Niama Safia Sandy
In BAC’s Wellness Studio Blog, we invite you to share the passion we have for healing arts, and show how you can use featured Brooklyn traditions from our global diasporas to nurture and heal your body, community, and soul.
Today’s featured artist: Niama Safia Sandy
Niama Safia Sandy is an Afrofuturist Diasporadical Fly Girl Polymath. World-Changer. Curator-Artist-Producer. Niama is also a singer with the Resistance Revival Chorus. When we sat down with Niama Safia Sandy, we had a lot of questions. We asked her where joy could be found in the pandemic.
“So among the sort of mantras of the chorus is this line from a toy Derek Carr poem. Joy is an act of resistance. And you know, it's very straightforward, right? It there's not much to mince you know there in terms of what those words might mean. And it's so interesting because I feel like it's actually bled into so many other parts of my work as well. This idea of thinking about joy as a portal that certainly, you know, can be tracked to the sort of genealogy of that as an idea.
I have this idea that in fact joy is a portal making device, right. It allows you to be able to see the other side, or for you to like actually make the other side right. If the intention is clear enough.”
Cover Image: Resistance Revival Chorus. Photo by Ginny Suss.