"Crossing a Deep River: A Ritual Drama in Three Movements" A Staged Reading

CROSSING A DEEP RIVER: A RITUAL DRAMA IN THREE MOVEMENTS (STAGED READING) Written by Joanne M. Braxton, Ph.D. and directed by Ìyá Ìfánìkẹ Batts, this transformative performance ushers its audience through a collective ritual healing of ancestral wounds while engaging directly with Montpelier’s history as a former site of enslavement. Join us for a thought-provoking encounter between place and memory. Following the performance, participate in a structured talkback in the form of a Braxton Institute Dialogue on Resistance and Thriving. Featuring: Mélisande Short-Colomb (storyteller, performer, and playwright); Omiyẹmi (Artisia) Green (Chair, Department of Theatre Arts, Chadwick A. Boseman College of Fine Arts, Howard University); Joanne M. Braxton, Ph.D. (Playwright; Co-founder, Braxton Institute); and Ìyá Ìfánìkẹ Batts (Director; Co-coordinator of Musical Theatre, Howard University). As a companion to this performance and dialogue, Braxton’s photographic exhibition, <a href="https://www.pgparks.com/event_list/the-african-odyssey-exhibition" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgba(0,0,0,var(--O42jJQ,1));">The African Odyssey</a>, currently on view at the Montpelier Historic Site &amp; Museum through November 1. Free; Thursday through Sunday, from 10 AM until 4 PM.

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