Re•Union: "Season of the Sower" Party

Re•Union weekend commences with a party celebrating the launch of our latest publication, Season of The Sower, a comprehensive anthology in dialogue with Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower. The anthology features visual artists, writers and cultural practitioners - like American Artist, Abolish Time, Black Quantum Futurism, and Nykelle DeVivo - who are interested in returning to the earth and creating pathways forward in our ever changing world.

The first half of the evening will include a program of ancestral crafting workshops where guests will keep their hands busy making acorn bread and indigo dyeing precious objects. A light dinner will be served during the workshop portion, with bites from Chaos Kitchen and specialty cocktails from Sure Thing. We’ll then transition the evening to groove with a live DJ set from anthology contributor Ideal Black Female (aka, Mandy Harris Williams). This event is low cost and open to the public, so tell a friend to bring a friend. Stay tuned for more details!

About Tamisha A Tyler

Tamisha A Tyler, PhD, MDiv (she/her) currently serves as Visiting Professor of Theology and Culture, and Theopoetics at Bethany Theological Seminary. A dynamic speaker and facilitator, she hosts workshops and discussion around diversity, community and art. She also works with several arts organizations and projects including Level Ground and Grunewald Guild, and teaches in the areas of Theopoetics, science fiction, theology, and womanist thought. When not working, she enjoys good food and good friends, karaoke, and travel.

About Ideal Black Female (Mandy Harris Williams)

Ideal Black Female (or, Mandy Harris Williams) [she/they] is a multidisciplinary artist and culture worker from New York City, based in Los Angeles. Her musical practice includes Djing, creative audio-textual landscape design, and singing/writing original soulful electronic music. She is a resident at A Club Called Rhonda and premiered the party’s CMYK series at the request of Producer/Musician James Blake. She is recognized by the Dazed 100 List, Cultured Young Artist’s List, and the Huffington Post Culture Shifters List. She has hosted the #BrownUpYourFeed Radio Hour on NTS and is frequent contributor to multimedia outlets including NPR, KCRW, X-Tra, and dis.art.

About yétúndé ọlágbajú

yétúndé ọlágbajú (b. 1990) is a research-based artist, creative producer, and residency director living on Ohlone and Tataviam lands (Bay Area & Los Angeles, CA). Their work roots in a single question: What must we reckon with as we build a future, together? 

With no set answers or expectations, ọlágbajú unravels intricate connections as a means of highlighting our interdependence. They are interested in how our familial, platonic, romantic, and ecological bonds are affected by what we confront in the reckoning. 

Through their social practice they have co-founded and are a member of numerous artist and worker-led collectives, each with liberatory missions and values. An advocate for non-hierarchical working structures, they embrace shared leadership models that challenge white supremacy, by actively rejecting disposability and urgency — two of its guiding tenets.

They hold an MFA from Mills College and are the recipient of multiple awards including a YBCA 100 award and a Headlands Center for the Arts fellowship. They were a recent awardee of The Lightening Fund by LACE [Los Angeles, CA] and resident at Center for Afrofuturist Studies [Iowa City, IA]. They are a co-director and creative producer at Level Ground and began a year-long residency and commission at 500 Capp Street last winter.

About Level Ground

Level Ground is a collaboratively run nonprofit artist collective and production company that critically and creatively engages urgent issues of the contemporary moment. Both the artist collective and production company center queer, trans and POC artist-led projects and initiatives. Notable production projects include FRAMING AGNES which premiered in 2022 Sundance Film Festival where it won the NEXT Innovator Award and Audience Award and went on to win the 2023 GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Documentary, and UNION which premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival where it won a Special Jury Prize for The Art of Change. The Level Ground artist collective and production company reflect the same values and mission, including a commitment to experimentation, collaboration, and care. 

Host or Publisher Level Ground