** Black History Month 2021**
February 18, 2021 @ 7:00 PM
Virtual Event
Praise Song for the Everyday
by Dr. Joshua Bennett
Poet and professor Joshua Bennett will share original work from his first three collections of poems—The Sobbing School (Penguin, 2016), Owed (Penguin, 2020) and forthcoming The Study of Human Life (Penguin, 2022)— while also offering reflections on the art of storytelling, the history of Black poetic practice in the United States, and the future possibilities of the art forms that African Americans have created towards the end of imagining, and inaugurating, another world. In 2009 Professor Bennett was a featured poet at President Obama’s Evening of Poetry and Music at the White House. Joshua Bennett is the Mellon Assistant Professor of English at Dartmouth College
Zoom Link: https://swarthmore.zoom.us/j/82812569653
Sponsored by the Black Cultural Center and Black Studies Program
February 22, 2021 @ 7:00pm
Virtual Event
An Evening with Garrett Bradley, Director of TIME
New Orleans based filmmaker and photographer Garrett Bradley will discuss her profoundly moving feature documentary, TIME, in which she delicately captures one family’s milestones and everyday joys as they fight to free their father from prison. With TIME, Bradley won the 2020 Sundance Film Festival Directing Award and the 2021 International Documentary Association Emerging Documentary Filmmaker Award. Moderated by Swarthmore Professor Nina Johnson. The film is currently screening on Amazon Prime and will be streamed through the Bryn Mawr Film Institute the weekend before the event.
This event is free and open to the public. Register here:
https://brynmawrfilm.org/series/strange-truth-2021/
Sponsored by the John B. Hurford ’60 Center for the Arts and Humanities at Haverford College, the Department of Film and Media Studies at Swarthmore College, and the Film Studies Program at Bryn Mawr College
February 23, 2020 @ 7:00pm
Virtual Event
Conversation on Higher Education, Racism and Interdisciplinary Knowledge
with Katherine McKittrick and Nick Mitchell
moderated by Nina Johnson
Join the Aydelotte Foundation February 23rd at 7pm for a conversation with Prof. Katherine McKittrick (Queen's University) and Prof. Nick Mitchell (University of California, Santa Cruz) moderated by Prof. Nina Johnson on higher education, racism, and disciplinary knowledge. Katherine McKittrick is the author of numerous books, including most recently Dear Science (Duke UP, 2021), which investigates and explores the collision of what she terms Black ways of knowing and academic spaces. Nick Mitchell has written on academic labor, what it means to be a "Critical Ethnic Studies Intellectual," and in collaboration has defined the field of abolitionist university studies.
The event is open to all in the Swarthmore community and to the public.
To register, visit http://bit.ly/mckittrickmitchell.
Co-sponsored by the Black Cultural Center, Black Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies and the Lang Center for Civic and Social Responsibility
February 26, 2021 @ 7:00 PM
BLACK FRIDAY SERIES
Virtual Event
Black Music Excellence Through the Ages
with Richelle Claiborne
Black Music Excellence (BME) is a joyous ride through the history of African-American music across the diaspora. It’s more than a soul revue, more than a gospel concert, more than a night of great jazz…it is one part history lesson, one part testimonial and filled with inspired musical performances and spoken word. Claiborne tells you her story through music with her soul-stirring vocals, a witty script, and accompanied by some of the best musicians from the Charlottesville, VA area who thrive to bring an understanding of equity, peace and love with each performance. Claiborne debuted Black Music Excellence Through the Ages in 2019 to a sold out crowd. Joining Claiborne on stage are Ti Ames (vocals), Ivan Orr (keyboard), Tucker Rogers (guitar), Bud Bryant (bass) and Rob Hubbard (drums).
This event will be broadcast via the College’s YouTube page: https://www.youtube.com/c/swarthmore
Sponsored by the Black Cultural Center
