This week I’m in conversation with Je Naé Taylor, a storyteller, play director, Black Joy Experience album song writer and cultural organizer at The Highlander Education and Research Center. Please enjoy our conversation about Highlander homecoming and cultural organizing!

Transcript available here.

Notes:

Highlander Methodologies - https://highlandercenter.org/cultural-organizing/

Homecoming registration link -https://highlander.swoogo.com/90th/2311618

Black Joy Experience: https://www.liberationhouse.org/black-joy-experience/

Born Like Me - Jake Clemons Single (feat. Allison Russell & The Highlander Center)

Podcasts featuring co-executive directors, Ash-Lee Henderson and Rev. Allyn Maxfienld Steele:

(Soulforce is mentioned in this one!)

https://open.spotify.com/episode/24PAAfjqc75Hw0HYHx3bQT?si=1dc8251a659f402d

https://www.wbir.com/article/news/community/we-are-survivors-one-year-after-the-highlander-center-fire/51-7fdf920b-929f-4ee4-b8e5-da0dba4f308f

Agusto Boal and Theatre of the Oppressed:

https://imaginaction.org/media/our-methods/theatre-of-the-oppressed-2#:~:text=Theatre%20of%20the%20Oppressed%20(TO)%20is%20an%20aesthetic%20method%20created,of%20consciousness%20and%20concrete%20actions.

https://www.democracynow.org/2005/6/3/famed_brazilian_artist_augusto_boal_on

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