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Drumvoices Festival of Arts #2: October 24-27, 2006

(Celebrating the 20th Birthday of the Eugene B. Redmond Writers Club)

 

 

 

Books by and about Katherine Dunham

 

Katherine Dunham Dancing a Life  / Island Possessed  / Black Dance from 1619 to Today  /  A Touch of Innocence: A Memoir of Childhood

 

Dances of Haiti  /  Equality For A Lightning Bug: A Small Collection of Poems  /  Journey to Accompong

 

Kaiso!: Writings by and about Katherine Dunham  /  Katherine Dunham: Pioneer of Black Dance

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October 24:

       

“Katherine Dunham: A Literary Tribute” (with dance/drum/jazz interludes)

     12:30 p. m. -- Dunham Hall Theater  SIUE (free)  - Performers: Michael Castro, Community Performance

Ensemble, Roscoe Crenshaw, Mari Evans, Sherman L. Fowler, Charlois Lumpkin, Charlotte Ottley,

Howard Rambsy, Redmond, Darlene Roy, SIUE/ESL Center for Performing Arts, Jeffrey Skoblow,

Andrew Theising, Reginald Thomas, Lena Weathers.

     

“’Look on me and be renewed:’ Words from Indianapolis Poet Laureate Mari Evans”

     7:00 p.m. -- Mississippi-Illinois Room SIUE (free) - Soular System Ensemble opens performance

 

October 25:

 

“Forests of Poetrees”: EBR Writers Club 20th Birthday Reception

     7:00 p.m. -- Missouri History Museum, Lindell & DeBaliviere, St. Louis [by invitation]                                            

 

October 26:

 

“’The Architecture of Language’: A Poetry Reading by Quincy Troupe”

       12:30 p.m. – Dunham Hall Theater SIUE (free) - K. Curtis Lyle opens performance

 

“Fruits from Poetrees: EBRWC 20th Birthday & Awards Banquet”

                 7:00 p.m. -- Casino Queen Hotel Ballroom   200 Front Street   East St. Louis (Tickets: $30.00)

(Featuring Evans, Troupe, Jazz, &  Photo Exhibits)

         EBR Writers Club

Sponsors: SIUE Office of the Chancellor, Office of Cultural and Social Diversity, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of English, Black Studies, EBR Writers Club –  Tickets/Information: 618 650-3991; eredmon@siue.edu.  

 

posted  4 October 2006

 

 

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