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Unmasking: Stories and Truth (Workshop)

The Conciliation Project presents "Unmasking: Stories and Truth", a workshop infused with the principles and practices of its signature Ritual Poetic Drama methodology. "Unmasking: Stories and Truth" will present an excerpt of our original production "Uncle Tom Deconstructed" followed by a facilitated dialogue . The workshop examines how "uncle tom " is used as a weapon of both racially motivated respectability politics and dehumanization of black bodies. Media images, stereotypes and grotesque representations shape our ideas of race, class and culture. We all have a story.

Artist Information
The Conciliation Project (TCP) has an 11-year history of facilitating difficult conversations around race and racism through the use of theatre. Artistic Director and founder Dr. Tawnya Pettiford-Wates leads TCP to partner with organizations and communities to engage in the long process of healing our nations historic past. The Conciliation Project exists with its own history, pulling from energy developed in Seattle, Washington in 2001.The Conciliation Project makes its NYC debut here at the Failsafe Festival and is dedicated and committed as a company and as individual members to courageously embrace our nations past in order to build a future together that dreams of the immeasurable possibility of what true and uncompromised conciliation would add to the quality of all of our lives. We acknowledge the enormous capacity we have as people, citizens and artists to transform lives through a common-unity of purpose.

The Conciliation Project
https://www.theconciliationproject.org/

part of FailSafe Festival 2017: failsafefestival.com