Porch Stories: Conversations about Urban Change

Future Histories Lab and Aurora Theatre Company present a dialogue
in association with Stoop Stories by Dael Orlandersmith at the Aurora Theatre

Part of the Aurora Connects series, register here to attend via Zoom

What wisdom do stoops and porches hold? Where is urban knowledge stored and shared? Do different cities provide different kinds of stages for the performance of neighborhood narratives? Join us for a lively conversation about memory, gentrification and change in Oakland and other cities. Inspired by playwright Dael Orlandersmith’s Harlem-focused Stoop Stories, to be presented in September by Aurora Theatre Company, we’ll listen to local storytellers tell tales of Oakland. Come listen and share your own stories if you like.

Karen Chapple, Director, School of Cities, University of Toronto, Professor Emerita, UC Berkeley

June Grant, Architect, Principal of blink!LAB

Carolyn Johnson, CEO of East Oakland’s Black Cultural Zone Community Development Corp.

David Peters, Founder, Black Liberation Walking Tour

Moderated by Susan Moffat, Creative Director, Future Histories Lab, and Dawn Monique Williams, Associate Artistic Director, Aurora Theatre Company.

Future Histories Lab is an interdisciplinary program at UC Berkeley that seeks to reveal hidden histories in order to shape new narratives. We are presenting an in-person public speaker series on place-based storytelling on Mondays this fall, starting on August 30.