Saint's and Aint's

Saints & Aints is part Sunday service reinterpretation, part juke joint reimagining, and part underground dance club escapism. The show features spoken word, music, puppetry, and lots of joy. This work invites the audience into a communal celebration of life, faith, resiliency, and perseverance. It is a fellowship that recognizes that we will only achieve the liberation we seek together as a body of believers.

Written by Dasan Ahanu, this work is a reminder that, with the right lens, a good word can apply to everyone. Built with poems from Ahanu’s 6th book of poetry, A Month of Sundays, this happening will allow attendees to envision this possibility, to hold space in new ways, and to turn art into a joyful noise.

"A society must assume that it is stable, but the artist must know, and he must let us know, that there is nothing stable under heaven. One cannot possibly build a school, teach a child, or drive a car without taking some things for granted. The artist cannot and must not take anything for granted but must drive to the heart of every answer and expose the question the answer hides.” - James Baldwin