Weeksville Watchnight: Spirit Sensibilities w. Juju Bae & SHAN Wallace

It’s movie night at Weeksville!

Our ongoing film series Weeksville Watchnight returns Thursday, August 27th from 6-9 pm. Doors open at 6 pm with the screening beginning promptly at 6:30 pm.

We will be joined by spiritual practitioner and educator Juju Bae as we screen a series of short films focused on Africana Spiritualities across the Diaspora. We’ll explore themes of memory, ancestral mysticism, and the use of art to address mischaracterizations of these long-standing traditions. The screening will be followed by a talkback with artist and filmmaker SHAN Wallace.

Program:

Zora Neale Hurston Fieldwork (1928)
Dir. Zora Neale Hurston

Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort, South Carolina (1940)
Dir. Zora Neale Hurston

FIELD NOTES: Trinidad and Tobago Ghost stories (2014)
Dir. Vashti Harrison

Zajota and the Boogie Spirit (1989)
Dir. Ayoka Chenzira

Graves in the Garden (2021)
Dir. Jake Meginsky and Sarah Lanzillotta

Song of Voodoo (1931)
Dir. Tom Terriss

Water Ritual #1 an Urban Rite of Purification (1979)
Dir. Barbara McCullough

About the Host & Speaker

Juju Bae

Osunfunmilola, affectionately known as Juju Bae, is a practitioner of multiple West African and diasporic traditions, including Hoodoo and Ifa, and is an Ọṣun priestess in the Yoruba Orisha tradition. She is the author of The Book of Juju: Africana Spirituality for Healing, Liberation, and Self-Discovery, a work of creative nonfiction that combines memoir, history, and guided prompts to help readers strengthen their ancestral spiritual practice. She is the founder of Juju Bae, a multimedia Black-centric resource that seeks to demystify traditional spirituality through storytelling and lighthearted conversations with twenty-first-century relevance. She is the host of the award-winning show A Little Juju podcast, which encourages people of the Diaspora to find a home in Africana spiritual spaces and thought. She starred in the 2023 Hulu paranormal docuseries Living for the Dead, produced by Kristen Stewart. Juju is a sought-after spiritual teacher and holds a BA in Psychology from Spelman College.

SHAN Wallace

SHAN Wallace (b. 1991) is a nomadic, award-winning interdisciplinary artist, archivist, and image-maker from Baltimore, MD. Her practice is rooted in a wide range of image-making techniques. Wallace investigates how images shift, degrade, and transform as they move between mediums. Her work is held in both public and private collections across the U.S., including The Baltimore Museum of Art, The Mint Museum, The Whitney Museum, and Johns Hopkins University, as well as various private collections.

Free and open to the public. RSVP and get your tickets below!

This program is supported through public funding from Governor Kathy Hochul; the New York State Senate, including Senator Kevin S. Parker and Senator Zellnor Y. Myrie; Assemblymember Latrice M. Walker; Mayor Zohran K. Mamdani; Speaker of the New York City Council Julie Menin; and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the New York City Council, and through generous support from the Altschul Foundation, Brooklyn Org, the Charina Endowment Fund, the Donald A. Pels Charitable Trust, the Ford Foundation, the Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund, the Scherman Foundation, The Robert M. Schiffman Foundation, and the William C. Bullitt Foundation.