ImageNation & Reel Sisters present Black Love Manifesto: A Suite in 5 Movements
Black love manifesto: A Suite in 5 movements
Black Love Manifesto: A Suite in 5 movements uses photography, video, poetry and music to illuminate and celebrate the beauty and power of Blackness. It is a poetic mosaic of Black history, Black resilience, resistance and revolution, Black excellence, Black Joy and Black Love. It’s a medicinal balm for a weary and wounded people during these horrifying times. It is a battery for perseverance, remembering and hope
Reel Sisters Tea & Cinema joins ImageNation’s LUNCH BREAK in an exclusive conversation with artist/activist/author Liza Jessie Peterson on her short Black Love Manifesto: A Suite in 5 Movements.
Reel Sisters curator Kim Singleton, ImageNation founder Moikgantsi Kgama and Liza discuss the short’s tribute to love, healing, family, art and Blackness. The virtual screening was held on Nov. 3, 2021.
Reel Sisters Tea & Cinema Series is sponsored, in part, by the National Endowment for the Arts, West Harlem Development Corp. (Harlem Series online & presented in Harlem venues), Brooklyn Arts Council (online and Brooklyn venues), Humanities NY and the New York State Council on the Arts. Reel Sisters Tea & Cinema is held monthly. Join our mailing list to receive updates.
Liza Jessie Peterson
Liza Jessie Peterson, the author of All Day: A Year of Love And Survival, is an artivist; an actress, playwright, poet, author and youth advocate who has been steadfast in her commitment to incarcerated populations both professionally and artistically for over two decades. Her critically acclaimed one woman show, the peculiar patriot, was nominated for a drama desk award and was featured at the 2020 democratic national convention, and is now available on audible. Her play was recently featured at the pulitzer center’s fall 2020 program and a documentary is currently in production about her performance at the notorious angola penitentiary where she performed the play in front of 700 inmates and was live streamed throughout the entire prison. She was featured in Ava DuVernay’s Emmy Award winning documentary, The 13th, and was a consultant on Bill Moyers documentary Rikers (pbs).
It is Powerful! It is Truth! It is Timely! I want to meet Liza Jessie Peterson. I love her passion and we (Black People) are all blessed that she is living in her purpose. May the ancestors continue to walk with her and open all doors so that she can continue to shine and bring truth to awake those of us still asleep.
Much Blessings,
Dr. Yaa Élombé, D.Min
Manbo Makoute
This amazing film needs to be seen everywhere. What a love letter – To elders to reflect on their triumphant survival despite the odds, and continue to love and hope, to the youth to receive as the Manifesto to be as bad as they want to be. Thank you Liza and everyone involved for reminding black folks of our place in divinity.
Excellent and profound! A mist watch, listen, and learn composition.
Just watched the film and my gawd!! Love, love, love it! The words in and of itself are much needed & powerful, but when you and the images & music it becomes Beautiful-er.
Thank you for your spirit, words and Work.
I will mos def be sharing the link and sharing praises of this film and imploring & challenging folks to watch.
Love is Love…
It’s an incredibly wonderful treat to see two of my favorite writers of verse–Kim and Liza–on one amazing program! –Adrienne Ingrum