Henry 'Box' Brown - The Escape Artist
The Brothers Network
- Date Awarded
- 04/02/12
- Amount
- $25,000
- Grant Period
- 04/02/12 to 04/01/13
- Focus Area
- Fostering the Arts
- Initiative
- Knight Arts Challenge
Grantee Contact
- Gregory Walker
- Philadelphia, PA
Featured Media
To introduce more diverse audiences to the performing arts by creating a multidisciplinary festival that features black male choreographers, filmmakers, actors, writers and composers
Summary: The Brothers Network will create a multidisciplinary festival inspired by the life of Henry “Box” Brown, an enslaved African who shipped himself to Philadelphia in a wooden box to gain his freedom in 1849.
The wooden box will serve as an artistic metaphor to explore the pedagogy of oppression and to examine the notions of liberation through symposia, dialogue and artistic interpretation.