he texture of a body's architecture
The stature of a statue
The posture of too high standing pillars
Too tall to hold
Buildings Built On Buildings
Too Bold To Console
As Bold As Blood
BLACK VELVET - Architectures and Archetypes is an original multidisciplinary performance art work created and premiered by Shamel Pitts, Mirelle Martins and Lucca del Carlo in São Paulo, Nov/2016.
BLACK VELVET is a celebration of the many textures, beauty, delicacy, and strength within us. It Is an art piece that aims to share and reflect on the colorfulness of blackness -especially in regards to black women- in a relationship of love, compassion and camaraderie.
This work researches and shares the sensibility of ideals, models and textures as a projection of self. The dealing within these structures of systems is to discover what is inside of us, between us and around us. To hopefully bridge the distances so that we can see and meet each other. Some systems must be broken, re imagined, in order to reconstruct.
Trailer: Mauricio Pisani
+ ARTISTIC TEAM
Creation and Performance: Shamel Pitts and Mirelle Martins
Choreography: Shamel Pitts
Light and Video mapping: Lucca del Carlo
Collaborative Lighting Artist: Tom Love
Costume Designer: David Gap
Photos and Videos: Mauricio Pisani, Alex Apt, Wilian Aguiar
Audio: Tentáculo Áudio (Ed Côrtes)
Graphic Design: Robson Simon
Executive Producer: Anna Zêpa
Collaborate
Black Velvet is an international project made possible with the collaboration of many individuals, institutions and professionals.
We are open to other areas of support as well, like barters with hotels, restaurants, art institutions and brands.
If you would like to collaborate please fell free to send us a message.
The critical fights that we're immersed in today -- those for racial, gender, and labor equality -- are rooted in struggles from decades ago.
With recent events, I have to admit to feeling that perhaps we aren't making progress on these crucial issues, and in fact we might be going backwards. And that's when I know I need to find inspiration from the great community activists who have come before us.
One such organizing giant is Dolores Huerta, who worked tirelessly for justice and became one of the most defiant feminists of the twentieth century.
She's the subject of Dolores, a new documentary that tells the story of Huerta's pivotal work as an equal partner in co-founding the first farm workers' union with Cesar Chavez, and explores why her enormous contributions have gone largely unrecognized until now.
The IFC Center in New York City will be screening Dolores starting this weekend -- running through September 7 -- take a look at the schedule, and see if you can attend.
This film offers an intimate and unprecedented access to Huerta, and reveals the raw, personal stakes involved in committing one's life to fighting for social change -- which, at 87, she continues fighting to this day.
I hope you will be able to attend this screening, and become as inspired as I am by Dolores Huerta -- a rebel. Activist. Feminist. Mother.
See if you can attend a screening:
https://my.ofa.us/Attend-A-
National Organizing Director
Organizing for Action
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The critical fights that we're immersed in today -- those for racial, gender, and labor equality -- are rooted in struggles from decades ago. With recent events, I have to admit to feeling that perhaps we aren't making progress on these crucial issues, and in fact we might be going backwards. And that's when I know I need to find inspiration from the great community activists who have come before us. One such organizing giant is Dolores Huerta, who worked tirelessly for justice and became one of the most defiant feminists of the twentieth century. She's the subject of Dolores, a new documentary that tells the story of Huerta's pivotal work as an equal partner in co-founding the first farm workers' union with Cesar Chavez, and explores why her enormous contributions have gone largely unrecognized until now. The IFC Center in New York City will be screening Dolores starting this weekend -- running through September 7 -- take a look at the schedule, and see if you can attend. This film offers an intimate and unprecedented access to Huerta, and reveals the raw, personal stakes involved in committing one's life to fighting for social change -- which, at 87, she continues fighting to this day. I hope you will be able to attend this screening, and become as inspired as I am by Dolores Huerta -- a rebel. Activist. Feminist. Mother. See if you can attend a screening: https://my.ofa.us/Attend-A- National Organizing Director Organizing for Action
QUARTAS LITERÁRIAS
Literary Wednesdays is a program developed to advance Brazilian Literature in New York, by inviting artists and intellectuals of paramount quality to present their work following with an open discussion with the public. The program is our longest running feature e presented over the course of the years lectures, readings and conferences about various themes and authors in Portuguese language.
In the debates that follow each presentation, the guest speaker, the curator and the audience can interact and exchange ideas.
Our audience is composed of invitees, students, academics and members of the community with an interest in Brazilian literature.
Literary Wednesdays is a program to promote literature the last Wednesday of every month. Entrance to these events is free of charge.
Past writers include:Cristiane Bouger (Bouger Art Studio), Stephen Bocskay (Harvard University), Cássia Maia (Cássia Maia Fine Art on Silk), Yara Maura Silva (Maurício de Sousa Produções),Beti Rozen (Sem Fronteiras Press), and Diana Menasché, among others. LIZA RENIA PAPI Curator
Brazilian born Liza Renia Papi moved to New York as an international correspondent for major Brazilian magazines, Bloch editors and Abril publishers. Papi holds and MFA from CUNY and also studied contemporary dance with Ivy Epstein at Dance June Lewis & Company. She lectured on Popular Culture and taught courses at El Museo del Barrio, the Queens Museum of Art and the Solomon Guggenheim Museum. Papi works for LeAp (Learning through an Expanded Arts program) and teaches Art Appreciation as an Adjunct Associate Professor at St. John’s University since 2002.
Papi’s style is contemporary focusing on installation and mixed-media painting. She is part of the traveling exhibition “Artists Archive: The Alternet”, curated by Carla Rae Johnson. In addition, she is a published author at Rizzoli International Editors and at LEAPublishers. Her next book, Understanding What We are Seeing, will be released by Cognella Publishers in the end of 2015. Papi’s last curatorial exhibition was the Oral Tradition Symposium, in November 2013. She also curated Cordel Literature, in November 2012 and Between Light and Shadow, in 2011, for the Brazilian Endowment for the Arts. Her previous work includes curating African Influences on Contemporary Altars in the Americas, in 2008, at Geoffrey Yet Art Gallery with a related lecture at the VI International of Ritual and Representation in Havana, Cuba, February 2009.
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