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A docupoem anthology by Saaret E. Yoseph
JOURNEY(S) is a narrative trip between distant sister cities—Addis Ababa, Ethiopia & Washington, DC. The experimental docupoem anthology combines interview excerpts of oral history with original poetry to explore identity, migration, memory and the meaning of “home.”
The text below documents the Zoom event held on 22 December 2022. The actual film, streamed on kweliTV is 39 minutes.
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Inspired by poet Ntozake Shange’s acclaimed choreopoem For Colored Girls, director/producer Saaret E. Yoseph sifts through her own cultural biography, creating a short-form audio series that follows the stories of Ethiopian women, who arrived in the District prior to or during the 1980s.
An eclectic collage of language and movement, each episode of JOURNEY(S) will be roughly 5-8 minutes long and paired with a video portrait dedicated to the Black feminine gaze. Visual source materials will be spliced and reimagined, including advertisements, newspaper headlines and pictorials from the 60s, 70s and 80s, ripped from the pages of history and transformed for the anthology, in order to speak to the collective experiences of Black transnational women across the African diaspora.
Image source: blackwomenradicals.com
Updated on 4 August 2025 to include kwelTV link. Original post included Zoom link which is no longer available.
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