Radical Black Femme Project is a globallyy-focused digital, physical and hybrid residency created as a shelter and platform to build resources and solidarity in a community often pushed aside. RBFP supports creative work in the realm of resisting racism, subverting transphobia, and supporting justice, safety, and equality with an emphasis on counter culture conversations. RBFP recieved inital support from Base Experimental Arts + Space, a National Endowment for the Arts award-winning nonprofit organization committed to elevating risk and invention in dance, performance and multidisciplinary art. The curator and mastermind behind RBFP are Solo Magic’s Jade Solomon Curtis and Associate Curator Randy Ford. The inagural RBFP cohort includes 8 multidisciplinary creatives located in Berlin, Germany, Los Angeles, CA, Cape Town, South Africa, Seattle, WA, New York, NY, Trondheim, Norway and Kumasi, Ghana. The creatives are: Mims, crazinist artist, Mia Imani, M.A.M.A., blk banaana, Dumama, Saira Barbaric, Swamp Priestexx, and Nana Yaaserwaah (Haus of YBA).
RBFP is a paid residency that supplies creatives with the ability to incubate in their own process(es) for at least one week. Creatives are selected through invitation only submissions.
Solo Magic’s goal is to raise the value of the creative process in multidisciplinary arts and to provide artists access, through different residency frameworks, to a stimulating environment where experimentation, exploration and life-long learning are both valued and encouraged.
ABOUT SOLO MAGIC
Solo Magic is an arts non-profit initiative that creates socially relevant multi-sensory engagements; “Activism is the Muse”. It supports multi-faceted works that provide more exposure to community conversations, open the general public to atypical performances in non-traditional spaces and forge a renewed awakening of art. Our projects focus on manifesting the magic created from positive change of individual action.