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Atlanta Black Theatre Festival
  • Home
  • About
    • About Us
    • Programs
    • Her-story
    • Gallery
    • Testimonials
    • Board
    • Staff
  • Upcoming Events
    • Festival 2024
    • Travels
    • Submissions
  • Get Connected
    • pARTnerships
    • Donate
    • Contact

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JOIN US FOR THE NEXT ABTF OCTOBER 3-4, 2025!

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You don't want to miss the next EPIC Atlanta Black Theatre Festival. We'll be celebrating 14 years of telling our stories!

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Rooted in Resilience

The Atlanta Black Theatre Festival, now in its 14th year, is vital for amplifying Black voices and showcasing both emerging and established artists. This year's theme, "Rooted in Resilience," highlights the importance of celebrating our ability to sustain cultural institutions despite challenges. We need organizations like the ABTF to foster community engagement and empower audiences to honor the strength of Black culture. Your contributions make a lasting impact, ensuring these essential narratives are heard. 

It takes a village!

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Call to Action

Three Ways You Can Support this Vital Work:

  1. Share: Spread the word about what we do.
  2. Attend: Save the date and join us at the next incredible event.
  3. Give: Ensure that these essential narratives are heard.

GIVE TODAY!

What's happening at ABTF?

Be a Blessing. Give today!Sign-up for Exclusive Offers by Email!join ABTF Travels to Africa Support Our Capital Campaign to Preserve Black TheatreQuestions? Contact UsSUBMIT YOUR PLAY FOR 2025!

Black theatre in America is alive; it is vibrant, it is vital… It just isn’t funded.

August Wilson

Announcing...

The Center for the Preservation of African- American Theatre (CPAAT))

There are only seven brick and mortar black-owned and led theatre houses in the US. Atlanta, the Mecca of Black entertainment, has NONE! We, as artists, constantly scrap and beg for spaces to perform.  Leading to a relentless struggle to survive as a theatre company. As a result, so many come and go and the quality of our work suffers. 


Please contribute. We need a place to create, preserve and tell our stories. Every bit helps. Thank you!  

Be a part of history!

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Why we need the black theatre?

Toni Simmons Henson, Co-founder of the Atlanta Black Theatre Festival shares about its social impact on the community. 


The Atlanta Black Theatre Festival is for and about YOU.  


WATCH THE VIDEO!


what's happening at the 2024 Atlanta Black Theatre Festival?

Creative Arts Conference

Black Art & Business Expo (Free)

Creative Arts Conference

  • Staged Readings of New Works
  • Film Screenings
  • Empowering Workshops
  • Buffet Lunch
  • Power Networking

Black Theatre Festival

Black Art & Business Expo (Free)

Creative Arts Conference

Experience the power of storytelling and live performances with a marathon of curated performances from around the corner and around the globe!

Scroll down for the line up!

Black Art & Business Expo (Free)

Black Art & Business Expo (Free)

Black Art & Business Expo (Free)

  • Fine, Visual and Wearable Art
  • Black-0wned Businesses
  • Gallery Exhibits
  • Food Vendors

More than a theatre festival!

We do so much more than mount plays...

The Atlanta Black Theatre Festival's prime aim is to: 

  1. CHANGE the narrative by revealing the truth of our history and contributions to civilization;
  2. ENGAGE, encourage, and enlighten the next generation of artist-entrepreneurs;
  3. BUILD a sustainable institution that preserves Black culture through theatre, literature, and art, across the diaspora.
  4. ENTERTAIN and educate while creating whole and healthy communities. 

Programs that IMPACT Communities!

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THE MECCA OF BLACK THEATRE

"The Mecca" is a colloquial term that describes a place or institution highly regarded and respected within the Black community for its significance, influence, and impact on Black culture. For over a decade, the Atlanta Black Theatre Festival has served as a hub for Black playwrights, actors, directors, and other theatre professionals to showcase their work, collaborate, and advance the representation of Black stories on stage. The Mecca of Black theatre is a symbolic designation that recognizes the importance of the space or entity in nurturing Black talent, fostering creativity, and contributing to the richness and preservation of Black theatrical traditions.

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