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Provoked into action by the painful stigma left by the narco history of his country, Colombian artist and Blackboard founder, Miguel Hernando Torres Umba, unravels his own and the western world's responsibility for a trade that kills thousands in his homeland. Bringing together contrasting stories from a range of Colombian voices Blackboard tells the story of the chain of lives and deaths that turns a coca leaf, sacred to indigenous communities in Latin America, into a line of coke on a mirror in the western world.

Cast/Performers

Miguel Hernando Torres Umba

Creatives/Company

Author: Daniel Dingsdale
Producer: Matthew Schmolle Productions
Director: Alex Ferris
Design(s): Andrea Fiquitiva, Luke Harcourt (Set build at Tired Industries), Louise Rhoades-Brown (video design)
Lighting: Alex Marshall
Sound: Caz Coronel
Music: Caz Coroel
Other: Diana Garcia (animation)