Exploring Our Whiteness - Telling Our Stories

Sat Nov 15 2025 at 03:00 pm to 05:30 pm UTC-05:00

Incarnation Holy Sacrament Church | Drexel Hill

Anti-Racism Commission, Diocese of Pennsylvania
Publisher/HostAnti-Racism Commission, Diocese of Pennsylvania
Exploring Our Whiteness - Telling Our Stories
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For White identified people - to face their lived experience of ingesting, upholding and resisting White supremacy beliefs and behaviors.
About this Event

Telling Our Stories: Healing the Wounds of Racism, Building Beloved Community

In 4 interactive sessions of theater and discussion, participants see themselves in one another’s stories of race and racism as they are brought to life on stage by members of Playback For Change, a multi-racial, improvisational theatre company based in Philadelphia dedicated to using Playback Theatre as a vehicle for social change. Audience members’ real stories become the source material. The performance is spontaneous - it is theater created through a unique collaboration between performers and audience. Someone from the audience tells a story or moment from their life, chooses actors to play the different roles, then watches as their story is immediately recreated on “stage.” The goals of the performance series are to foster ongoing understanding and self-reflection about how racism is experienced, resisted, and repaired in people’s lived experience (not just intellectually studied) and to create relationships of support in ongoing anti-racism work. Two sessions will use the practice of race-specific affinity spaces to prepare participants to have a deeper, braver and more honest conversation. Participants are encouraged to set up accountability partners and to engage in reflection and dialogue between performances. For any questions about the Telling Our Stories series, Playback For Change, or Playback Theatre, please email The Rev. Barbara Ballenger ([email protected]).


Exploring Our Whiteness

A performance for White identified people to face their lived experience of ingesting, upholding and resisting White supremacy beliefs and behaviors.

Each session costs $15 per person or $50 for a group of 5 or more. Tickets for each of the 4 sessions are sold separately. Financial assistance is available. Email [email protected].

Sponsored by the Anti-Racism Commission of the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania.

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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Incarnation Holy Sacrament Church, 3000 Garrett Road, Drexel Hill, United States

Tickets

USD 17.85 to USD 55.20

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