Behind the ‘Line

Change happens. Change is definitely going to happen, no matter what we plan for or expect or hope for or set in place. We will adapt to that change, or we will become irrelevant.  – adrienne maree brown, Emergent Strategy Members of TimeLine’s staff read and began discussing Emergent Strategy more than a year ago, looking to become a more effective organization. We had the goals and values of a change-making institution, but we sought ...

At TimeLine this week, watching and sharing in the pain and outrage being expressed across the country, we’ve remembered these words of playwright James Ijames: “Every time I think we have reached a point where maybe this play is obsolete. It’s suddenly not. And the violence with which that reality comes to me never ceases to take my breath.” He was speaking about his play Kill Move Paradise. Directed by Company Member Wardell Julius Clark ...