Reimagine our past to rewrite the future
Reimagine our past to rewrite the future
Reimagine our past to rewrite the future
Reimagine our past to rewrite the future
Words: Annette Covrigaru, RN Healey, Bonita Jackson, Kristin Vining, Fei Li Music: Kristin Vining Dance: Karesia Batam
Music: Simona D Words: Marty Correia, Abeer Hoque, Aurvi Sharma
This program is made possible by the New York City Artist Corps.
When They Have Their Own Historians
Book of Wearable Stories
By Varies Artists and Poets
When They Have Their Own Historians
Book of Wearable Stories
By Varies Artists and Poets
When They Have Their Own Historians
Book of Wearable Stories
By Varies Artists and Poets
Artists' Book miscellanea by Jihyun Hong
Artists' Book miscellanea by Jihyun Hong
Artists' Book miscellanea by Jihyun Hong
Artists' Book miscellanea by Jihyun Hong
Artists' Book by Ban Xian
Artists' Book by Ban Xian
Artists' Book Heteronyms Project by Fei Li
A set of Wearable Stories
Artists' Book Heteronyms Project by Fei Li
Accented Projects is a collective of artists bridging visual arts, words, movement, and performance to create public rituals and interactive storytelling. We aim to support women and non-binary artists, primarily immigrants from the global south, through the open exchange of ideas and innovative projects. Accented Projects would provide an alternative platform for exhibitions, public performances, and other artist-driven work.
Annette Covrigaru is a gay/trans Jewish writer and photographer from Long Island, NY. They are the author of the chapbook Reality In Bloom (Ursus Americanus Press, 2020). Their prose and poetry have been supported by fellowships and residencies from Tin House, Lambda Literary and SAFTA, and can be read at annettecovrigaru.com.
Starr Davis is a poet and essayist whose work has been featured in multiple literary venues such as The Kenyon Review, Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day, the Rumpus, So to Speak, and Transition. She is a 2021–2022 PEN America Writing for Justice Fellow and the creative nonfiction editor for TriQuarterly. She holds an MFA in creative w
Starr Davis is a poet and essayist whose work has been featured in multiple literary venues such as The Kenyon Review, Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day, the Rumpus, So to Speak, and Transition. She is a 2021–2022 PEN America Writing for Justice Fellow and the creative nonfiction editor for TriQuarterly. She holds an MFA in creative writing from the City College of New York and a BA in journalism and creative writing from the University of Akron. She has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize in poetry and creative nonfiction, Best of the Net, and Best American Essays.
RN Healey: Playwright. Screenwriter. Oral historian of queer Americana and violent abstractia. The winner of Mark Twain Award for Comedic Playwriting, Healey has received fellowships from Michael Kanin Playwriting (Kennedy Center/ O'Neill Center), New Georges Audrey Residency, Vermont Studio Center, UCross, Wassaic Project and Byrdcliffe. She earned her MFA from Carnegie Mellon in 2012.
Annpo Huang is a writer. She holds an MA in anthropology and BA in reporting. She was working in international development as a journalist. She is the author of four nonfiction books published in Taiwan, that address the subjects of identity, human rights, and transitional justice.
Peggy Robles-Alvarado is a Dominican and Puerto Rican Jerome Hill Foundation Fellow in Literature, a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee, and an Atticus Review Poetry Contest winner. She is also a BRIO award winner with fellowships from CantoMundo, Desert Nights Rising Stars, The Frost Place, The Home School, VONA, Nalac Leadership Institute,
Peggy Robles-Alvarado is a Dominican and Puerto Rican Jerome Hill Foundation Fellow in Literature, a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee, and an Atticus Review Poetry Contest winner. She is also a BRIO award winner with fellowships from CantoMundo, Desert Nights Rising Stars, The Frost Place, The Home School, VONA, Nalac Leadership Institute, and Communitas America. With advanced degrees in education and an MFA in Performance Studies, this three-time International Latino Book Award winner authored Conversations With My Skin (2011), and Homage To The Warrior Women (2012). Through Robleswrites Productions Inc., she created Lalibreta.online (2021), and The Abuela Stories Project (2016). Her work has been featured on HBO Habla Women, The Dodge Poetry Festival, Lincoln Center, and The Smithsonian Institute. Her poetry appears in Poets.org, Tribes.org, The Quarry, 92Y.org, and NACLA.org. Peggy’s also been published in several anthologies including The Breakbeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNext. For more please visit Robleswrites.com.
