MOTHER TONGUE: MONOLOGUES FOR LESBIAN ANCESTRAL WIVES AND REVOLUTIONARY WOMEN SPEAKING THE UNSPEAKABLE CONCEIVED, WRITTEN

AND EDITED BY Farah Tanis DIRECTORS Lori Payne Playwright, Director, Activist, Catherine Street Pope Jackson Award Winning Director, Producer and Designer, Founder, Actuator Inc. OPENING CEREMONY: HONORING THE ANCESTORS SoJourner McCauley, Mistress of Ceremony Spiritual Healer, Activist & Organizer SPECIAL PERFOMANCE GRACE DRUMS Gabriella Dennery, Founder, Artistic Director Arlene Hale Vocalist, Percussionist, Storyteller Gena Jefferson Percussionist, Vocalist, Dancer, Choreographer Catherine Poku Percussionist, Dancer JoAnna Powell Dancer, Percussionist, Vocalist, Choreographer Corey Myers-Jones Percussion, Guitar HONOREES: Aishah Shahidah Simmons Award winning, African American lesbian, feminist, documentary filmmaker and anti-violence activist Staceyann Chin Award winning, Jamaican spoken word poet, performing artist and LGBTQ political rights activist The Coalition of African Lesbian Fadzai Muparutsa PERFORMANCE SEGMENT 1: BACK TO OUR ROOTS The Call.Adaku Utah, Taja Lindley, Tokunboh Toki Talabi

Dance Performance
Yanvalou.......Sheila Anozier Lesbian Ancestral Wives...Stephanie R. Colon Cultural Amnesia.Mekeva McNeil

SEGMENT 2: SAME SEX LOVE AS DANGEROUS

Dance Performance
Give Me That Old Time Religion.........Pia Murray Spirituality Of African People.......................Lori Payne Dont Ask Dont Tell..Arianne Benford

Church Congregation: Piper Anderson, Erin EJ Serano, Chrystal Stone, Tokunboh Toki
Talabi, Kwesi Ferebee, Adaku Utah, Taja Lindley, Stephanie Colon, Chelsea Johnson-Long. Gospel Revival........Cast SEGMENT 3: THE SPECIAL CASE OF LESBIANS Same Love..............Adaku Utah Medicinal Honey....Erin EJ Serrano Pride........Chelsea Johnson-Long Consuming LesbianismPiper Anderson Erasing Sakia.....Kwesi David Ferebee SEGMENT 4: SPEAKING THE UNSPEAKABLE

Dance Performance
The Way It Was, And Now..Samantha Speis Choreographer: Samantha Speis, Sound: Val Jeanty Lesbianism As An Act Of Resistance.........Erin EJ Serrano Reaching For Freedom...Jasmine Burnett I Am Your Sister.......Chrystal Stone Black Love..........................................Farah Tanis

Technical Staff Lee Odom Production Manager, Musician, Activist Lorraine LaPrade Production Assistant Artistic/Makeup/Costume Jazmine Foxx Dede M. Ayite Mother Tongue Monologues Honorary Co-Chairs

Dr. Beverly Guy Sheftall, Ph.D., Founding Director of the Women's Research and Resource Center and the Anna Julia Cooper Professor of Women's Studies, Spelman College Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Ph.D., Queer Black Feminist Media Activist, Founder, Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist Tiona McClodden, Award Winning Filmmaker, Artist, Executive Producer/Director, Harriet's Gun Media Deepa Soul, Chairwoman/CEO, LARA (The LGBT Academy of Recording Arts) Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, Award Winning Choreographer, Founder, Urban Bush Women Special Thanks Christina Jaus, Co-Founder, Black Womens Blueprint Kalima Desuze, Outreach, Communications, Fundaising Yasmin Safdie, Fundraising Kaitlyn Newman, Fundraising Mayowa Obasaju, Board of Directors Renee Morgan Saks, Board of Directors Janeen Mantin, Board of Directors Krista Desouza, Board of Directors Sherley Accime, Healing and Resources Porter Ferebee, Counseling and Resources Sally Hyppolite, Volunteer Coordination, Healing Resources Sekiya Dorsett, Videographer, Editor Kwesi Ferebee, Journal Design, Graphic design Marilyn Louis, Artistic Design