Written by Monet Marshall
Raissoneur (pronounced rez-uh-nur) is a character in a play, novel, or the like who voices the central theme, philosophy, or point of view of the work, also known as the voice of the writer. But how can there be one voice when we are such complex and multifaceted people? A one-act, one-woman play with 7 actors, Raissoneur is a play within a play, a whodunit and a performance piece rolled into one. But ultimately its a story of finding our many parts and making them whole.
An interactive Black theater overview with Rhetta Green, John Harris, and JaMeeka Holloway-Burrell.
A conversation with artist Monet Marshall about her recent performance art exhibition, Buy My Soul and Call it Art, with Mike Williams, founder of the Black on Black Project.
A community conversation with Tommy DeFrantz. In this dialogic manifesto-lecture, Chair of African and African American studies at Duke University, Tommy DeFrantz offers strategies for acknowledging how artists of color and their collaborating audiences of color operate in several keys simultaneously, but are inevitably compelled to reduce their work and experience to the unknowable, shameful category of ‘race.’ An exploration of black performance, black identity, and black expression.