EMERGE125 is honored and excited to participate in the annual John Brown Day on May 9th, 2023. Last year, the company performed at the Memorial Field for Black Lives for the 2022 celebration and we look forward to continuing this partnership with John Brown Lives!. This day is a celebration of when Black leaders from Philadelphia–NAACP made their first pilgrimage to lay a wreath on Brown’s grave.

This year we will be premiering our film Geography of Grace !!

Geography of Grace is an abstract and thought provoking historical fiction film set in a summer of racial reckoning in the United States and across the world initiated by the brutal and violent murder of George Floyd, and further mixed with the the ongoing Covid pandemic. This film explores both the reality and alternate reality of an African-American agricultural community in upstate New York founded by American abolitionist, John Brown. We are taken on a journey by one of Brown’s descendants as she travels through the John Brown Farm Historic Site in North Elba.

The viewing will be held at the Lake Placid Center for the Arts. More details to come!