Who What When Where is BlackLight?

WE are BlackLight, a group of passionate young women inspiring positive change in Detroit, other young women and ourselves. Dance, poetry, oral history, creative writing, music, and the visual arts are the media and methodology we use to challenge, educate, transform, empower, and heal our community. BlackLight facilitates workshops for youth and adults using creative arts expression to address personal and community issues from emotional health and physical well being to unemployment, public education and apathy. We also write, choreograph and perform our own theatrical productions.

BlackLight believes that social change begins within each of us and is fueled by our capacity to create, imagine and express the world in which we want to live. We chose the name, BlackLight, because we disrupt the negative connotations and deceptive definitions associated with youth in general, (certain) young women in particular, the city of Detroit, and blackness. Since the word black has been misused as synonymous with all things bad, we are reclaiming black and "appropriately reappropriating" it to reflect the possibility, hope and LIGHT in all our lives regardless of what we look like, where we come from or who others think we should be.


TRUST! This is just the beginning
We are only getting started so...stay posted here for WHAT'S NEXT!

LATE SUMMER '07:
KICK OFF EVENT -- COMMUNITY PERFORMANCE
MOVEMENT AND WRITING WORKSHOP SERIES

FALL '07:
FALL INTENSIVE TRAINING SERIES FOR YOUNG WOMEN

Don't worry, full details coming soon!

STRENGTH & LOVE,

BlackLight