03/16/2020
A letter from the team:
Greetings everybody!
We want to take a moment to thank everyone who reached out to us these past weeks with love, affirmation, and curiosity about our Breathe My Soul Black Shakespeare Laboratory. We’ve received interest forms from all sorts of folk and we are deeply moved by the enthusiasm for this space.
At Black Shakespeare Project, we have a mission to cultivate Safe, Open, and Strongly held space for Black folk to engage with Shakespeare’s poetry. In that, we’ve been staying alert to updates from public health professionals in regards to that nasty Rona, Covid-19. After much elaboration, we have collectively decided to join institutions all over in taking preventative measures by suspending all face-to-face programming. There will be no breathing of souls in group settings on our watch until further notice.
In this time, we cannot help but notice the parallels at play between the modern and the classical. When theaters closed up due to the plague at the end of the sixteenth century, Shakespeare was keeping it moving, writing some of his richest poetic texts — So, we’re going to do the same. We're going to keep it moving. We’ll be taking this time to continue developing our initiatives, engaging with folk through social media, creating content, and creating joy.
We are so eager to get up on our feet and vibrate text together. For now, let's do what we can to protect ourselves and those around us. Read some poetry. Write some poetry. Feel your feet rooted into the earth. Let your brave belly go. Feel your breath. Breathe your soul. Generally, take care.
Love and light to all!
Until soon,
The Team at Black Shakespeare Project.
