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The Possibility Project
Khunum Productions was proud to have had the chance to work with The Possibility Project and this powerful group of young people. who are taking it upon themselves to tell their stories about the "justice system" within this country...and to have had the courage to use their voices, passions, and personal experiences--to write and perform their own show--to inspire change. show opens Wed. March 23rd. heart emoticon
March 23rd -March 26th @ 7:30pm.
http://the-possibility-project.org/Directed by Kenny Phillips
Co-Director and Playwriting Coach, Nehprii Amenii
Urban Arts Festival :Story Studio: Telling Stories, Inspiring Lives
May 19, 2016
What a journey.....for the past 9 months...Ive worked with a group of newly arrived immigrant students...helping them to tell and write their stories...and have an opportunity for catharsis And healing...all under the guise of " teaching ESL, art, closing the achievement gap...And differentiating the New York City Department of Education curriculum...." Of 500 students in the program...4 of mine were selected to perform their stories on the stage of the apollo theater today.....and I don't remember the last time.....if ever..that I personally had to push thru SOOOOO MUCH opposition within a 24hr period of time ... To ensure that this opportunity was met...to ensure that their stories of the first bombs falling in Yemen...a city destroyed And painted red, the journey from el Salvador to new York... immigration police who say they can do whatever they want to 11 year old "illegal" girls crossing the border alone, riding on the tops of trains And walking neck high thru rivers just to be safe in the u.s... could be told and...heard...tonight.... I remember being told..where there is great opposition... Greatness is waiting.... Today was not about me...but Today I maximized the EXTENT of my efforts...today i was used..all of me...totally...perseverance emptied..
To get them to that theatre and to the stage....to not accept any form of no....any barricade of their voice . J. Mendez. F. Isa. D. Isa. S. Al-abdi..I love u...I'm proud of u. U r greatness. May u forever use the power of your tongue to transform the hearts of this world. Including my own.
Electric Eye Ensemble: Welcome to the Doll Den
Khunum Productions, is pleased to be invited to Design for Electric Eye Ensemble in their devised production of "Welcome to the Doll Den" Directed by Sarah Plotkin.
In Tennessee we meet the first all girl' radio station, WHER. It's 1968 and they play "music for women," broadcasting from their studio, the Doll Den. But with the sanitation workers on strike, protestors in the street, and garbage piling up all around them, the pristine glass box that is thier studio shatters under the weight of realization. Everyone wears a facade, some are just thicker than others.
Workshop Production @ Dixon Place June 14th
Workshop Production @ Dixon Place June 14th
Reading: Work in Progress of Ms. Abracadabra by Tom Ross
Khunum Productions is Honored to have had the opportunity to work side by side with actor/writer Thomas Ross in the sharing of his work in Progress: Ms. Abracadabra, a family narrative that provides a glimpse into the ancestral wisdom that has survived within African peoples born in America, and surpasses academic intellect. June 24 2016 Manhattan Plaza
