National Arts Centre event to allow only 'Black-identifying' theatregoers

Canadian Theater Sparks Backlash After Announcing Performances for 'Black-Identifying Audiences'

A government-funded Canadian theater organization has come under fire after announcing that it will be holding an event for only “black-identifying audiences.” The National Arts Centre (NAC) in Ottawa announced the “Black Out Night” event on its official website on Jan. 16. According to the theater, the “award-winning presentation of Aleshea Harris’s Is God Is will run from Feb. 9–18 at its 897-seat Babs Asper Theatre” and is one of the “milesto…

FIRST READING: National Arts Centre event to allow only 'Black-identifying' theatregoers

A Feb. 17 play for Black History Month at Canada's National Arts Centre will be open only to Black-identifying theatregoers.

Canadian theater sparks backlash with plan to host play with Black-only audiences: 'Cultural apartheid'

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Canadian theatre sparks row with performance for 'Black-identifying' audiences only

A theatre in Canada has sparked outrage by announcing an event that will only allow ‘Black-identifying audiences’ to attend.

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Black Out: Taxpayer Funded Canadian Theater Announces Black-Only Performances

Image: National Arts Centre Ottawa, Ontario/YouTube During Black History Month, the National Arts Centre (NAC), a taxpayer-funded Canadian theater organization in Ottawa, Ontario, has announced a “Black Out” night for the February performances of “Is God Is.” The event will only allow “Black-identifying audiences.” ⁩In Trudeau’s woke Canada, discrimination, if it is the right kind of…