Smith College Program in American Studies presents
Latina Performance Art:
Creativity As The Antithesis To Violence
A Day With Sandra María Esteves and Patricia Herrera
November 28, 2007
Smith College
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Amherst College
Converse Hall
Cole Assembly Room
Wed., Nov. 14th, 7pm
Come hear “Lost Boys of Sudan” tell their stories that draw upon issues of culture, race, and assimilation while also being stirred up again when being back home. They will speak about what it’s been like adapting to life in New England as well as returning home to [...]
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Zeina Nasr
7:30 p.m.
First Mondays at the Mead Art Museum
Amherst College
Monday, Nov. 5.
Musician Zeina Nasr ’06, a Copeland Fellow at Amherst College, will workshop three of her four original compositions during an interactive performance. The second in a series of Copeland Fellow events on the theme of “Art and Identity in the Global Community,” the activity [...]
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On Friday, November 9th, at 7pm, prize-winning editor/poet/performer Alix Olson will host an energetic evening of spoken word brilliance by the poets whose work she has collected in WORD WARRIORS at Food For Thought Books in downtown Amherst. Artists taking the mic will include Northampton-based poet/performer/playwright Lenelle Moise.
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Amherst Cinema Arts Center
Amherst, MA
We are delighted to announce a screening, over two mornings, of Spike Lee’s stunning documentary When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts. Lee’s film is about the events and experiences of people in New Orleans during and after Hurricane Katrina. Even if you’ve seen Levees on television, see it [...]
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Thursday, October 25
5 pm
UMass :: Theater 204
(Curtain Theater entrance, one flight up)
New York Hip-Hop Activist and Performer Pop Master Fabel, in a conversation on the future of hip-hop with DJ and Afro-American Studies Scholar Anthony Ratcliff!
This interactive event will be followed by a reception with Fabel, Anthony and the audience.
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“Eating Identity”
7:30 p.m.
Monday, Oct. 22,
Main Quadrangle in front of
the Mead Art Museum,
Amherst College
The first in a series of Copeland Fellow events on the theme of “Art and Identity in the Global Community,” the event is open to the public at no charge.
Entang Wiharso was born in Central Java, Indonesia, and [...]
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On Wednesday, 10/17/07, Yvette Christiansë will be reading at Amherst Books on Wednesday, as part of the the Amherst College Writing Center’s Visiting Writers Series:
In a starred review, Kirkus called South African poet Yvette Christiansë’s novel Unconfessed “A gorgeous, devastating song of freedom that will inevitably be compared to Toni Morrison’s Beloved.” The book [...]
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