Common Ground Voices in Times of War

Human suffering has reached unbearable depths. War is no longer contained by borders; it seeps into our cultures, economies, and imaginations. It is waged against the poor, the disabled, the displaced, the earth itself-against all who are most vulnerable. And even the arts, sometimes sanctuaries of truth, are too often seized and conscripted, made to adorn the banners of the powerful, to polish the machinery of violence with aesthetic sheen. In such a time, how do we face our anger, our disbelief, our grief? As artists, how do we create works that resist, that fracture silence, that breathe life into critical witness? With what ruthless honesty must we interrogate our practice-and with what boundless compassion must we listen? For only in such listening can we begin to build what Martin Luther King Jr. named “the beloved community.” From October 10-12, my colleague Rahib Haddad and I invite you into Common Ground Voices in Times of War, a gathering supported by VOICES 21C in collaboration with Bradford T. Morin Dumont. Together, let us question and dream toward another possible world. The registration form is here https://www.commongroundvoices.org/intimesofwar.html