Mother Tongue: Monologues For Truth Bearing Women, Emerging Sons and Other Keepers of The Flame

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