Performing Race: Using Performance to Heal the Trauma of Race and Racism on College Campuses

Abstract

Abstract:From Safe to Brave is a performance piece developed from the stories of fifty-seven voices from the Temple University community, including students, faculty, administrators, and nearby residents. The project involved six Interactive Community Conversations. The project drew on numerous arts-based methodologies, including poetic ethnography and body-map storytelling in order to interrogate the dynamics of power, privilege, racism, prejudice, institutional racism, violence, and activism as portrayed in a representation of people's lived experience.