Micah x Ireon

Photos courtesy of the artists

Project Description

Through their project, Micah x Ireon imagine the podcast form as a medium to create, record, and share the oral histories of the RIRJ grant. They will begin with the truth that colonization has/continues to violently interrupt the oral storytelling traditions of myriad communities across time and space, and they will reckon with that history by recording their own and other artists' perspectives. With their backgrounds in poetry / sociology / community-based artmaking, their oral history will co-create with the RIRJ team and participating artists to build sacred capsules for remembering our ever-evolving present moment. Micah x Ireon's work combats the capitalist severing from ancestry and multiplicity by radically re-tethering ourselves to our genealogies and our descendants. They work in our present, through our past, for our future.

Artist Bios

Micah x Ireon is the team of Micah Rosegrant and Ireon Roach. Micah (they/them) is a words-worker who sings for their ancestors—blood and otherwise. They are an Artist in Community Fellow at Arts Connect International; co-founder of Asian American Theatre Artists of Boston; and steering committee member for the API Arts Network. They craft art of healing with communities like BCYF Grove Hall Senior Center, Pao Arts Center, Central Square Theater, American Repertory Theatre, SpeakEasy Stage, and StageSource.

Ireon Roach (she/her) is a Chicago-bred writer and performer currently pursuing her BFA in Theatre Arts from Boston University. Her writing has appeared in collegiate readers such as “Hoochie Feminist Mag” with play production in BU’s 2020-2021 season. She will soon be published in Linsay Clowes and Nadia Sanger’s collection Living African Feminist Theory (2021) on Afrocentrism and performance. Ireon's work strives to communicate regrinding as a means to unearth — our bodies, our histories, ourselves.