Visual Artist, Researcher, Performer, Facilitator

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For more information contact Ashanti on ashantiharris.work@gmail.com

Project X please visit www.projectxplatform.co.uk or email ashantiharris.projectx@gmail.com

G.O.D.S please email getthebodyofagod@gmail.com

follow me on instagram @ashantisharda

Second Site Performance Tomorrow Sat 20th July, 2pm in Civic Room (Trongate) , 215 High Street. The performance will last approx 1 hour and is durational so please feel free to drop in and out as you like. No booking required. See you there!

Please note: Civic Room is not the same venue as Civic House.

We had a lovely reading seance last Saturday. Thanks to everyone who came and contributed to the reading and conversation.

This Sunday we have the last reading seance session for people of colour who identify as women or non binary only. We will be seancing Audre Lordes collection of writings - Your Silence Will Not Protect You. Please bring a pen and paper or notebook and I will provide the texts and refreshments. Really looking forward to it!

2pm at the CCA Glasgow as part of the programme, Sonic Séance: The Gathering
#sonicseance #seance #readinggroup #audrelorde #yoursilencewillnotprotectyou

The first performances of Second Site this passed weekend. Sekai Libby and Nabu were incredible, such a moving, funny and mesmerising performance! Thank you thank you thank you!!!!!! Next Saturday the next performance will start at 2pm with Libby, Natasha, Busola and Myself. Hope some of you can make it down!

Otherwise, the exhibition is open Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays 1pm-6pm at Civic Room, 215 High Street Glasgow (East end of town). #performance #blackhistory #installation #africanandcaribbeandiaspora #guyanascotland

Relaxing in the Second Site installation before the performance today at 2pm.

The installation is open Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays 1pm-6pm in Civic Room, 215 High Street, Glasgow

Please feel free to lie on the cushions and listen to the sound scape and the stories about the Guyanese women who were in Scotland in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Durational performances take place on Saturdays at 2pm and last approximately an hour. Feel free to drop in and out as you please.

#performance #visualart #blackhistory #africancaribbeandiaspora

It's been a crazy few months and here is a collective celebration of Sonic Seance: The Gathering, Project X Ghost Dimensions performances and my first solo exhibition which opened last night at @civicroom. Thanks everyone for all your love and support!

Collaborative Performances will take place in Civic Room from 2pm. Please come along!

"Second Site" at Civic Room, 215 High Street, Glasgow, G1 1QB

Second Site is a new, site specific installation and collaborative performance work by Ashanti Harris, re-imagining the female, African and Caribbean diasporic history which haunts the Mercantile era of architecture in Scotland. Performances made in collaboration with Sekai Machache, Titana Muthui , Libby Odai, Adebusola Ramsay, Natasha Ruwona, Naomi Shoba and Nabu White.
Exhibition opening Thursday 11th July 5-8pm

Durational performances happen on Saturdays at 2pm and last approximately 1 hour. Feel free to come in and out as you please.

I hope to see you there!

Sonic Seamce: The Gathering is on for 4 weeks in the CCA with a massive programme of film screenings, performances, reading groups and workshops as well as an exhibition of collaborative works and films made by the incredible Jen Martin @jenstillhere with Mele Broomes @melebroomes Patricia Panther @patriciapanther Letitia Pleiades @_thefuries_ and myself @ashantisharda hopefully you can make it down
@variousdanceartists #sonicseance #yoursilencewillnotprotectyou

Thaaaaaaaaaaaank youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu... For being endlessly patient and making the most incredible films. 🎥🎥🎥🌔🖖🏽💆🏽‍♀️💃🏾

🌙Happy Birthday Poppy Moon 🎉

Thanks to everyone who came to the opening of Sonic Seance:The Gathering at the CCA on Friday. Such a warm opening to four weeks of events. Check the link in my bio to see the full programme

Aaaaaaaaaaah. Thanks @ayesharebecca

Tomorrowwwwwww!!!!! Sonic Seance: The Gathering opens at the CCA 6-8pm. Come along and pick up a programme, there's so many events over the next 4 weeks including my reading Seance. Check the link in my bio for more details. 📸Tiu Makkonen
#sonicseance @variousdanceartists YOUR SILENCE WILL NOT PROTECT YOU - Audre Lorde

Sonic Seance: The Gathering Opening Friday 28th July 7-9pm, CCA Glasgow
For full list of events see link in Bio

Responding to Sonic Séance, a V/DA performance, Sonic Séance: The Gathering is an exhibition of
Artists
@novascotiathetruth
@ashantisharda
@patriciapanther
@claricia.kr
@_thefuries_
@divine_tasinda
@byumblebee
@Angel Ng
@Nene Camara
Raman Mundair
@melebroomes
@jenstillhere
@variousdanceartists

GHOST DIMENSIONS with @project_x_dance @tselimon @andreivanw @melebroomes @ashantisharda

Back home from Johannesburg and the first development of GHOST DIMENSIONS - a Project X performance in collaboration with Sound artist Healer Oran and Cinematographer Tseliso Monaheng. The next performances will be in Glasgow and Edinburgh in November, watch this space. @project_x_dance @andreivanw @tselimon @melebroomes @itsmslewis @ashantisharda #Jozi #performance

Blip as part of Annuale. Friday 14th June 6-9pm. Saturday 15th June 12-6pm. 30 Broughton Place, Edinburgh

Oooooooh only 3 more days to go till our first development performance of GHOST DIMENSION in The Centre for the Less Good Idea, Johannesburg. Project X has been in Jozi for 2 weeks now working with Musician and sound artist Healer Oran @andreivanw and cinematographer and writer Tseliso Monaheng @tselimon. It's been a dream! @project_x_dance #PROJECTX #projectxdance #dance #performance #liveart #dancesoftheafricanandcaribbeandiaspora #Jozi #lessgoodidea