Whidbey Institute is Thrilled to Host: “Dark and Tender: The Big Island”

Whidbey Institute is thrilled to host:
“Dark and Tender: The Big Island”
A Film by the Chronically UnderTouched (CUT) Project

Friday, February 20th  ~  6 – 8 p.m.
at Thomas Berry Hall

Join us for a film screening and Q&A hosted by Dark and Tender
Producer Ben Wilson of Color of Sound. This is a by-donation event.

In the second chapter of Aaron Johnson’s film “Dark and Tender”, ten Black men journey to the Big Island of Hawaii to workshop the touch and listening practices from the Chronically UnderTouched Project. Part cinéma vérité, part elucidated teaching, the film slows down with the men as they reclaim and rebuild platonic intimacy and trust. Holding space for each other, they shake off violent narratives of Black masculinity and seek to restore a vital and basic human need in their lives – tender touch.

Both short films “Dark and Tender: A Film by the Chronically UnderTouched (CUT) Project” and “Dark and Tender: The Big Island” will be screened. “Dark and Tender: A Film by the Chronically UnderTouched (CUT) Project”
was filmed in part at Whidbey Institute.

Register here: https://givebutter.com/whidbey-big-island

The Whidbey Institute   6449 Old Pietila Rd., Clinton