Updates on 'The Invisibility Project' by Brittany Patterson

Since the performance of "The Invisibility Project" at SARUS fall equinox I have been thinking about what is next with regards to changing race relations in Wilmington. When I began working on this project I set out to reach people and get a conversation started on a deeper level than what normally surfaces. Art does that. It reaches us on a bodily, organic level that goes much deeper than our click bait world that we now live in and where so much of our conversations about race occur. As a cast we took up the mantra "we can't move forward unless we are honest about where we are". It was from this understanding that we created the dance and spoken word performance and it is from this understanding that we take the next steps in this process. Using the performance as an anchor for discussions I am launching what I call "The well intended" workshop series. This will be a series of recorded discussions with various homogenous groups to discuss their unique perspective on the racial divide in this country and Wilmington specifically. The content of these discussions will then be used as inspiration for further development of the piece as part of the creative process. My hope is to use movement in these workshops as well to help community members get in touch with their visceral, first appraisal responses to racial tensions. In this way the art influences life as life influences art. I am very excited to take this next step in the process.

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