Battle in the Margins: Writing Workshop

Battle in the Margins is a new theatrical project collaboration between OPRHP and Black Gotham Experience exploring Black life in New York City during the American Revolution. Developed through a series of original ten-minute plays, this project centers the African Diaspora’s experiences, resistance, and role in shaping early American history – shining a light on stories often left out of the nation’s founding narrative. The productions will premiere this September 19th at FDR Four Freedoms State Park. 

Leading up to the main event, Black Gotham Experience and affiliate SYNTAX will host writing workshops throughout all five boroughs. Open to students, emerging writers, and professionals, this series of writing workshops invite New Yorkers to grapple with the Revolution’s contradictions – a fight for liberty in a society where enslavement remained legal. Through thought-provoking prompts and community dialogue, participants will explore themes of freedom, displacement, and identity in Revolutionary-era New York.

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