 |
     |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
WORD! 2005: A Festival of Political Performance This year’s Five College WORD! features A FESTIVAL OF POLITICAL PERFORMANCE, including new plays, spoken word, and interdisciplinary performances on the theme of RACE, CULTURE, AND PRIVILEGE. Students whose work is selected to be read will receive an award named for the beloved American writer James Baldwin. WORD! takes place on March 9 in the Great Room of Blanchard Campus Center at Mount Holyoke College beginning at 8:00 p.m., and it is free and open to the public. The festival, now in its ninth consecutive year, provides a venue for student writing on themes of cultural identity. WORD! originated with the University’s New WORLD Theater under the direction of Roberta Uno. As a Five College event, the festival is hosted by a different campus each year and scripts submitted come from undergraduate and graduate students from all five campuses. Excerpts from the following plays will be read:
Each winner receives an award of $100. Funds for the awards come in part from a memorial fund established in the name of James Baldwin by members of the Five College community. Before his death in 1987, Baldwin spent several years at the campuses as a Five College Distinguished Joint Faculty Appointee. WORD! is one of several activities supported by the Five College Multicultural Theater Committee, which was established during the 1980s by the chairs of the theater departments to promote diversity in theater. Those currently serving as members of that committee include:
Page created 2/16/05
Home
| About
Us |
Academic
Programs |
Administrative
Programs ©2003
Five Colleges, Inc. | 97 Spring Street, Amherst MA 01002 | 413.256.8316 web site design by gravity switch, inc.
|
