The Ceremony+Meditations on Voodoo

​In her field-defining essay, “The Ceremony Must Be Found: After Humanism,” Jamaican writer, philosopher, and playwright Sylvia Wynter argued black studies needs to find a ceremony marking our commitment to radical intellectual and creative struggle against (the) Man. In an attempt to cultivate such a momentous event,

​The Ceremony+Meditations on Voodoo brings together writers and creative practitioners to offer notes inspired by D’Angelo’s genre-defying and spiritually-charged sonic incantation, Voodoo. Faith Pennick, Fatima Jamal, Brys Peralta, MIMZ, and nappymetafysics+ will be offering written pieces, musical performances, and short films that meditate on the significance of Voodoo in our contemporary period of darkness as we approach thirty years since its initial release. What has yet to be said about Voodoo and, by extension, D’Angelo’s living practice as a conjure man who offers an imperfect yet honest blueprint for traversing an uncertain future? Jamal, Pennick, Peralta, MIMZ, and nappymetafysics+ will delve into these questions as they relate to identity, spirituality, gender, musical genre, creative invention, destiny, southernness, and more. We hope you will join us as we celebrate and reimagine the artistic practice of a cultural visionary on the precipice of the Aquarian Age, a time of radical collaboration, social tumult, and upheaval. Following the ceremony, Pennick will be signing purchased copies of her award-winning 33 ⅓ book “D’Angelo’s Voodoo” at the Greenlight Bookstore Table.