FREEDOM TRAIN PRESENTS:

TUESDAY, JUNE 23RD:
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.


HIGHLIGHTS:
Dred, Drag King Performer
Dr. Gail Bell Baptiste, Orisha Priestess and Educator
Rashida Bryant, Performance Artist
Dr. Wendi Williams, Psychologiest (Black Women, Body Issues, and Intimacy)
Yvonne Fly Onakeme Etaghene, Poet


More on 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.

Some 'talk backs' happen after the production - we put ours before in order to create a greater dialectic with our audience community and our artists as they are creating their new work. And to further this process of investigation and as a reflexive exercise in community activism, Offstage Forums are panel-free spaces. While we do highlight spedific voices and work, we don't put them in 'panelist seating' and the audience someplace else. It is a forum in the round, if you will, that encourages everyone to participate and breaks the fourth wall of panel vs. audience, active vs. passive, and expert vs. non-expert.

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

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