Drawin Wit Multidimensional Lines!…And Gettin Rhythmless While
doin’ it! Snap! Creates spaces for Black Blackty Blk nonbinary
persons such as myself, to further convey the balancing and
negotiating wit de many hues Black Queer performers experience
both inside and outside African and African American Diasporas as
creatives.
Recently co-founded by PFS student Anuj Vaidya, in collaboration
with Wintun culture-bearer Diana Almendariz, and Just Transitions
organizer Juliette Beck, YoloSol is an intergenerational
“artivist” collective dedicated to sharing stories of the pasts,
presents, and futures embedded in the landscapes and waterways of
the Yolo bioregion.
Isa Leal’s participatory performance asks, Can we practice
pre-colonized ways of knowing while we remain surrounded by the
detritus of the trauma of late stage capitalism? In Systems from
our flesh, our emotional memory to oceans. What are we feeling
with?
PFS Alum Caro Novella is serving as the Wayne G. Basler Chair of
Excellence for the Integration of the Arts, Rhetoric and Science
at East Tennessee State University during the spring 2024
semester.
