Description of the project

... or use your own description when you like thinking outside the box a collage, a multimedia display of blackness with a focus on music, word/theatre, visual arts as well as participatory community dialogue

We intend to galvanise already active and those interested in acting upon prefiguring a new society with a new aesthetic through our cultural display. We will escort our audience through a revolutionary herstorical narrative that highlights the beauty, honour and celebratory elements of blackness before slavery, oppression and neo-colonialism. We will first have creative discourse through action to illustrate the practicality of struggle with a context of possibilities that date back to a time before our imagination was suppressed. Our dialogue will engage the audience to remember a time before the time of now, the multiple ways of living not only in harmony with each other but most importantly in harmony with Mother Earth, the center of all life force and creation. This dialogue will be followed by an auditory quest starting with the drum, the heart beat and pulse of African peoples and indigenous peoples and all peoples throughout the world. We will then through this auditory quest sonically orchestrate the conversation from the dialogue and interweave it into a musical language that we can all gather and contribute through a communal symphonic vibration. This dialogue and auditory quest will be complemented by live visuals as well as projected imagery to echo the necessity of blackness. This aesthetically rhythmic gathering and dialogue between community and artistic guides will illustrate the interpretation and articulation of the colour of maroonage. We will break free from the plantation and the shackles that do not allow our minds to imagine a time when we lived harmoniously with each other and with Mother Earth. The active participatory agents will then see not only the possibilities but the importance to prefigure a new society that is inclusive of all peoples. Blackness becomes a catalyst in which we engage and dialogue, however it is not our destination, it is an opening and a reminder to speak of Blackness and the liberation of African peoples, one must also in the same breath highlight the struggles of indigenous peoples, women and oppressed peoples throughout the world. It is only then that we will truly have freedom for all and witness our dream realised into a reality. Practically, we want to create a full day programme that is a sonic display of a live curated improvisational artistic piece consisting of the following blocks:

• revolutionary collage from musicians to poets to civil rights leaders, old and new throughout the world. (12h - 14h including food). - formal discussion and presentation (14h - 15h) - participatory dialogue (15h - 16h)
• DJ break (16h - 16h30) - Creative process sparked by gallery walk, extension of the dialogue through what has been shared (16h30 - 18h) - Creative process through small groups that will create an artistic piece (18h - 19h) - DJ break with food (19h - 20h) - Performances what the community has created along with other artists and the musicians and a continuation of the visual art creation (20h - 22h) - Dance party: music that will have us remember, think, reflect and celebrate Blackness (22h - 00h)