mouf//full at Grace Cathedral

mouf//full at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco on 04 February 2024
mouf//full at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco on 04 February 2024
Sunday, February 4, 2024, 1900 - 2100
Mouf//full is an exploration of faith's limits through a Black queer interdisciplinary lens. Co-directed by Gabriele Christian and Chibueze Crouch, collectively known as OYSTERKNIFE, this piece interrogates the role of the Church in personal lineage and its influences across Afro-Diasporic cultures. How has the Church been both balm and barrier? Where can we find a similar divinity in secular spaces: in the club, inside our bodies, through song, by gathering, and within our quotidian lives?

This immersive, participatory performance combines dance-theater, ritual masquerade, song, poetry, and video to explore how Black cultures have transformed Church into a uniquely syncretic cultural space. By preserving African traditions and adapting a colonial ideology into one of radical liberation, spiritual catharsis, and creative spectacle, Black people have made the Church reflect our own images. Still, flaws and cracks in the foundation remain: homophobia, sexism, social conservatism and spiritual violence run rampant in many religious spaces. With the help of our many collaborators - including Marvin K. White, the Saint John Coltrane Church - OYSTERKNIFE will create a different kind of Mas(s) that welcomes and celebrates all peoples, while centering a queer Blackness that births expansive new worlds we can thrive and believe in.

Category: Arts | Performing Arts | Dance

Prices:
General Admission: USD 30.00,
Student/Senior/Artist: USD 25.00,
Patron of the Arts: USD 40.00
Starting Price Per Person
$ 25.00 USD
Other Information
Where
Grace Cathedral
1100 California Street
San Francisco California 94108
United States
( Religious - Church - Temple )

                 
Event Organizer Contact
Rebecca Nestle
concerts@gracecathedral.org
4157496300
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Event ID: 228889

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