Don’t miss our Kinstillatory Summer Fire 🔥 July 11, 6-8 pm in the back garden at Abrons Arts Center with unrelentingly gorgeous offerings from Danielle Olana Jagelski, Ty Fierce Metteba, and Ms.Josephine. Gather with us, the honey locust, evening light, sonic poems, viola callings, song. The fires this spring and summer have been inspiring, tender, familial, remedying. This is the fire before our summer pause. See you there!
Kinstillatory Mappings in Light and Dark Matter is hosted, held, and lightly curated by Emily Johnson and Karyn Recollet. The fire is central and communities are invited to GATHER HERE as artists and organizers articulate our collective futures, our otherwise possibilities. Fireside, we bring practices, grammars and needs forward and through the portals fire allows. The fire itself is process, a way to bring us out of the catastrophe of now. A lot is happening in the time/space envelope of the kinstillatory that is care, that is necessary. This is a practice of provocating. This is an offering of seed, of vessel, of protection, of becomingness.
Ms.Josephine former name known to some as Henu Josephine Tarrant, is a lifetime NYC native community member descending from the Rappahannock, Ho-Chunk, and Kuna nations. She will be sharing her newest original songs created for her EP SERPENT set to record in 2024. The songs she will be sharing are what she hopes becomes the soundtrack of the life of a spiritual indigenous femme surviving the urban landscape . Speaking to death, rebirth, empowerment, sexuality, and native cosmologies in the ever changing metropolis of New York City. Her debut single 'don't miss the sunshine' can be found on all music streaming apps & platforms and she encourages everyone to listen to her newest summer release 'SkyRockets' written & performed with Jayden Avery Love. She also encourages anyone who enjoys her tunes to check out her music video for 'don't miss the sunshine' on YouTube directed by Mi'kMaq New York Native Frankie Pedersen.
Danielle Olana Jagelski is a composer, conductor, and creative producer. She is the Artistic Director of Renegade Opera, Producer for First Nation Performing Arts, and Faculty at Manhattan School of Music Pre-College Division.
A fierce advocate for equity in artistic spaces and citizen of the Oneida Nation/Red Cliff Band of Ojibwe, Danielle is especially passionate about Decolonization through collective creation and performance.
Her performances have been described:
“At once timeless and of its time, it expands your heart and mind with every note, telling a story of grief and love that is as honest as it is hopeful.” (Oregon ArtsWatch, 2021)
An avid composer of song, opera, choir, and music for theatre, recent premieres have been by New Native Theatre, Voices of Ascension, Hear Us Hear Them Ensemble, Artemis Singers, and American Patriots Project among others. Her works have been performed throughout the country including at Roulette Intermedium, Performance Space New York, The Green Room 42, and Shaking the Tree Theatre.
As a conductor she is sought out for her execution of contemporary works, and has worked with companies such as Opera Theatre Saint Louis, Anchorage Opera, Opera Ithaca, and City Lyric Opera. She has received grants from The Plimpton Foundation, Oregon Regional Arts and Cultures Foundation, and Opera America as well as receiving awards from the National Opera Association for her passionate work in contemporary opera.
Ty Fierce Metteba has accumulated an assortment of skills in pursuit of what sparks passion not only in the themselves but in community to motivate and galvanize sustainable solutions to intergenerational poverty and trauma. As a Diné speaker at qualms with reclamation, revitalization, and renewal, the responsibility to demonstrate reciprocity for the continuation of my culture and community has brought far from my homelands but with trust to find my strengths and weaknesses in how to best help community. In being at odds with language, polyglots have inspired me to at least understand the universal languages of math and music, so I can bridge further concepts with the other languages I speak and learn…
Presented with support from the Mid Atlantic Folk and Traditional Arts – Community Projects program of Mid Atlantic Arts with support from the National Endowment for the Arts.