinstitute.org/developing-across-borders/ , https://www.womanityplay.com/ Stephanie King holds an MFA in Acting from Brooklyn College and MA in Theatre from Villanova University. Sadie Rosales is a New York City based vocalist, composer and educator with an extensive body of work in contemporary classical music and improvisation. Starshima Trent: Theater saved my life. Cate Wiley is honored to showcase a second play with IHRAF; her tragedy, “Sheltered,” based on stories by women experiencing homelessness, will be produced at The Cell in New York next year. Kim Yancey is a native New Yorker and currently can be heard as Wanda in the Heart podcast, “Supreme: The Battle for Roe.”
La Monica by Artist Collective
This multidisciplinary performance work represents women's freedom of choice with movement, texts and music.
Sayoko Kojima is a multidisciplinary artist whose works represent transformations of the flow of time and objects. Debra Disbrow creates, performs, and directs ensemble and solo works that cross disciplines of music, dance, and theater. Joseph Jones, a graduate of The Juilliard School, is bassoonist and composer based in Manhattan.