This episode was recorded remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic.

About "Freedom School"

Freedom School is a large-scale community performance ritual in Detroit. Combining ancestral spirit work with modern Black and Brown spiritual technologies, The TETRA leads participants to sing, conjure, stomp, write, and shout their way through a night of 20 rituals. Liberation is as much an energetic fight as a physical one. Oppression is designed to keep communities of color stuck in lower vibrations. Freedom School explores each emotion, from shame to enlightenment, to create methods for how to unstick, safely feel, and freely move between them. Freedom School weaves lyric poetry, rap as interactive spell work (shadow choir), Afro-Caribbean drumming, and visual art installations into an experience described by audiences as an "initiation." 

About the TETRA

THE TETRA is the Underground, an open secret for lion-hearted people looking to be free. Freedom is the art of becoming your highest self. This is a journey of rituals, ancestral technologies, and spirit work performed to activate a radical remembering that healing and wholeness are our birthrights. Here, we imagine a world beyond oppression and survival. Here, we not only thrive. We sing, dance, drum, and question into the storm until we become our own promised land.

About "Spirit Plate"

Spirit Plate is an immersive storytelling experience that uplifts the ancestral technologies of the people and the land here in Waawiiyaatanong (Detroit). Organized during Día de Muertos and the autumn Ghost Supper, the project uplifts and holds space for the indigenous cultural traditions of Mexico and the Anishinaabe. Unfolding over seven days, it features communal learning journeys, conversations, open studio events, and meals that culminate in a powerful live music performance of Spirit Plate. 

About Sacramento Knoxx

Sacramento Knoxx is a hardworking interdisciplinary artist with strong roots in Detroit from the southwest side. He produces a sound of electronic, indigenous, ghettotech, afro-latino, hip hop, soul, and rhythm & blues.

Knoxx versatile background with different forms of music, allows him to blend traditional and contemporary styles creating dynamic storytelling experiences with live music performances, dancing, & video projections that take audiences on a participatory journey and a creative experience. Currently he travels nationally and internationally sharing interactive music performances, blending captured moments in life & creative imagery through large projection motion graphics. Building from raw experience and grit his works send vibrations to help assemble the worlds we want to live in.

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