Join us Thursday, June 27 following the performance for a post-show conversation with Dani Snyder-Young.

Dani Snyder-Young is a scholar/artist whose work focuses on theatre and social change, applied theatre, and contemporary US activist performance.

Dani is the author of Theatre Of Good Intentions: Challenges and Hopes for Theatre and Social Change (2013, Palgrave Macmillan), which examines the limits of theatre in making social change. She has published in Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre Research, Theatre Survey, Theatre Research International, Qualitative Inquiry, Youth Theatre Journal, Texas Theatre Journal, and the International Journal of Learning, and from 2013-2015 she regularly wrote popular press theatre criticism for HowlRound.

Join us on June 29 following the performance for a post show conversation with Catherine Buxton.

Catherine Buxton is the Communications Manager for Speak About It, a consent education and sexual assault prevention organization that has worked with thousands of students nationwide. She has worked in consent education for over five years, and brings experience from her work as an educator and advocate with Planned Parenthood of Northern New England, the Domestic Violence Services of Dutchess County, and Science Club for Girls. She is also a Maine-based theater artist, with credits at a number of New England theater companies including Portland Stage, and the site-specific performance collaborative, bareportland, where she is a founder and company member.

Join us on May 18th following the 8pm performance of black odyssey boston for a post-show conversation with playwright, Marcus Gardley.

Marcus Gardley is a poet-playwright who was awarded the 2011 PEN/Laura Pels award for Mid-Career Playwright. His most recent play, Every Tongue Confess, premiered at Arena Stage starring Phylicia Rashad and directed by Kenny Leon. It was nominated for the Steinberg New Play Award, the Charles MacArthur Award and was a recipient of the Edgerton Foundation New Play Award. His musical, On The Levee, premiered last summer at LCT3/Lincoln Center Theater and was nominated for 11 Audelco Awards including outstanding playwright. Last spring, his play, And Jesus Moonwalks the Mississippi, was produced at The Cutting Ball Theater and received the SF Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award nomination for outstanding new play and was extended twice. He has had six plays produced including dance of the holy ghost at Yale Repertory Theatre (now under a Broadway option,) (L)imitations of Life, at the Empty Space in Seattle, and like sun fallin’ in the mouth at the National Black Theatre Festival. He is the recipient of a Helen Merrill Award, a Kesselring Honor, the Gerbode Emerging Playwright Award, the National Alliance for Musical Theatre Award, the Eugene O’Neill Memorial Scholarship, and the ASCAP Cole Porter Award. He holds an MFA in Playwriting from the Yale Drama School and is a member of New Dramatists, The Dramatists Guild, and The Lark Play Development Center. He is a professor of Playwriting at Brown University.

Come see the beautiful quilts created by Sisters In Stitches Joined By The Cloth, now featured in the Central Square Theater lobby. SISJBTC have exhibited their work in galleries, colleges, churches, and craft shows thoughout New England, and we are thankful to have them on view at CST through the run of black odyssey boston, closing May 19. 

Design by Christle Rawlins-Jackson

Design by Sheila

“The Guild meets every third Saturday of each month at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Arlington to sew, share ideas and techniques, and to celebrate our love of quilting.  SISJBTC guild members reside in the greater Boston area, Southshore, Metrowest including Springfield and Worcester. We are joined together by our shared experience in quilting which focuses on the African American group’s perspective.

The art of quilting has traveled across oceans, survived 400 years of slavery, and has been carried down by generations of our family and friends. Now it’s up to us to keep the tradition going and to pass it along. Over the centuries, we of African descent have joined together to make quilts as a way of sharing our joys, sorrows, traditions, and to celebrate our history. Quilting connects us to our ancestry, preserves our memories, and gives us a way to connect with generations to come. Sisters in Stitches Joined by the Clot celebrates our heritage and reinforces the link that binds us to our collective history and is our way of contributing and participating in our traditions.”

Participating members include:

Donna Clark

Pam Flam

Lesyslie Rackard

Christle Rawlins-Jackson

Design by Leslylie Rackard

Learn more at www.sistersinstitches.org

This generative writing workshop is led by veterans from Warrior Writers and inspired by themes from Marcus Gardley’s play, black odyssey boston. Workshop participants read scenes from the play and Warrior Writers will lead conversations about how the play relates to veterans’ experiences.

Generative writing prompts, aimed to inspire free writing exercises, will follow. Warrior Writers invites participants to share their work at the end of the workshop, if they desire. Open to all, at any skill-level: veterans, families of veterans (16 years and older), and anyone interested in exploring the experiences of veterans.