First Person Arts Festival

Photo: Brian Mengini

Nothing Could Stop Me, My Body Was Like Origami

Kalila Kingsford Smith

Xavier’s work is autobiographical, focusing on his long relationship with break dancing.

Photo: La Dolce Photography

Lynching and Love

Megan Bridge

The audience’s first responses: “Celebration. Bearing witness. Transparency. Shadows. Remembering. Nooses dropping. Acceptance. Pain. Repetition. Awesome.”