The sub-series documents various plays produced by the Black Theatre Workshop from the 1970’s to 2013. It also illustrates other events organized by the Black Theatre Workshop, as, for example, festivals, workshops, conferences, poetry jams, and especially the workshop’s most important fundraiser, the annual Vision Celebration (or Vision Gala), which takes place since 1987 every year in January. At this event, each year an important member of the community is honoured with the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Achievement Award. The first of these awards was given to musician Oscar Peterson, followed by Oliver Jones, Daisy Peterson-Sweeney, Dorothy Wills, and others. The sub-series contains biographical information of all award recipients from 1987 to 2008. It also covers the nomination of the Victor A. Phillips Award and the Gloria Mitchell-Aleong Award, as part of the Vision Gala.
Furthermore, the sub-series documents the professional career of several actors involved with the Black Theatre Workshop
This sub-series contains photographs, programs, press releases, newspapers and newspaper clippings, drawings, floor plans, collages, flyers, mailing lists, project proposals, reports, invitations, entrance tickets, play scripts, meeting notes, box office records, correspondence, schedules, moving images, sound recordings, budgets, drafts, goboes, and the first issue of the Black Theatre Workshop News, among other documents.