Open Retreats

Screening of Cannes Independent Shorts Official Selection,"Dark and Tender," with Director Q&A, and Song Circle

With Aaron Johnson

Flexible Dates

The Whidbey Institute - Thomas Berry Hall

A Screening of the Film Recorded at Whidbey Institute Dark and Tender interrupts the Black Brute archetype and traces the earnest, compelling paths black men take to reclaim caring closeness and recover tender, platonic touch. With close-up encounters with nature, uncommon images of gentle Black masculinity, and the men facing, together, internalized obstacles to closeness, […]