About the Group:
Betty’s Daughter Arts Collaborative, LLC is a cultural arts direct action group that inspires, enlivens and incites justice and transformation of individuals and communities through creativity, cultural arts and radical expressiveness. Our Vision – Betty’s Daughter Arts Collaborative envisions and works for a world where cultural and artistic practice envelops and sustains wellness and justice movements for individuals and communities.
Hailing from Houston, TX, Ebony Noelle Golden is a cultural worker, conceptual performance artist, Cave Canem Fellow and creative director of Bettys Daughter Arts Collaborative, LLC. As creative director, Ebony leads and supports progressive change and artistic projects in Texas, the southeast, and east coast, primarily. Her work spans creative, academic and community organizing spheres and is rooted in a transformative praxis she developed called Cultural Arts Direct Action. She specializes in: Theater of the Oppressed, Womanist Performance Methods, Radical Performance Poetics, Empowerment through the Arts, Community-Based Collaborative Theater Making and Creative Strategy. A 2009 Pushcart Poetry Prize nominee, Ebony has taught, published and performed widely. Her work has been supported by a variety of organizations including: New York University, Alternate Roots, We Shall Overcome Fund, Fund for Southern Communities, Soul Mountain Poetry Center, The Highlander Center for Research and Education, Cave Canem Foundation, North Carolina Humanities Council, State of the Nation and Atlantic Center for the Arts. Ebony earned degrees from New York University (M.A.-Performance Studies), American University (M.F.A.-Poetry), and Texas A & M University (B.A.-English/Poetry). Please request a CV/artist resume for further credentials and information by visiting bettysdaughterarts.com.
Current Projects:
- RingShout for Reproductive Justice
- Zilphia Horton Cultural Organizers Residency Project
- Community/Artists Partnership Project
- The Body Ecology: Performing Cultural Arts Direct Action
Contact:
Ebony Noelle Golden
ebonygolden@bettysdaughterarts.com
919.423.3780
Durham, NC 27715
www.bettysdaughterarts.com
Facebook/Twitter
Fee Structure:
- Performances – $2,000
- One-Day Residency – $2,000
- Multi-Day Residency – $1,500/day
- Week Residency – $4,000.00
- Semester-Long Residency – $10,000
- Excerpted Performance and Mini-Workshop – $800 (2-21/2 hrs)
Artistic Discipline:
- theater
- dance
- spoken word
- poetry
- literary arts
- multidisciplinary
Special programs available for:
- Colleges and universities
- K-12
- Immigrant populations
- Hospitals
- Prisons
- Differently abled populations
Work Samples Synopsis:
- Performance Devising with Saartjie Project – a devising workshop Ebony Golden facilitated with Saartjie Project as they embarked on a process to create a work based on Nina Simone’s song “Four Women.”
- Again, The Watercarriers – A performance at North Carolina Central University’s Disapora Symposium.
- RingShout for Reproductive Justice – a street theatre performance exploring women’s rights, liberation, the legacy of Harriet Tubman and reproductive justice.
Work Samples Synopsis:
- Performance Devising with Saartjie Project – a devising workshop Ebony Golden facilitated with Saartjie Project as they embarked on a process to create a work based on Nina Simone’s song “Four Women.”
- Again, The Watercarriers – A performance at North Carolina Central University’s Disapora Symposium.
- RingShout for Reproductive Justice – a street theatre performance exploring women’s rights, liberation, the legacy of Harriet Tubman and reproductive justice.
(Additional work samples detailed in the attached document below.)