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COMING EVENTS
MASSACHUSETTS COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS
presents
Of Migrations and Renaissances:
Harlem/NY & South Side/Chicago, 1915–75
(All lectures are 10:00 AM-NOON.)
MAY 31, 2008 Berkshire Museum: “Cultural Renaissance on the South Side of Chicago,
Dr. Richard Courage, Professor of History, Westchester Community College, Westchester, NY.
JULY 26, 2008 Berkshire Museum “The Black Arts Movement (BAM),” Dr. David L. Smith, John W. Chandler Professor of English, Williams College, Williamstown, MA.
Contact: Darlene White, dwhite@bso.org 413 637 5274
May
8, 2008 6:00 PM Dinner and Theatre
And Ain't I a Woman:
Unsung African American Heroines of the Civil Rights Movements
Masonic Temple, 116 South Street, Pittsfield
Presented by Women of Color Giving Circle, Youth Alive
with
support from the Dept of Development City of Pittsfield
Adults $12, Students and Seniors $8
Contact Felicea
Robinson 413 443-2768 or Shirley Edgerton 413
841-8770 annburg1@hotmail.com
Friday
June 13 7:30 PM & Saturday June 14 4:00 and 7:30 PM Visiting
Play
"They Called Me Lizzy...from Slavery to the White House"
The amazing story of Mary Todd Lincoln's African American dress
maker.
Ventfort Hall Mansion and Gilded Age Museum
Contact www.GildedAge.org
Jacob’s Pillow Dance 2008
Celebrates the African Diaspora
GARTH FAGAN DANCE
June 18–22
Acclaimed choreographer of Broadway’s The Lion King,
Garth Fagan and company perform Griot New York,
one of his greatest creations, with
music by jazz legend Wynton Marsalis
BILL T. JONES/ARNIE ZANE DANCE COMPANY
June 26–July 6
Tony Award-winning Bill T. Jones presents his riveting Chapel/Chapter,
a look at negotiating news of today with everyday life;
performed in-the-round, with live music.
COMPAGNIE HEDDY MAALEM
June 25–29
This version of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring re-imagines the danger and
celebration of nature’s rebirth with an ensemble of fourteen dancers from
all over Africa. Be sure to see this U.S. debut tour!
ALONZO KING’S LINES BALLET
July 23–27
Called “one of the few bona fi de visionaries in the ballet world today”
King presents Migration and the newly premiered RASA, with an
astounding score by tabla master Zakir Hussain.
Call 413.243.0745 • Online ticketing at www.jacobspillow.org
August
2 & 3 2008
Civil War Weekend - Massachusetts 54th Encampment and more!
Ventfort Hall Mansion and Gilded Age Museum
Contact www.GildedAge.org
Second
Tuesday, Monthly, 2008 6:00 PM
Reading History: African-American Women in Words
A reading and discussion group
Sponsored by Ashley
House Property Committee, The Trustees of Reservations
Bartholomew's Cobble, Sheffield
Contact Barbara Dowling 413-298-8146 bdowling@ttor.org
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W. E. B. Du
Bois Boyhood Homesite (House of the Black Burghardts)
and the W. E. B. Du Bois Memorial Committee |
Photos: Special Collections and
Archives, W.E.B. Du Bois Library, University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Don Victor.
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