EastSide Arts Alliance presents

Sopera de Yemaya, a film by Courtney Desiree Morris followed by director Q&A.

Admission is free, including food & refreshments.

From director, Courtney Desiree Morris:

"Sopera de Yemaya is an experimental short film that explores the relationship between the black female body, nature, and the divine. The film focuses on the orisha, Yemaya, the Yoruba deity who rules the earth’s oceans and motherhood. In the Lucumí orisha tradition of Cuba, the mysteries and sacred ritual objects of Yemaya are housed in a soup tureen, or sopera.

Using my own pregnant body as a vessel, I perform 7 rituals – in sites ranging from my own bathroom and kitchen to rivers and the ocean -- that represent the many different facets of Yemaya’s divine energy and the natural sites that she inhabits. Through these rituals I consider how Yemaya as a natural force is manifested in my own radically transformed maternal body and, more importantly, how the divine can be found in even the most quotidian spaces."

Courtney Desiree Morris facilitated last Film Friday's post-screening conversation with Louis Massiah, after TCB: The Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing.

We are super excited to have her back to present her own work!

She will be returning June 26-28th for The Journey of ReOrientation: A Parable of NOW in collaboration with Deep Waters Dance Theater/amara tabor-smith

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