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Events parallel Paul Jones exhibit
A jazz concert featuring the music of Count Basie will be held at 8 p.m., Friday, April 8, in the Loudis Recital Hall in the Amy E. du Pont Music Building. The performance will be directed by Tom Palmer, UD music instructor, and Frank Foster, special guest director from the Count Basie Band. Tickets are $10 for adults, $7 for senior citizens and $3 for students. Four film screenings scheduled throughout April will feature the work of four African American women. Screenings will be held from 5-7 p.m. every Thursday in April in Gore Hall and will be followed by an artist reception. Hattie McDaniel, or a Tribute to the Motion Picture Industry, will be shown from 5-7 p.m., Thursday, April 7, in 103 Gore Hall. A 2004 film by Ina Archer, a Brooklyn-based installation and video artist, the film will explore the impact that popular media has on perceptions of race, ethnicity, gender and multiculturalism. Admission is free and the film is open to the public.
Sequel: Suzanne, Suzanne and A String of Pearls, will be shown from 5-7 p.m., Thursday, April 14, in 104 Gore Hall. The two related films by Camille Billops, a New York City-based sculptor, printmaker and filmmaker, offer a candid family portrait and examine the lives of four African American men from one family. Admission is free, and both films are open to the public. A screening of the film Corridor--originally slated for 5 p.m., Thursday, April 21, in 103 Gore Hall--has been postponed because of the illness of the film’s creator and presenter, Lorna Simpson. The film will be rescheduled. Daughters of the Dust, will be shown from 5-7 p.m., Thursday, April 28, in 103 Gore Hall. A 1992 film by Julie Dash, a New York City-based producer, writer and director, Daughters of the Dust addresses issues of relocation, passage and resistance within the context of the social and political order. Admission is free, and the film is open to the public.A poetry reading at 4 p.m., Monday, April 18, in Mechanical Hall Gallery, will feature Reginald Harris, Cherise Pollard and Yolanda Wisher reading works inspired by images in the Paul R. Jones Collection. Harris has received awards for both fiction and poetry from the Maryland State Arts Council and has contributed works to several publications, including 5 AM, African-American Review, Pollard is an assistant professor of African American literature at West Chester University of Pennsylvania. She attended the Cave Canem poetry workshops from 1997-99 and has read her poetry at The Studio Museum in Harlem and at the Carnegie Museum's International Exhibit. Her poems have been published in several literary journals, including African-American Review, 5 AM, The Drumming Between Us and Daedalus.
Wisher teaches English at Germantown Friends School and sings jazz with the band, When Malindy Sings. Her poetry has appeared in The Sonia Sanchez Literary Review, Drumvoices Revue, Meridians, Nocturnes, Fence, Open Letter and Ploughshares. In 1999, she was named first poet laureate of Montgomery County in Pennsylvania, where she grew up. All events are open to the public and, with the exception of the concert, free. The programming is made possible by a grant from the Unidel Foundation. For more information on the films, call (302) 831-4075. For more information on the concert, call (302) 831-2577. For details about the poetry reading, call (302) 831-8037. Editor note: This story was updated at 1:23 p.m., April 20. To learn how to subscribe to UDaily, click here. |
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