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Controlling Our Narrative: Black History & Picture Book

A Conversation with Keziah Ridgeway & Mia S. Shaw

Monday, October 17, 5:00 p.m. IC Dome
Free and Open to Public

In this session, we will discuss the importance of developing creative outlets to tell Black history for young children. Learn more . . .

 

 
Ubiquitous Presence: Selected Works by Barbara Bullock
 
September 15 – October 30, 2022

Curated by Andrea Packard

The List Gallery is pleased to present Ubiquitous Presence, featuring recent wall-mounted cut-paper installations and portraits by Barbara Bullock.

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Praise Song for the Everyday 

Presentation by Dr. Joshua Bennett
February 18, 2021 @ 7:00 PM 
Virtual Event

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. Sponsored  by the Black Cultural Center and Black Studies Program.

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An Evening with Garrett Bradley, Director of TIME

February 22, 2021 @ 7:00pm
Virtual Event

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. 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. This event is free and open to the public.

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