Mama Lola's Dream
Welcome to the unraveling of a Brooklyn-bred, Black Dominican woman who suddenly finds herself inheriting her family’s cacao farm. Spiraling right into a series of conversations with her community and even with her very own dreams, Nothin’ But Islands: A Dream Space captures the urgency to remember, if not the individual memory, the collective memory of the never-explainable black experience, awakened. This piece is about dreams--crossing the ancestral realms to seek belonging, imagination and solace. As people who often find themselves at the shoreline between being ‘not from here, and not from there’/ ‘ni de aqui , ni de alla’, Nothin’ But Islands: A Dream Space emerges like a silent revolution that wants to burst and declare, “I am still here”. ‘Nothin’ But Islands: A Dream Space’ is a part of a larger multi-media experiment that explores: but what of being remembered and remembering is just ours as black people?
Sabrina Frométa
"Which of the three cities (Nashville, New York, Chicago) do you identify with the most and why?"
Brooklyn
Sabrina Frométa, daughter of Calixto Frometa and Ana Rita Ventura, who both migrated from the Ayiti/Dominican Republic is a multimedia storyteller, committed to excavating and unearthing the forgotten objects, stories and ancestral wisdoms that live across the Black diaspora. Part cacao farmer, producer, and dancer, Sabrina has been playing and experimenting her way to a black+indigenous future that’s rooted in the land, in our healing, and in the power of our stories. I am a black, 1st generation American femme who grew up in the heyday of 1990s Knickerbocker Ave and Maria Hernandez Park in Brooklyn. By heyday we’re talking systemically underserved while being fully resourced in stories, community and culture and everything I needed.
