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Watch Out for a New World Trust Video
Since 1991, World Trust has facilitated hundreds of dialogues. In 1995 World Trust created Heart-to Heart Conversations, a video dialogue program. Thousands of people have used Heart-to Heart materials in order to participate in authentic dialogues within their respective communities.
World Trust Educational Services, Inc. is happy to announce its intention to create, produce and direct a new Heart-to-Heart Conversation Video Program. The working title for this venture is Mirrors of Privilege: Making Whiteness Visible. The proposed new video will build on the success of the first two H2H videos, The Way Home and Light in the Shadows.
Mirrors of Privilege: Making Whiteness Visible - A Video Description
The new Mirrors of Privilege: Making Whiteness Visible video project will seek to weave together the experiences and stories of white women and men - of various ages and backgrounds - who have worked to gain clarity and understanding of what it means to be white in the United States. The video will use art, theatre, movement and music to amplify the stories, deep learning and change that has resulted from richly varied experiences enhanced by deep reflection. In addition, the video will contain the wisdom of these participants' critical self-inquiry, as well as their thoughtful analyses/critiques of social, political, historical and cultural systems related to whiteness. Their video will explore topics such as: whiteness as a system, whiteness and democracy, whiteness and power/privilege, whiteness and religion or spirituality, whiteness and environmental consciousness, and the struggles and value of becoming conscious about white privilege related to what it means to invest in one's humanity both individually and collectively. These stories will be supported by historical facts, which will serve to address systemic racist oppression.
The intent of the video is to create an informative social media piece that will catalyze powerful dialogue that supports learning and change for all people. It will also provide harbor for white people to begin or continue the internal transformation necessary towards equitable social transformation that white allies must undertake in our collective drive to undo race based oppression.
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Last Saturday I had the pleasure of attending your preview and sample dialogue session for Mirrors of Privilege: Making Whiteness Visible at NCORE, “05. It was a very good experience for me in many ways. My work involves networking and organizing among white anti-racists, and from time to time I have heard, and less occasionally seen, films on whiteness and white culture. I have also seen one or two proposals for film projects on whiteness and white identity. Your film is the first I can recall that focuses specifically on white people moving toward anti-racist, and pro-multiracial perspectives and lives. I liked the questions you raised and the dialogue you fostered. It was very thoughtful.
Jeff Hitchcock,
Center for the Study of White American Culture, Inc. White Anti-racist Community Action Network
