Photographs
Far left: Dorothy Allison (third from left) and students following Allison's Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration keynote address. Photo by Joseph Mehling, College Photographer. Center: Members of AXIS Dance Company, a mixed-ability dance troupe, performing at the Hopkins Center as part of a Hopkins Center campus residency cosponsored by IDE. Photo by Jack Rowell. Right: Discussions at a Diversity Forum hosted by IDE. Photo by The Dartmouth.
Artwork
Detail from mural produced by Ernesto Cuevas and Dartmouth students as part of Encuentro Latino, a Summer Arts Festival coordinated by the Leslie Center for the Humanities.
Lunch Discussion with Michael Chaney
What Matters to Me and Why?
noon, Tucker Foundation
Michael Chaney, assistant professor of English and of African and African American Studies, discusses the pottery of Dave the potter, an antebellum slave who incised poetry and couplets on the sides of jars in South Carolina during the 1840s and 1850s. Chaney teaches African American literature and culture, nineteenth-century American literature, and contemporary graphic novels. His new book, Fugitive Vision (Indiana University Press), addresses the meaning of illustrations in slave narratives and examines how pictures juxtapose written language to suggest forms of black identity that exceed the conventions of the period. A light lunch will be served.
Film
Island in the Sun starring Harry Belafonte
4 pm, 105 Dartmouth Hall
Political intrigue and cross-cultural romance scandalize a Caribbean community in this 1957 drama featuring Harry Belafonte, James Mason, Dorothy Dandridge, and Joan Collins. Discussion to follow.
Presentation by Media Artist/Filmmaker Liz Canner
4:30 pm, Carson Hall L01
Liz Cannerdiscussesthe role of the artist as an interventionist and the power of art to inform public opinion and affect social change. Her talk will be accompanied by clips from her digital art projects. See January 15 Community Lunch and Ongoing Events for related events.
Hopkins Center Performance
Jerry Quickley: Live from the Front
7 pm & 9:30 pm, Arthur M. Loew Auditorium, Hood Museum of Art
* $18, Dartmouth students $5; tickets available at the Hopkins Center Box Office
Acclaimed journalist Jerry Quickley tells the sweat-inducing tale of his travels to Iraq, where he visited as an un-embedded reporter before, during, and after the war’s “shock and awe” campaign. A fixture on the international hip-hop theater scene, Quickley bridges spoken word traditions with his boundary-breaking performance poetry. In “Live From the Front,” he channels uncensored and previously unheard Iraqi voices gathered from the ordinary people on the street and the bustling cafe culture he discovered while dodging government minders. Combining music, video, and grand-slam performance, this resilient “B-Boy in Baghdad” exhorts fellow citizens to a compassionate understanding of an impossible situation that is both more distant and closer than we imagine.
Jerry Quickley grew up in New York during hip-hop’s ascendancy and began emceeing when he was eleven. He is a popular radio host of “Beneath the Surface” on KPFK in Los Angeles and a producer for Pacifica Radio. His poetry has won three Los Angeles Grand Slam competitions and has been published widely in magazines, anthologies and newspapers including the Los Angeles Times, the LA Weekly, and The Village Voice. Quickley also runs two spoken word series and a poetry workshop for incarcerated youth in Los Angeles.
Quickley also will speak at the January 15 Community Lunch.
Community Lunch with Palaeopitus
Making the Personal Political: How the Personal Lives of Activists Are Implicated in Their Work
noon, Collis Common Ground
Documentary filmmaker Hillary Abe ’08, economics and studio art major Vivian M.S. Chung ’07, former MLK Papers Project intern Vaughn Booker ’07, and senior fellow Michael Amico ’07 speak about the intersections between activists’ personal and political lives. Facilitated discussions at each table will follow, led by Palaeops Kirsten Murray ’07, Soralee Ayvar ’07, Yuki Kondo-Shah ’07, Greg LaMontagne ’07, Timothy Andreadis ’07, and Michelle Davis ’07. A light lunch will be served.
The Art of Civil Rights: An Evening of Art and Jazz at the Hood Museum of Art
5–7 pm, Hood Museum of Art
Join members of the Barbary Coast Jazz Ensemble, directed by Don Glasgo, and the Hood Museum of Art for an evening of light refreshments, music from the American Civil Rights era, and a gallery talk by Juliette Bianco, Assistant Director of the Hood Museum of Art.
Women of Color Collective Discussion
“Use What You Got, To Get What You Want”: Empowerment or Subjugation?
7 pm, Casque & Gauntlet Lounge, across from Collis and next to the Dirt Cowboy Cafe
Women of color, often excluded from or pushed into the background of cultural movements, have always found a voice in the arts. Over the past few decades, that place for women has become an increasingly sexualized zone. Is this by choice? Are women seizing control of their sexuality and using it as a tool of empowerment? Or have we become even more tightly bound to a notion from which we are unable to break free? Join the Women of Color Collective for a great dinner and discussion concerning this issue.
