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Water Acknowledgement, and Performance by The Wah.zha.zhe Puppet Theatre

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Join us at Sugarloaf Mound for a closing event of Counterpublic 2023 featuring a performance by The Wah.zha.zhe Puppet Theatre, a water acknowledgement with artist Anita Fields, and a conversation between Dr. Andrea Hunter (Osage Nation) and Fields, sited at her WayBack installation adjacent to the mound.

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New Red Order and Cahokia Intertribal Noise Symposium Presents: "The Gathering"

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New Red Order and Cahokia Intertribal Noise Symposium Presents: The Gathering, an innovative live event format that splits the difference between the Gathering of Nations Pow Wow and the Gathering of the Juggalos. Combining public assembly, academic symposium, music festival, and film screening, the two day event will conjure new pasts and ancient futures of the-place-currently-called St. Louis. Artists, activists and academics share the line-up with rappers and noise musicians in order to present a discursive and hallucinatory trip towards collectively convoking crimes against reality.

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Performance at the Pulitzer: Laura Ortman

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Experience the “sculpting sounds” of White Mountain Apache musician and artist Laura Ortman. Performing in the Pulitzer’s main gallery, Ortman will play a solo set inspired by HeavyShield’s aiyo niitahtaan (2023) and other works included in the exhibition, Faye HeavyShield: Confluences.

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New Red Order and Cahokia Intertribal Noise Symposium Presents: "The Gathering"

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New Red Order and Cahokia Intertribal Noise Symposium Presents: The Gathering, an innovative live event format that splits the difference between the Gathering of Nations Pow Wow and the Gathering of the Juggalos. Combining public assembly, academic symposium, music festival, and film screening, the two day event will conjure new pasts and ancient futures of the-place-currently-called St. Louis. Artists, activists and academics share the line-up with rappers and noise musicians in order to present a discursive and hallucinatory trip towards collectively convoking crimes against reality.

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Raven Chacon "Drum Grid" Performance

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Raven Chacon’s Drum Grid is a composition for numerous drummers, each positioned on a street corner throughout the Benton Park neighborhood. Beginning with a single drum hit from one player, subsequent drummers imitate the sound of the previous drummer down the block, with the gesture evolving as it travels around the neighborhood.

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Victoria Donaldson + Jen Everett, Sonic Archive

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Join us at Profield Reserve for an interactive workshop on the power of sound. Participants will discuss how music and sonics hold memory and narratives across time and space. We will listen and think together about how sound is passed down in families and communities and how sonics map the history of a place. Victoria Donaldson, owner of Northside Soul record shop will share her experiences as a DJ and keeper of sound, and together we will compose a collaborative mix. After the workshop, enjoy spins by the Sage DJ collective and vending by Northside Soul.

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Black Healers Collective, Public Healing Ceremony

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For Counterpublic 2023, The Black Healers Collective will be organizing a healing space and ritual around spaces affected by immense traumas along Jefferson that require deep communal healing. This is a public session for the St. Louis community. Registration is required.

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"Dust" Performance with Kevin Beasley, Darrell Jones, Ralph Lemon, and Okwui Okpokwasili

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This performance will be held near the (imagined) site of Josephine Baker's childhood home. (Her home, among many, was included in the demolition of the Mill Creek Valley neighborhood.)

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Dail Chambers + Jen Everett, Ecology Archive

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Water is life. The public will join together to honor/heal the water, water systems and Mississippi River through sound art and ritual. Chambers will lead the healing experience. In this site specific ekphrastic response, Chambers attempts to encapsulate the movement of people, water and nature through sound.

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Artists in Conversation: Action/Abstraction Redefined

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To celebrate the opening the Saint Louis Art Museum’s exhibition Action/Abstraction Redefined: Modern Native Art, 1940s–1970s, Alexander Brier Marr, SLAM’s Associate Curator for Native American Art, will moderate the discussion with artists Anita Fields, Linda Lomahaftewa, and Alfred Young Man will discuss their time at the Institute of American Indian Arts and reflect on how it shaped their work.

