Telling It collaborates with visiting artists, performers, and practitioners from across the country and around the world to offer a unique and intercultural learning experience for local youth.
Summer 2024: The incredible rap, R&B and spoken word group Aint Afraid (aintafraid.com) visited Telling It at the Washtenaw County Children’s Services Detention Center. Inah and Yahzi, along with Telling It team Deb, McCrea Deezer, Bryce The Third and Kelly, met with all the youth in the center together – a first! Aint Afraid led a music, poetry and rapping session and the youth LOVED it! They shared and they wrote, they supported each other and they surprised each other. It was an AMAZING experience for everyone.
Winter 2024: Telling It Staff, (McCrea Deezer, Bryce The Third, Kelly Kundrat and Deb Gordon-Gurfinkel), U-M Students, (Ali Manly and Nitya Marimuthu) at the Washtenaw County Children’s Services Juvenile Detention Center with visiting Brazilian practitioners Vicente Concilio, Caro Vetori and Laís Jacques Marques, who are experienced in running theatre programming with incarcerated youth and adults.
