"Here I Am" Program 2023

THE LESSON OF JAN KARSKI

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with I AM THE BRIDGE

The Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics Presents

HERE I AM, Premiere of Theatrical Production April 4th, 2023

7:30 pm

HERE I AM, Performance, accompanied by documentary screening of I AM THE BRIDGE April 12th, 2023

7:00 pm

7:00 pm 8:00 pm

I Am The Bridge film screening Here I Am performance, to be followed by a post-show discussion with members of the creative teams from the play and film in partnership with the Center for the Study of Slavery and Its Legacies

Gaston Hall, Healy Building Georgetown University

I Am The Bridge, a documentary film from Colomb’s pointof- view, follows her time at Georgetown University and examines the possibilities of repair for the sin of American slavery and the contributions of generations of activists and artists working toward racial justice.

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Welcome letter and history of the project “For the last few months new-found cousins and extended family members of the original ancestors have been meeting to discuss and move forward with establishing the foundation and framework of a working partnership with the Society of Jesus and Georgetown University Administrators. Our plan is to build a lasting monument in the national psyche to truth and reconciliation, that is the only reasonable course of action for a sustainable, just, equitable, and peaceful future for the living and as yet unborn.”

This is what Méli Colomb wrote to me in November of 2016, when Derek Goldman and I were planning a trip to Louisiana to meet with descendants of enslaved people sold by the Jesuits in 1838 to raise funds to keep Georgetown University afloat. Méli had no plans to attend Georgetown University, much less to work with The Lab to write and perform her personal account of the legacy of slavery. Yet, nearly five years before rehearsals began for Here I Am, Méli described the aspiration of the project. Here I Am was meant to be.

When Derek and I, together with Georgetown colleague Maurice Jackson traveled to Louisiana, Méli welcomed us with a beautiful feast at Langlois, a historic home in New Orleans where she had worked as chef and culinary instructor. Savoring Méli’s delicious chicken creole with collard green crepes, the Georgetown team met descendants from the Georgetown sale of enslaved people (known by the name of the association they formed, the GU 272), and heard about what their ancestry meant to them. Years later, Méli told me that from that night onwards, she felt at home with The Lab.

In the fall of 2019, Méli joined The Lab as Community Engagement Associate and began developing the script for Here I Am. When COVID eliminated the possibility of an in person performance in 2021, Méli, Derek, and the world class team of co-creating artists created the virtual version of Here I Am. This mesmerizing multi-media production, performed live by Méli in her apartment, which, thanks to the genius of our team, had been transformed into New Orleans, eastern Maryland, and Georgetown. Thousands of people saw the performance online over Emancipation weekend in April 2021.

The Lab is thrilled to present the world premiere of the live, in-person Here I Am, almost two years after that first performance.

These Georgetown performances mark another stage of the journey of this project. Mélisande Short-Colomb already has been invited to perform Here I Am at campuses, historic sites, and communities. We expect that Here I Am will play an important role in ongoing efforts to understand the full extent of the legacy of slavery. We hope that, to quote Méli, it will become “a lasting monument in the national psyche to truth and reconciliation.”

When Derek and I next saw Méli, in April of 2017 at Georgetown’s Emancipation Day ceremony of apology and reconciliation, attended by hundreds of GU272 descendants, Méli already was thinking of exploring her relationship to Georgetown more deeply by attending the University as a student.

Arriving at Georgetown in the fall of 2017, Méli garnered national and international media attention, which has not abated. Living in a dorm, attending classes, Méli formed an intimate relationship with the institution that sold her family so that the children of other families could attend it.

The seeds for Here I Am were sown in the spring of 2019 when Méli enrolled in Derek’s Performance, Memory, and Witness class. Throughout that class, Méli shared performances with her classmates that were the early imaginings of this production. The students’ insights and affirmation propelled The Lab’s process forward.

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We are especially grateful to Dr. Joseph Ferrara, President DeGioia’s Chief of Staff, for his care and attention to Méli and to this project. With the support of a grant from the SSRC (Social Sciences Research Council) Méli has developed curricula that will extend the reach of Here I Am. I will close as Méli closed her email to me nearly five years ago. “So, here I am! Looking forward to meeting you all soon.”

