This project was designed as a ritual in motion.

For the Drums No Guns Foundation’s Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. celebration in Richmond, Virginia, I was invited to design and live-monitor the visual presentation accompanying a powerful convergence of musicians, dancers, poets, and community activists. Held during Black History Month 2025, the gathering centered culture as medicine and remembrance as a critical pathway to healing. The work honored ancestral legacies including Nikki Giovanni, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Judith Jamison, Dr. Maya Angelou, Bob Marley, Malcolm X, and Nelson Mandela, not as unreachable icons, but as living frequencies moving through sound, image, word, and body.

The visual presentation functioned as both anchor and guide throughout the Edu-Concert, Honoring Our Warrior Healers, hosted for over 100 people at Martin Luther King Middle School. Each slide sequence was intentionally composed to correspond with specific movements of the program: libation, invocation, procession, tribute, and collective release.

Rather than operating as background, the visuals helped shape the emotional arc of the evening, marking transitions and reinforcing the cultural significance of each segment.

Live monitoring was essential to the integrity of the experience. Working in real time, I adjusted visuals in conversation with the performers’ energy, tempo, and audience response. In honoring warrior healers past and present, the experience affirmed art as a vital practice of community care and freedom-making.