Calendar
of Past Events : Fall 2005 |
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NOVEMBER |
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 Theatre: Junebug
Productions "Don't Start Me toTalking
or I'll Tell You Everything I Know " by
John O'Neal, playwright and actor |
Thursday & Friday
, November 17 & 18 -- 8:00 pm, Kogod
Theatre |
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Storyteller/performer
John O'Neal's alter-ego Junebug Jabbo Jones paints
pictures of the South with this remarkable collection
of civil rights stories and songs. The rich oral
tradition of tellin' and testifyin' brings to
life an eccentric battery of characters and places,
drawing the audience into the world of a sanctified
church, a New Orleans jail and a rural high school
locker room.
Tickets
available at the Clarice Smith Performing
Arts Center. Phone: 301-405-ARTS |
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Lecture: "The
Legacy of the Civil Rights Era: Contemporary
Challenges" by Juan
Williams |
Tuesday,
November 1 -- 4:00 pm, Grand Ballroom, Stamp
Student Union |
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Award-winning
author and journalist Juan Williams, author of Thurgood
Marshall: American Revolutionary was
on campus lecturing on the historical figure
of Thurgood Marshall and other contemporary issues
related with this year FYB selection.
Event co-sponsored by The Omicron Delta Kappa lecture series.
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OCTOBER |
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Workshop: “Building
a Vocal Community: Songs of the Civil Rights
Movement” |
Wednesday,
October 5 -- 7:00 pm, Dekelboum Concert Hall,
CSPAC |
Dr.
Ysaye Barnwell leading the "Sweet Honey
In The Rock Community Chorus" at UMD on
December 9, 2003.
(Photo: S. Farmer)
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Join
Dr. Ysaye Maria Barnwell, singer, composer
and member of the renowned a capella group Sweet
Honey In The Rock, as she facilitates
the development of a singing community through
the vehicle of music from African American
traditions. Through participation in the songs
and discussions of their context, the group
will explore the values imbedded in the music,
the role of cultural and spiritual traditions
and rituals, and ways in which leadership emerges
and can be shared by and among community members.
This special campus community event will concentrate on songs of resistance
from the Civil Rights Movement and the role of music in community protest.
Through collective performance and discussion, workshop participants will
consider the nature of cultural responses to and influences on political
and social struggle, as well as the significance of a shared communal experience
in ones' personal life.
Check
out the event's companion
website!
Event co-sponsored by The Democracy Collaborative Engaged University Initiative
and The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.
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SEPTEMBER |
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Discussion:
Civil Rights, Education and Community |
Wednesday,
September 28 -- 4:15 pm, Anne Arundel Lounge |
Join
a discussion on civil rights and education
in the community with Alana Murray, an
educator-activist, University of Maryland
alum, and co-editor of "Putting the Movement Back into Civil
Rights Teaching." Ms Murray is also
the granddaughter of Donald G. Murray,
the first African American to attend and
graduate from the University of Maryland
Law School, a case argued by Charles Houston
and Thurgood Marshall.
Event co-sponsored by the College of Education
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Alana Murray
leads the participants through some exercises on Civil Rights' awareness |
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Discussion:
The Honorable Joseph F. Murphy, Jr -- Chief
Judge, Maryland Court of Special Appeals |
Thursday,
September 22 -- 12:15 pm, Nyumburu Cultural
Center |
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In
honor of Constitution Day, Judge Murphy will
speak on "The Constitution, Society and
the 21st Century."
Event co-sponsored by The Provost's Conversations on Diversity, Democracy
and Higher Education. |
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Movie:
4 Little Girls, by Spike Lee |
Thursday, September 15 -- 7:00 pm, Hoff Theatre |
On
September 15, 1963 11-year-old Denise McNair
and three 14-year-olds: Cynthia Wesley, Carole
Robertson and Addie Mae Collins were killed
when a dynamite bomb exploded at the 16th Street
Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. The
girls had been in a basement dressing
room, discussing
their first days at
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Hoff
theater audience waits for the movie |
at school and preparing for the 11:00am Adult
Service.The church had been a center for
many civil rights rallies and meetings,
and after the tragedy, it became a focal
point drawing many moderate whites into
the civil rights movement.
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