Through Time
"We are all migrants through time"
--Mohsin Hamid, Exit West
With support from coLAB Arts , Notch Theatre Company is working with the Reformed Church of Highland Park's Affordable Housing Corporation (RCHP-AHC), which helps resettle refugees from around the world in central New Jersey, provides home studies and post-release services to unaccompanied refugee minors, and assists people who have been subjected to human trafficking.
Through Time creates original theater pieces with the diverse communities served by RCHP-AHC, in an effort to share the story of how their mutual aid service work transforms lives.
A BLOCK PARTY / PLAY READING took place on July 25 at RCHP in Highland Park. The event was FREE and outdoors with music by DJ Kermit Moss, food from Global Grace Café, and community conversation! Check out photos and resources from the event below .
Through Time creates original theater pieces with the diverse communities served by RCHP-AHC, in an effort to share the story of how their mutual aid service work transforms lives.
A BLOCK PARTY / PLAY READING took place on July 25 at RCHP in Highland Park. The event was FREE and outdoors with music by DJ Kermit Moss, food from Global Grace Café, and community conversation! Check out photos and resources from the event below .
“The news in those days was full of war and migrants and nativists, and it was full of fracturing too, of regions pulling away from nations, and cities pulling away from hinterlands,
and it seemed that as everyone was coming together everyone was also moving apart. Without borders nations appeared to be becoming somewhat illusory, and people were questioning what role they had to play.” ― Mohsin Hamid, Exit West
and it seemed that as everyone was coming together everyone was also moving apart. Without borders nations appeared to be becoming somewhat illusory, and people were questioning what role they had to play.” ― Mohsin Hamid, Exit West
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On June 17, for World Refugee Day, we presented a preview of the play featuring Portland Thomas, J. Richey Nash and members of the I-Rise staff!
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Notch had the pleasure of working with youth at the I-RISE After School program.
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Elinor T Vanderburg, Playwright
We've been having such a blast holding Story Circle workshops with the retiree community at RCHP and in February we read a first draft of a short play based on their stories and conversations. You can see the full text of that short play here, on the project's blog.
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In April, we had a first reading of the play with community for feedback. (Pets optional)
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Meet Malkia Okech, program coordinator!
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Malkia is a Philadelphia-based researcher, cultural producer, and community archaeologist. They are interested in the cross-sections of multi-modal archaeology, art, technology, cultural heritage, anti-capitalism, and liberation. Malkia graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 2019 with degrees in Near Eastern Language & Civilization and Digital Humanities. They are the Associate Producer for Black Spatial Relics, an artist residency and annual convening exploring slavery, justice and freedom. She is an Activist-Curator Fellow for the Free Library and PASCAL consortium, where she is conducting Abolitionist research and community archive building. Malkia is the founder and curator of Memory Studio, an interdisciplinary maker-space reckoning with decolonial knowledge accumulation, production, and speculation. Her praxis formed by the past, present, and future continuum of freedom dreaming.
Visit Malkia's website by clicking here. |
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Click below for a Broadway World article about the project's launch:
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