Photos courtesy of Dorothy Hong and Barnard Archives; Music by Kevin MacLeod
Africana at 20: A Celebration of Ntozake Shange (Performing Shange)
Date: Thursday, February 14, 2013
Time: 6:00 PM- 8:00 PM
Location: The Diana Center Event Oval
Led by music producer and BCRW Alumnae Fellow Ebonie Smith ‘07, Barnard students will perform excerpts from a range of Shange’s work. Their performance will be proceeded with a conversation between Ntozake Shange '70 and acclaimed dance artist Dianne McIntyre.
Africana at 20: The Worlds of Ntozake Shange Conference
The Africana Studies Program and the Consortium for Critical Interdisciplinary Studies (CCIS) at Barnard will hold a one-day conference, "The Worlds of Shange,” devoted to the life, works and legacy of Barnard alumna Ntozake Shange ‘70. This event brings together scholars and artists who are shaping scholarly and popular conversations about African-American arts and letters as well as gender in the African Diaspora.
Date: Friday, February 15, 2013
Time: 10:00 AM- 6:00 PM
Location: The Diana Center Event Oval
Featured speakers include Jennifer DeVere Brody, Professor of Dance and Theatre Performance at Stanford University and author of Punctuation: Art, Politics and Play; Farah Jasmine Griffin, Professor of English and Comparative Literature and African-American Studies at Columbia University and author of If You Can’t Be Free, Be a Mystery: In Search of Billie Holiday; Alexis Pauline Gumbs (BC ‘04; PhD, English, Duke University ‘10) independent scholar, poet, activist and founder of Mobile Homecoming and Vanessa K. Valdés, Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese.
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Contact africana@barnard.edu with any questions.
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