Weeksville Watchnight: Spirit Sensibilities

Our ongoing film series Weeksville Watchnight returns Thursday August 27th from 6-9pm.

We will be joined by spiritual practitioner and educator Juju Bae as we screen a series of short films focused on the Africana Spiritualities that exist across the Diaspora. We’ll explore themes of memory, ancestral mysticism, and the use of art to address the mischaracterizations of these long standing traditions.

The screening will be followed by a talkback with artist and filmmaker SHAN Wallace.

Zora Neale Hurston Fieldwork (1928)

Dir. Zora Neale Hurston

6:47

Commandment Keeper Church, Beautfort South Carolina (1940)

Dir. Zora Neale Hurston

15:43

FIELD NOTES: Trinidad and Tobago Ghost stories (2014)

Dir.Vashti Harrison

17:20

Zajota and the Boogie Spirit (1989)

Dir. Ayoka Chenzira

18:41

Graves in the Garden (2021)

Dir. Jake Meginsky and Sarah Lanzillotta

6:19

Song of Voodoo (1931)

Dir.Tom Terriss

8:13

Water Ritual an Urban Rite of Purification (1979)

Dir.Barbara McCullough

6:00

Doors open at 6pm with the screening beginning promptly at 6:30pm

Juju Bae

Osunfunmilola affectionately known as Juju Bae is a practitioner of multiple West African and diasporic traditions, including Hoodoo, Ifa, and is an Ọṣun priestess in the Yoruba Orisha tradition. She is the author of The Book of Juju: Africana Spirituality for Healing, Liberation, and Self-Discovery, a work of creative nonfiction that combines memoir, history, and guided prompts for readers to strengthen their ancestral spiritual practice. She is the founder of Juju Bae, a multimedia Black-centric resource that seeks to demystify traditional spirituality through storytelling and lighthearted conversations with twenty-first-century relevance. She is the host of the award winning show A Little Juju podcast, which encourages people of the Diaspora to find a home in Africana spiritual spaces and thought. She starred in the 2023 Hulu paranormal docuseries Living for the Dead, produced by Kristen Stewart. Juju is a sought-after spiritual teacher and holds a BA in Psychology from Spelman College.

Shan Wallace
SHAN Wallace (b. 1991) is a nomadic, award-winning interdisciplinary artist, archivist, and image-maker from Baltimore, MD. Her practice is rooted in a wide range of image-making techniques. Wallace investigates how images shift, degrade, and transform as they move between mediums. Her work is held in both public and private collections across the U.S., including The Baltimore Museum of Art, The Mint Museum, The Whitney Museum, and Johns Hopkins University, as well as various private collections.