BY MAURYA KERR | PHOTO BY WAYNE HAZZARD
We, The Majestic J OANNA HAIGOOD’S The People’s Palace pre- mieres at San Francisco City Hall May 9, 10 and 12. I had the pleasure and honor of watching a rehearsal and later interviewing Joanna (all over Zoom). Rooted in the knowledge that neoclassical architecture, both implicitly and explicitly, reinforces the invisibility of marginalized populations, The People’s Palace is both intervention and celebration meant to lift every voice. Joanna shared with me this deeply germane quote by adrienne maree brown: “…we have to understand that imagination shapes the world and so those of us who have been oppressed by how others imagine the world, the suprema- cists, the patriarchs, the war mongers, the capitalists, we have to imagine some- thing so compelling it moves us beyond and out of the compliance with our entrapment in these systems that do not love us.”
Let us radically imagine our worlds.
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