Creative Fire: For Audre and Beyond
In honor of Poetry Month and in celebration of poetry as performance being a vital part to theatre, Theatre Philadelphia in partnership with Erica Hawkins from Black Girl filming has created a short film celebrating the erotic and creative fire as defined by Audre Lorde. Lorde defines erotic as creative energy empowered [and] … those physical, emotional, and psychic expressions of what is deepest and strongest and richest within each of us, being shared: the passions of love, in its deepest meanings. The erotic is a source of knowledge. Featuring poets, Sabriaya Shipley, Steph Ox, Ryann, and comedian Dr. Holly, Creative Fire for Audre and Beyond is a testament to the contributions Black Brown, and Indigenous women and femme artists lend to theatrical and cinematic storytelling.
