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)
https://music.apple.com/us/album/born-like-me-single-feat-allison-russell-the/1634362175
Podcasts featuring co-executive directors, Ash-Lee Henderson and Rev. Allyn Maxfienld Steele:
(Soulforce is mentioned in this one!)
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5m5Ho7TmMiX0HDrTZ8Onjr?si=7932729bffda4121
https://open.spotify.com/episode/24PAAfjqc75Hw0HYHx3bQT?si=1dc8251a659f402d
Highlander legacy:
https://www.npr.org/2007/09/02/14106495/highlander-celebrates-75-years-of-social-activism
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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