Lecture topics include:
• Theater As An Educational Tool
• Elements of Brecht in Black American Theater
• The New World Griot Movement
• Black Indian History in New England
• The Importance of Preserving Oral Traditions
• The Sacred Clown Traditions of Northeastern Native People
• The Egyptian Roots of Classical Theater
• They Never Took Our Drums: Exploring the African and Native American roots of American music
• Geometry, Jazz and Pythagoras
• Shakespeare and Black America: Revisiting the African Grove Theater
• Theater and Earth-based Rituals
Presentation samples:
First It Was Said...Then It Was Written
Explore the roots of the Black American oral tradition and its manifestations in modern literature.
Aesthetics & Black Liberation
Look at the role of the arts and the Black artists in the development of Black culture and the
progression of Black Americans against racism, classism and sexism. Also looking at the need for
arts and educational institutions in the community that preserve and present works by, for and about Black people.
5,000 Years of Rap
Linking rap music and the development of hip-hop to the Black Arts Movement of the 1960's,
The Harlem Renaissance and the Jazz era. Also exploring the African griot tradition of spoken-word and music.
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