Action Words: Responding to The Raid
Channel: Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College
Date: 2022-02-12

The Actions Words Series is a FAC Connect program devoted to conversation and literary arts that respond to social issues and collective conversation. Engagements range from spoken word poetry performances, to play readings, panel discussions and more.

In this episode, join Max Shulman (moderator) with Betty Hart and Jon Cherry in a conversation about The Raid.

THE RAID (available to view Feb. 1-19, 2022): A thought-provoking 163-year flashback to a debate between iconic abolitionists John Brown and Frederick Douglass on the eve of Brown’s raid on the federal armory in Harpers Ferry; The Raid examines the complexity of race in social protest, digs into what it means to be an ally vs. an accomplice and lays bare the limits of radicalism.