FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
APRIL 18, 2024

PHILLIPS COUNTY, ARKANSAS - HOLD ON: Blue Hole Homecoming a community based regional investment 
celebrating the beauty of our waterways and advocating for clean water. Water Stories of Phillips County, Arkansas, will debut July 2024, with festival events at locations throughout the county, and caravan travel along the rivers and lakes. 

Phillips County residents are invited to join One Nation/One Project and dream culture artist collective, Hollerin Space, 
for Blue Hole Homecoming to design + build basic interventions for clean water. If you are a local creative minded resident interested in:

• transforming the wellness practices of our local environment
• consider joining a diverse group of community members
• design and creation of Blue Hole Homecoming

We hope you will consider joining us! No prior experience is required to participate. We will share food and generous conversation. Modest stipends will be provided.


Hollerin Space (2015) conducts public space takeovers, walks, coumbites, hush harbors, and impromptu happenings. muthi reed is an electronic musician and media maker from Lenapehoking, Philadelphia. Angela Davis Johnson, a lifelong sojourner from Phillips County, Arkansas, renders symbols through paint and song. We live, work and travel as Afropolitan soul shakers thinking about social arrangements of care, world building for a future now. Collective dream culture, channeling personhood through fellowship. 

learn more about Hollerin Space work 

One Nation/One Project
Blue Hole Homecoming 

dream culture water sound machine Blue Hole Homecoming festival carriage construction
Hollerin Space/ Sweet Smoke/ House of Lux/ HOLD ON

LaMott Citizens United and Cheltenham Center for the Arts 
neighbors dreaming abolitionist village world 

Being Being Any Black Being MFA thesis exhibition companion 
screaming sirenes zine publication 

Monument Lab
Staying Power – Civic Fair (Online)​
Black Spatial Relics hosted Hollerin Space in partnership with Monument Lab and the Village of Arts and Humanities for a virtual performance

​Scribe Video Center
Super Blues
Scribe Video Center hosted Hollerin Space via crowdcast™ for a live virtual performance reading with Black Feminist text for Juneteenth 

HOLD ON
HOLD ON wildin devotions for hotfoot living is durational performance practice traveling multiple spaces in four directions, along the eastern seaboard, planet deep south, and into the gulf and midwest. We are deranging imposed architectures of colonization on flesh and space and offering our somatic vernacular interference in Black Queer fam practice for something else. A future Pangea 

BLU BLAK
https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/23/744182/14188156/IMG_8074.GIF

The Sumter Item
The Blues and the Sky: Artists tell stories of black personhood, survival by Napoleon Wells
Weathering the Canebrake Blues featured a collection of visual art by Angela Davis and the Melanated Violet Fluxus soundscape composition by muthi reed

Alternate ROOTS Week 2016
Hollerin into the Space by Ron Ragin
 
Mississippi Museum of Art
Haints & Healing, Farish Street Dreaming
Mississippi Museum of Art C3 
​

water studies 

Mni Wiconi: The Stand at Standing Rock
https://www.youtube.com/watch/v=4FDuqYld8C8

water is not for sale
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C2WZ6mYxfXT/?igsh=MTE0OTEzYzQ3YncyYw%3D%3D

Water pump issues lead to boil water notice in Elaine, Arkansas​
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbNkERyam5U

​delaware river watersheds
​A Ritual to Bless and Protect the Delaware River
Friends of the Delaware River gather to sing, celebrate, honor, and send prayers for the river to protect it's waters from hydraulic fracturing (fracking/natural gas drilling). 

Water is Life
https://www.waterislife.com/how-we-work.html

Water Warriors
https://sojo.net/articles/water-warriors

President Obama Addresses Water Crisis In Flint, Michigan - FULL SPEECH - FNN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6RWM4N1aqQ

Israeli settlements’ access to water
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2017/11/the-occupation-of-water/

https://www.msrivercollab.org/

Mapping Our Watershed
https://rebeccaschultzprojects.com/project/mapping-our-watershed/

WE ARE HERE/ESTAMOS AQUI
​https://mroseglass.com/the-mural-arts-institute-art-environment-capacity-building-initiative

​
​