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Speaker 1: Welcome to woke f with me Danielle Moody. Over the

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Speaker 1: last few weeks, I've been featuring a number of fantastic

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Speaker 1: artists whose work is being showcased at the Shed Cultural

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Speaker 1: Center this summer in New York as part of their

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Speaker 1: open Call program. This week, I am proud to present

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Speaker 1: the final artists in our series, Troy Anthony, creator of

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Speaker 1: the Revival. It is our duty? What is the Revival?

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Speaker 1: And why is it our duty? Troy's project centers around

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Speaker 1: the true history of Juneteenth and the importance of struggle, surrender,

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Speaker 1: and salvation. Through his spoken word presentation, one that he

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Speaker 1: refers to as a sermon, Troy urges a return to

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Speaker 1: the original significance of Juneteenth, which you will hear him

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Speaker 1: explain in our conversation. I wanted to share our entire

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Speaker 1: half hour conversation in commemoration of Juneteenth to let you

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Speaker 1: hear his passion and insight into this historic remembrance. As

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Speaker 1: Juneteenth becomes a federal holiday, one that has rapidly become

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Speaker 1: commodified by corporations, I hope you will listen closely to

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Speaker 1: Troy's words and become part of the revival. After all,

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Speaker 1: it is our duty Troy. You refer to this as

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Speaker 1: not a performance but as a service. So let's start there,

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Speaker 1: Because when I think about a revival, I keep talking

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Speaker 1: about the time that we are living in right now

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Speaker 1: as an opportunity to reimagine this country, this world, that

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Speaker 1: oftentimes when we're at a space where things are breaking open,

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Speaker 1: that it is an opportunity for us to create new space.

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Speaker 1: And so talk to us about what the revival means

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Speaker 1: and why that title. Yes, so I'm from the South.

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Speaker 1: I grew up in Louisville, Kentucky, and I grew up

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Speaker 1: going to these kind of revival services, sometimes actually intense

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Speaker 1: looking for something that met this moment, I was trying

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Speaker 1: to remember about like times or spaces that I've been

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Speaker 1: in that helped me move from you know, point A

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Speaker 1: in a place of like deep pain, something that moved

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Speaker 1: that moved me to you know, seeing a clearer path.

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Speaker 1: And Church has always been that for me. And also

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Speaker 1: like the Christian context that I grew up in does

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Speaker 1: not necessarily feed my spirit in the same way. So

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Speaker 1: I aim to dissect, like what is a revival service?

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Speaker 1: like hold space for our own journey. And so when

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Speaker 1: I titled it the Revival, it's about coming back to ourselves.

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Speaker 1: It's about finding a path to salvation, and salvation being

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Speaker 1: about collective liberation. So there are three parts to a revival.

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Speaker 1: There's it's usually about struggle, about surrender and salvation. Those

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Speaker 1: are the themes. And so I've said, okay, well, we're

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Speaker 1: going to honor our struggle. We've been through so much

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Speaker 1: beyond and beyond, you know, so we're going to honor that.

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Speaker 1: And how do we honor that? That's been a big

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Speaker 1: Like what does it mean to honor this moment? What

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Speaker 1: how do we find a path to salvation through collective liberation.

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Speaker 1: That's what the revival aims to do. And I also

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Speaker 1: think I harp on this thing that it's not a performance,

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Speaker 1: And so I'm just asking people to engage with the

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Speaker 1: essentially the concert in a in a different way. You know,

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Speaker 1: that's interesting because I think you know to your point

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Speaker 1: and understanding your background, having grown up in the South

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Speaker 1: and having grown up in the church, is the idea

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Speaker 1: that you know, when you go to service, it is

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Speaker 1: not a passive experience. You're not just sitting there and

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Speaker 1: It is a spiritual engagement. It's an entanglement of sorts

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Speaker 1: the piece about surrender and what that means and what

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Speaker 1: comes up for you. Yeah. So there's a big part

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Speaker 1: how I processed Brianna Taylor's death. Brianna Taylor is from Louisville, Kentucky.

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Speaker 1: She still has not seen justice, and I've been really

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Speaker 1: there's a part of surrender that is about like, I

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Speaker 1: and this kind of like letting go and like and

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Speaker 1: letting whatever happens happens. Is that surrender moment and getting

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Speaker 1: there actually takes a lot of work. Yes, it's like

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Speaker 1: so hard to let go, right, and then when you

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Speaker 1: do in this pandemic was I had to allow myself

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Speaker 1: grieving process. You know, I had to surrender to like,

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Speaker 1: Like what can I do about them? Or I'm like wait,

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Speaker 1: why am I holding onto that? Like, let me surrender

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Speaker 1: So the Revival Service kind of asks us to sit

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Speaker 1: You know, I have been talking so often on woke

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Speaker 1: I don't think anyone would actually say that about me.

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Speaker 1: That part of the process of trying to break things open,

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Speaker 1: and for my work, it is through politics, right, and

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Speaker 1: through letting people understand their power and responsibilities citizens of

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Speaker 1: the part of doing that is, like James Baldwin had said,

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Speaker 1: and so, you know, do you feel as an artist

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Speaker 1: thing that I have been sitting with is, you know

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Speaker 1: a lot of art that deals with trauma, especially black trauma.

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Speaker 1: It's like if it's a play, it's like you go

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Speaker 1: does all burn down? Like then what right? Like then

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Speaker 1: we see in sci fi. It's something that we read

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Speaker 1: to move through? Like you're saying, this isn't a play,

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Speaker 1: I feel that you are a kindred spirit. So Troy,

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Speaker 1: I could talk to you literally for the remainder of

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Speaker 1: the day. Your peace is the revival. It is our duty.

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Speaker 1: Tell people how they can follow you, how they can

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Speaker 1: see the performance on June nineteenth. Yes, the best way

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Speaker 1: the Shed's website. Um, there's a beautiful Open Call section.

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Speaker 1: are being presented, and also about my piece, the Revival

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Speaker 1: It Is Our Duty. It's all free, which I love.

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Speaker 1: It's like very accessible, really love free love, We love

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Speaker 1: free Love, free ninety nine Yes um. And to follow me,

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Speaker 1: go to my Instagram at Try Anthony Music. I get

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Speaker 1: digital presence, but Instagram is the place that I feel

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Speaker 1: You can stream Troy Anthony's live presentation of the revival

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Speaker 1: It Is Our Duty the evening of June nineteenth at

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Speaker 1: the Shed dot org slash Open Dash Call Dash live stream.

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Speaker 1: If you're in or near New York, there's still time

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Speaker 1: for free. This week brings our Open Calls showcase series

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Speaker 1: stay woke as fuck.