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The How To Be Project: Ten Plays for Racial Justice at Bishop Arts Theatre Center
Dates: 3/4/2022 - 2/6/2022
📍 Theatre: Bishop Arts Theatre Center
Bishop Arts Theatre Center
215 South Tyler Street
Dallas, TX 75208
Phone: 2149480716
Tickets: $20-$30
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Bishop Arts Theatre commissioned ten Black playwrights to pen a 0ne-act play inspired by and in conversation with Dr. Ibram X. Kendis book HOW TO BE AN ANTIRACIST. At a time where Black authors including Ta-Nahasi Coates, Nikole Hannah-Jones, and other prominent Black writers are engaged in conversations about Americas racial reckoning, THE HOW TO BE PROJECT seeks to produce works that continue the dialogue in the enduring struggle for racial justice. In partnership with PEN America.Commission award recipients include Jonathan Norton, Eugene Lee, Kristen Adele Calhoun, Erin Malone, Alle Mims, Paula Sanders, Oba William King, Zetra Goodlow, Bwalya Chisanga & Michael Harrison.The commission awards are made possible by a generous grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and Dallas Truth Racial Healing & Transformation.
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Bishop Arts Theatre Announces 10 Commission Awards To Local Writers
January 03, 2022 Bishop Arts Theatre Center will continue its 28th anniversary season with The HOW TO BE Project: Ten Plays for Racial Justice, a one-act festival scheduled for February 17 – March 5, 2022, at Bishop Arts Theatre Center with ten written commissions for Black-identified writers speaking to the current moment of the Black Lives Matter movement, disproportionate policing in communities of color, and the exploration of the America that Langston Hughes called “the dream it used to be.” Inspired by select chapters from Dr. Ibram X. Kendi's book, How To Be An Anti-Racist, the festival seeks to present works that continue the dialogue in the enduring struggle for racial justice.About the Theatre
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