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APRIL 4, 2008
JAMNESTY
Amnesty International / Insight Arts Benefit
FUNKY BUDDHA LOUNGE
728 W. Grand Ave. Chicago, IL 60610
Dancers, Music, Spoken Word, Live Art, & More
CLICK TO ENLARGE
APRIL 4, 2008
THEORIZING BLACKNESS
co-sponsored by Insight Arts
CUNY Graduate Center 8 AM-7PM
New York, NY 10016
The Africana Studies Group (ASG) invites you to join us and engage in an intellectually stimulating daylong conference. The CUNY Graduate Center Africana Studies Group's Theorizing Blackness conference will run from 8 am to 7 pm on Friday April 4th, 2008. The conference will feature presentations from artists, activists, and scholars investigating how Blackness has been contextualized from a variety of disciplinary perspectives.
Our keynote address will be delivered by Dr. Mark Anthony Neal at 11 am. He is Professor of Black Popular Culture in the Department of African and African American Studies and the Director of the Institute for Critical U.S. Studies (ICUSS) at Duke University. The evening plenary session, moderated by the esteemed Dr. William Cross Jr., will take place from 5 to 7 pm and will feature renowned speakers whose foundational work contributes to critical debates surrounding black experiences throughout the African Diaspora: Mahen Bonetti, Dr. Jacqueline Nassy Brown, Dr. Johanna Fernandez, and Dr. Donette Francis. The conference will take place on the concourse level of the CUNY Graduate Center. Registration is free and all are welcome.
Keynote speaker Mark Anthony Neal is the author of four books: What the Music Said: Black Popular Music and Black Public Culture (1998), Soul Babies: Black Popular Culture and the Post-Soul Aesthetic (2002), Songs in the Keys of Black Life: A Rhythm and Blues Nation (2003), New Black Man: Rethinking Black Masculinity (2005), and co-editor of That's the Joint!: The Hip-Hop Studies Reader (2004). He is Professor of Black Popular Culture in the Department of African and African American Studies and Director of the Institute for Critical U.S. Studies (ICUSS) at Duke University.
Plenary participants include:
Mahen Bonetti, founder and Executive Director of African Film Festival Inc. (AFF), a non-profit art organization founded in 1990.
Dr. Jacqueline Nassy Brown (CUNY) is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Hunter College and is teaching at the Graduate Center's Department of Anthropology this spring. Dr. Brown is also the author of the book Dropping Anchor, Setting Sail: Geographies of Race in Black Liverpool.
Dr. William E. Cross Jr. (CUNY, Graduate Center) is the head of the Social-Personality Psychology Ph.D. subprogram at the Graduate Center and author of Shades of Black: Diversity in African American Identity. Dr. Cross is also affiliated with the Africana Studies interdisciplinary concentration.
Dr. Donette Francis (SUNY, Binghamton) is an Assistant Professor of English and author of Fictions of Citizenship: Sexual Violence and a Caribbean Feminist Poetics, forthcoming in 2009.
Dr. Johanna Fernandez (CUNY, Baruch College), Assistant Professor of History and Black Studies, is working on a book on the Young Lords Party, the Puerto Rican counterpart to the Black Panther Party.
Throughout the day, panels will be moderated by doctoral students and faculty members such as Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, Dr. Leith Mullings and Jerry Watts, Professor of English and Sociology and Interim Director of the Institute for Research in the African Diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean (IRADAC).
For more information please CLICK HERE or email theorizingblackness@gmail.com
APRIL 8, 2008
INTERNATIONAL ART ADVENTURES
International Art Discussion at Insight Arts
1545 W. Morse Chicago, IL 60626 6p - 9:30p
APRIL 12, 2008
Howard Zinn's A People's History - Discussion Group
Join the Insight Arts learning community for a special
discussion group focused on Howard Zinn's
"A People's History." The group will be meeting
every other Saturday beginning April 12 at 2 PM.
ATTENTION - The first meeting will take place at
Insight Arts at 1545 W Morse Ave,
Chicago, IL 60626 2p - 4:30p
The remainding sessions will be held at the new space
Center for New Possibilities.
APRIL 18, 2008
PINTIG CIRCA presents Short Acts:
Life is a series of shorts
Click to Enlarge Flyer
A man panics as he gets trapped inside his apartment during a bizarre power outage, two freedom loving men from two different class backgrounds debate about revolution and sacrifice, an incident of identity theft opens up a mystery of human connection, four women exchange candid comparisons of who gets to adopt the best child from yet another impoverished third world country, a middle school teacher goes an extra mile to help out a young kid deal with gender issues, an undocumented immigrant gathers her thoughts after getting arrested for deportation, a young woman confronts the pains of a childhood past as echoed by the strains of a familiar Filipino love song, a migrant care provider receives an emergency long distance call from home while in the middle of feeding a helpless elderly.
