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November 29, 2011

Temple University Graduate Certificate in Diversity Leadership

Filed under: Events — Tags: , , — V. Shayne Frederick, Editor @ 7:26 pm

The Graduate Certificate in Diversity Leadership at Temple University is now registering students for Educational Administration–Emotions, Diversity, and Democratic Leadership, the first of four courses including in the program. This course will run February 3-5, 10-12, and 17-19.
This course introduces participants to the practice of leading diverse groups in a variety of settings, such as schools (teaching and school leadership), higher education (courses, student life, etc.), and community-based education settings.  The course uses a practice oriented, group-dialogue approach designed to support participant capacity for  experiential learning and reflective practice.

Staff from the Charles Rojzman Institute will join Temple faculty to teach part of the course.  For the past 20 years CRI has been an international leader in mediating intergroup conflicts throughout the world using Transformational Social Therapy (TST) as a method facilitating intercultural engagement. The TST approach is a unique strategy for leadership development, team and organizational cooperation, and building bridges across groups by assisting individuals and groups in creating a common understanding through dialogue and relationship development. To learn more about CRI, please click here.

Certificate information sessions are now being offered on the following dates:

Wednesday, November 30 @ 12pm

  • Tuesday, December 6 @ 5pm
  • Friday, December 9 @ 12pm
  • Monday, December 12 @ 12pm
  • Tuesday, December 13 @ 5pm

To register for one of the information sessions, please click here.

Certificate courses are offered on a weekend basis for the convenience of working professionals. For more information and to register today, go to http://www.temple.edu/ideal.

The Certificate is jointly sponsored by Temple University’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, in the College of Education, and Temple University’s Office of Institutional Diversity, Equity, Advocacy, and Leadership.

For additional information, please feel free to call (215-204-5509) or e-mail (tchet@temple.edu).

Sincerely,

Tchet Dereic Dorman

Director, Center for Social Justice and Multicultural Education

Office of Institutional Diversity, Equity, Advocacy and Leadership
Temple University

November 28, 2011

White House Internship Program

Filed under: Events — Tags: , — V. Shayne Frederick, Editor @ 9:37 am

All White House Internship Program participants must be:

  • United States citizens
  • At least 18 years of age on or before the first day of the internship
  • Currently enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate program at a college, community college or university OR graduated in the past two years from an undergraduate or graduate program at a college, community college or university
    OR
  • A veteran of the United States Armed Forces who possesses a high school diploma or its equivalent and has served on active duty at any time over the past two years

Am I available for the Summer 2012 Internship Program?

All White House Interns are expected to intern full-time for the entire term of the program.

The Summer 2012 internship term runs from May 29, 2012-August 10, 2012

July 11, 2011

University president makes a life of turning challenges into assets

Filed under: Article — Tags: , , — V. Shayne Frederick, Editor @ 3:00 pm

  ALBANY, GA — After being born premature at 1 pound, 11 ounces, a 5-year-old Everette Freeman was taken for tests, where he and his mother learned about a challenge Freeman would face his whole life.

“Sure enough: Freeman can’t hear in his right ear and his left ear is severely impaired,” says Dr. Everette Freeman.

But that didn’t stop the now President of Albany State University: It motivated him. His mother also motivated Freeman to reach his full potential without the help of a hearing aid. She wanted him to overcome the challenge on his own.

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July 6, 2011

Madeena Shabazz awarded Bill Gates Scholarship

Filed under: Events — Tags: , , — V. Shayne Frederick, Editor @ 10:58 am

Some 23,000 students applied for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation funded scholarship for outstanding minority students. Just 1,000 were selected to receive it in 2011. Only two Savannah students were among the winners — Madeena and Kim-Anh Nguyen of Savannah Country Day. In addition to college costs, the scholarship will provide tremendous support and leadership opportunities.

http://m.savannahnow.com/accent/2011-06-05/daughter-controversial-activists-madeena-shabazz-earns-prestigious-gates

June 16, 2011

Celebrated Philadelphia choreographer Rennie Harris

Filed under: Events — Tags: , , , , — Justin S.M. Bryant @ 12:19 pm

We are proud to announce the Philadelphia debut of Rennie Harris RHAW July 16,2011 @ The Suzanne Roberts Theater. RHAW will feature the choreographic works of Rodney Hill of the “Untouchables,” Moncell Durden of Moptop Crew , Raphael Xavier of Olive Dance Company and Rennie Harris of Rennie Harris Puremovement.

