Blacktop Improv members performed and spoke at a Roswell Roots event in Roswell, describing the troupe's origin and the festival's schedule. A member said the group started about 25 years ago and that the festival is beginning its 24th year.

Why it matters: Roswell Roots is a recurring local festival that presents community arts and family-oriented programming; performers and organizers told attendees how to find the full schedule online and emphasized a clean, audience-driven improv format.

During the presentation, Speaker 1, a performer with Blacktop Improv, said, "Blacktop improv group is a group that was started, I wanna say, over 25 years ago." Another performer said the year of origin as "19 97." A third performer summarized the troupe's founding purpose: "Back in the day, we were young comics coming up. The vision was to bring these black young comics together to, do something that hadn't been done, and that is bringing comics together to form an improv group."

A representative identified in the transcript as Speaker 4, speaking on behalf of festival organizers, said, "We are really excited that this is the beginning of the 20 fourth year of the Roswell Roots activities here within the city of Roswell. The Roswell roots committee has just done a wonderful job of giving us all the talent and all the all the expertise that you could ask for." The representative also thanked the city and encouraged attendees to use the city event site: "So when you have questions around what's going on in the city of Roswell, not just with the roots, but anything city related, please go to roswell365.com. It is jam packed with all of the activities. You can find something to do every single day. All of the schedule for the Roswell roots is laid out right there on Roswell 365, And with enough planning, you can hit multiple events in the same day and come back and do it all over again the next day."

Performers described the improv format and audience participation: "The beautiful thing about improv is you say it and we play it. And so we we ask, we are all out through the crowd asking questions, taking your suggestions, making them into funny, hilarious scenes and you're gonna love it because you'll be part of it," said Speaker 2. One performer noted the group keeps its material family-friendly: "I think the concept for us getting together was they wanted to show that black comics could get together and be all clean, because we don't curse through our show," said Speaker 1.

No formal votes or actions were recorded on this agenda item in the transcript; the record shows a presentation and performers' remarks and a referral to the Roswell event calendar for schedules.

Organizers and performers emphasized family-friendly, audience-driven programming and directed attendees to roswell365.com for the Roswell Roots schedule and additional city events.