PLACE:

New Orleans, Louisiana

BIO:

D.D. DuBois is a music performer and Artist Activist from Mississippi. She comes from a long line of Afro-Indigenous Black folk musicians/activists and began doing humanitarian work at a young age. In college, DuBois trained in Opera and Musical Theatre, and after graduating, she began working in the non-profit sector connecting people in remote areas with avenues and resources to create social and political change. Through this work, she has helped build cultural preservation and equitability initiatives on reservations all across the country and within remote rural communities here and abroad. Currently living in New Orleans, DuBois now researches how activism meets culture in historical Black cities of the deep south.

PROJECT:

THE CHITLIN CIRCUIT PROJECT (TCCP) reimagines a renaissance of The Chitlin Circuit for the purpose of providing an anti-capitalist approach to creative placemaking. TCCP consists of a network of small venues, churches, houses, temples, and outdoor spaces, that provide rural artists of color with spaces to create and showcase their artform. THE CHITLIN CIRCUIT PROJECT also connects artists and activists with small local underutilized venues creating ways to retain wealth within marginalized communities and Historical Black Neighborhoods.