Anthology: Crown Heights

Created by Xandra Clark, in collaboration with Taja Cheek, Josh Marcus, Molly Mingey, and DK Wright
Directed by Xandra Clark & Maridee Slater

Cast: 5 (writer/performers)

Description:

Oral history, music, dance, poetry, and film intertwine in a live theatrical narrative to investigate a changing Brooklyn neighborhood. Anthology: Crown Heights is a collection of true stories assembled and performed by an ensemble of Crown Heights-based artists, featuring the diverse voices of Crown Heights residents old and new and critically investigating what it means to be making art together. Twenty-five years since the 1991 racial violence in Crown Heights, 2016 also marks a time of rapidly shifting local demographics. Anthology remembers the neighborhood's past, examines its contentious present, and navigates what is to come. 

Accompanying audio installation features a telephone on the sidewalk containing stories of the neighborhood.

PRODUCTION - Weeksville Heritage Center, 2016
AUDIO INSTALLATION - FiveMyles Gallery, 2016

Funders:

Brooklyn Arts Council
Brooklyn Community Foundation
New York State Council on the Arts
Stanford Young Alumni Arts Grant
Weeksville Heritage Center

Partners:

DIVAS for Social Justice
Brooklyn Children's Museum

Press:

Urban Omnibus - "In Anthology: Crown Heights, Staging the Weight of History".

DNAInfo article and interview with Xandra Clark.

Brokelyn Top 20 Things to do in Brooklyn.

Production Photos:

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