02/28/2026
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Please meet Featured Performer and 1SW Executive Director
Vatic Tayari Kuumba is an educator, theatermaker, and a father of three children. Vatic is deeply committed to strengthening the work of frontline community workers in environment, housing, health, and related movements. He does so by using art and cultural strategy as essential tools for program and policy design, civic engagement, and popular education. Vatic is the co-chair of the Sustainability Commission of the City of Providence. He is a co-founder of the Racial and Environmental Justice Committee (REJC) of the City of Providence, through which he served as key collaborator for the City of Providence’s Climate Justice Plan and the Environmental Racism Resolution passed by Providence City Council in 2020. For this work, Vatic became a recipient of the EPA’s Environmental Merit Award in 2021. He is an Undoing Racism facilitator and has supported various cultural and environmental organizations, groups, and coalitions through processes that center equity and justice.
Vatic is also an artist and theatremaker. Through 2024-25, he was Playwright-in-Residence at Brown University’s Rites and Reason Theatre. In 2024, he was Artist-in-Residence at Providence Housing Authority, working with residents of Chad Brown Housing Community for One Nation One Project’s Arts for Everybody national campaign on art, health, and wellbeing. Vatic is also co-director and lead writer of MoralDocs (2020-2021), an abolitionist transmedia project and virtual reality film for health justicce. He was Artist-in-Residence for the State Association of Arts Agencies in 2019; recipient of the 2018 RISCA Fellowship for Theater and 2017 RISCA Playwright Merit Fellowship. Vatic debuted his first theatrical production A Furtive Movement in 2016, as part of a Live Arts Residency at AS220, Providence, RI.
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