Arthur Lee Hall
(1934 – 2000)
Pioneering African American dancer and choreographer.
Hall’s innovative infusion of African dance, drumming, and culture
into his productions transformed American modern dance.
The Ile Ife Black Humanitarian Center, which was here,
serverd as his home and studio.
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
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).
Tchet Dereic Dorman
Director, Center for Social Justice and Multicultural Education
Office of Institutional Diversity, Equity, Advocacy and Leadership
Temple University
Theatre Double returns with new version of last year’s holiday hit
Black Nativity
“Mommy where does Christmas come from” http://youtu.be/1B8hFOyj-Gs
Philadelphia, November 6, 2011 –
The retold version of the historic holiday hit, Black Nativity, “a Holiday Musical Spectacle” will premiere at the Lutheran Church of the Holy Communion to run December 8th –December 31 Thursday- Saturday 8pm Sundays 4 (no performances Christmas eve or Christmas). Directed and Choreographed by the New York Times and the Village Voice’s acclaimed director and Theatre Double founder, Michael LeLand, Black Nativity is a re-envisioned musical featuring music often used to punctuate the exhilarating highs and abysmal lows of the African-American experience such as gospel, spirituals, the blues and jazz. This show combines stellar visual effects and a multi-generational cast to create a holiday spectacle for all ages, heritages and faiths.“We knew that we had to do this show again due to the popularity of last year’s production” said LeLand. “Additionally, we feel that the nativity story has become a lost part of the Christmas story. We are helping to create a new holiday tradition by giving people a chance to enjoy this classic story with their friends and family in such a beautiful and accessible venue in the heart of Center City Philadelphia.”
Black Nativity runs from December 8-31 (Thursday – Saturday at 8 pm, Sunday at 4pm) ~ 2110 Chestnut Street ~ Philadelphia , PA 19103.
Tickets: $25-$35 (Student and Senior Discounts also offered). Tickets can be purchased at
Philadelphia, November 6, 2011 –
The retold version of the historic holiday hit, Black Nativity, “a Holiday Musical Spectacle” will premiere at the Lutheran Church of the Holy Communion to run December 8th –December 31 Thursday- Saturday 8pm Sundays 4 (no performances Christmas eve or Christmas). Directed and Choreographed by the New York Times and the Village Voice’s acclaimed director and Theatre Double founder, Michael LeLand, Black Nativity is a re-envisioned musical featuring music often used to punctuate the exhilarating highs and abysmal lows of the African-American experience such as gospel, spirituals, the blues and jazz. This show combines stellar visual effects and a multi-generational cast to create a holiday spectacle for all ages, heritages and faiths.“We knew that we had to do this show again due to the popularity of last year’s production” said LeLand. “Additionally, we feel that the nativity story has become a lost part of the Christmas story. We are helping to create a new holiday tradition by giving people a chance to enjoy this classic story with their friends and family in such a beautiful and accessible venue in the heart of Center City Philadelphia.”
Black Nativity runs from December 8-31 (Thursday – Saturday at 8 pm, Sunday at 4pm) ~ 2110 Chestnut Street ~ Philadelphia , PA 19103.
Tickets: $25-$35 (Student and Senior Discounts also offered). Tickets can be purchased at www.Theatredouble.net
LANGSTON HUGHES: An American Celebration
Touring Schools 2011
Monday, October 31, 7 pm - Moonstone Arts Center
The Continuing Struggle for Racial Justice in Philadelphia
A Discussion with Michael Coard, Jim Mueller & Larry Robin
Our project is grounded by 150th anniversary of the firing of General John C. Fremont for issuing his own Emancipation Proclamation freeing the slaves in Missouri. Fremont did this on August 30, 1861; Lincoln suggested and then ordered him to rescind the order, and when Fremont refused, Lincoln rescinded it on September 11 and then fired Fremont on November 2. We are exploring three issues in this series of programs: the historical facts of emancipation; the significance of citizen action in stimulating public policy; and the central role of Philadelphia as the southern-most northern city and center of the anti-slavery movement.
A discussion with Michael Coard, Jim Mueller & Larry Robin
Michael Coard is a criminal defense attorney in Philadelphia and an adjunct professor in the African Studies Department and the Urban Studies Department at Temple University. He is a founding member of Avenging The Ancestors Coalition (ATAC), president of the Philadelphia Millions More Movement, a former state board member of the ACLU, and a founding member of Judging The Judges, as well as a member of the National Lawyers Guild, the Pennsylvania Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, the Pennsylvania Bar Association, and the Philadelphia Bar Association. He hosts the popular Afrocentric “Radio Courtroom” show on WURD-900AM. He will discuss the more current issues in the Continuing Struggle for Racial Justice.
James Mueller has 42 years of experience in research archaeology, history and cultural resources management, 30 years in the National Park Service and ten years as chief historian at the Independence Hall National Historic Park in Philadelphia. He is editor/author of two books, many papers and essays including co-editing with Richard Antislavery and Abolition in Philadelphia: Emancipation and the Long struggle for Racial Justice in the City of Brotherly Love. He will supply the background and history of the Struggle for Racial Justice in Philadelphia.
