HOUSE OF LUX

WHO WE ARE 


House of Lux is a collective of Black queer migrant readers and cinephilia. Drawn together by the dreamy reminiscence of archives with cousins weathering precarious state conditions .....crack North Philadelphia &  the Great Migrations. what Carlton Turner call refugees fleeing the South. House of Lux creates opportunities for social play, speculative making, film/media, creative writing, embodied organizing and collective scripting that ​deconstructs, documents and interprets Black queer working class stories of invention and absurdity in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and the U.S. Northeast. Our cultural kitchen model gives a location to channel Black joy, grief, difficulty and connections embedded in family and culture.

Play is devised from interaction with: 

• oral histories, objects, digital  and vernacular material in residency with House of Lux
• filming long take portrait recording sessions with kinfolk guides the creation of a written work for future readings and arrangements 
• live script readings of a process
• community gathering and development that brings together Black queers and kinfolk across lines of class, gender-identity and generational differences. 

House of Lux is governed by values of Black feminist rematriation, ritual and kinship. House of Lux Pathfinders Foundation of Black Infinity stay connected *

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