The Muhlenberg Department of Theatre & Dance presents VENUS February 21st-24th
 Eric Thompson, Catherine Davidson and Holly Cate in VENUS at Muhlenberg College.
by Suzan-Lori Parks
The Muhlenberg Department of Theatre & Dance presents a rare production of the Obie Award-winning play directed by Dr. Beth Schachter. COMING TO THE BAKER THEATRE STAGE February 21st-24th,: Venus re-visions the story of the historical side show sensation, Saartje Baartman who came to be known as 'The Venus Hottentot.' At the play's center is a young African woman brought to London by English colonialists under the pretense of making her an exotic dancer with the hopes of getting rich. Instead, Baartman must try to hang onto her own identity as she is displayed as an object of spectacular sexuality and desire, manipulated by hustlers, lovers, and doctors.
Taking place in the early 1800s, beginning in colonized South Africa and then moving to England, France and Germany in the course of Venus's life, the play captures a formative moment in Europe's construction of a racial mythology about Africans.
"Every play I write is about love and distance.
And time. And from that we can get things like history."
Suzan-Lori Parks
Suzan-Lori Parks is one of the most exciting and acclaimed playwrights in American drama. She has won multiple Obie Awards (including Venus, 1996), a MacArthur ?Genius? Award, and the Pulitzer Prize in Drama (Topdog/Underdog 2001).
Venus is an epic, circular play that captures the playwright's vision of theatre as a way of "creating and rewriting history" ? particularly African American history which has been "unrecorded, dismembered, washed out" as she describes it in her essay "Possession" (1994).
PERFORMANCES: Thursday, Feb. 21 at 8 p.m.; Friday, Feb. 22 at 8 p.m.; Saturday, Feb. 23 at 8 p.m. and Sunday, Feb 24 at 2 p.m. TICKETS:
ONLINE or CALL 484.664.3333 Adults $15 (Mature Audiences) |
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Spike Lee @ Moravian College's Johnston Hall March 11th
Moravian College's United Student Government will have its second annual Prestigious Speaker - Spike Lee. The date and time of the event is March 11, 7 PM in Johnston Hall. The event will be free to all but is a ticketed event.
Tickets will be distributed at the HUB Desk (no tickets will be sent via mail or held at the door) and each individual will only be allowed to get two tickets. We do anticipate having a small number of tickets available at the door but can not guarantee this will occur. Moravian College students will be able to start getting their tickets on Feb. 11, while everyone else will be able to start getting tickets on Feb. 25. |
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Malcolm X (born Malcolm Little; May 19, 1925 - February 21, 1965)
MALCOLM X'S EULOGY
Eulogy delivered by Ossie Davis at the funeral of Malcolm X
Faith Temple Church Of God
February 27,1965
Within days of Malcolm's assassination, questions were raised about who was responsible for his death. On February 23, James Farmer, the leader of the Congress of Racial Equality, announced at a news conference that local drug dealers, and not the Black Muslims, were to blame.
Others blamed the police, the FBI, or the CIA, citing the lack of police protection and the ease with which the assassins had entered the Audubon Ballroom.
In the 1970s, the public learned about COINTELPRO and other secret government programs to infiltrate and disrupt civil rights organizations during the 1950s and 1960s. John Ali, national secretary of the Nation of Islam, has been identified as an FBI agent. Malcolm had confided in a reporter that Ali had exacerbated tensions between him and Elijah Muhammad, and he considered Ali his "archenemy" within the Nation of Islam leadership.
On February 20, the night before the assassination, Ali met with Hayer, one of the men convicted of killing Malcolm.
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