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Tati’s Butter Joint curated by Take Some Leave Some

  • The Block House Gallery 11137 South Langley Avenue Chicago, IL, 60628 United States (map)

Tati’s Butter Joint

Immerse yourself in a house party curated by Take Some Leave Some featuring performances, a live DJ, and food from local Black vendors at Tati’s Butter Joint.  

Curated by Take Some Leave Some

part of Links Hall’s Co-MISSION Curators-In-Residence program

Take Some Leave Some will curate two immersive performance salons: Tati's Butter Joint is an immersive house party in a home in the Pullman neighborhood that includes performances, a live DJ, and food from local Black vendors.

Preceding Tati’s Butter Joint is The Shwang Out, an intimate, experimental gathering at Links Hall that gives "a-call-to-your-girlfriend-before-going-out" and "playing-in-your-grandmother's closet”. This is an offering to Black women in the community to commune with others in preparation for the “get down” at Tati’s. Both experiences will feature the works of four local and international Black women artists and create space for Black women to explore their relationship to joy, sexuality, spiritually, friendship, sisterhood, mothering, and belonging.

Collaborators

  • Constance Strickland | Performance Artist | Los Angeles, California

  • Alivia Blade | Visual & Installation Artist | Louisville, Kentucky

  • Oluwabukunmi Olukitibi | Dance Artist | Abuja, Nigeria

  • Alysha Monique | Vocalist | Chicago, IL

Take Some Leave Some is a multidisciplinary performance collective that uses original sound, choreography, film, and installations to create experiences reflecting and celebrating Black women in our lives—their labor, courage, and wisdom even in their imperfections. Collaborators Keyierra Collins, Brianna Alexis Heath, and Jovan Landry intentionally create experiences inside homes and neighborhood spaces on the Southside of Chicago to reference “home” as a kind of safe space, a place for community where Black women learn foundational lessons, and are taught to be resilient and unapologetic.

Partner Organization:

PullmanArts // Block House Gallery

The Block House Gallery is the home of PullmanArts, bringing together arts & culture on Chicago's far south side. We believe that everyone deserves access to art, and that creators should be treated like family.

Links Hall’s Co-MISSION Curatorial Residency program supports independent, Chicago dance curators, producers, and social practice artists in presenting new and existing performance by their communities, for their communities. In collaboration with Links Hall and a local organization in their own Chicago neighborhoods, the 2022-2023 resident curators will invite artists from their communities to present new or existing performance work at both Links Hall and a neighborhood location. Projects include engaging community events outside of the formal theater environment. Residency awards include artist fees for curators and participating artists; direct funding for neighborhood-based partner organizations; and administrative support, rehearsal space, marketing, and technical production services.

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