The Afro-Futurist Films of Cauleen Smith A free public screening and discussion with the artist Saturday, March 1—1:30pm, Room 112, Thompson Biology Lab, 59 Lab Campus Dr. In 1989, Cauleen Smith produced an experimental biography (Chronicles of A Lying Spirit By Kelly Gabron) in which marginal representations of black… Continue reading »
February 1, 2014 – April 27, 2014 South African visual activist Zanele Muholi’s photographs and videos are intimate portrayals of black lesbians, queers, and transmen. Muholi’s work celebrates members of LGBTI communities and sheds light on the implications of being black and… Continue reading »
Sydney Pitts-Adeyinka with dancer Martin Lofsnes, artistic director of the 360° Dance Company, after his Dialogues in Dance performance, WCMA, April 4 2012. Check out Senior Sydney Pitts-Adeyinka’s (’12) recent blog entitled My Péché Mignon, described as a blog that covers “your daily guilty pleasure via… Continue reading »
Africana Studies presents a film screening of Fambul Tok, in which victims and perpetrators of Sierra Leone’s brutal civil war come together for the first time since the conflict to commit an act that is as astonishing as it is simple: they forgive one another. Reviving an ancient, traditional… Continue reading »
The reading will include works by Shelley, Whitman, Neruda, Dylan Thomas, Baraka, Lorca, and Yeats. It will be next Thursday, October 20th, at 8pm in 129 Schapiro Hall. Octoberish refreshments will be served. Continue reading »
Kerry James Marshall (American, b. 1954), Untitled, 2009, acrylic on pvc. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, NY. Thursday, September 22 at 7:00 pm at the Brooks-Rogers Recital Hall Renowned Chicago based artist Kerry James Marshall will deliver the Annual Plonsker… Continue reading »
Blue, Black and White. Starring Williams Alumnus Donald Molosi (Best Performer, 2008 Dialogue ONE Theatre Festival). “Blue, Black and White” is an enchanting humanist story about Sir Seretse Khama. He married a white British woman in 1949 and their interracial marriage… Continue reading »
Grammy Award winning saxophonist Charles Neville, of the legendary New Orleans based Neville Brothers Band, has the most diverse musical background of his family members. His experience on saxophone has included rhythm & blues, funk, jazz, be-bop, popular and Caribbean… Continue reading »
The Memory of Love: A Book Reading, signing and Conversation. Please join us in welcoming award-winning author Aminatta Forna for a book reading and conversation about her novel, The Memory of Love, a brilliant new work elucidating the costs and damages of civil war in… Continue reading »