Up Next At Ujima
Frontline Arts Buffalo (FAB) is excited to announce the premiere screening of the short film “Frontline Arts Buffalo” which will take place on February 10, 2022. A second in-person screening will be scheduled for later this Spring, details to be announced. This screening will be hosted over Zoom, Register at this link: bit.ly/fabvideo2022
In 2019, Frontline Arts Buffalo hosted a series of community forums at El Museo, Ujima Company, African American Cultural Center, and Locust Street Neighborhood Arts. These forums explored crucial topics to our arts ecosystem here in Buffalo such as systemic financial precarity, our collective legacy, and identifying false solutions to real problems.
With the support of a Statewide Community Regrant funded by the New York State Council on the Arts and administered by Arts Services, Inc., FAB was able to produce this short video showcasing the incredible impact frontline arts organizations have on the well-being of our communities and highlighting the deep disparities that keep them perpetually in survival-mode.
You can read our full press release here.
FOUNDER & ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Lorna C. Hill founded the Ujima Theatre Co. in 1978 to serve the purpose of beauty and justice. She has helped transform the city of Buffalo through her work.
Ujima means "collective work and responsibility"
Ujima Company’s strength lies in its reliability, the consistency of its artistic vision, and its adherence to the principles embodied by the Swahili word for which it is named. For four decades, under the leadership of Lorna C. Hill, founder and artistic director, 1978-2020, the company has provided diverse Western New York audiences with solid, professional theatre experiences. While firmly rooted in the many traditions of African-American theatre, Ujima includes in its long history, productions from the traditions of other people of color, from other countries and cultures, and from the all-encompassing spectrum of traditional and contemporary American theatre. Ujima is constantly growing, evolving, improving.
SUPPORT UJIMA
If you have found joy and or solace at an Ujima Company performance, please consider making a donation to support our work.
Ujima Company acknowledges the land we rest on as the traditional territory of the Haudenosaunee and honor the sovereignty of the Six Nations–the Mohawk, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, Seneca and Tuscarora.
In this acknowledgment, we hope to demonstrate respect for the treaties that were made on these territories and remorse for the harms and mistakes of the far and recent past. We honor the legacy of the many ancestors and elders who made this land their home and infused it with their spirit for thousands of years. We also honor the Original Peoples who remain on the ancestral homelands of Turtle Island and who have survived centuries of colonialism, genocide, and land theft. Finally, we honor those who are not here, but who might have been, were it not for this history of violence. We pledge to work toward partnership with a spirit of reconciliation and collaboration.
OUR SPONSORS
Ujima Co. Inc is supported in part by public funds distributed by the New York State Council on the Arts; the County of Erie; Niagara District Councilman, David A. Rivera; and Erie County Legislator Barbara Miller-Williams.
The Chorus Foundation and The Frank G. Raichle Foundation