A short silent film I shot and directed about a heartbroken yet determined poet who dreams and ponders as he leaves the U.S. and travels to European cities in pursuit of the woman he believes makes life worth living.

This film was a collaborative project with Seventh Metro Church in Baltimore. It was commissioned by graduate students at the Maryland Institute College of Art as part of their Congregate exhibit that took place in September 2013. It's my impressionistic attempt utilizing spoken word, dance, music, and sermons to interpret how Pastor Ryan Palmer and Seventh Metro approach worship and community.
“CONGREGATE art + faith + community” is an exhibition and series of programs that creates shared experiences for faith-based congregations and artistic communities within the Station North Arts and Entertainment District. Curated by the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) Curatorial Practice MFA class of 2014, CONGREGATE establishes artist residencies within five places of worship and offers public programs in which members of each congregation can collaborate creatively. “CONGREGATE” creates a space in which artists and congregants can come together to develop a better understanding of one another—and allows spiritual sites to become active parts of the Station North arts community.

I worked with students of Baltimore Talent Development High School to combine theatre, film, and dance to create their FLEX Arts project. It's a personalized and creative take on the potential of community from a youthful perspective. The students used group discussion, improvisation, and DSLR cameras with various lens to make their collective vision a reality.

Bashi Rose and Mitchell Ferguson work with a talented and hard-working group of men in the Maryland Correctional Training Center (M.C.T.C.) in Hagerstown, Maryland.  In 2007 Bashi collaborated with the men to form the D.R.A.M.A. Group (Direct Responses Alleviate Misdirected Aggression).   

Most of the founding members of D.R.A.M.A. are also mentors in the Friends of a Friend Mentoring Program (F.O.F.) initiated by Dominque Stevenson of the American Friends Service Committee and Eddie Conway; helping to steer younger inmates in a positive direction.

Since then the men have developed and performed dynamic original theatre for the population at M.C.T.C. Their work has been produced at Creative Alliance, Theatre Project, and the American Visionary Art Museum under the title, Prison Shorts.
D.R.A.M.A. also now collaborates with WombWork Productions.

F.O.F. has also expanded to the Jessup Correctional Institution (J.C.I.) and the Maryland Correctional Institution at Jessup (M.C.I.J.). We are still in the process of developing theatre programs at those institutions, but at J.C.I. the members of F.O.F. partnered with Nommo Theatre, WombWork Productions, and Nu World Art Ensemble (an off-shoot of WombWork) to perform WombWorkâ??s original play, The Birth of Peace.