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2nd Annual Saint Louis Juneteenth "FREE-DOME" Celebration

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The 2nd Annual Saint Louis Juneteenth "FREE-DOME" Celebration presented by Saint LAAA FaB Inc. is a family-oriented event celebrating the rich heritage, history, and culture of people of African descent. We will come together to show that we are UNITED and to celebrate.

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Building Sustainable Futures: Solidarity Economies Visioning Session

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In this workshop with Solidarity Economy STL at CF:STL Lab, we will invite participants to imagine what it would be like to live in a solidarity economy where all of the things a community needs–like housing, schools, farms and food production, local governance structures, art and culture, healthcare and healing, and transportation–are controlled and governed by everyday people. Through interactive discussions and visioning exercises, we will examine the potential for building these models and envision how solidarity economy principles can be applied to housing and other systems in our communities.

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Juan William Chávez, Native Bee Workshop + Open House

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Native Bee Stewardship Network aims to Decolonize the Hive by expanding our view of “Save the Honey Bees” to pivot towards advocating and supporting Native Bees. This hour-long knowledge sharing workshop celebrates native pollinators and their unique relationship with native plants through self-expression, environmental stewardship, and community building.

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Confronting Housing Presence[s], Imagining Housing Futures

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Get ready to envision a future where housing in St. Louis is equitable and sustainable! Come join us for an immersive experience that blends engaging discussions, artful performances, captivating storytelling, and interactive activities to explore the past, present, and futures of housing in St. Louis - with an emphasis on historically marginalized communities most impacted by limited housing access, choice, and stability. We'll explore the interplay of race, class, and housing, and brainstorm ways to take action toward sustainable and just #housingfutures. Come expand your knowledge base, connect with your neighbors working toward housing justice, and help shape a more just and livable St. Louis.

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Will Rawls, Regular Degular Screening (2 of 3)

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REGULAR DEGULAR is a response to the disparate architectural, economic, and historical tensions that lie on the surface of St. Louis, created by Will Rawls, a multidisciplinary artist working with choreography, performance, video, sculpture, works on paper, and installation.

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Gallery Talk at the Kemper: "Torkwase Dyson: Bird and Lava"

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Hosted by the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, join Curator Meredith Malone for a talk exploring how the artworks on view in “Torkwase Dyson: Bird and Lava” reflect the artist's engagement with the histories of Black liberation, abstraction, and new world building.

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Robert Green "Think, Imagine, Reclaim" Exhibition Opening Reception + Artist Talk

Join us on Saturday, June 3rd for Robert E. Green’s Opening Exhibition Reception for “Think, Imagine, Reclaim" at Rudo Studio!

+ Additional entertainment commences at 1:00pm and ends at 2:45pm.
+ Robert Green's artist talk begins at 3:00pm.

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Tracing Histories, Workshop

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During this “Tracing Histories” workshop led by artist and instructor Carrie Keasler, with support from Central Print Director Marie Oberkirsch, participants will engage in discussion and collaborative map-making activities based on St. Louis histories, especially those that have been erased.

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Black Space Agency Movie Day

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We invite you to join us for a screening of documentaries and short films that explore topics of Black space, time, housing, and land justice, from The Pruitt-Igoe Myth, to the Black Artists Group documentary, and short films such as Afronauts and an episode of Cosmic Slop called the Space Traders, based off of the short story by critical race theorist Derrick Bell. Light snacks and refreshments will be served.

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Art and Housing Justice: New Models for Equitable Housing Futures

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Join StL Art Place and Dutchtown South Community Corporation at CF: STL Lab for a dynamic workshop that focuses on community-centered solutions for equitable development, housing stability, and neighborhood vitality, using strategies into the intersection of art and housing justice.

