HIGHLAND LAKE – On Friday, November 22nd at 7 PM, NACL (North American Cultural Laboratory) will present a staged reading of a new work-in-progress by Camille Thomas, titled Sweet Blood. The event, hosted at 110 Highland Lake Rd (CR-47), will feature a unique blend of music and dance, bringing this exciting new piece to life.

“Sweet Blood” focuses on three free Black Maroon/Taino women in Jamaica 1727 struggling to thrive in a world that will soon endure hundreds of years of chattel slavery due to the emerging sugar revolution. They must decide what they are willing to do to survive the encroaching British invasion of their land, how far they are willing to go to fight against the disease of colonialism, and what it really means to be a revolutionary.

This Deep Space Residency presentation is a partnership between NACL and JACK, a producing theatre in Brooklyn, where “Sweet Blood” will receive its full production.

Camille Thomas’s work interrogates cultural legacies, familial healing, spirituality + ancestral wisdom, and the general kicking and screaming of how Black femmes get free despite the oppressive forces of colonialism, capitalism, and white supremacy.

Stay after the presentation for delicious soup and conversation!

More information and tickets at NACL.ORG