Join us at Profield Reserve for an interactive workshop on the power of sound. Participants will discuss how music and sonics hold memory and narratives across time and space. We will listen and think together about how sound is passed down in families and communities and how sonics map the history of a place. Victoria Donaldson, owner of Northside Soul record shop will share her experiences as a DJ and keeper of sound, and together we will compose a collaborative mix. After the workshop, enjoy spins by the Sage DJ collective and vending by Northside Soul.

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For Counterpublic 2023, The Black Healers Collective will be organizing a healing space and ritual around spaces affected by immense traumas along Jefferson that require deep communal healing. This is a public session for the St. Louis community. Registration is required.

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This performance will be held near the (imagined) site of Josephine Baker's childhood home. (Her home, among many, was included in the demolition of the Mill Creek Valley neighborhood.)

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REGULAR DEGULAR is a response to the disparate architectural, economic, and historical tensions that lie on the surface of St. Louis, created by Will Rawls, a multidisciplinary artist working with choreography, performance, video, sculpture, works on paper, and installation.

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Experience Tha Muthaship at SLAM Underground, where Simiya will be holding two 15 minute soundhealings.

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Led by Jen Everett, participants will learn and share strategies for record keeping and preservation while highlighting differences between institutional and vernacular frameworks. We will focus on the practices of informal archivists and keepers* within our own families and communities, subverting the myth of the institutional archive as the sole source of true or official knowledge. This offering will center histories that have been suppressed, omitted, or are at risk of being lost.

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Join us for the first screening of REGULAR DEGULAR, a film by Will Rawls, as well as a conversation between Rawls and curator Katherine Simóne Reynolds.

REGULAR DEGULAR is a response to the disparate architectural, economic, and historical tensions that lie on the surface of St. Louis, created by Will Rawls, a multidisciplinary artist working with choreography, performance, video, sculpture, works on paper, and installation.

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Simiya Sudduth is a mother, artist, and educator currently living and practicing in St. Louis. For Counterpublic 2023, Sudduth’s projects include a number of murals and a mobile healing studio, Tha Muthaship, based out of Rung for Women, a nonprofit that promotes economic and social empowerment for women in St. Louis. Tha Muthaship is a mobile healing and arts space nestled inside a repurposed 1970s Terry Travel Trailer bringing visual art, mindfulness, healing, and wellness modalities to communities in St. Louis.

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A day of discussions with the Counterpublic curatorial ensemble and artists, hosted by the Pulitzer Arts Foundation.

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