Roadside Theater and Junebug Productions, the African American ensemble based in New Orleans, will tour their collaborative play, Junebug/Jack, to communities in the southeast next spring. The companies will incorporate community choirs into the performances in six Louisiana towns and in Salisbury, North Carolina. The Salisbury performance marks the beginning of multiple-year residency work in that community.
Roadside and Junebug will send two advance people to the Louisiana and North Carolina sites. A company music director will work with the local choirs to get them ready for the performances, and a company organizer will work with presenters to develop new community partnerships and audiences that are diverse as to race and class.
The Louisiana Presenters Network will use the Junebug/Jack tour to develop ways in which presenters across the state can work together on community-based projects, diverse audience development, and educational activities.
Salisbury/Rowan County, North Carolina, is experiencing growing pains. There is local debate about the history of the community, and a new community center is forming in a predominantly African American area of Rowan County. The United Arts Council of Rowan, Inc. hopes to use the Junebug/Jack residency to promote a nonthreatening, honest dialogue among the cultures of the county and to support the introduction of the African American Cultural Center into the community.
-> "Carl [Junebug musician/actor] was playing his guitar, and ... The kids ...were having a good time."
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