P A I D
A Solo Exhibition
of New Works by
Brandon Coley Cox
@ University of the Arts – Anderson Hall
333 S. Broad St. 6th Floor
Philadelphia, PA
On View: October 10-27th, 2011
Lecture: October 20, 2011 10:00am, Anderson Hall
*Reception: October 20, 2011 5:30-7:30pm
The word ‘paid’ is American slang, stemming from hip-hop, for success through money-making. ‘Getting paid’ and ‘staying paid’ tend to be essential ingredients of success in terms of Black manhood. Not too long ago in history, however, Blacks in America were being paid for as slaves. Cox references this irony through the use of an accountant’s ‘PAID’ stamp. Imagine .. one mark for every sold slave and their kin. Society has changed due to the struggles carried out by generations of Blacks determined to succeed in a country where the foundations are set against them.
Cox captures and questions this sense of progress and all of its possibilities. By realistically drawing popular notions of Black success and elements around it with just the stamp, he poses many questions to the viewer. How many generations did it take to shape this possibility? When is the image complete? Why?
As apart of an ongoing effort to contemplate the validity of popular imagery of Black men through a metaphorical means of creation, Cox presents a new untitled animation. Years ago, he began taking photographs of young Black men, corrupting (damaging) the image several hundred times via computer software, and collaging them back together to make one digital print. In this animation, Cox has taken 3,833 of these collages and presents them all in an ongoing 2-minute loop.
Cox is also presenting for the first time in Philadelphia what he terms as ‘masocuts’. The prints begin as photographs with models in the studio. He then combines these with scanned drawings and cuts the image into a piece of masonite with both his hand and a laser. When inked as relief prints, the resulting images contain photographic, vector, and handwork with soft brown tones. These more intimate prints reflect on gesture & position as a means of power.
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Brandon Coley Cox (a.k.a. B. COX) is an award-winning emerging artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Cox moved from Baltimore, Maryland to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 2005 to attend The University of the Arts. From there he graduated in 2008 with a BFA in Printmaking, immediately started teaching and one year later was the second person in the school’s history to attend the prestigious Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture.
Since moving to New York City, he has been awarded a fellowship at the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop in Times Square, served as juror for the BRIO Award on behalf of the Bronx Council on the Arts, and has been in numerous solo & group exhibitions nationwide. Cox also has work in several permanent collections including The International Print Museum in Southern California and the Museum of Paper & Watermark in Fabriano, Italy.
The Brothers’ Network is honored to bring an outstanding and multifaceted talent to Philadelphia as the Executive Producer of “A Boy and His Soul,” the critically praised one-man autobiographical play by actor/playwright/director and West Philly native Colman Domingo.
Domingo will perform the play on Sunday, Oct. 16, in the Red Room of the Society Hill Playhouse.
“Colman Domingo has blazed a path for others to follow with his unique combination of breadth and depth of skill, range of characters, and personal style,” said Philadelphia actor-director and 2011 Barrymore nominee James Ijames. “As an example of the many roles African-American men take on in their own lives, he embodies our future.” The Brothers’ Network is honored to be able to bring this outstanding talent back to Philadelphia.
Domingo has established himself as one of the most gifted, versatile, and stylish actors on and off Broadway. The West Philadelphia native got his start in acting on the West Coast before taking the East Coast by storm with his Obie Award-winning portrayal of three dramatically different characters in “Passing Strange,” the critically acclaimed musical by Stew that eventually became a Spike Lee film. His other acting credits include roles in Athol Fugard’s “Smoke,” the Kander and Ebb musical “The Scottsboro Boys,” and the revival of “Chicago” on Broadway.
The reading of “A Boy and His Soul” takes place at 8 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 16, at the Society Hill Playhouse, 507 South 8th Street, Philadelphia. A portion of the proceeds benefits the Human Rights Campaign. For tickets please the Society Hill Playhouse box office at 215-923-0210.
The 2nd Annual Philadelphia Urban Theatre Festival
Check the website for updated information!
Sept 19th – Oct 9th
Adrienne Theatre
Contact the creator/producer of the festival at: gkputf@gmail.com
We are pleased to announce that the next book in our book discussion series will be “Tasting Freedom: Octavius Catto and the Battle for Equality in Civil War America.”
The discussion will be led by the book’s authors, Pulitzer Prize winner Nicholas Biddle and Murray Dubin.
An important part of our mission is to reframe and redefine black masculinity by understanding the multiplicity of roles African American men have played over the centuries. Another is to reclaim our multiple identities by standing on the shoulders of the giants who came before us: literary lions like James Baldwin, musical trailblazers like John Coltrane, scholars and thinkers like W.E.B. DuBois and Frantz Fanon. We also believe it is important to recover the history that has been lost to memory and overshadowed by the accumulated weight of events.
This book advances all of these aims. Former Philadelphia Inquirer reporters Daniel Biddle and Murray Dubin have done a great service to all who wish to understand the true breadth and depth of the 400-year struggle African Americans have waged for full equality, citizenship and justice in America, both North and South.
Lionized in his time and mourned upon his premature death, Octavius Valentine Catto in our time has become one of the forgotten heroes of the African American civil rights movement. Catto, a Philadelphian who lived in the Civil War era, urged his fellow black men to fight for the Union cause, then afterwards, turned his attention to fighting segregation in the North. Like Martin Luther King many years later, Catto worked to open the ballot box and public transportation to blacks. He was also a trailblazer in the then new sport of baseball, with his Pythians taking on and beating the best white players in the years before the game shut the door to integration. His life was cut short on October 10, 1871, when an Irish ward heeler assassinated him amid widespread Election Day violence.
Dubin and Biddle have crafted a sweeping work that goes a long way to restoring Catto to the place he deserves in history. It is part of a larger movement to honor and recognize a true civil rights legend and martyr, and The Brothers Network is proud to join in the restoration effort.
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
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