How do you cultivate hope when everything from all sides seems so grim and serious? How do you make change locally while thinking globally? How have dance and movement traditions of Black/African descent changed, inspired, uplifted, even while being commodified themselves?

Vince Johnson, founder and director of Urban Movement Arts, is here to talk about it how he's making his corner of the world a little more humane.

Learn More and Donate to Urban Movement Arts, including their summer camp scholarship fund: https://www.urbanmovementarts.com/say-yes-philly.html

Check out this live event in Philly with the UMA crew: click here

This program is produced in south west philadelphia, in the unceded neighborhood of the black bottom community and on the ancestral land of the Lenape nation, who remain here in the era of the fourth crow and fight for official recognition by the commonwealth of Pennsylvania to this day. You can find out more about the Lenape Nation of Pennsylvania and how you can support the revitalization of their culture by going to https://lenape-nation.org.

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