FREEDOM TRAIN PRESENTS:

TUESDAY, JUNE 23RD @ 730PM:
And Complicated
Artists and community who complicate images of 'othered' communities dialogue.
Audre Lorde Project
85 South Oxford Street
Fort Greene, Brooklyn

With a title taken from Ntozake Shange's For Colored Girls Who Consider Suicide when the Rainbow is Enuf, And Complicated is a dialogue between artists, thinkers, and activists whose work complicates, deconstructs, and reframes prevailing cultural and media iconographies of so called 'othered' communities with a particular focus on black women. This forum takes its inspiration from Resident Playwright Ayanna Maia's new work in development: Woman to Woman and precedes its performance at Fire! New Play Festival 2009 in August. Co-sponsoring organizations: The Audre Lorde Project and Freedom Train Productions.


HIGHLIGHTED VOICES:
Dred, Drag King Performer
Dr. Gail Bell Baptiste, Orisha Priestess and Educator
Rashida Bryant, Performance Artist
Dr. Wendi Williams, Psychologist (Black Women, Body Issues, and Intimacy)
Yvonne Fly Onakeme Etaghene, Performance Activist, Poet, Playwright, Dancer, and Actress


Other upcoming Offstage Forums include Familes Now! and Post Apocalyptic: New Freedoms, New Communities both in July 2009.

3 PRINCIPLES OF OFFSTAGE FORUMS:
Offstage Forums gather our audience community together to explore the broader implications of the political theatre on which our resident playwrights are working.

Freedom Train Productions programs these conversations ahead of Fire! New Play Festival in order to foster a true dialectic with our audience community and our artists as they are creating their new work.

Offstage Forums are panel-free conversations that happen in the round in order to encourage dialogue and equal participation across race, gender, sexuality, class, and education.

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