Take Care of Your Blessings, Fiercely
Performance with André Bloodstone Singleton
Saturday, April 26, 2025 | 2:00 p.m.
SFAC Main Gallery, 401 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94102
Free and open to the public
Artist André Bloodstone Singleton presents a memorial ceremony, drawing on Black funerary practices and ritual, in honor of beloved writer and activist Essex Hemphill.
This program is planned alongside the exhibition Ceremonies: Ritual to Self on view in the SFAC Main Gallery through May 3, 2025.
About the Artist
André Bloodstone Singleton is an Oakland-based sacred healing, multi-disciplinary artist. His art acknowledges and celebrates his enduring survival as a human being and a proud descendant of the African Diaspora. For Ceremonies, Singleton will design an installation and performance inspired both by Hemphill’s writings as well Singleton’s own lived experience, drawing on Black funerary traditions and memorial rituals as an invitation to contemplate death, mourning, and remembrance.
