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The Importance of Representation in Healthcare and the Arts

How Blood Go weaves the present and past together to explore the strained relationship between the medicine and African Americans in this country. Just when Quinntasia is ready to take her wellness program, Quinntessentials, to market, she learns that her healthy body is not the product of her hard work, but of a futuristic experimental device—activated without her consent—that makes her appear White to doctors and nurses. She must decide if she’s willing to give up her Blackness to make her dream come true. Meanwhile, Bean and his brother, Ace, experience unethical medical treatment in the American South (the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment 1930-1970).

Facilitated by Dr. Melissa Simon, this conversation will happen immediately after the performance of How Blood Go with members of the cast and creative, including Yolonda Ross, and additional subject matter experts discussing themes in the production and how it moves into our daily lives–the power of representation in healthcare as a key for health equity.

Registration is required to attend.

Performance will start at 3:00pm with a discussion to follow.

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