Nu Relik Performance Workshop is a newly formed company dedicated to building community by: creating performances in, with, and for marginalized communities around socially relevant topics, and by teaching virtues and life skills to youth through performance practices.
Formed in the spring of 2008 at Towson University, The Nu Relik Performance Workshop is a collective of Baltimore based performing artists and musicians who are dedicated to creating live performances that have educational components, are culturally and historically relevant, and assist with empowering underrepresented communities by imbedding opportunities for communal discourse on the subjects highlighted in each production.
The goal of this show is to draw attention to the disparities in the dispensation of justice between White and African-Americans in the nation’s legal and judicial system, and to discuss strategies to address this issue through communal discussions. We will work to develop a terse, but pointed questionnaire and ask audience members to register for our mailing list. Post-show, we will email those registrants, directing them to a blog specifically created for the show where they may complete the questionnaire. We will also have hard copies of the questionnaire available after the show. Nu Relik will record these responses and make them available to our funders, partners, and the community at large.
Mounting “The Magic City Massacre” is a huge undertaking, and as this is our first production as a company, we have dedicated all our resources to affect a positive result. We believe this production will lay the foundation for future endeavors. We have volunteers who will be assisting in many aspects of the production. Through the outreach component of this production, we believe the ‘buzz’ created from this event will assist us in establishing an identity and reputation in the community which in the future, will afford us a broad patron and subscriber base.