The Shwang Out

Curated by Take Some Leave Some

part of Links Hall’s Co-MISSION Curators-In-Residence program

Take Some Leave Some will curate two immersive performance salons: Tati's Butter Joint is an immersive house party in a home in the Pullman neighborhood that includes performances, a live DJ, and food from local Black vendors.

Preceding Tati’s Butter Joint is The Shwang Out, an intimate, experimental gathering at Links Hall that gives "a-call-to-your-girlfriend-before-going-out" and "playing-in-your-grandmother's closet”. This is an offering to Black women in the community to commune with others in preparation for the “get down” at Tati’s. Both experiences will feature the works of four local and international Black women artists and create space for Black women to explore their relationship to joy, sexuality, spiritually, friendship, sisterhood, mothering, and belonging.

Collaborators

I founded Theatre Roscius, a multidisciplinary / experimental physical theatre company. I merge physical theatre with performance art, using the body as the main vehicle to deconstruct the history, generational trauma, memory, mental health, and joy that live within the female body. Using the Black women’s body as the primary entrance point + focus to research and examine those who go unseen. My new play, Medea Refracted, will be in residency at The Getty Villa in April, as well as in residency at The BAC this November, and premiering in The Supergeographic’s new play, HELEN. Fall 2023. Yet, I am most honored to collaborate with Take Some Leave Some, whose work has affected me deeply on many levels and frequencies.
Alexandra Antoine is an interdisciplinary visual artist and cultural apprentice based in Chicago, IL. Her work acknowledges the influences of her Haitian culture and interest in portraiture, food, farming and physical labor in traditional artistic practices of the African diaspora. She honors the different forms and functions of her work in the process of her vision coming into fruition.
Oluwabukunmi Olukitibi is a performance artist, community engager, dance and yoga teacher, a choreographer, & curator from Nigeria. Oluwabukunmi’s movement practice is influenced greatly by life’s trajectories stored in her body memory. She holds Bachelor’s Degrees in English & Literary Studies (University of Abuja) and in Mass Communication from the National Open University of Nigeria. She also holds a Diploma in Traditional & Contemporary Dances of Africa from Ecole Des Sables Senegal, a Diploma in Law from the University of Abuja, Diploma in Project Management from Blue Circle. She is the Founder and Co-Director of Hearts Heartist Creative Center--an arts community development org that produces professional dance performances and uses dance movement, yoga, and other artistic explorations as a tool for social responsibility. She is also the curator of ÌMÍ – a yearly multidisciplinary convergence of artists to create, breathe collectively, and re-direct the pressure of beginnings into creative explorations that engages global themes.

Take Some Leave Some is a multidisciplinary performance collective that uses original sound, choreography, film, and installations to create experiences reflecting and celebrating Black women in our lives—their labor, courage, and wisdom even in their imperfections. Collaborators Keyierra Collins, Brianna Alexis Heath, and Jovan Landry intentionally create experiences inside homes and neighborhood spaces on the Southside of Chicago to reference “home” as a kind of safe space, a place for community where Black women learn foundational lessons, and are taught to be resilient and unapologetic.

Keyierra Collins

Brianna Alexis Heath

Jovan Landry

Partner Organization:

PullmanArts // Block House Gallery

The Block House Gallery is the home of PullmanArts, bringing together arts & culture on Chicago's far south side. We believe that everyone deserves access to art, and that creators should be treated like family.