Performance July 16, 2011: Matinee @2:30 & Evening@ 7:30pm Conceived 2007 Rennie Harris Awe-inspiring Works is a youth organization driven by community outreach, education i.e. lectures and classes as well as mentorship.  Harris’ inspiration for this youth driven company was inspired by the overwhelming interest from teens and young adults to join his internationally renowned company Rennie Harris Puremovement.   RHAW will forge new paths for young hip hop hopefuls as well as present hip hop in its “RHAW-est.” form.  As we take it back to basics.

“I am inspired to commune with the humanitarian conscious of us all.  My hope is to communicate to ones primal self, acknowledging one’s spirit,  one’s right to experience, to love, to worship freely as it was intended. I am awestruck; I am inspired to continue touching people’s lives. Challenging realities through my work. This is my small but necessary contribution to the world at large.   RHAW will carry on the legacy of freedom by using hip hop & funk dance as a free expression. Proving once again that we the people have a right to be heard and to be loved…”- Rennie Harris- For Pre-View & Review: Contact company manager Rodney Hill@267-236-4097 email: Rhill@rhpm.org

Click here Tickets on sale–Going Fast

- www.philadelphiatheatrecompany.org/events/RHAW.html

June 4, 2011

Bill T. Jones/ Arnie Zane Dance Company

Filed under: News — Tags: , , , — Justin S.M. Bryant @ 2:04 am


Performances

D-Man
American Dance Festival
The Company will present a program of music-based works at the American Dance Festival, including the classic D-Man in the Waters as well as Continuous Replay and Spent Days Out Yonder. The Durham Symphony Orchestra and Toronto-based composer John Oswald will accompany.

Durham, NC
June 16 – 18, 2011
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American Dance Festival is providing support for the reconstruction of D-Man in the Waters.
Photo by Lois Greenfield
International Festival of Arts & Ideas
The International Festival of Arts & Ideas will showcase the immense scope of Bill T. Jones’s choreography with two programs: Body Against Body, a program that revives the seminal duets of Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane, and Serenade/The Proposition, a multifaceted work from the Company’s Lincoln suite.

New Haven, CT
June 23 – 25, 2011
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Blauvelt 5-11
Nazareth College Arts Center Dance Festival
In July, the Company will head to upstate New York to perform Body Against Body and Serenade/The Proposition at the Nazareth College Arts Center Dance Festival, now in its second year.

Rochester, NY
July 15 – 16, 2011
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Photos by Paul B. Goode
Residencies

Bard College Residency
The Company was in residence at Bard College in May working on reconstructions, developing a new evening-length work, and participating in master-classes, lectures, open rehearsals, and formal showings. The long-term residency capped the second year of the Company’s education partnership with the Bard College Dance Program.

Learn More about the Bard Residency

Support for the long-term residency at Bard College was provided in part by New York State Council on the Arts.
Photo by Akiko Miyake
A Good Man
AGM 5-11
Save the date! A Good Man will be broadcast on PBS AMERICAN MASTERS on November 11, 2011. The documentary film chronicling the creation of the Company’s most ambitious work to date, Fondly Do We Hope…Fervently Do We Pray, can be seen before the broadcast date at one its festival screenings.

Watch the Film Trailer
Upcoming Screenings

A Good Man is a co-production of Kartemquin Films, AMERICAN MASTERS, ITVS and Media Process Group, in association with Ravinia Festival.

