Giving Tuesday is here and you can help by supporting our upcoming and ongoing projects!
Splinter Dance Company; upcoming performances for Providence Community Services, Event Fresh Seattle and Moisture Festival!
ajusticenetwork; The BTMR Project – an ongoing collaboration with Nxt Thrsdy and Brownbox Theatre. Currently in production:
BLACK TO MY ROOTS: African American Tales from the Head and the Heart, co-written by Kathya Alexander and Reneschia Brown
This award-winning theatrical production celebrates 25 years of performance. It weaves together the real-life experiences of African American youth and elders, blending history, memory, and truth. It’s an intergenerational story of resilience, complexity, and Black beauty—ready to speak to a global audience.
HAIR’S BREATH: Music Inspired by Black Women and Their Hair
What does Black hair hold? Not just coils and curls—but culture, politics, joy, and pain. HAIR’S BREATH is a music-forward work by Seattle artists Adra Boo and Blake Madden, combining original compositions, storytelling, and emotional performance. It is part celebration, part reckoning, and part ritual—brought to life by the same team behind BLACK TO MY ROOTS.
Mweusi Mpaka Mizizi; Swahili translation of BTMR, by Muso Simekha
Black To My Roots tells the personal, social, and political implications of Black women’s hair and how it affects our self-esteem, social interactions, and career status based on society’s impressions about our hair. African American women have had a complex, convoluted, and unique relationship with hair. A relationship that is not only an important part of our collective American history, but deeply rooted in the personal, social, and political experience of Black women in the United States, popular culture, and the world.
NXT THRSDY: Art | Event | Performance, is a Connecticut-based production company founded by Tyrone Brown.
BROWNBOX THEATRE: Re-Imagined Black Theatre, is a Seattle-based theatre company founded by Tyrone Brown, Reneschia Brown and Kathya Alexander.
ajusticenetwork: ajn’s mission is to use the arts to affect positive social change and bring the diversity of dance and performance art to communities worldwide. We encourage collaboration between artists as well as interaction between artist and audience. Our productions uphold and encourage unity, collaboration, diversity, and artistic excellence.
We believe that the arts should be accessible to the community and inspire diverse and meaningful collaboration.
ajusticenetwork/Splinter Dance Company is fiscally sponsored by Shunpike.
Shunpike is the 501(c)(3) non-profit agency that provides independent arts groups in Washington State with the services, resources, and opportunities they need to forge their own paths to sustainable success.
Shunpike was founded in 2001 to support a vibrant and diverse local arts community where arts groups of all sizes could thrive. Working in close partnership with these groups, Shunpike imparts vital skills in finance, organizational management and arts administration. Since inception, they have supported work by more than 2,000 artists in live performance, film, literary arts, visual arts, and arts education.
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All donations are deeply appreciated — it’s quick and it’s easy, and it’s TAX DEDUCTIBLE! Splinter Dance Co and ajusticenetwork thank you for your support as our new season gets underway!
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Thanks for your support!