BlackLight: April 2008

BlackLight truly believes this

We can see it on the horizon

It is a bright light...glorious, breathtaking

It is calling us to be better, to do better

Are you ready?

Welcome to BlackLight...

BlackLight emerged in the Spring of 2007 when a small group of young women came together through their love of creative expression, their love of themselves and their love of the city of Detroit. BlackLight is just getting started. We invite you to stay with us, grow with us. There will be new things to check out every day and new posts from each of the core collaborators, Rijke, Br-yee and Giselle every week. We have much to say so please hang in the conversation with us. more soon.... strength & love, BlackLight

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.

REMEMBER...

Our worst fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is out light, not our darkness that most frightens us.

We ask ourselves, "Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?" Actually, who are you not to be that?

You are a child of God; our playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God within us. It is not just in some of us, it is in everyone and as we let our own light shine we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. --Marianne WIlliamson

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Sunday, April 27, 2008

A CHANGE IS GONNA COME!

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