LEAN IN: Creative placemaking workshop series at AARLCC

Join Hued Songs and Arsimmer McCoy in this month's creative placemaking workshop:

Po Lazarus, where participants will explore how Black song has always carried memory, labor, and liberation. The workshop will take you inside the structure of chants and working songs from Plantation hymns and field songs, through Jim Crow era working songs, Civil Rights era chants, and contemporary protest lyrics.

Participants will be guided to create their own song or chant lyrics informed by a personal cultural/historical moment (personal, communal, local, and beyond) using the poetic style of an Ode; transforming personal experience into powerful expression.

Workshop materials and refreshments will be provided, and those attending are encouraged to bring personal archival materials with them to inspire their own process, and contribute to the collective's.

Items can include but are not limited to;

• photographs
• letters
• figurines/toys/sculptures

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Hued Songs is now being hosted inside of AARLCC , which will serve as our artistic home base for the next two years!

Every month we curate a creative placemaking workshop featuring artists within our ecosystem who will guide participants to engage with Black history and artistic expression in meaningful, interactive ways.

Expect to explore and activate YOUR creativity through; writing, movement, sound, instrumentation and visual artistic mediums to be activated.

Info: Coming out of the legacy of plantation field songs - through the Jim Crow chain gang system, our songs stayed with us, later becoming chants of protest in Civil Rights Movement, and contemporary liberation struggles. This workshop will look to the hymn “Po Lazarus” as inspiration, deconstructing it's structure, meaning, cadence and style to then write (y)our own, using the style of poetic Ode.

Host or Publisher Hued Songs