Breathing Fresh Air with Christopher Johnson and Mark Binder (a work in progress) at Smith Hill Library

Seeking shelter from a tornado, a Black Man and a white man find themselves in a right-wing MAGA bunker. Trapped until the storm passes, they swap stories, and unpack opinions and ingrained biases about one another based on upbringing, media and economic differences of the world they share.
In “Breathing Fresh Air” wordslingers Christopher Johnson and Mark Binder dance around landmine topics such as the various forms of racism, marginalization and privilege, before confronting issues that are rarely addressed with the “othered” societal counterpart.
Ultimately, they use their art forms as a way to redress, and establish the beginning of a powerful friendship.