Abigail Whitney, a UofT alumni, shares her gratifying experience working on 4/21 Black Futures monodramas, as her creative voice adds to the nuanced and diverse stories of Blackness being created, produced, and celebrated by 63+ Black artists across Canada.

Mumbi Tindyebwa Otu, the artistic director of Obsidian Theatre—a theatre designed to support Black artists and nurture their creative voices—offers us a radical offering during unprecedented times. She writes, “With no end to the pandemic in sight, I went further into self-isolation, mourning privately the continuous murder of Black people at the hands of the police. With no access to the theatre and no access to community, I was hurting and in need of connection. I wondered how other Black artists were doing.”