Looking forward and back on ancestral contributions to the built environment and social fabric of our community. “Descended from the Promised Land: The Legacy of Black Wall Street” #BlackWallStreet

Join us Saturday April 26th in Greenwood at OSU-Tulsa auditorium. “Descended from the Promise Land: The Legacy of Black Wall Street,” features descendants of the Williams family who built the original Dreamland Theatre and stories of the original founders as community members and visionaries.

We center Black, Indigenous, and marginalized narratives in film and other media. Our curatorial focus is on land, liberation, and transformation. We seek utopian visions of what could be and has been and facilitate dialogues of how to manifest equitable transformations of our built environment.

We owe so much to the very real people and their values that built this undying utopian image of what was and can be. We ask audiences, “What is your Dreamland,” and affirm that other worlds are possible past, present, and future.

Today we work with the descendants of the Williams family as accountability partners in bring Dreamland into a contemporary context. We use film to spark community imagination around who we are as individuals, as a community, and around the future and lands we share.