Traveling While Black is an exploration of the impact of African migration, in all of its manymanifestations, on the Black Diaspora and on the continents that have become our adopted and
adapted homes. It explores the histories that have created our presence outside of Africa and the current attitudes toward African peoples that are revealed through transcontinental crossings. Traveling While Black is part travelogue and part history lesson and seeks to exploit the tensions between tourism and colonialism as it interrogates boundaries and reveals cultural connects and disconnects.
With funding from Zellerbach Family Foundation and Brava! For Women in the Arts.
Edris Cooper-Anifowoshe (Actor/Writer) is an award-winning director, actor and writer. A onetime performer with the San Francisco Mime Troupe, Edris’ original solo performances have been seen at Northwestern University, the University of Illinois and the University of Florida in Gainesville; and in San Francisco at AfroSolo Festival, Intersection For the Arts and other smallindependent venues, including her own former Sugar Shack Performance Gallery and Cultural Center in the Lower Haight. The first play in the Adventures Of A Black Girl trilogy, In Search Of Academic Clairty and Inclusion will be published, this year, in a solo play anthology by Northwestern University Press.
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adapted homes. It explores the histories that have created our presence outside of Africa and the current attitudes toward African peoples that are revealed through transcontinental crossings. Traveling While Black is part travelogue and part history lesson and seeks to exploit the tensions between tourism and colonialism as it interrogates boundaries and reveals cultural connects and disconnects.
With funding from Zellerbach Family Foundation and Brava! For Women in the Arts.
Edris Cooper-Anifowoshe (Actor/Writer) is an award-winning director, actor and writer. A onetime performer with the San Francisco Mime Troupe, Edris’ original solo performances have been seen at Northwestern University, the University of Illinois and the University of Florida in Gainesville; and in San Francisco at AfroSolo Festival, Intersection For the Arts and other smallindependent venues, including her own former Sugar Shack Performance Gallery and Cultural Center in the Lower Haight. The first play in the Adventures Of A Black Girl trilogy, In Search Of Academic Clairty and Inclusion will be published, this year, in a solo play anthology by Northwestern University Press.
Traveling While Black is an exploration of the impact of African migration, in all of its manymanifestations, on the Black Diaspora and on the continents that have become our adopted and
adapted homes. It explores the histories that have created our presence outside of Africa and the current attitudes toward African peoples that are revealed through transcontinental crossings. Traveling While Black is part travelogue and part history lesson and seeks to exploit the tensions between tourism and colonialism as it interrogates boundaries and reveals cultural connects and disconnects.
With funding from Zellerbach Family Foundation and Brava! For Women in the Arts.
Edris Cooper-Anifowoshe (Actor/Writer) is an award-winning director, actor and writer. A onetime performer with the San Francisco Mime Troupe, Edris’ original solo performances have been seen at Northwestern University, the University of Illinois and the University of Florida in Gainesville; and in San Francisco at AfroSolo Festival, Intersection For the Arts and other smallindependent venues, including her own former Sugar Shack Performance Gallery and Cultural Center in the Lower Haight. The first play in the Adventures Of A Black Girl trilogy, In Search Of Academic Clairty and Inclusion will be published, this year, in a solo play anthology by Northwestern University Press.
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adapted homes. It explores the histories that have created our presence outside of Africa and the current attitudes toward African peoples that are revealed through transcontinental crossings. Traveling While Black is part travelogue and part history lesson and seeks to exploit the tensions between tourism and colonialism as it interrogates boundaries and reveals cultural connects and disconnects.
With funding from Zellerbach Family Foundation and Brava! For Women in the Arts.
Edris Cooper-Anifowoshe (Actor/Writer) is an award-winning director, actor and writer. A onetime performer with the San Francisco Mime Troupe, Edris’ original solo performances have been seen at Northwestern University, the University of Illinois and the University of Florida in Gainesville; and in San Francisco at AfroSolo Festival, Intersection For the Arts and other smallindependent venues, including her own former Sugar Shack Performance Gallery and Cultural Center in the Lower Haight. The first play in the Adventures Of A Black Girl trilogy, In Search Of Academic Clairty and Inclusion will be published, this year, in a solo play anthology by Northwestern University Press.
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