Cynthia P. Schneider

Méli at the GU272 referendum

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Méli in rehearsal at The Lab studio at the Fillmore School

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HERE I AM

I AM THE BRIDGE (2023)

Written and performed by Mélisande Short-Colomb

Producer/Director...............................................Bernie Cook

Team of Co-creating Artists Direction and Script Development/ Dramaturgy................................................... Derek Goldman Multimedia Design and Direction................ Jared Mezzocchi Sound Design...............................................André J. Pluess Script Development/Dramaturgy..................... Nikkole Salter Composer and Vocal Performance................. Somi Kakoma Original Photography........................................ Alex Troesch Sound and Multimedia Assistant...................... Leo Grierson Student Producer.....................................William Hammond

Co-Producers............................... Mélisande Short-Colomb Christina Dropulic Dawne Langford

The Names Chorus.......................................Rhea Banerjee, Chace Chester, Grace Crozier, Marianna De Souza, Sofia Doroshenko, Cameren Evans, Julien Fagel, Will Hammond, Cascio Leigh Meyer, Julia Lo, Kendell Long, Amina Sadural, Phil Scholer, Nayab Shiraz, Renny Simone, Caroline Slater, Lyndi Tsering, Noah Vinogradov The performance lasts approximately 70 minutes.

Writer..................................................................Bernie Cook Editor...........................................................Dawne Langford Assistant Editor........................................Christina Dropulic Camera..............................................................Kuna Hamad Jonathan Howard Dawne Langford LaDarius Torrey Allysa Lisbon Kosi Ndukwe Bernie Cook Audio..................................................................Bernie Cook Bradley Galvin Christina Dropulic Ivan Basauri Music................................................................Carlos Simon Sound Mixer......................................................Jerry Busher Research Assistants.......................................... Annie Lyons La Darius Torrey Christina Dropulic Allysa Lisbon Kosi Ndukwe Bradley Galvin Miles Aceves-Lewis Featuring................................................Dr. Adam Rothman, Elizabeth Nalunga, Karla Leyja, Aly Pachter, Allysa Lisbon, Hannah Michael, Amy Guay, Jabari Butler, Shepard Thomas, Kian Blewett, Ethan Clark, Chukwuma (Kuma) Okoro, Marcia Chatelain, Linda J. Mann, Aurore Ndayishimiye, Norman Francis Jr, Hayley Grande, Nile Blass, Javon Price, Maya Morretta, Derek Goldman, Michael Donnay, Nikkole Salter, André J. Pluess, Alberto Segarra, Jeremy Bennett, Jared Mezzocchi, Somi Kakoma

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About the Lab

The Lab humanizes global politics through performance. We cultivate a distinctive global community of collaborators that includes students, emerging and established artists, educators, policy leaders, and activists. Our work harnesses narrative, memory, and acts of witnessing with the aim of sparking transformation and change.

“Here I Am is the recognition that our Ancestors were here, in this place, working to build the legacy of the Society of Jesus and American Catholicism at the beginning and are still here. It speaks to questions of who has value in life and after death, who gets to be remembered, and why some do not. Now in 2023, the unknown is being known. We can commemorate ancestral burial and sacred grounds like Sacred Heart in Prince George’s County. The ancestors are making themselves known; our work is to acknowledge, remember, and never forget.”

– Mélisande Short-Colomb

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HERE I AM: Team of co-creating artists Mélisande Short-Colomb Mélisande Short-Colomb began her relationship with Georgetown University in 2017 as a descendant of two families enslaved and then sold by the Society of Jesus in 1838 to ensure the solvency of the institution.

Following the Working Group on Slavery, Memory, and Reconciliation recommendations and with the support of President Jack DeGioia, Mélisande was one of two undergraduate students accepted into the College. Colomb serves on the Board of Advisors for the Georgetown Memory Project, is a founding Council Member of the GU272 Descendants Association, and was on the GU272 Advocacy Team. She was a leading voice in the student referendum on the $27.20 reconciliation fee, which passed with overwhelming student support on April 11, 2019. She received the 2019 Fr. Bunn Award for journalistic excellence for commentary in support of the “GU272 Referendum to Create a New Legacy.” Since 2019 she’s been Research and Community Engagement Associate for The Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics. And served as “artist in residence,” while also writing, developing and performing HIA 2021. She is currently on the Focus Boards of the African American Redress Network, Riversdale House Museum, and Jubilee Justice/OAJ. She’s frequently invited to speak on the subjects of the GU272 and reparations. Her talks vary from her first TEDX Talk and testimony before the InterAmerican Commission on Human Rights, to speaking at the Brooklyn Historical Society and most recently Brooklyn Library, Colomb’s personal story has been widely chronicled in numerous press outlets, including PBS NewsHour, Samantha Bee’s “Full Frontal”, National Public Radio, The Washington Post, The New Yorker and AARP Magazine and USAToday.

