June 2020 - The revolution is being televised

This month we celebrated pride and mourned the loss of our brothers and sisters. We keep finding the cracks in the system and feeling its pain. It’s even amplified the ones in our own community. Yet we do not let our voices be silenced.  We’ve been protesting from Bentonville, to Rogers, from Springdale, to Fayetteville.

We’re a strong community and we continue to grow. We continue to fight for each other and we see it time and time again. The best part is that it doesn't end with holding signs. We’re educating each other and ourselves. We’re all here for the Black Lives Matter movement. We’re all standing by our poultry workers.

Conversations continue through our community. Checkout local podcast, District3, and murals from artist, including Octavio Logo.

We continue the conversation through our own art form. Back in May we started working on a series, LXTP Poets. We share moments our community, our world, and ourselves are going through. We talk about issues the way we know how to best; unfiltered and powerful.

These videos were recorded prior to May 25, 2020. As part of our community writing initiative, LXTP artists wrote verses in response to this prompt:

Write a spoken word poem/rap about what you miss right now or what you'd do if you weren't in isolation.

We invite you to write your own and let your voice be heard.

Be together soon.

Although we’ve been physically apart for some time, we come together every week, twice a week to write our new play, Heroes and Monsters. We’ll be sharing more news and some sneak peeks soon!