Join us for a conversation between Prentis Hemphill and Aaron Johnson exploring the role of tender and embodied storytelling to guide people to insight, awareness, transformation, and wholeness. Aaron has created the Chronically UnderTouched (CUT) Project — basic strategies to bring a black body from being Chronically UnderTouched to a state of touch balance — as part of the lifelong journey of interrupting oppressive systems that make touch balance a radical action.

This interactive event will also engage the audience through an embodiment practice and a screening of Dark and Tender: A Film by the Chronically UnderTouched Project. Dark and Tender captures how the Chronically UnderTouched (CUT) Project restores the nervous system and creates healing by replacing violence, rough sports, and tough play with tenderness and intimacy amongst black men. Color of Sound, a 501c3 nonprofit, is the Producer and fiscal sponsor of CUT Project Short Film and Tour.