Urban Bush Women

T H E U B W W A Y: Tune in TOMORROW, Wednesday, 1/27 7:30 PM ET Meeting the Moment with Michael Mwenso Part of The Center for the Performing Arts at Penn State’s Fierce Urgency Festival

T H E U B W W A Y: Congratulations to our @JunebugNOLA family for becoming a recipient of #TheBlackSeed Initiative! #Repost @junebugnola ... At a time when the nation needs to hear our stories more than ever, we are beyond honored to be a recipient of the #TheBlackSeed initiative! The Black Seed, a national strategic initiative focused on creating impact and thrivability for Black theater institutions, is providing close to 100 Black theaters across the country with one- or two-year grants ranging from $10,000 to $150,000. This is the first iteration in a long-term strategy for the company. We are excited to be among such incredible organizations as we collectively build the new American theater. We have always and will always uplift Black stories because #BlackStoriesMatter, #BlackTheaterMatters, #BlackArtMatters, #BlackLivesMatter! #TheBlackSeed Check out the American Theatre Magazine article on The Black Seed with the link in [@JunebugNOLA’s] bio.

T H E U B W W A Y: TONIGHT! Thursday Jan 21 6 PM ET UBW Choreographic Center Fellow and family member Paloma McGregor joins Yusha-Marie Sorzano on Black Dance Stories! Visit the YouTube link in @blackdancestories bio or linktr.ee/blackdancestories to tune in.

T H E U B W W A Y: Celebrating the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail, April 16, 1963.... We continue to uplift the power of dance to support social justice and our potential to use movement to build equity in our Movements. #theUBWway #UBWdance

T H E U B W W A Y: NEXT Friday, Jan 22 & Saturday, Jan 23 7 PM EST @mbdancesweatyourtruth’s World Premiere of "Desire: A Sankofa Dream"!! ONLY A FEW TICKETS LEFT! Get your tickets by visiting desire.mbdance.net OR the link in @mbdancesweatyourtruth’s bio! A virtual experience tailored specifically for Zoom, "Desire" is a performance-ritual built around Black Queer survival techniques, examining the community choice-making developed long before our current pandemic ...but wholly relevant as we try to survive and thrive in this time of sickness, anger, isolation, and insistence on improved ways of life. #UBWfamily #VirtualPerformance