Black creators explore 'the future of Blackness' in '21 Black Futures' on CBC Gem by Victoria Ahearn, The Canadian Press Posted Feb 17, 2021 2:35 pm EDT Last Updated Feb 17, 2021 at 2:44 pm EDT Obsidian Theatre artistic director Mumbi Tindyebwa Otu is shown in a handout photo. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Samuel Engleking MANDATORY CREDIT TORONTO — From the time Obsidian Theatre artistic director Mumbi Tindyebwa Otu was appointed to her position in January 2020 to when she started it in July, the world changed dramatically. The COVID-19 pandemic raged alongside a racial reckoning sparked by the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minn., and Tindyebwa Otu longed to do a communal project that had the Black gaze at its centre and “was unapologetically Black — like a radical offering in these unprecedented times that we were in.”