When a city experiences a blackout, everything stops.
No lights. No TV. No internet. No air-conditioning. No everyday creature-comforts that runs on electricity.
During a blackout, we become sensitized to just how much the things around us means to us. And how much we have taken for granted.
Just as an incarcerated life goes through a Blackout, we too may have taken some members of our community for granted. Can a life that has gone through a Blackout re-adjust and reintegrate into society? Can a person who is here but really away for 10 years get back on the right track? Can a person regain his confidence and self-esteem and walk out of his own darkness? Where is the real Blackout?
Blackout celebrates the simple gesture of reaching out to light a candle in the dark. Just when it is needed most.
When there’s a Blackout, bring out the light.
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