Join Guild Hall for a community gathering honoring the Pyrrhus Concer Homestead, its memory, its ancestors, and its resilience. Concer is one of the most important figures in Southampton’s history; come build a monument, hoist a sail, sing, break bread, and fellowship with us. We’ll call in our indigenous, black and brown ancestors who transcend time and space, who charge us to imagine a liberated, more just, more caring world, a world in which life is precious.
PASSAGE is the third chapter in an ongoing, creative investigation called FORGOTTEN PARADISE which imagines the dreams of the forcibly displaced, and enslaved peoples across the European/American, trans-Atlantic slave trade. It connects spirits of ancestors with descendants across oceans and between times.
**Please bring a lawn chair and wear all white. The program will be filmed for future iterations of the project. Please note that guests of Guild Hall may be photographed, videotaped, or otherwise recorded.
Arrive early for the self-guided tour: PYRRHUS CONCER: AN ADVENTUROUS LIFE created by Brenda Simmons / Southampton African American Museum (SAAM)
Created in Collaboration with:
Guild Hall William P. Rayner Artists-in-Residence: Charlotte Brathwaite and Malick Welli
Collaborative Artists: Gregory Corbino, Sunder Ganglani, and Tareke Ortiz
Eastville Community Historical Society & Pyrrhus Concer Action Committee: Dr. Georgette Grier-Key
Southampton African American Museum & Pyrrhus Concer Action Committee: Brenda Simmons
Community Partners: Boys & Girls Club of Shinnecock Nation, Guild Hall Teen Arts Council, and members of the Sag Harbor Community
Rain Date: Sunday, October 13, 2024
Photo: Forgotten Paradise 3, Forgotten Paradise: Dream the Other Side of the River series, 2022. Photo by Malick Welli created with in collaboration with Charlotte Brathwaite
Guild Hall William P. Rayner Artist-in-Residence Principal Sponsor:
Kathy Rayner in memory of her husband, Billy Rayner
Guild Hall’s Learning + New Works programs are made possible through The Patti Kenner Arts Education Fellowship, Vital Projects Fund, the Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Endowment Fund, and The Melville Straus Family Endowment.
Additional support provided by Friends of Learning + New Works: Julie Raynor Gross, Stephanie Joyce and Jim Vos, S. Kutler Foundation, N. Glickberg, D. Glickberg, and J. Abrahams, Andrea and Jeffrey Lomasky, Peter Marino, Stephen Meringoff, and Eva Sandler.
