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Casting the Vote: A Call to a Count” is a collaboration between OpenDocLab Fellow June Cross, director Charlotte Brathwaite, dramaturg Sunder Ganglani, writer Janani Balasubramanian and musician Justin Hicks.
The dinner table is where everything happens: friends meet families, communities see themselves for the first time, relationships take shape, solidarity is discovered and affirmed, and of course, hunger is satisfied. Passing the salt, refilling the water glass, and offering a second helping – there, laid bare, is the subtle integrity of human beings being together. Our American stories, our mythologies, and our activism are written at the table between courses – but lately, we seem to be eating alone.
“Casting the Vote” is a participatory community dinner based on recent scholarship and activism around voter suppression in the United States. It’s a performance, a family style meal, and an attempt to ask and answer the most difficult questions of our time – together. Come with open hearts, empty stomachs, and as much good faith as you can offer. Suppress neither your appetite nor voice.