2016

During the 2016 MOJA Festival, Hurricane Matthew and mandatory weather-related evacuations interrupted some of the scheduled programming. Highlighting the music series, Charlton Singleton and Friends performed Pop Life! Celebrating the Music of Prince at Charleston Music Hall.

While some performances were rescheduled, our theatre offerings included Art Forms and Theatre Concepts, Inc. premiering Stick Fly, a wickedly funny, award-winning drama, at the Dock Street Theatre, When I First Remember, from Lady in White Productions, and Carlie Towne Productions performs Gullah/Geechee Knows Emanuel: A Gullah/Geechee Story, as well as Charleston Black Theatre with their Charleston premiere of Harriet’s Return, a one woman show celebrating the life of Harriet Tubman, starring Karen Jones Meadows. Rescheduled in February, 2017, the festival returned to the newly renovated Gaillard, co-presenting with the Charleston Gaillard Center Dance Theatre of Harlem.

The weather was no match for the spirit of MOJA, and the MOJA Finale closed out the festival with a community celebration in Hampton Park featuring music from Curtis Inabinett and Ah Touch of Class, New Galaxy Band and Charlton Singleton and friends. The poster art is by Fletcher Williams III.

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