2023 MOJA Arts Festival Continues!

Poetry with Marlanda Dekine and A$iahMae at Halsey Institute, 161 Calhoun Street

October 5 at 6:00pm

Join us for an evening of poetry in the galleries featuring Marlanda Dekine and A$iahMae. Discuss what you heard over light bites and refreshments after the readings.

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MOJA Poetry and Story Telling at Camden Room at the Charleston Visitor Center

375 Meeting Street

October 5 at 6:00pm

MOJA poetry readings in the Camden Room at the Charleston Visitors Center 

6 PM Poetry and Story Telling - Georgia Nubia 

7 PM Poetry and Story Telling - Roger Reeves in conversation with Gary Jackson

"Paradise Blue" at the MOJA Arts Festival

Through October 8

Written by Dominique Morisseau, and directed by Art Gilliard, this dramatic play unravels a story about a Detroit neighborhood called Black Bottom, at the heart of a club district called Paradise Valley, where a trumpeter called Blue runs a joint they called Paradise, where he fronts a quartet whose sidemen include a drummer called P-Sam and a pianist called Corn.

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"Wedding Band" at MOJA by Village Rep & Threshold Rep

Through October 14

Village Rep and Threshold present this spell-binding story by one of the most important playwrights of the 20th Century, Alice Childress. Keely Enright directs. Wedding Band - written with great precision and powerful storytelling - gives an emotional portrayal of a relationship between a Black seamstress, Julia, and a white baker, Herman, in the shadow of the First World War and the 1918 flu epidemic in Charleston, South Carolina. The couple's deep love and commitment faces the cruel racism of the Deep South in this revealing portrayal of interracial love, forced to navigate the societal racism of laws and culture, along with heartbreaking judgment from their own families and communities.

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Poetry and Story Telling with Mama Doonk Gullah, Theresa Hilliard

Carr Richardson Park,

1071 Bender Street, 29407

October 7 at 2:00pm

Theresa is an Author, an Artist-in-Resident, a Gullah storyteller, a certified Tour Guide, a Lecturer, and local Historian. She is also a Docent at the Old Slave Mart Museum. She is fluent in the Gullah language and grew up on Edisto Island with her grandmother whose only language was Gullah. Theresa speaks in the Gullah language and explains how it began and shares all about the food, the stories, the medicines, their spiritualities, songs, and the customs. She incorporates, for students, a show and tell segment centered around items she grew up with before modern conveniences of today. She has spoken at museums, Schools, Festivals, private functions and many other venues. She was featured in National Geographic Video Magazine and the Charleston Magazine. She is available for your presentations at assemblies, workshops, residences, and many other functions for Black History Month and any other occasions.

"Broken Chains & Things" at MOJA by Lady In White Productions

October 7 at 7:00pm

*Use code MOJA at checkout to receive $6.00 off your ticket*

A theatrical production that tells the story of an African American grandpa that must step up to the occasion after a series of tragedies.

"Broken Chains & Things" will take you on a walk down memory lane while telling the story of an African American grandpa that struggles to hold his family together. After a series of tragedies, he is left with his two grandchildren to raise. He does his best to guide them and teach them their history in hopes of leading them down the right path. Although the struggle may be real, the family's mantra is "Together, we got this." BROKEN CHAINS & THINGS IS A MUST SEE! With a live band and familiar tunes, it's guaranteed to keep you entertained.

Written & Directed by Samelia R. Adams

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