Written by Dan Finley, Larry Leopoldo, Lani Montreal, Louie Pascasio and Lorely Trinidad
James Downing Theater
UMC-Edison Park
6740 N. Oliphant
Chicago.
April 18, 19, & 25, 26
May 2, 3, & 9, 10
Fri-Sat at 8pm
Tickets $12
$10 for students/seniors
For tickets:
(312) 353-0138
(312) 401-9929
circatheater@yahoo.com
APRIL 19, 2008
PINTIG CIRCA presents Short Acts:
Life is a series of shorts
Click to Enlarge Flyer
A man panics as he gets trapped inside his apartment during a bizarre power outage, two freedom loving men from two different class backgrounds debate about revolution and sacrifice, an incident of identity theft opens up a mystery of human connection, four women exchange candid comparisons of who gets to adopt the best child from yet another impoverished third world country, a middle school teacher goes an extra mile to help out a young kid deal with gender issues, an undocumented immigrant gathers her thoughts after getting arrested for deportation, a young woman confronts the pains of a childhood past as echoed by the strains of a familiar Filipino love song, a migrant care provider receives an emergency long distance call from home while in the middle of feeding a helpless elderly.
Written by Dan Finley, Larry Leopoldo, Lani Montreal, Louie Pascasio and Lorely Trinidad
James Downing Theater
UMC-Edison Park
6740 N. Oliphant
Chicago.
April 18, 19, & 25, 26
May 2, 3, & 9, 10
Fri-Sat at 8pm
Tickets $12
$10 for students/seniors
For tickets:
(312) 353-0138
(312) 401-9929
circatheater@yahoo.com
APRIL 25, 2008
PINTIG CIRCA presents Short Acts:
Life is a series of shorts
Click to Enlarge Flyer
A man panics as he gets trapped inside his apartment during a bizarre power outage, two freedom loving men from two different class backgrounds debate about revolution and sacrifice, an incident of identity theft opens up a mystery of human connection, four women exchange candid comparisons of who gets to adopt the best child from yet another impoverished third world country, a middle school teacher goes an extra mile to help out a young kid deal with gender issues, an undocumented immigrant gathers her thoughts after getting arrested for deportation, a young woman confronts the pains of a childhood past as echoed by the strains of a familiar Filipino love song, a migrant care provider receives an emergency long distance call from home while in the middle of feeding a helpless elderly.
Written by Dan Finley, Larry Leopoldo, Lani Montreal, Louie Pascasio and Lorely Trinidad
James Downing Theater
UMC-Edison Park
6740 N. Oliphant
Chicago.
April 18, 19, & 25, 26
May 2, 3, & 9, 10
Fri-Sat at 8pm
Tickets $12
$10 for students/seniors
For tickets:
(312) 353-0138
(312) 401-9929
circatheater@yahoo.com
APRIL 26, 2008
Howard Zinn's A People's History - Discussion Group
Join the Insight Arts learning community for a special
discussion group focused on Howard Zinn's
"A People's History." The group will be meeting
every other Saturday beginning April 12 at 2 PM
at the Common Cup café, located on the corner of
Greenview and Morse in Rogers Park
1501 W Morse Ave,
Chicago, IL 60626 2p - 4:30p
APRIL 26, 2008
PINTIG CIRCA presents Short Acts:
Life is a series of shorts
Click to Enlarge Flyer
A man panics as he gets trapped inside his apartment during a bizarre power outage, two freedom loving men from two different class backgrounds debate about revolution and sacrifice, an incident of identity theft opens up a mystery of human connection, four women exchange candid comparisons of who gets to adopt the best child from yet another impoverished third world country, a middle school teacher goes an extra mile to help out a young kid deal with gender issues, an undocumented immigrant gathers her thoughts after getting arrested for deportation, a young woman confronts the pains of a childhood past as echoed by the strains of a familiar Filipino love song, a migrant care provider receives an emergency long distance call from home while in the middle of feeding a helpless elderly.
Written by Dan Finley, Larry Leopoldo, Lani Montreal, Louie Pascasio and Lorely Trinidad
James Downing Theater
UMC-Edison Park
6740 N. Oliphant
Chicago.
April 18, 19, & 25, 26
May 2, 3, & 9, 10
Fri-Sat at 8pm
Tickets $12
$10 for students/seniors
For tickets:
(312) 353-0138
(312) 401-9929
circatheater@yahoo.com
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