Call & Response! Celebrations on Community + Black Girlhood

Call & Response! Celebrations on Community + Black Girlhood is a culmination of tender portraits, heralding the stories of Black girlhood via the traditions of our past, present, and future. Through a traveling film series and community conversation, each featured artist expands the narrative lens of Black girlhood, reaffirming our formative years as an ongoing conversation, boundless as long as we are here, feeling it out, passing it on.

This program was curated by Claudia Owusu and Ife Oluwamuyide

FILMS: Ampe: Leap into the Sky, Black Girl (18 min), Claudia Owusu and Ife Oluwamuyide. Set in the sister cities of Accra, Ghana and Columbus, Ohio, "Ampe: Leap into the Sky, Black Girl" is a rhythmic love letter to Black girlhood across the African diaspora. Through the lens of the Ghanaian traditional jumping and clapping game, Ampe, the film takes us on a journey of sisterhood, loyalty, and nostalgia in a space created…