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NEWS: Chesapeake Shakespeare Company s THE MONUMENT PROJECT kicks off arts activism campaign to benefit education program

NEWS: Chesapeake Shakespeare Company s THE MONUMENT PROJECT kicks off arts activism campaign to benefit education program
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Chesapeake Shakespeare Company project aims to shed new light on Maryland history

Some Baltimore actors are turning tragedy into triumph in a new project focused on Maryland history.Baltimore City has become a stage, of sorts, for actors with the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company. The theater on Wednesday debuted what it calls The Monument Project, which features Black actors adding an artistic spin on Maryland history. I think we have to acknowledge the history as it was the real history, not the perceived history, but the real history, said Gerrad Taylor, the company s associate artistic director.Taylor said the history the plight of Black voices and people will shine in photos taken in November that feature actors wearing Shakespearean costume who posed atop the pedestals of what once were Confederate monuments. It s time for Black artists and Black people to take back their voice, take back their agency in these stories, in this history, in this culture, Taylor said. It is a part of us. We have to acknowledge it. We have to love it. We have to app

Take a Look at Chesapeake Shakespeare Company s New Arts Activism Campaign: The Monument Project

Renea Brown at the former Roger B. Taney Monument for The Monument Project Séamus Miller Baltimore s Chesapeake Shakespeare Company has launched The Monument Project, an arts activism campaign to benefit the theatre s education programs. At the center of the project is a series of photographs of the company s Black actors standing on the city s empty pedestals, where Confederate statues once stood. The portraits were recently unveiled as large-scale banners hanging at the entrance to Chesapeake Shakespeare Company s performance space. The City of Baltimore removed the statues in 2017, but the plinths remain standing, with no decision yet made regarding their use. CSC has paired the portraits of the Renaissance costume-clad actors with lines from

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