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Jen Everett, Photographic Archive

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Led by Jen Everett, participants will learn and share strategies for record keeping and preservation while highlighting differences between institutional and vernacular frameworks. We will focus on the practices of informal archivists and keepers* within our own families and communities, subverting the myth of the institutional archive as the sole source of true or official knowledge. This offering will center histories that have been suppressed, omitted, or are at risk of being lost.

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Juan William Chávez: Native Bee Workshop + Open House

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Though the native bee sanctuary is sited at Chávez’s Northside Workshop, the project invites visitors and participants to reexamine their assumptions about vacancy throughout the city. Empty lots are bee sanctuaries. To recognize vacancy as sanctuary is to also remember the Native and Black lives that have been displaced, and ultimately to see the mechanisms of dispossession and intentional property blighting at work.

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A Conversation with Will Rawls and Katherine Simóne Reynolds + Regular Degular Screening

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Join us for the first screening of REGULAR DEGULAR, a film by Will Rawls, as well as a conversation between Rawls and curator Katherine Simóne Reynolds.

REGULAR DEGULAR is a response to the disparate architectural, economic, and historical tensions that lie on the surface of St. Louis, created by Will Rawls, a multidisciplinary artist working with choreography, performance, video, sculpture, works on paper, and installation.

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A Conversation with Anita Fields and Faye HeavyShield

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Join artists Anita Fields and Faye HeavyShield for this special conversation about their work. The discussion coincides with HeavyShield's career-spanning solo exhibition at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation and the launch of Fields' project for Counterpublic 2023, a triennial civic exhibition that weaves contemporary art into the life of St. Louis. Hear the artists consider their locally exhibited works and share connections across their practices.

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Sacred Saturdays: Sound Healing + Meditation

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Simiya Sudduth is a mother, artist, and educator currently living and practicing in St. Louis. For Counterpublic 2023, Sudduth’s projects include a number of murals and a mobile healing studio, Tha Muthaship, based out of Rung for Women, a nonprofit that promotes economic and social empowerment for women in St. Louis. Tha Muthaship is a mobile healing and arts space nestled inside a repurposed 1970s Terry Travel Trailer bringing visual art, mindfulness, healing, and wellness modalities to communities in St. Louis.

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Fair Housing Futures in STL: Using Fair Housing Policies to Advance Housing Justice

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Please join The Luminary for Fair Housing Futures in STL: Using Fair Housing Policies to Advance Housing Justice, the first of six programs hosted by Black Quantum Futurism in conjunction with their Summer Exhibition — Community Futures: Space Time Liberation Lab.

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Black Quantum Futurism: Community Futures: Space-Time Liberation Lab, Opening Reception

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Join us at the Luminary for Black Quantum Futurism: Community Futures: Space-Time Liberation Lab (CF:STL Lab), an Afrofuturist housing and land justice lab.

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Mendi + Keith Obadike's "SlowDrag" Procession

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Experience Mendi + Keith Obadike’s SlowDrag, a sound installation consisting of cars moving through the St. Louis Place neighborhood playing numerous simultaneous remixes of a song (an interpolation of “Black Angel Blues”) created by the artists.

Their sonic procession relies on the shape and form of the neighborhood to determine the route. Curated by Allison Glenn and realized in part in collaboration with Muhammad “Mvstermind” Austin. Departing from St. Louis Place Park, the procession will last approximately one hour.

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St. Louis Place Neighborhood + Studio Tours

Engage the St. Louis Place neighborhood’s history and future as Counterpublic 2023 artist Robert Green will host an open house and studio tour; curator Allison Glenn, Matthew Angelo Harrison and Calvin B. Riley will open the George B. Vashon Museum for tours, leading to St. Louis Place Park at 2pm.

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David Adjaye's Program at "Asaase III"

An inside look with David Adjaye of the realization of “Asaase III,” the artist’s first permanent public artwork that is being realized on site through an innovative rammed earth technique in view of the community throughout the run of Counterpublic, at which time it will be donated to The Griot as a part of its permanent collection.

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