The Commons Festival

Culture Mill will continue its partnership with Southern Futures at Carolina Performing Arts, an initiative that produces new works, collaborations, and research on social justice, racial equity, and the American South. In its third year of the residency, Culture Mill expand upon practices and collaborations deriving from Eclipse (2022) and will support an interdisciplinary cohort of six locally-based artists in their collaborative artistic direction of The Commons Festival and Residency, culminating with place-based performances of Black identity May 3 and 4, 2024 at The CURRENT ArtSpace + Studio. The cohort includes Sylvester Allen Jr., Johnny Lee Chapman III, Cortland Gilliam, Anthony “Otto” Nelson Jr., Jasmine Powell, and CJ Suitt.