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Color Line Project |
Project Description
The Color Line Project is a performance and community story-collecting project that revitalizes Civil Rights Movement history as a valued and illuminating context for current issues of race. Artist John O'Neal, in collaboration with the Amistad Research Center (Tulane University), worked with local arts presenters in the communities of Lake Worth, Florida (Palm Beach Community College) and Glassboro, New Jersey (Glassboro Center for the Arts), and is working with a consortium of cultural organizations in Cincinnati to present his Junebug Jabbo Jones plays based on the Movement. Using story circles methodology as a dialogue form, O'Neal, other Junebug artists, and the Amistad Research Center work over several months with local scholars, activists, and partner organizations to collect stories of local people about their involvement in and understanding of the Movement. Local artists then work with Junebug artists to move the community's stories to public presentation. Junebug's plays, presentations of local Movement stories, and scholar panels provide varied opportunities for facilitated public dialogues. The Project encourages and trains local scholars, activists, and artists to draw upon Civil Rights Movement stories and story circle methodology in their own work and to further public dialogue on contemporary issues of racism.
