Honey Pot Performance Presents: LADIES RING SHOUT 2.0
Date/Time
Date(s) - 06/22/2024 - 06/23/2024
7:30 pm
Location
Wirtz Theater (Room 203) Virginia Wadsworth Wirtz Center for Performing and Media Arts
Categories
Chicago – JUNE 22th, 2024 – JUNE 23rd, 2024, Honey Pot Performance (HPP) proudly
announces the restaging and reimagining of their groundbreaking performance piece, Ladies Ring
Shout 2.0. Originally created and performed in 2011, this Black feminist quality-of-life project returns
with a new iteration, featuring HPP’s artistic core and an intergenerational community cast of Black
women and femmes.
Ladies Ring Shout 2.0 integrates creative writing, embodied exercises, and experiments in various
artistic mediums including still images, video, audio, and readings from works by BIPOC women
writers and poets. The performance, a 90-minute multimedia work, weaves together spoken word,
movement, and an original soundtrack to explore the lived experiences of contemporary women of
color.
Performance Dates:
– Saturday, June 22, 2024, at 7:30 p.m.
– Sunday, June 23, 2024, at 3:00 p.m.
Location:
Wirtz Theater (Room 203)
Virginia Wadsworth Wirtz Center for Performing and Media Arts
Chicago Campus, Abbott Hall
710 N. Lake Shore Drive
Original Script and Performance by:
– Felicia Holman
– Abra Johnson
– Meida McNeal
Contributing Artists & Authors:
– Paige Brown
– Elizabeth Nichole Griffin
– Aisha Jean-Baptiste
– Abra Johnson
– Jennifer Ligaya
– Cat Mahari
– Meida McNeal
– Sea M. Miller
– Kimeco Roberson
– Patricia Ruby Simmons
– Jessica Williams
(*Denotes Honey Pot Performance Core Member)
Teaser Trailer: A short, professionally edited video that captures the essence of the show.
Ladies Ring Shout serves as a sounding ground and witness space, addressing the challenges and
pressures faced by women of color. By exploring gender representation, trauma, nurturing, work-life
balance, and spirituality, the performance invites women to transform and heal their perceptions of
personal power through creativity. The performance aims to broaden representational possibilities for
women of color and envisions feminist-focused social justice through artistic expression.
In addition to the performance, Ladies Ring Shout offers a workshop curriculum that encourages
women to employ wellness strategies of deep reflection, play, and experimentation. Utilizing
everyday tools such as words, laughter, secrets, images, rhythm, and movement, the project fosters
coping, healing, and thriving within female support networks.
Join Honey Pot Performance for this transformative experience and witness the power of
performance as therapy, catharsis, and community building.
For tickets and more information, please visit [Northwestern I Wirtz Theater] or contact Andrea
Coleman.
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About Honey Pot Performance
Honey Pot Performance is a creative collaborative chronicling Afro-feminist and Black diasporic
subjectivities amidst the pressures of contemporary global life. Honey Pot Performance enlists
modes of creative expressivity to examine the nuances of human relationships including the ways
we negotiate identity, belonging and difference in our lives and cultural memberships. For more on
Honey Pot Performance– visit honeypotperformance.org.
For press inquiries, contact
Andrea Coleman, Public Relations Associate, Honey Pot Performance
andrea@honeypotperformance.org