General admission for children 17 years and under is always free
Black queer people, we are so great at finding beauty and joy and celebration in abundance
and loss and also grief.
JD Stokely is a trickster-in-training who creates and curates work around queer Black ecologies, archives and cultural memory, impossibility, and public space. They are a co-founding member of Unbound Bodies Collective, a multidisciplinary arts lab for QTBIPOC creatives centered around healing, embodiment, pleasure, and joy. Stokely is also a part of the curating team for Hot Bits, an annual traveling erotic queer film and performance festival.
Stokely has performed work locally and internationally. They are a recipient of a Leeway Art and Change grant (2016), the Careatwell Award (2019-21), and are a 2019 artEquity cohort member. A Hampshire alum, Stokely received an MA in Advanced Theatre Practice from Royal Central School of Speech & Drama in 2014 and is currently a doctoral student in Theatre Arts & Performance Studies at Brown University. Stokely grew up between Philadelphia and Boston, and claims both of them as home.
Listen to Stokely's Story
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Join us!
Join the project's creative leads and its participants for a discussion of the Black queer experience in Boston. This conversation takes place at 7 pm during our Free First Thursday program on March 3.