Banned Books Festival--So You Want to Talk About Race
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About this event
Teresa Coleman Wash, founder and executive artistic director of the Bishop Arts Theatre Center, (https://bishopartstheatre.org/teresacolemanwash/) developed the annual Banned Books One Act Play Festival, an artistic and educational response to the growing censorship of literature across the country. The theater commissioned six local playwrights to create original one-act plays inspired by So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo. The festival will run from February 19th – March 8th, 2026.
Tickets are available at: https://bishopartstheatre.org. The Group Analytic Practice and Angelica Tratter, DSPP's Arts Chair, invite you all to the Reflective Citizens' meeting after the plays on Sunday February 22.
Join us immediately following the Banned Books performance on Sunday, February 22 at 4:00 PM for a one-hour Reflective Citizens’ gathering.
Together, we will process the plays through a Social Dreaming Matrix—an innovative group practice in which participants share dreams and spontaneous associations. Dreams are offered not for individual interpretation, but as contributions to collective reflection. This creative process often reveals themes and meanings that might otherwise remain unspoken.
We will then move into facilitated dialogue about themes emerging from both the performance and the dream matrix, closing with reflections on how the experience of these plays—inspired by Ijeoma Oluo’s So You Want to Talk About Race—might inform our lives and civic engagement.
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