We would like to share with you a very interesting lecture by Barrett Holmes Pitner, the founder, and philosopher in chief of The Sustainable Culture Lab, on two very important subjects related to our work to change our community. The talk will be about race, culture, and how it relates to society and the dance community. We will discuss unconscious bias and ethnocide and how the cultural appropriation of black culture contributes to the erasure of black people in our society. The lecture will be followed by a Q&A with Barrett Holmes Pitner and the CVFC team. During this time you will be able to ask us questions about the topic covered in the lecture or about CVFC's philosophy.

The first webinar invites you into this process by listening to Breai Michele (Mason-Campbell) (community activist, cultural counselor, dance company director/USA), Ryan François (producer, director, choreographer, lecturer and professional dancer/UK) Marie N’diaye (dance researcher, choreographer, professional dancer and educator/France-UK). They will share their perspective, knowledge and experience with us as black dancers in the jazz dance community from different countries and different generations.

To round it off, Mikeala Hellsten (professional dancer, teacher and choreographer/Sweden), Felix Berghäll (professional dancer, teacher and choreographer/Sweden-Spain), Anaïs Sékiné (scholar, dance studio owner, producer, jazz dancer and educator/France-Canada) and Felipe Braga (professional dancer, teacher and choreographer/Brazil-Germany) will then conclude the event by sharing bits of their own learning into anti-racism in the community to hopefully bring you in a little closer.