I AM QUEEN CHARLOTTE

Poet playwright and storyteller Hannah Hassan is a story collector as well. This last talent came to fruition as a book project titled I Am Queen Charlotte, developed by Hassan’s storytelling duo Epoch Tribe. The book, which collects the intimate and intricate tales of 50 Black women from Charlotte, has evolved into a stage play which ran as part of Queen Charlotte Week last March. Mixing dance, music and performance, the show returns in 2022 with a nod to the city’s namesake, Queen Charlotte, who some historians posit was a Black or mixed-race woman.