Focus: Black Oklahoma Fundraiser - Tulsa Oklahoma
Focus: Black Oklahoma Fundraiser - Tulsa Oklahoma
Focus: Black Oklahoma Fundraiser - Tulsa Oklahoma
Focus: Black Oklahoma Fundraiser - Tulsa Oklahoma
Fire in Little Africa 6 Week Workshop
Tue, Nov 15
|Greenwood Cultural Center
FREE six week workshop every Tuesday and Thursday beginning 11/1. Participants will write rhymes and learn basic emcee presentation skills as we attempt to help current and future generations understand what occurred in 1921 Tulsa, what followed, where we are, and what the future holds.
Time & Location
Nov 15, 2022, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Greenwood Cultural Center, 322 N Greenwood Ave, Tulsa, OK 74120, USA
About
FREE six week workshop for our community
Every Tuesday and Thursday beginning 11/1 to 12/15 from 6:30pm-8:00pm.
About the class
What happened in 1921 in Tulsa, Oklahoma is our history as a city, a state, and a nation. It is not something that happened to a group of people that lived 100 years ago. It happened to US – and it is still happening to US.
Books have been written by historians that cover the facts of these events. Community elders have spoken out and debated how to move forward and what reconciliation means. Not until Fire In Little Africa (FILA) have we heard from the voices of the young artists raised on 100 years of this trauma.
In this workshop, participants will write rhymes rooted in this history and learn basic emcee presentation skills as we