"An Update from the DDC: And Other Lies, Fibs and Perjuries.” Get the inside scoop with Aaron Draplin of Draplin Design Co. and learn what goes on behind the scenes! We’ll give an in-depth walk through of some of our projects and answer questions in a more intimate setting. Tips, tricks, tales and threats from our questionable existence! Questions answered. Riddles solved. Enigmas discussed. Don’t miss out!
Featuring the short films, Colonial Currents: Black Women, Water, Trauma, and Baptism and Hierarchies: Oral and Visual Testimonies. Question and answer session to follow viewing and talk. Colonial Currents: Black Women, Water, Trauma, and Baptism marries still and moving images with poetic narration referencing history and the present. Themes of resistance, reparations, and a restoration of black women’s power in the wake of their middle passage lineage, racial/ethnic histories, and journey with the lingering currents of political frameworks, racism, hegemony, and post-colonial trauma. Intersections of dance, performance and storytelling overlap [...]