Grow Together Musical Program | Art Therapy

Grow Together Musical Program
This is a virtual, interactive exploration of a multi-media community musical.

The Grow Together Musical was arranged to transport the audience though stories rooted in honesty and vulnerability, community and relationships, Ancestry and strength. Grow Together is an adventure into cycles we experience, of hope and limitations, of loss and growth, of accountability, nourishment, and radical change. Within and across the scenes, you are invited to find yourself.

For our Afro and Indigenous audience members surviving systemic oppression, we are deserving of abundance and we are owed. We hope this Musical affirms these truths in you, fostering hopefulness and reverence for your wildest dreams, for yourself and our communities. We believe in your positive imagination and we believe in you.

For our European settler audience members who benefit from the systemic oppression of their neighbors, the Grow Together Musical invites you to self reflect on the question of who do you owe? What will you return to those you owe? What can you do to give rest, nourishment, remedy and racial reckoning to those you owe? And how can your own dreams be accountable to what you owe?

All participants are encouraged to self-reflect and do better. How do we Grow Together? How might you bring your community into Grow[ing] Together alongside other communities? What are we growing towards? And who or what supports us in doing this work?

This post and the Grow Together Musical’s scene arrangement was done by Artistic Apothecary’s Jelly-Of-All-Trades, yasmine – read more about them here.

Access a P.D.F. Version of the Grow Together Musical Program here.

Opening Pan-African Blessing
We summon Fire, Water, Earth, Mineral and Nature.

Nature
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May we sprout roots.
Proud, confident, abundant, joyful.
Great Spirit, thank you.
I am so grateful for all your gifts.

Scenes

Opening Ritual Song – Song – Recorded Audio and Captioned Video by: 3 Siblings

Patient Masculinity – Poem – PDF/Paper version by: kuwa jasiri

Loving to be/Struggling to be Free – Play – PDF/Paper Transcript of Spoken Story by: Elder Veronza Bowers

growing – Song – Recorded Audio and Captioned Video by: kuwa jasiri

Less Talk More Money – Vignette Play – P.D.F./Paper version by: kuwa jasiri

Lift Every Voice – Song – Recorded Audio – cover by: kuwa jasiri

Honouring The Cycles Of Life – Vignette Play – P.D.F./Paper version by: kuwa jasiri

the mo[u]rning after – Song – Recorded Audio and Captioned Video by: Ezeder Tzorginda

Whiteness Is Dead – Song – PDF/Paper Transcript by: kuwa jasiri

Grow Together Theme Song – Song – Recorded Audio by: kuwa jasiri

Closing Song – This is Where You Live – by: kuwa jasiri
This is where you live. It is a place in our hearts where all of our dreams come true.
This is where you live. It is a place in your heart where all of your dreams come true.
This is where you live. It is a place in our hearts where all of our dreams come true.

Closing Pan-African Blessing
Thank you, Elements. Stay or go your work in this space is complete.
We bless your name.

We encourage everyone who experiences this Musical to consult and check in with these Elements. What support they may require after aiding us in this journey?