02/12/2024
By Chad Montrie
This event will blend embodied performance with active audience engagement to explore the practice and impact of Black History on stage.
Brandi LaShay presents a range of historic figures and is supported by Karsel Morales who acts as liaison to the audience. The historic figures will include Angela Davis, Ida B. Well, Fannie Lou Hammer, Sojourner Truth, Lenard Jeffries, Fred Hampton and other individuals specific to Massachusetts. The primary aim of the event is to stimulate student critical thinking about the potential of interdisciplinary performance art for connecting the past and present and exploring contemporary social issues.
The performance will be staged at the Comley-Lane Theater and offered twice on Thursday, Feb. 29, once at 12:30-1:30 p.m. and again at 6-7 p.m.
Both performances are free and open to UML students, faculty and staff as well as the public, but please email your name, number of tickets requested and any accommodations needed to reserve tickets.
Sponsors: College of Fine Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Dean’s Speakers Series, Race & Ethnic Studies, Theater Arts, History Department, Center for Women & Work (CWW), Wilder Interdisciplinary Studies Hub (WISH), and Gender Studies.
Contact person: Chad Montrie, History Department