Matthew Xia, theatre director
For theatre director Matthew Xia,
846 Live came from a place of frustration. “George Floyd lost his life on the streets of America, and I think many people of African diaspora heritage wanted to speak to that moment,” he says. “But I felt hamstrung by Covid. Sure, I could scream into Twitter or write a blog, but [as a director] that’s not what I do. I bring people together.”
Commissioned by Theatre Royal Stratford East and the Royal Docks Team in response to the killing of Floyd in Minneapolis in May 2020,
846 Live began life as a series of short audio plays written by black and Asian writers. Theatre with live audiences hadn’t taken place in the UK for six months, and when Xia was asked to bring some of them to life – in a basketball court in south-east London – he jumped at the opportunity.
The moving tribute on a Dallas church s lawn that hopes to spark connection, conversation, change
The display is called Say Their Names, and it is a tribute to those who died from racial, gender, and police violence. Author: Jobin Panicker Updated: 12:26 PM CDT May 25, 2021
DALLAS There are 190 black-and-white photos staked into the ground in front of Hamilton Park United Methodist Church.
The display has been there for weeks, and the common thread between them is evident: they are all persons of color. It s not just one name and one hashtag, you see a whole yard, explained Denita Jones.
The display is called Say Their Names, and it is a tribute to those who died from racial, gender, and police violence.
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Forget everything you’ve seen about the Black Lives Matter and antifa riots of 2020. The destruction, cracked heads, lasers pointed in cops’ eyes, burned buildings – forget it all. The “summer of love” riots weren’t that bad. That was fake news. Gaslighting. And we know this because the left-wing publication called The Intercept says that accurate riot stories, reported by a small cadre of reporters working for right-of-center publications, don’t really count. Somehow the violence of 2020 was magically less violent because these reporters were the ones who witnessed it and reported it.
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