Sagirah Shahid is a Black American Muslim poet, arts educator, and performing artist from Minneapolis, MN. She is a recipient of awards, fellowship, and residencies from the Loft Literary Center, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Twin Cities Media Alliance, Shangri La Museum of Islamic Art and Muslim Advocates, Strive Publishing, Wisdom Wa
Sagirah Shahid is a Black American Muslim poet, arts educator, and performing artist from Minneapolis, MN. She is a recipient of awards, fellowship, and residencies from the Loft Literary Center, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Twin Cities Media Alliance, Shangri La Museum of Islamic Art and Muslim Advocates, Strive Publishing, Wisdom Ways, Nicollet Lanterns, Write Like Us, and 826 MSP. Sagirah’s prose and poetry have been published by Mizna, Terrain.org, Winter Tangerine, Puerto Del Sol, Paper Darts, Juked, the Walker Art Center, About Place Journal, and elsewhere. In 2021 Sagirah was co-curator of the City of Saint Paul’s Sidewalk Poetry project. She celebrates her life exploring poetry with the student-writers of Unrestricted Interest, a writing program and consultancy dedicated to supporting neurodivergent learners through creative writing. Sagirah’s children’s activity book Get Involved in a Book Club! is available at Capstone press. Sagirah is a poetry editor with Overtly Lit.
Lauren Hlubny is the NYC Artistic Director of Franco-American company Danse Theatre Surreality (DanseTheatreSurreality.org). Hlubny's work centers image-as-metaphor, physicality, social justice, and interdisciplinary communication, and her research focuses on the intersection of movement and storytelling. Hlubny has been invited to share
Lauren Hlubny is the NYC Artistic Director of Franco-American company Danse Theatre Surreality (DanseTheatreSurreality.org). Hlubny's work centers image-as-metaphor, physicality, social justice, and interdisciplinary communication, and her research focuses on the intersection of movement and storytelling. Hlubny has been invited to share works in France, Italy, Seattle, San Francisco, Birmingham, Knoxville, New Orleans, Portland, and in museums nationwide, including the Dali Museum. Hlubny studies Martial Arts and Anthropology in New York City, where she works as a director who originates works at venues such as Joe’s Pub, Triskelion, The Kraine, Shetler Studios, TADA, Mark Morris, and La MaMa. Fascinated by multifaceted productions, combat, and consent, Hlubny also enjoys working as a dramaturg and acting coach for choreographers, and as a choreographer for theatre and opera. Hlubny was recently an artist-in-residence for her piece “īs, a dance-concerto” this August at the Shed Seattle, and serves as co-director/dramaturg for Dance Action’s latest work “Welcome to Imagi•nation Part 2” premiering October 21st at the Center at West Park.
Taylor Ennen earned a BFA summa cum laude and an Honors Medallion from Florida State University's School of Dance. She also trained in California with the San Francisco Conservatory of Dance and in Paris, France with the Academié American de Danse de Paris. Ennen has worked closely with the organization Movement Exchange as a dance diplom
Taylor Ennen earned a BFA summa cum laude and an Honors Medallion from Florida State University's School of Dance. She also trained in California with the San Francisco Conservatory of Dance and in Paris, France with the Academié American de Danse de Paris. Ennen has worked closely with the organization Movement Exchange as a dance diplomat to Panama, with the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography, and with the Gibney Dance Center Programs Department. She has had the privilege of performing works by Robert Moses, Ohad Naharin, Alex Ketley, Christian Burns, Larry Keigwin, Doug Varone, Gerri Houlihan, and Gwen Welliver, among others. Ennen is also currently working with Vencl Dance and SagaDanceCompany in New York City.
Simona embraces the listeners and transports them into an intriguing atmosphere with a clean, warm, unique sound. Her multicultural upbringings and musical training from the conservatory in Europe to contemporary studies at Berklee College of Music in Boston developed her expressive musicianship that allows her projects to span from class
Simona embraces the listeners and transports them into an intriguing atmosphere with a clean, warm, unique sound. Her multicultural upbringings and musical training from the conservatory in Europe to contemporary studies at Berklee College of Music in Boston developed her expressive musicianship that allows her projects to span from classical to jazz, pop and r&b where she showcases her sensitivity and sophistication as a proliferous songwriter, composer, vocalist, pianist and cellist. Her solo work includes the studio album Always Be and the latest collaboration with the multi artistic platform Accented Projects. She currently lives and works in New York City.
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