In honor of the Brooklyn Museums latest exhibition We Wanted A Revolution: Black Radical Women 1965-85, Taja Lindley will be performing a remixed excerpt of her one woman show The Bag Lady Manifesta during the Museum's Target First Saturdays Programming on June 3rd. In addition, Taja Lindley's film This Ain't A Eulogy: A Ritual for Re-Membering will be featured in Black Queer Brooklyn on Film - an adjacent exhibit to We Wanted A Revolution in the Elizabeth Sackler Center. This film series riffs on the contributions of the Combahee River Collective, a black lesbian feminist organization formed in 1974, and their Black Feminist Statement. It features new releases by young, black, queer, female-identified, and gender-nonconforming artists and filmmakers working in Brooklyn today. With work by Frances Bodomo, Dyani Douze, Ja’Tovia Gary, Reina Gossett, Lindsay Catherine Harris, Carrie Hawks, Taja Lindley, Tiona Nekkia McClodden, Nontsikelelo Mutiti, Chanelle Aponte Pearson, D’hana Perry, Naima Ramos-Chapman, Isabella Reyes, and Stefani Saintonge.The series kicks off at June’s Target First Saturday and continues on subsequent Thursdays throughout the month. Free with Museum admission.
