A Patient Practice in Pittsburgh: Continuing the Conversation
KST Presents
with Bekezela Mguni, Kiki Lucas, Staycee Pearl, and Jasmine Hearn
Saturday, August 28
7:00pm
Virtual Broadcast
Pay What Makes You Happy!
A Patient Practice in Pittsburgh: Continuing the Conversation is a 30 minute film that evokes feelings, memories, and movements of friends and mentors learning with one another. Join us for a collage of archival materials that remember an expansive conversation between Bekezela Mguni, Kiki Lucas, Staycee Pearl, and Jasmine Hearn.
Directed by Jasmine Hearn
Sound by Jasmine Hearn
With samples by Ann Peebles, Prince, Monica, FKA twigs, and Raphael Saadiq
Text by Jasmine Hearn
Additional sound by Afua Darko, slowdanger, and Anqwenique Kinsel
Additional text by Ursula Payne
Editing by Jasmine Hearn
Cast in order of Appearance
Jasmine Hearn
Kijuanta Lucas
August Wilson Dance Ensemble
Dance Alloy Theater
Beth Ratas
Joseph Hall
Jaamil Olawale Kosko
Alisha B Wormsley
Ricardo Iamuuri Robinson
Carmen de Lavallade
Janera Soloman
Anna Thompson
Kate Watson Wallace
Cori Olinghouse
devynn emory
Staycee Pearl
Herman Pearl
Dana bishop Root
Ginger Brooks Takahashi
Bekezela Mguni
Raymond Ejiofer
Additional video and photography courtesy of Kitoko Chargois, Dana Bishop Root, Ben Doyle and Runway Productions, Kijuanta Lucas, Cassie Kay, Mark Simpson, Aaron Jackendoff, Caldwell Linker, Ingrid Burley, Tom Matta, and Paul W. Kruse
Additional visual artwork referenced:
There Are Black People in the Future by Alisha B. Wormsley
BEKEZELA MGUNI – USES OF THE EROTIC – IN HONOR OF AUDRE LORDE / SCREENPRINT / 2015
“202021: a new constellation,” a public art exhibition curated by Tereneh Idia
Digital fabric created and gifted by Bekezela Mguni
Lesson Map 001 by Jasmine Hearn
Collapsible ledger by Jasmine Hearn
Trayvon Martin demonstration hits close to mayor’s home, Pittsburgh CityPaper 7/18/2013
Funding for Jasmine Hearn’s A Patience Practice was provided by the Advancing Black Arts in Pittsburgh Program, a partnership of The Pittsburgh Foundation and The Heinz Endowments.
Photo by Steve Pisano. Garments by Athena Kokornois of Domestic Performance Agency.