Bridge to Baraka – 5 Things To Know About The Show Before You Go (2012 Planet Connections Festivity)
by The Happiest Medium on May 26, 2012
Bridge To Baraka
Benefiting: Frank Silvera Writers Workshop
Produced by Twinbiz
Written by Yvette X (aka Yvette Heyliger)
Against all odds and emboldened by the 1960′s Black Arts Movement, Yvette X comes to terms with her politically-incorrect ancestry and stakes a claim as a dramatist in the American Theatre.
Show Times:
- Tue 6/5/12 – 6:00pm
- Fri 6/8/12 – 8:30pm
- Sun 6/10/12 – 4:00pm
- Sun 6/17/12 – 3:00pm
Answers by Yvette Heyliger (Playwright)
Karen Tortora-Lee’s Question
How did you come up with the title for your show?
Yvette: The title of my show came from a line in the play which says, “…I feel compelled to create a safe, inclusive space that builds a bridge to Baraka and the other writers of the Black Arts Movement; writers who were the forerunners of multiculturalism and whose legacy to the melting pot was to tell their own stories, their own way, and to get those stories to the masses “by any means necessary.”
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