Sankofa Communities, Embracing Yesterday, Creating Tomorrow
Atlanta, GA
Friday, November 9th, 6:30-9 P.M., Saturday, November 10th, 10 A.M.-4 P.M., Sunday, November 11th, 1 P.M.-4 P.M.
A weekend of events towards embodied racial healing and justice!
Join us for all or part of this powerful weekend.
Friday, November 9th
Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North
A Documentary film screening and Community Dialogue with filmmaker, Katrina Browne . The film is about her family, and New England’s complicity in the slave trade/slavery, and about present-day reckoning. (Traces of the Trade received recognition from Sundance, 2008, PBS/POV, 2008, Emmy Award nomination, 2009)
6:30 P.M.-reception with light refreshments
7:00 P.M.- program begins
Saturday, November 10th
Moving Through
An interactive InterPlay workshop towards embodied racial healing and justice facilitated by Katrina Browne, Jennifer Denning, Karimah Dillard and Renée, with neighborhood Black history exhibit researched by the BiRacial History Project.There will be sacred affinity group time for people of color and white people to help deepen the work and build resilience.
10 A.M.-4 P.M.
Sunday, November 11th
Sankofa Communities Soulprint Players Performance
A performance that combines the power of InterPlay, historical facts, and ancient healing ritual to educate, uplift and inspire the community to make positive change.
1 P.M.- light pre-show reception sponsored by the First Existentialist Congregation of Atlanta
2. P.M.- performance followed by community dialogue
Funding made possible by Body Wisdom/InterPlay
Cost for weekend sliding scale $0-50
payments can be made through Eventbrite or via paypal to atlantainterplay@gmail.com
Cost: Sliding Scale $0-50
Registration/Information: atlantainterplay@gmail.com
First Existentialist Congregation of Atlanta
Katrina produced/directed "Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North," an Emmy-nominated documentary (PBS: 2008) that follows her family as they uncover the role of their Rhode Island ancestors – and the North more broadly – in the transatlantic slave trade, and as they grapple with racism and white privilege today. She works as a speaker, facilitator, and trainer in schools, churches, museums, conferences, and workplaces around the U.S. and overseas. She focuses especially on “racialized emotions” and how to engage white folks.
She is excited to bring her dancer self together with her race work. She is among the InterPlay leaders who are co-conspiring to use InterPlay tools for racial awareness and healing. Katrina leads/co-leads whiteness workshops as well as interracial workshops, with an InterPlay framework, and also in collaboration with Afro Flow Yoga, and the Dance Exchange. Katrina has been a certified InterPlay leader since 1998.