A conversation from the Dazzle stage in association with No Credits Production, LLC.

A conversation that will continue beyond the brief sounds and visuals that we are seeing. Expand on what your are expressing on social media. Talk about, be about, act about and make a change.

Seating limited to 50 guests each day. Must wear masks. Lunchboxes available for $15.

donnie l. betts is a founding member of two theatre companies in Denver, Colorado, City Stage Ensemble and Denver Black Arts Company. He attended Yale School of Drama.  His theatre performance credits include “The Gospel at Colonus” on Broadway, as well as many regional performances including“Joe Turner’s Come and Gone” Deck of Cards. Theatre directing credits include, “House With No Walls”, “Citizen” and “Black With A Capital B, Skeleton Crew  for Curious,  Crumbs From The Table of Joy, Color Purple, Black Elk Speaks , Porgy and Bess , “Who Killed Jigaboo Jones, Slut Energy Theory”, Denver and Dallas and at the Cherry Lane Theatre in New York, donnie is a skilled facilitator of conversations about Race and inclusion in America having facilitated or created programs for History Colorado, area high schools, and others. He produces “The Why” Women of Power TV series. betts is currently in production on the film “Beyond Chaos” Is America Possible. A look at America’s democracy told through the lens of an intergenerational America. He is also an Emmy winning director.

Doug Good Feather is from Standing Rock South Dakota, resides in Louisville, Colorado. He spent 8 years in the United States Army from 2000-8. He served two tours in Iraq during 2003 and 2004. He is the Executive Director of Healing Hoop Inc. DBA Lakota Way Healing Center. He works on PTSD with Veterans, Suicide Prevention, and as an addiction’s counselor. He is also a stage screen actor, performing artist, and father.

Music is a universal language, and for SUCH, it is the language of her soul. Singing in her father’s church planted the seeds for a music career that is on the rise and touching the world. Her new album “Wide Nose Full Lips” reached the top 25 on Billboard’s R&B charts and led her to tour extensively in the US and Europe. Such is also an award-winning actress, earning accolades for her portrayal of Celie in the Color Purple, has had several TV appearances, and finished in the top 60 of American Idol’s season 11. You can follow her on YouTube and Instagram at @iamsuch / Instagram.com/iamsuch

Lionel Young is a high energy performer with a bent for the blues. Hi LIONEL YOUNG BAND, winners of numerous awards for best in and around the Colorado region, have won the 2011 International Blues Challenge (IBC) band competition. Added to his victory at the 2008 IBC in the solo-duo category, that makes Lionel Young the first double champion in the history of the IBC.

Evan Weissman is the founding executive director of Warm Cookies of the Revolution, a Civic Health Club that blends innovative arts and culture with crucial civic issues. Prior to founding Warm Cookies of the Revolution, he spent 12 years as a company member of the collaborative Buntport Theater Company, winning over 100 awards as playwright, director, designer, and actor.

Warm Cookies of the Revolution received national recognition and grant awards for the two-year Participatory Budgeting art project called “This Machine Has A Soul” in 2017. He was recently awarded the 2018 Parr Widener Civic Leadership Award from the Denver Foundation. Evan was a Denver Commissioner for Cultural Affairs in 2016-2017 and was Creative in Residence at the Denver Art Museum in 2015. As part of Buntport, they won the 2010 Mayor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts.

Evan teaches nonviolence at The Colorado College. He was a Kellogg Foundation Leadership for Community Change Fellow with Mi Casa Resource Center for Women, as well as board member of Rose Community Foundation’s Roots and Branches Foundation for emerging Jewish leaders. Evan was the founding organizer of Colorado Bend the Arc: A Jewish Partnership for Social and Economic Justice. In 2002, he was a Jane Addams-Andrew Carnegie Graduate Fellow for Leadership and Philanthropic Studies at Indiana University’s Center on Philanthropy. He graduated with Honors from The Colorado College with a BA in Political Science. Evan likes riding his bicycle, playing soccer, and playing with his son Ezra Huck and his wife Kristin.

Terrance Roberts spent eight years trying to improve Park Hill and lead other gang members away from the lifestyle.

John Futrell aka Panama Soweto is a poet, activist, writer, and arts administrator.

Ryan foo-who is a founder of WeAreDenver and co-CEO and director of operations for the Black Actors Guild.

Nadeen Ibrahim is a partnership specialist with the US Census Bureau, where she is building community partnerships to ensure every community member understands that the 2020 Census is easy, safe, and important. Her professional portfolio includes being a Muslim community organizer, commissioner to the Denver Immigrant and Refugee Commission, and Congressional District IV Representative to the Colorado State Board of Health. She holds a Master of Public Policy from the University of Oxford and Bachelor of Science in Public Health from CU Denver. She is deeply passionate about community organizing and works to ensure she does her part.

Jose Guerrero is a poet, activist, and band leader in Los Mocochetes.