Wildcat

06/18/2020

05/21/2020

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Announcing New Speakers for
: A Call to Action
Tonight at 5:30pm on Facebook Live Dance/NYC

Join us in a discussion on the campaign, a new online and social media campaign dedicated to the acknowledgement, representation and integration of dance and arts workers into the decision-making processes that will envision the future for New York City post-pandemic.

Announcing New Speakers:
Phil Chan, Co-Founder, Final Bow for Yellowface
Preston Niblack, Deputy Comptroller for Budget, Office of the New York City Comptroller Scott M. Stringer

Featured speakers:
Alejandra Duque Cifuentes, Executive Director, Dance/NYC
Lucy Sexton, Executive Director, New Yorkers for Culture & Arts
Sade Lythcott, CEO, The National Black Theatre: Institute for Action Arts
Tiffany Rea-Fisher, Artistic Dir. & Choreographer, Elisa Monte Dance

05/15/2020

Launch Date: Thursday, May 14, 2020 This campaign video was curated by Dance/NYC, from more than 150 video submissions from a cro...

05/01/2020

Wildcat stands in our motto with around the globe on this

Please consider not going to the supermarket or ordering from online superchains but support independent businesses.

https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/05/01/848931228/essential-workers-plan-may-day-strikes-others-demand-end-to-covid-19-lockdowns

04/30/2020

for

On May 1st, frontline workers at some of the biggest corporations in the country will lead a mass strike action, asking customers to boycott Amazon, Instacart, Whole Foods, and Target.

04/27/2020

The coronavirus shows us clearer than ever before that “all labor has dignity.”

04/25/2020

Wildcat Manual developed by Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste, and André M. Zachery for Tactical Self-Enfranchisement.

Please consider using this text as a reference for during this time of

https://www.solidarityinprecarity.com/media.html

04/25/2020

Many in the art and performance world right now are asking for pieces, works and responses to the current health crisis that is exposing systemic inequalities sustained by oppressive capitalism.

To see this request of artists is also the many artists and collectives (mainly Black, Latinx, Indigenous, LGBTQGNC, immigrant and disabled) that have already created works, written texts and concentrated efforts combating these oppressive issues made more visible by the COVID19 crisis.

Wildcat is one of those collectives.

Wildcat was formed by artists Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste, and André M. Zachery that examines precarity as a constant condition for the majority of people in society. Framed as a civic-minded organization, Wildcat was formed in 2013 out of a mutual interest in exploring how people organize and support each other in an unstable and imbalanced world. As artists, the group is interested in exploring the creative and unique ways people collectively work to survive and operate in their financial uncertainty while being conscious of how race, gender, class, economic conditions, and geographic location factor into this dynamic. Wildcat is dedicated to the practice of any means of social interaction performed, created, or distributed that educates, empowers, and mobilizes people to recognize and respond collectively against all forms of inequality and injustice.

The Wildcat motto is:

In 2014 Wildcat conducted their thesis I Do Mind Dying: Danse Precarité which literally was about intersectional practices of collective tactical enfranchisement based on the labor history of the in Detroit from the years 1967-1976. The link to the performance is connected here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNAoCxdkf2A

So consider asking what has already been done by a plethora artists prior to this crisis and let us examine how this work can inform us on what we can do next.

I Do Mind Dying: Danse Précarité Wildcat! Assembly held at John H. Wallace American Legion Hall Members/Creators: Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste, André M. Zachery...

04/25/2020

Wildcat tried to warn you.