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Friday, January 30, 2026 7:00PM

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Presented by The Hobby Center for the Performing Arts

Our Road Home is an interactive rhythmic production created and directed by native Houston artist Jakari Sherman. Through layered rhythmic storytelling - spoken, rapped, preached, and sung - the work honors the communal labor and ingenuity that built spaces of freedom across time. The body is the central instrument of music and movement in Our Road Home, affirming that the power to create and preserve freedom resides within us. The percussive tradition of stepping, as well as drumming and vocal textures combine to highlight the agency of those who claimed their autonomy. Inspired by the legacy of Houston’s Freedmen’s Town, the work asks: Once freedom is gained, how do we live in it, preserve it, and pass it on when the pull of bondage lingers near? 

Our Road Home is part of a broader initiative exploring “freedom as a way of life”. It seeks to examine and exhibit freedom beyond a fight and invites audiences to imagine what it looks like to live and thrive in liberation. The shift from resistance to restoration opens space for imagination, healing, and speculative futures. The work premiered at the Bethel church historic site to commemorate the 160th anniversary of Freedmen’s Town, and the Hobby Center’s expanded production of Our Road Home shares this important work with Houstonians and visitors of all ages. 

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