2/16-26/08, Mon.-Fri. 10:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., Sun. 2-5 p.m., Library Gallery
Artuhur Ashe, Althea Gibson and the Royalty of the Colored Court
A photographic history of the private tennis and country clubs founded by and for Black Society. Opening reception: 2/16/08, 4-5:30 p.m. Art Carrington will talk about the exhibit.
2/19/08, 7 p.m., West Lecture Hall, Franklin Patterson Hall
Film screening: Forgotten Tenor (by Hampshire Professor of Film and Photography, Abraham Ravett)
Reflects on the short life of one of the greatest and perhaps most unheralded tenor saxophone players in jazz, Wardell Gray. The film also reflects on the mutability and evanescence of all of our lives. It is a meditation on time, memory and the evolving histories of American Black classical music. Q&A with Professor Ravett following. For more information, contact Hampshire College's Cultural Center at (413) 559-5461.
2/29/08-3/1//08 (times TBA), Music Recital Hall, Music & Dance Building
Annual Black History Month Student Show
For more information, contact Hampshire College's Cultural Center at (413) 559-5461.
2/1/08, 4-6 p.m., Betty Shabazz Cultural Center
Renaissance and Rebirth: Re-Visioning Black Culture -- Black Heritage Month Opening Ceremony
Reflect on the theme of newness, rebirth, and renaissance as we bring interfaith community together to celebrate the faiths that have supported African women and men as they have traveled the world and the world's religions. Refreshments will be served.
2/2/08, 10:30 p.m.-2 a.m., Great Room, Blanchard Campus Center
APAU Party: Bringin' It Back -- Old School Meets New School
Admission: $5
2/5/08, 4 p.m., Room 227, Blanchard Campus Center
Taboo Series: Ethnic Notions
Ethnic Notions is an Emmy-winning documentary that takes viewers on a disturbing voyage through American history, tracing the roots of black face minstrelsy, its evolution as a racial stereotype, and its adoption as part of American culture. Facilitated by Zetta Elliott, visiting assistant professor of African American and African studies.
2/5-28/08, 7 p.m. in Room 108, Blanchard Campus Center
Black Heritage Film Festival
This series will showcase four films that focus on contemporary issues affecting the black community, in particular stereotypical imagery, sexuality, and health. Each session will be preceded and followed by a discussion. Faculty, staff, and students are encouraged to take part. All films will be shown at the same time and location.
2/12/08: Lumo
A young woman attacked by soldiers in eastern Congo is left with a fistula--a condition that renders her incontinent and threatens her ability to give birth in the future. Rejected by her fiancé and family, she finds her way to a hospital for rape survivors on the border with Rwanda.
2/19/08: The Aggressives
The Aggressives, a dynamic film shot in New York City on digital video, features intimate interviews with six lesbians who define themselves as "Aggressives."
2/26/08: People's Grocery
A film about community organizing around sustainable agriculture and healthy food. Cosponsored by MHC Garden Society.
2/28/08: Life Support
Starring Queen Latifah as a mother who overcame an addiction to crack and became an AIDS activist in the black community, Life Support was an official selection at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival.
2/7/08, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
Art Exhibition
Two recently acquired prints by Faith Ringgold will be displayed in the Hinchcliff Reception Hall, and a cut-paper collage and watercolor by Romare Bearden will be shown in the Futter Gallery. On view today through the end of the month.
2/8/08, Blanchard Campus Center Great Room
"Womb-Words, Thirsting": A Performance by Spoken-Word Artist/Playwright Lenelle Moise
Mixing a brew full of womanist Voudou jazz, queer theory, hip-hop, and movement, "Womb-Words, Thirsting" is an interactive evening of patchwork poetic storytelling delivered slam-style from the gut. Join Haitian American Lenelle Moise as she reconceives memory and boldly speaks out about childhood, masculinities, sexualities, AIDS, cultural hybridity, and reclaiming f-words.
2/11/08, 4 p.m., Blanchard Campus Center Art Gallery
Art Exhibition Opening Reception
Artworks by current MHC students and alumnae provide an opportunity to explore and engage today's black culture through visual imagery and artistic expression. Refreshments will be served.
2/13/08, 7 p.m., Room 101, Dwight Hall
Movie: Something New
An intelligent romantic comedy that deals with issues of race and perceptions in a straightforward way, from a point of view not often seen: that of a successful, upperclass black woman. Starring Sanaa Lathan.
2/18/08, 4:30 p.m., Room 227, Blanchard Campus Center
Taboo Series: A Girl Like Me
A documentary reflection on what it means to be a black girl growing up in a society of white images. Facilitated by Tanya Williams.
2/22-23/08, 8 p.m., Blackbox Theatre, Rooke Theatre (also showing 2/24/08, 2 p.m.)
Mystic Mitch and That Bitch Katrina
A student-written play about Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans proves that the city, its people, and its culture refuse to be washed away.
2/27/08, New York Room, Mary Woolley Hall
White Money, Black Power: The Past and Futures of African American Studies in the Academy
Keynote Speaker Noliwe Rooks.
2/28/08, 7:30 p.m., Gamble Auditorium, Art Building
Naomi Tutu: "Truth and Reconciliation: Healing the Wounds of Racism"
Naomi Tutu, an international activist and educator whose career extends the work of her father, the Archbishop Desmond Tutu, will discuss her coming of age in apartheid South Africa and the challenges and promises of diverse societies. This is part of the Weismann Center's Bearing Witness series.
2/29/08, 9:30-11:30 a.m., Willits-Hallowell Conference Center
Building Bridges: Honest Conversation about Race
An interactive workshop and group dialogue on race, differences, silence, stereotypes, solidarity, community, and change. Naomi Tutu and Rose Bator, facilitators.
