Open to students, emerging writers, and professionals, this series of writing workshops invite New Yorkers across all five boroughs to grapple with the Revolution’s contradictions – a fight for liberty in a society where enslavement remained legal. Through thought-provoking prompts and community dialogue, participants will explore themes of freedom, displacement, and identity in Revolutionary-era New York.*

“Battle in the Margins” is a new theatrical project collaboration between OPRHP and Black Gotham Experience exploring Black life in New York City during the American Revolution. Developed through a series of original one-act, ten-minute plays, this project centers the African Diaspora’s experiences, resistance, and role in shaping early American history – shining a light on stories often left out of the nation’s founding narrative. The productions will premiere this September 19th at FDR Four Freedoms State Park.