RESERVE YOUR SEATS at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/518650
A Benefit Performance To Support Collaboration And Prevention Programs On Sexual Assault In Communities Of African Descent.
Mother Tongue: Monologues for Truth Bearing Women, Emerging Sons and Other Keepers of the Flame is a call for public deliberation! Black men and boys will share center stage, ushering in a time for truth, a time for troubling the waters, and for claiming what's overdue. With beautiful imagery, evocative ...
RESERVE YOUR SEATS at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/518650
A Benefit Performance To Support Collaboration And Prevention Programs On Sexual Assault In Communities Of African Descent.
Mother Tongue: Monologues for Truth Bearing Women, Emerging Sons and Other Keepers of the Flame is a call for public deliberation! Black men and boys will share center stage, ushering in a time for truth, a time for troubling the waters, and for claiming what's overdue. With beautiful imagery, evocative music and bold choreography, poets and actors dramatizing and performing community will speak of silences, allowances, sexual and racial dynamics that remain intensely controversial. We continue to amplify the voices of Black women through testimony about histories and legacies of sexual violence enacted upon their own bodies. Black male allies will share center stage as powerful responders, challenging us as witnesses to take imaginative leaps from present states of institutionalized violence to futures where we possess the language and tools to dismantle rape culture at every stage and across generations.
CONCEIVED BY:
Farah Tanis
Co-founder, Executive Director, Black Women's Blueprint, Founder, Museum of Women's Resistance (MoWRe)
DIRECTED BY:
'Pope Jackson
Award Winning Director, Founder of Actuator Inc.
Lorraine LaPrade
Director
HONOREES:
Barbara Smith
Council Member, Albany, NY, Co-Founder, Combahee River Collective (1974), Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press
Melissa Harris-Perry
Author, Political Scientist, Television Host and Liberal Political Commentator, MSNBC
EVENT CO-CHAIRS:
Aishah Shahidah Simmons
Melinda Weekes
Tony Porter
Lisa Anderson
Beth Elaine Richie
MODERATOR:
Traci C. West
FEATURING BLACK MALE ACTIVISTS:
Akeel St. Vil
Quentin Walcott
Haki Madhubutii
Darnell L. Moore
Tony Porter
Oliver Williams
PROUD TO BRING THE FOLLOWING ARTISTS TO THE STAGE:
Lee Odom
Adaku Utah
Piper Anderson
Erin Serrano
Nina Angela Mercer
Dorcas Davis
Gouta Mumcy Mpelege
Daphne M Lee
Grace Drums