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.
Hopkins Center Film
Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist and Paul Robeson: A Tribute to an Artist
7 pm, Arthur M. Loew Auditorium, Hood Museum of Art
Scandalize, starring Harry Belafonte, Paul Robeson, and other notables, provides a searing examination of how “Red Scare” politics were used to hinder the Civil Rights movement and documents the experiences of African-American performers faced with blacklists, loyalty oaths, and other discrimination. The Academy Award–winning Paul Robeson, narrated by Sidney Poitier, explores the evolving social conscience of the world-renowned Shakespearean actor, who was blacklisted during the McCarthy era. Discussion to follow.
Festival of Student Arts
On display throughout the weekend in the area exhibition space (Top of the Hop) . . .
Interactive Mixed Media Installation by La Alianza Latina and the Dartmouth Association of Latino Alumni
Friday
SoulScribes Spoken Word Open Mic
9 pm, Collis Cafe
"Scenes of Freedom" presented by BUTA (Black Underground Theatre Association)
10 pm, Collis Cafe
Saturday
Lifted
A Celebration of Unity and Song
Performances by Thursday Night Salsa, Ujima, FUSION Dance
Ensemble, Dartmouth Argentine Tango Society, Native Womens
Dancing Society, Occum Pond Dancers, Ceili Irish Dancers, Vandana
and others to be announced.
6pm
Collis Common Ground
Hopkins Center Film
Catch a Fire
7 pm and 9:10 pm, Arthur M. Loew Auditorium, Hood Museum of Art
* $7, $5 w/ Dartmouth ID
After being jailed by the South African government, a formerly apolitical oil-refinery worker fights back against the brutality of the apartheid regime. Derek Luke, Bonnie Henna, and Tim Robbins star in this dramatic look at the life of one-time political prisoner and freedom fighter Patrick Chamusso.
Panel
Arts and Activism: Spotlight on New Hampshire and Vermont
3 pm, Collis Common Ground
Regional agency and project leaders present their experiences connecting the arts and activism in our communities. A reading by Grace Paley, Vermont’s fifth poet laureate and an antiwar, feminist, and antinuclear activist, will open the event. Speakers include participants from the Bread and Puppet Theater, internationally recognized for its radical socio-political street theater and larger-than-life puppets; the Vermont Housing Awareness Campaign’s traveling exhibition of children’s art about home and family; and the Usual Suspects Company’s “Faith and Hope,” a collaboration between Dartmouth students and women inmates of the correctional facility in Windsor, Vermont. Also participating will be tapestry weaver Patryc Wiggins, founder and director of the Guild Institute in Guild, Vermont, which brings the arts and humanities together in the service of economic development.
