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Unmanageable is proud to be a producing partner, alongside Founding Artistic Director Leyla McCalla, of a series of multidisciplinary conversations presented by The Shockoe Institute, a new national organization headquartered in Richmond, Virginia, dedicated to revealing the enduring impact of racial slavery on our shared American experience.
Stay Righteously Unmanageable is a series of monthly zoom convenings for artist-activists and cultural organizers facilitated by Je Naè Taylor (cultural organizer at Highlander Center & founder of Taylor Space). These monthly virtual meetings allow space to build community, create strategies out of rage, and discuss your role in movement as an artist in this time.
Biscuits & Banjos is a new festival debuting in 2025. Curated by GRAMMY & Pulitzer Prize-winning artist Rhiannon Giddens, the new festival is dedicated to the celebration and exploration of Black music, art and culture in her home state of North Carolina. Biscuits & Banjos is a 3-day festival to exchange ideas, expand conversations, uplift traditions, and trace the musical and geographical connections of old time, country, Americana, folk, jazz and blues to highlight their complicated origins.
The Once & Future Sounds Fund works to improve equity in the music industry by elevating artists from historically marginalized and exploited groups. The Fund will launch two signature programs — The Once & Future Laureate Program and the Once & Future Festival — over the next three years.
We Are North Nashville is a two-year multimedia storytelling project. Led by artist, author, activist, and community organizer M. Simone Boyd, with the support of Andrea Tudhope and Steve Haruch, the project has a goal to gather, document, and share wisdom and sacred knowledge from North Nashville community elders to fortify us for the uncertain future ahead. The project will also redistribute wealth via resources raised for the project to community members.
Your Song, founded by songwriter and music therapist Kyshona Armstrong, is a collaborative songwriting program that connects performing arts centers, musicians, and artists with vulnerable communities to promote healing and community connectedness.
Missy Lane's Charitable Foundation is on a mission to expand the audience for jazz and improvised music. With a primary goal of educating, preserving, presenting, and promoting all forms of jazz as an American art form, Missy Lane’s is based in Durham, North Carolina.
HOW TO BE A SLUT WITHOUT DYING, a short film by Daisy Friedman, is an autobiographical story that explores the lengths disabled people take to be desired and the consequences of that desire. As a multi-organ transplant recipient, Daisy creates work that explores the intersections of tradition, intimacy, embodiment, and disability. HOW TO BE A SLUT WITHOUT DYING comes from an intimate experience in Daisy’s own life. The film is a call for change, not only about the deep-rooted ableism within the medical system, but about the painful lengths disabled people often go to to be seen as desirable.
Unmanageable is the Fiscal Sponsor and Co-Producer of the annual Rancho La Puerta Artist Retreat and Folk Festival in Tecate, Mexico, which includes a wealth of collaborative concerts, artists talks, and spontaneous performances, sharing the power of folk music traditions while focusing on diversity, collaboration and the dissolution of boundaries through creative exchange. Along with Producer, artist and visionary, Amber Rubarth, we are honored to share the beauty and healing power of the Ranch with retreat artists.
Joshua Moore's 'The Recissions' is an archival mapping project that looks to create a visible record and a network of solidarity and awareness among artists, agencies, and organizations in the regional South East that have experienced funding shortfalls, disruptions, and cancellations due to the 2025 claw backs in Federal arts spending.