Creating Common Cause - Telling Our Stories

Anti-Racism Commission, Diocese of Pennsylvania

This session is designed for an audience of all racial identities to share their stories of resisting and healing from racism.

Church of St. Martin-in-the-Fields

Telling Our Stories with Playback for Change

In 3 interactive sessions of theater and discussion, participants see themselves in one another’s stories of race and racism as they are reinterpreted for the stage by members of Playback for Change.

<h2>Telling Our Stories: Healing the Wounds of Racism, Building Beloved Community</h2>In 3 interactive sessions of theater and discussion, participants see themselves in one another’s stories of race and racism as they brought to life on the stage by members of Playback for Change, a Philadelphia-based ensemble that facilitates racial understanding using the improvisational theater form Playback Theatre. Audience members’ real stories become the source material. The performance is spontaneous - it is theater created through a unique collaboration between performers and audience. Each session will use the practice of race-specific affinity spaces to prepare participants to have a deeper, braver and more honest conversation.<h3>Creating Common Cause</h3>This session, Creating Common Cause, is designed for an audience of all racial identities to share their stories of resisting and healing from racism. The goal: to work together in solidarity to dismantle systemic racism.Each session cost $15 per person or $50 for a group of 5 or more. Financial assistance is available. Email arc@diopa.org. For more information, check out our blog <a href="https://anti-racism-commission.constantcontactsites.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">The ARC</a>. For any questions about the Telling Our Stories series, Playback for Change, or Playback Theatre, please email The Rev. Barbara Ballenger (barbballenger@gmail.com).Sponsored by the Anti-Racism Commission of the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania.

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