Unbought & Unbossed: Empowering Our Voice & Choice
About this event
Do you have your voting plan mapped out?
In the lead-up to national and local elections, the National Black Theatre and the Schomburg Center invite you to join us on October 17 for Unbought & Unbossed: Empowering Our Voice & Choice. This will be a multi-layered event with a Civic Activation Fair, an engaging panel discussion and dialogue, and voter registration, as we chart our communities paths to securing the vote.
Unbought & Unbossed: Empowering Our Voice & Choice will offer attendees a multi-layered experience guided by key voices from the community that are devoted to activating our collective voting power and empowering our voice and choice at the ballots including: opening remarks by Council Member Dr. Yusef Salaam, a panel discussion moderated by De’Ara Balenger (Co-Founder of Maestra) with Dr. Mahogany L. Browne (Poet-in-Residence at Lincoln Center), DeRay Mckesson (Executive Director of Campaign Zero, Activist, Educator, Podcaster) and Nelini Stamp (Director of Strategy of the Working Families Party and co-founder of Broadway Votes). Additionally, attendees can expect to see archival works commissioned by NBT including You're Going To Be Okay by Ngozi Anyanwu and 1920/2020: or Processing Anxiety Around Voting by Dane Figueroa Edidi.
Event Schedule:
5:30 PM - 8 PM Civic Activation Fair: Connect with local organizations, register to vote, create a voting plan, and get informed about how to make your vote count.
6:30 PM Panel Discussions & Dialogue: Hear from thought leaders and activists on the importance of voter engagement and strategies to empower your voice. Together, we can create a voting plan that empowers our community and shapes our future.
About the National Black Theatre
National Black Theatre (NBT) is a Emmy-nominated and Tony Award-winning institution founded in 1968 by the late visionary artist Dr. Barbara Ann Teer. The nation’s first revenue-generating Black arts complex, NBT is the longest-running Black theatre in New York City, one of the oldest theatres founded and consistently operated by a woman of color in the nation, and has been included in the permanent collection of the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. NBT’s core mission is to produce transformational theatre that helps to shift the inaccuracies around African Americans’ cultural identity by telling authentic stories of Black lives. As an alternative learning environment, NBT uses theatre arts as a means to educate, enrich, entertain, empower and inform the national conscience around current social issues impacting our communities. Visit nationalblacktheatre.org or follow NBT on Facebook (@NationalBlackTheatre) and Twitter/Instagram (@NatBlackTheatre).