Our mission is to promote, through active and challenging dramatic work, open and honest dialogue about racism in America in order to repair its damaging legacy. Our work illuminates the distortions of our country’s racial past, provides an honest interrogation of that past, while including marginalized, under-represented and unheard voices.
We are a creative social justice organization that uses theatre arts to include everyone in the dialogue on racism in America. We do this through six theatrical plays that uncover racism attitudes and behaviors towards different races and genders. After each performance we have a open forum with the audience about the topics and issues seen in the play. Our staff also offers workshops and lectures for businesses and organizations to help them eliminate racial and cultural sterotypes in the workforce and in their communities.
We currently have a repertoire of six plays, two community collaborations, several skits and a variety of improvisational tools that we use to spark a dialogue. Our performances are representative of the color-wheel of the American cultural landscape: black, red, yellow, brown, and white. Each play identifies a specific color group, deconstructs the published history about that group, and compares and contrasts it to the “lived” history.
We also engage communities in collaborative, co-constructed, emergent processes to facilitate dialogue geared toward community empowerment. Examples of recent collaborations in Richmond, VA include partnerships with The Daily Planet concerning homelessness, and The Healing Place concerning the community of recovery and addiction.
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Upcoming Events
March
25 to March 28
Richmond, Virginia
Global Sexxx-ism: un-wrapped
April
1 to April 4
Richmond, Virginia
Yellow Fever: the internment
April
7, 7:00PM
haustalk with Slash Coleman
Virginia Center for Architecture
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