Local arts nonprofit WonderRoot’s mission is to unite artist and community. Their recent initiative “Percolate” did that in a very literal way. In partnership with last week’s Facing Race conference, the organizers paired up 100 artists and 100 activists to go on coffee dates, where they were given a tool kit to aid them in discussions about racial justice.
“We had one outing at a local coffee shop, and it actually last three hours,” laughed activist Zahra Alabanza. She was paired up with artist Antonio Darden. “I would say that I am really engulfed in the creative community, and I hadn’t met him, and I felt like I should have.”
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