Learn about: The Conciliation Lab

For the first time, this year's Martin Luther King, Jr., celebration at VCU has been structured around a new original theater piece devised for the event by Richmond's social justice theater company, The Conciliation Lab.

The mission of The Conciliation Lab (or TCL) is to bring together the people and organizations that are willing and ready to engage in the difficult work of un-doing Racism in America and to pursue the on-going search for viable activities, methodologies, and practices to help facilitate the conciliation of individual people, communities, and organizations. 

The Conciliation Lab was forged from two seemingly unlikely partners: TheatreLAB, a scrappy, innovative, and young theatre company focused on producing new and experimental works, and The Conciliation Project, a long-standing, rooted, and loosely structured theatre company focused on the process of undoing racism. The company is charting a new course toward racial conciliation, tightly weaving a base of support for future generations. It focuses on birthing new approaches toward conciliation from the past legacy of racial division collectively inherited over centuries of pain and strife. While that historical legacy can feel daunting to address, TCL has committed to helping our community persevere and thrive through the power of story, healing, and education.