Program Watch Party | Roots & Wings: The West End Poetry Opera
This week we turn to Louisville, Kentucky for Roots and Wings: the West End Poetry Opera. Co-directed by Stacy Bailey-Ndiaye & Theo Edmonds.
This performance is a recording from the Kentucky Center for Performing Arts.
The operatic platform aims to create an interdisciplinary piece of contemporary theater — featuring cultural narratives by the youth of west Louisville in an effort to express hope for sustainability and social justice.
Roots & Wings is a theater project that aims to integrate art, poetry, dance, music and performance through various programs. Lance Newman, one of the group’s founders, says he envisions Roots & Wings “to be a consistent interruption in the self-destructive natures we find being fostered in many impoverished areas of our city. Imagine a disease pathologist researching and treating the symptoms of an epidemic.”
According to its website, the West End Poetry Opera is:
An unflinching, authentic performance that is at times uncomfortable because of its candor
A work of profound hope
A cool wet seed pivoting in hot scorched earth
A bold and refreshing critique of reformist approaches to sustainability and social change
And, ultimately, an honest work of art illuminating a call to integrate social and economic justice into urban planning policy
The storytelling will no doubt be powerful and offer perspectives of triumph. The initiative is to cross the geographical, racial and generational boundaries in Louisville.
Learn more at https://www.facebook.com/rootswingsart/
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