About this campaign
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WHY IS THERE A PUBLIC MIDDLE SCHOOL, FULL OF BRILLIANT BLACK + BROWN CHILDREN, NAMED AFTER ESEK HOPKINS?
How to Support Our Historical Intervention:
- Sign our Petition (co-sponsored by PRONK!)
- Buy our T-Shirt & wear it EVERYWHERE!
- Donate to our GoFundMe Fundraiser!
- Spread the word! We need all the help we can get as we prepare to submit a THOROUGH proposal to the City of Providence's Commission for Commemorative Works to TRANSFORM the 3 existing memorials to Esek Hopkins, commander of the slaveship "Sally" -- the haus+parq, the statue, and the public middle school full of brilliant Black + Brown youth.
ALL DONATIONS from our Bonfire Fundraiser + GoFundMe will:
- pay artists + youth to get involved in our historic intervention to heal + transform the 3 memorials to Esek Hopkins, commander of the slaveship "Sally"
- provide programming for schools, youth, families, and community organizations to engage a more accurate + empowering understanding of Esek Hopkins + RI's role in the transatlantic slave trade AND to preserve BIPOC history + culture
- create scholarships to bring a cohort of artists on tour to Mali, West Africa this summer 2022 to research, train, study and create at the Yeredon Center for the Malian Arts
- help us stage the next staged performance of our original activist dance opera "The Historical Fantasy of Esek Hopkins" AND prepare for our world tour in 2023 -2024!
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