Capturing Complexity

Organization: Arts & Lectures Get your ticket here! Theater as a Means of Self-Exploration and Reconciliation Join us for a staged-reading presentation of "Pride: Mortal BEINGS part 1," a one-perso n play written and performed by Terrell Donnell Sledge, a San Diego actor, writer, director, advocate, empowerment coach and CSUSM theatre arts lecturer. The story is an alternative telling of the fall of Lucifer - from Lucifer's perspective - hinging on the que stions of free will, love, loyalty, suffering, suicide, forgiveness and redemption. After the performance, Sledge will be joined by Stephanie Sledge - an artist, associate clinical social worker and CSUSM alumna - for a conversation about narrative representat ion and creative expression for self-exploration and healing. Stephanie will interview Terrell about the process of writing the play as a form of self-preservation when he was navigating academic environments prone to stereotyping and erasure of Black male identity. Guests will depart with the building blocks for harnessing their own creativity as a therapeutic tool. Sponsored by SubTeXt; co-sponsored by the City of San Diego through the San Diego Artist Incubator series, and TD Sledge Empowerment Coaching Website: terrelldonnellsledge.com CSUSM students: Free Faculty/staff/alumni: $5 Community: $10 Event is in Arts 111