“It’s collective trauma and collective grief that we’re feeling. And it’s almost like your spirit feels that. All the Indigenous people across the country are kind of feeling that right ...
January 26, 2021 In early June 2020, WAM Theatre released a statement of solidarity with #BlackLivesMatter in the aftermath of the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Tony ...
July 2020 Dear WAMily, Since sharing our solidarity statement, we have been taking time to process and recognize how, in our first decade, we have excluded, exploited, and misrepresented BIPOC ...
In 2016 WAM actively began exploring the intersection of gender and racial justice through our FACING OUR TRUTH project with local Berkshire social justice organization BRIDGE. That project began a ...
Playwright Yvette “Jamuna” Sirker, BRIDGE CEO Gwendolyn Hampton VanSant, and WAM Producing Artistic Director Kristen van Ginhoven joined forces to produce Facing Our Truth. DeeAnn Veeder wrote a two-part essay ...