Performances will take place at The Chocolate Factory Theater, 38-33 24th Street, Long Island City.

“Darkening” refers to the participation of people traditionally understood as “dark” in the formation of their own identities through imagination of internal belonging and oceanic crossing. It invokes a process or sense of envelopment, if not doom, in the ubiquitous effects of power, and simultaneously a sense of hope for a future where such thick, instrumental, and infinite selections become so full as to become ineffectual—the mirrors darkened, possibility reborn. — Stephanie Leigh Batiste, Darkening Mirrors.

Reaction, memory and dream: these are the springs of poetry. May these poems challenge the daily language of our intercourse. — June Jordan, Introduction to SOULSCRIPT.

A National Performance Network (NPN) Creation & Development Fund Project, co-commissioned by PICA, The Luminary, The Chocolate Factory Theater, and NPN.