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We are back with a third season of With Opened Mouths: The Podcast. The podcast that makes space for artists, poets, performers, activists and curators to speak for themselves. Join us as we hear stories about creative visions that powerfully convey why art and artists are critically important right now.
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[Intro]
Protect the fold
Yeah yeah
Protect the Fold
Protect the Fold
[Verse 1]
As we fight to be heard
Black bodies in the earth
Creators of culture
Disconnected from birth
So we let them sell us worth
Sold us fables and it worked
So we masking pain cause it hurts
Black pain being hanged like some merch
They tell our story
But let us tell you first
We was stolen put on display
Taught a new language
Distorted our face what a shame
We was shinning
They wanted us in shade
They thought we would stay slaves
One chapter but this novel has many
You know first peoples really look like pennies
This bronze skin
This is what they envy
And the culture that’s within me
[Chorus]
Know your worth sister
Protect the soul
Know your worth brother
Protect the fold
Know your worth Sister
Protect the fold
Know your worth Brother
Protect the Soul
[Outro]
Today I was thinking
What it would feel like
To be outside this flesh
For my spirit to be flying high in the sky
Above the clouds
At the Doorsteps of heaven
Hm..
Freedom.
Yeah
Protect the soul…
Protect the soul…
Song Writer: Jameel “Jameel3DN’ McPherson
Producer: Elroy “EC3” Cox III
Commissioned by Agnes Etherington Art Centre, 2021
Dr Qanita Lilla is Associate Curator, Arts of Africa at Agnes Etherington Art Center, Queen’s University situated on Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee Territory. At Agnes, Qanita cares for the Lang Collection of African Art and works with contemporary art practice from the diaspora to engage the African collection in the present. She is interested in the life and after-life of objects in collections, hidden histories, the representation of racialised minorities, and alternative practices of collections care. She has published in both peer-reviewed and popular publications, has contributed book chapters to anthologies and is the host of With Opened Mouths: The Podcast. Qanita is also Assistant Professor in Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies in the Film and Media Department at Queen’s University.
With Opened Mouths: The Podcast is produced by Agnes Etherington Art Centre and is distributed in partnership with CFRC 101.9 FM, Queen’s University’s campus radio station.
Agnes thanks all of our fantastic guests who shared their stories and their practices with us through this podcast.
A new publication by Dr Qanita Lilla centres the African masks, hoods and crests of the Justin and Elisabeth Lang collection of African art in chorus with contemporary artworks from the broader diaspora.
