Host Jo Ann Hardesty speaks with Kevin Jones, director of Hands Up, a powerful set of monologues commissioned by The New Black Fest in the wake of police shootings of Mike Brown in Ferguson, Mo., and John Crawford III in Beavercreek, Ohio, and others. Seven black playwrights have been commissioned to write monologues that explore their feelings about the well-being of black people in a culture of institutional profiling.
Locations:
Cerimon House (NE) April 14, 15, 16
Reed College (SE) April 22, 23
Artist’s Repertory Theatre (SW) April 29 and 30
This show is produced by the August Wilson Red Door Project, committed to changing the racial ecology
of Portland through the arts.
The playwrights are Nathan James, Nathan Yungerberg, Idris Goodwin, Nambi Kelley, Glenn “NSangou” Gordon, Eric Holmes, and Dennis Allen II.
For more information, please contact chelsea@reddoorproject.org.
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