How does it feel to see yourself and your community reflected in movies, television, and books? What titles helped form you, and how would you want to make more space for other identities and voices?

Join Kayla Farrish, director of Put Away the Fire, dear, for a FREE discussion and workshop on Saturday, June 22 at 1 p.m. at Mettlesome Theater in Durham that will help answer those questions. Farrish, whose company will perform during American Dance Festival June 25 to 27, produces work that combines the inspiration of cinema, music, dance theater, and storytelling.

This event, in partnership with the Black On Black Project and Durham Art Guild, will include a discussion about cinema and the representations of BIPOC communities. The workshop will look at how it feels to see yourself reflected in these artforms, examining them through discussion and community writing. Space is limited so please register.

Location

Mettlesome Theater in Durham is located at the Golden Belt Arts campus at 800 Taylor Street Suite 9-156, Durham, NC 27701. The front door is between Urban Tails and Hi-Wire Brewing.

About Kayla Farrish

Kayla Farrish is a Black American Director merging dance-theater, filmmaking, narrative, and sound score. She captures ranging identity, the mythical dualities of history and present survival, and powerful dreaming lending to liberation. She is currently a NEFA National Dance Project Grantee for her project "Put Away the Fire, dear" currently on tour and the recipient of the Ellis Beauregard Contemporary Dance Award. She has been commissioned by Limon Dance Company, Louis Armstrong House Museum, Blacklight Summit and beyond. She creates live works, films, site-specific/immersive, and collaborations with musicians and other artists. She is excited to create more and continue to be a part of radical movements of freedom and humanity.

Presented by the Black On Black Project and the Durham Art Guild