Get Free Friday with Artists-in-Residence Nikomeh Anderson and Melissa Ferrer Civil

Title: Get Free Friday
Date & Time: Friday, September 29, 2023 7-9PM

Join BAC Fall Multidisciplinary Residents Nikomeh Anderson and Melissa Ferrer Civil for their FREE Community Program: Get Free Friday!

Gather round the fire pit, find your inner freedom in community through the magic of words, conversations, music, and sharing. The spirit of collaboration and ecstatic joy is what has always connected humans in circles around the fire. We hope you join us in our circle to heal, give voice to express yourself, dance, share poetry, and listen to each other. Share space to return deeper into ourselves, our ancestors and descendants, and live liberation through our intentional relating.

Registration encouraged, walk-ins welcome!

About Nikomeh
Nikomeh Anderson, also known as Nik, (They/he) is a BK/Lenape land based Multidisciplinary Performer + Content Creator, Teaching Artist + Holistic Facilitator, and Erotic Creative + Intimacy Captain. They are an Event + Creative Project Producer with their intentional healing justice Black, Trans+Queer, Neurodiverse+Disabled Artist Collective house: Community Oasis Igniting Liberation or COIL. Their primary artistic mediums are movement, poetry, acting, music/singing (folk/rock bari-tenor), and energy work.

Recent credits: Bethany Arts Community Poetry Residency-The Dystopia of Normalcy; Shared Sentences, Houses on the Moon; Galatea, MJ Kaufman; The Civility of Albert Cashiers, Trans Entertainment Guild. https://linktr.ee/wickedsirnik

About Melissa
Melissa Ferrer Civil (she/they) is a poet, organizer and educator living on Kaw, Kickapoo and Oceti Sakowin lands (Kansas City, MO). A lot of their work deals with the impact of oppressive institutions upon the mind, heart, body and soul of marginalized individuals as well as the reclamation and redefining of community. You can find out more about them and their work at their website: www.melissaferrerand.com

This event is a Fall Multidisciplinary Residency Community Program. As part of a residency at BAC, we ask each artist to build and facilitate a Community Program. Community Programs are a unique opportunity for both artists-in-residence and our local community to gather, engage, and be in conversation with one another through art. Community Programs are free engagements open to the public and/or in collaboration with a local community partner.