Photo by Russell Jenkins/Ravinia Festival
In The News
The New York Times
The Company’s program at the International Festival of Arts & Ideas is a summer dance highlight.
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The Huffington Post
Bill T. Jones reflects on his collaborations with iconic artist Keith Haring.
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Gothamist
Bill T. Jones joins prominent figures in the NYC arts community at the opening of Ai Weiwei’s outdoor public art installation in Manhattan.
Read More and Watch the Video

Photo by Paul B. Goode

May 5, 2011

PHILADANCO! The Philadelphia Dance Company at the Kimmel Center

Filed under: Events — Tags: , , , , , — Justin S.M. Bryant @ 12:23 am

Kimmel Center presents
PHILADANCO
Featuring the Philadelphia premiere of Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner

Milton Myers: Violin Concerto
Christopher Huggins: Cottonwool
Ray Mercer: Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
Rennie Harris: Philadelphia Experiment

Beloved for its dazzling, visceral style and devotion to promoting African-American traditions in dance, Philadanco returns to the Kimmel Center with works by stellar contemporary choreographers, including the Philadelphia premiere of Ray Mercer’s Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, based on the controversial 1967 film.

‘The company style…is visceral…fierce and sensuous by turns…elegant and ingratiating.’ —New York Magazine

Following the May 6 performance at the Perelman Theater stage, Philadanco will participate in an Artist Chat moderated by Joan Myers Brown.

March 14, 2011

Simians, Sonso and Pierrot – 2011 New Edge Residency

Filed under: Events — Tags: , , , , — Justin S.M. Bryant @ 11:10 am
Simians, Sonso and Pierrot
Directed by Marcel Williams Foster
Original Music by Aya Nishina

This year the New Edge program will kickoff with Marcel Williams Foster, who was described as a “comic delight” for his co-production (with Hyphen-Nation Arts) of  ’The Jane Goodall: Experience.’ He will debut a piece that delves deeper into the labyrinth of the zany world of science and his experiences as a chimpanzee researcher with the Jane Goodall Institute and a Great Ape zoo. The story begins with a mischievous, Signing chimpanzee who decides to play matchmaker for the most unlikely couple: Pierrot, the famed clown, and Sonso, an ambitious Primatologist. Two improbable lovers spin a web of stunning dance, (mis)communication and the impossible task of living in the boundary between fact and fiction.

March 2, 2011

Temple University REACH Project Highlights

Filed under: Article — Tags: , — V. Shayne Frederick, Editor @ 12:52 pm

The REACH project is designed to facilitate and sustain collaborations between Black student organizations and local community-based organizations (CBOs). The aim is to facilitate greater ties between student activists and the communities they represent.  Ultimately, the collaborations will work in service of families and neighborhoods in Philadelphia on issues such as increased access to education and healthcare as well as anti-crime and anti-violence initiatives.

Sponsored by Temple University’s Center for Social Justice and Multicultural Education and Drexel University’s Africana Studies Program, the free summit was held on Saturday, February 20, 2010 in Temple’s Howard S. Gittis Student Center. Titled Schools, Education and the Ongoing Civil Rights Struggle, this second annual REACH summit examined the educational activism in both K-12 settings and college campuses. 

To view a video of the keynote address by Dr. Mark Lamont Hill, please click here.

January 8, 2011

Article: Professor finds it hard to keep silent on race

Filed under: Article,Column — Tags: , , , — V. Shayne Frederick, Editor @ 6:54 pm

Professor finds it hard to keep silent on race

Annette John-Hall

I just got off the phone with my pal John Jackson, feeling a little guilty for aiding and abetting him in blowing his race diet.

Not that he ever wanted to make a lifestyle change. Jackson reminded me that it had been two months since he broke his self-imposed race fast, in which he tried not to talk about race, read about race, or think about race.

An exercise that must have required supreme discipline, given that Jackson is an African American professor of anthropology at Penn who makes his bread and butter talking and writing about racial and cultural identity.

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