Jacinda Bullie and Jaquanda Saulter-Villegas’
FILLINZ, Put Some Respect on It!
Co-MISSION Festival of New Works
June 27th and 28th
FEATURED ARTISTS
Jacinda Bullie | Links Hall Spring 2025 Co-MISSION Fellow
Jacinda Bullie (aka Jah da Amp Mouth) is an instigating art maker, creative activator, and practicing heart soother. This sage-burning Muslim seeks to practice gratitude & presence. Jacinda likes to write, perform, paint, talk story, move and engage in radical love play. She is a Hip Hop Theater producer, host, arts facilitator & manager who finds freedom in remembering that she is simply a spiritual being having an earthly experience.
Jaquanda Saulter-Villegas | Links Hall Spring 2025 Co-MISSION Fellow
Executive Director & Co-Lead Creative, Jaquanda Saulter-Villegas is a Fly Girl Chicagoan by way of South Carolina, Jaquanda is one of the three Founders, and a Co- Creative Lead of Kuumba Lynx. She has been engaging youth and their families in Hip Hop Arts Activism and Culturally Relevant programming for 25 years. Jaquanda get’s FREE as an Arts Educator, Mentor, Yoga Instructor, Shamanic Reiki Healer, Performance Artist, Arts Administrator, International Peace Movement Honorary Ambassador, and Hip Hop Theater Director. As a healer Jaquanda is dedicated to holding space for community to address harm, break generational curses, and interrupting systematic sabotage by re-engaging in indigenous and African healing practices.
ABOUT THE CO-MISSION PROGRAM
This event is part of Links Hall’s 2025 Co-MISSION Festival of New Works, two groundbreaking weekends of new performance and public events.
Representing some of the most talented makers in Chicago from dance, performance art, installation, and performance as social practice, six artists present works developed while in-residence at Links during the 2024-2025 season. Featured artists include: Links Hall Residents Dani Oblitas, Selena Lasley, Kevin Michael Wesson, and Amanda Maraist; and Fellows Jaquanda Saulter-Villegas & Jacinda Bullie and Tuli Bera.
This project is partially supported by a grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events.
OTHER PERFORMANCES IN THE CO-MISSION FESTIVAL OF NEW WORKS
Kevin Michael Wesson & Theatre Nobody’s CAMPOUT, A Night in the Woods
June 15th
June 17th
June 18th
Amanda Maraist’s FOLK
June 18th
Tuli Bera’s Bangali Meye
June 20th
June 21st
Dani Oblitas’ Un/Rerooted and Selena Lasley’s TIMEShit
June 22nd
June 26th
Jacinda Bullie and Jaquanda Saulter-Villegas’ FILLINZ, Put Some Respect on It!
ABOUT LINKS HALL
For 46 years, Links Hall has played a pivotal role in Chicago, encouraging artistic innovation and public engagement by maintaining a facility and providing flexible programming for the research, development, and presentation of new work in the performing arts. Founded in 1978 by experimental choreographers, Bob Eisen, Carol Bobrow, and Charlie Vernon, Links became a National Performance Network partner in 1998 and received a MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions in 2016. Links Hall supports multidisciplinary artists through residencies, festivals, subsidized rentals, and other resources for performers at every stage of their career.
Links Hall programming is made possible by artists, audiences, and support from: Arts Midwest GIG Fund, Association of Performing Arts Professionals, Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events, Exelon, Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation, Heather B. Henson Fund/Puppet Slam Network, Illinois Arts Council Agency, JPMorgan Chase, Microsoft, National Performance Network, The Charlie Vernon Performance Fund at the Evanston Community Foundation, The Jentes Family Foundation, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, MacArthur Fund for Culture, Equity, and the Arts at Prince, The Martha Struthers Farley & Donald C. Farley, Jr. Family Foundation, The Prince Charitable Trust, Robert R. McCormick Foundation, and The Weasel Fund.
STAFF
Aaliyah Christina, Artist Programs Manager & Associate Curator
SK Kerastas, Executive Director
Mario LaMothe, General Manager
Dana Pepowski, Programs Associate
Giau Truong, Production Manager & Associate Curator
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Amy Chavasse
Jane Beachy
Vesna Grbovic
J’Sun Howard
Ross Stanton Jordan
Susan Manning
Trevor Martin
Jon Pagac
Jenna Pollack
Tina Post
Doreen Sayegh
Michael Tokoph
Patrick Zakem
ADVISORY BOARD
Cheryl Lynn Bruce
Bob Eisen
E. Aaron Greven
Tracie D. Hall
Maggie Kast
Meida McNeal
Eva Silverman
Claire Sutton
Blair Thomas
Michael Zerang