Derek Goldman Direction and Script Development/ Dramaturgy Dr. Derek Goldman is Artistic and Executive Director and co-Founder of the Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics at Georgetown University, with the mission of humanizing global politics through the power of performance. Over 19 years at Georgetown, 14

he has served as Chair of the Department of Performing Arts, Director of the Theater and Performance Studies Program and Artistic Director of the Davis Performing Arts Center. He also holds a joint appointment as Professor of Culture, Politics and Global Performance in GU’s School of Foreign Service. He is an award-winning stage director, playwright/adapter, scholar, producer, and developer of new work, whose work has been seen throughout the US, off-Broadway, and internationally. He is the author of more than 30 professionally produced plays and adaptations and he has directed over 100 productions He is a member of the Board of Directors of Theatre Communications Group (TCG); Vice-President of UNESCO’s International Theatre Institute, and Founding Director of the Global Network of Higher Education in the Performing Arts. He holds a Ph.D. in Performance Studies from Northwestern University, and he received the President’s Award for Distinguished Scholar-Teachers and the Provost’s Award for Innovation in Teaching for his work as creator of In Your Shoes, an internationally recognized groundbreaking model for using performance to counter polarization. He is the director and co-author of The Lab’s internationally celebrated production Remember This: The Lesson of Jan Karski, starring David Strathairn, as well as co-director of the feature film adaptation Remember This, currently airing nationally (and streaming) on PBS Great Performances.

Jared Mezzocchi Multimedia Design and Direction Jared Mezzocchi is a two-time OBIE Award-winning theater artist, working as a director, multimedia designer, playwright, and actor. Mezzocchi’s work has appeared at notable theaters nationwide, including The Kennedy Center, Geffen Playhouse, Arena Stage, Woolly Mammoth (company member), Manhattan Theater Club, Vineyard Theater, En Garde Arts, HERE Arts, Portland Centerstage, Cleveland Playhouse, South Coast Rep, GEVA Theatre, and many more. In 2016, he received his first OBIE, Lucille Lortel and Henry Hewes Award for his work in Qui Nguyen’s Vietgone at the Manhattan Theatre club. In 2020, the New York Times spotlighted his multimedia innovations alongside the pandemic work of four other theater artists, including Andrew Lloyd Webber and Paula Vogel. His directorial work on Sarah Gancher’s live-digital production Russian Troll Farm was also celebrated as a New York Times critic pick, and praised for being one of the first digitally native successes for virtual theater.

In 2023, this digital production of Russian Troll Farm won Jared his second OBIE as director and multimedia designer.

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Princess Grace Award winner, and is an Associate Professor at The University of Maryland, where he created the curriculum for the multimedia track within the MFA Design program. Mezzocchi has a BA in theater and film from Fairfield University, and an MFA in performance and interactive media arts from Brooklyn College. He grew up in New Hampshire, and returns every summer to serve as Producing Artistic Director of Andy’s Summer Playhouse, an innovative children’s theater producing original work by professional artists from across the country.

André J. Pluess Sound Design André is a sound designer and composer specializing in live theatrical performance. Projects include the Broadway productions of: Good Night Oscar (coming in 2023 starring Sean Hayes),The Minutes, 33 Variations, I Am My Own Wife and Metamorphoses, as well as the Lincoln Center production of The Clean House. His designs/compositions have been featured at regional theaters throughout the country including the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, McCarter Theatre, Center Theatre Group, Seattle Repertory, Yale Repertory Theatre, Arena Stage, Steppenwolf Theatre, the Goodman Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival, La Jolla Playhouse, The Huntington, South Coast Repertory and Playwrights Horizons.

He has received numerous awards for composition and sound design including multiple Joseph Jefferson Awards, an Ovation Award, a Barrymore Award, a Helen Hayes Award, and Lortel and Drama Critics Circle Award Nominations. Film credits include the score for Showtime’s feature length documentary The Business of Being Born, as well as the short films Cell Watch, Netuser and War Words. Based in Chicago, André is an ensemble member of Lookingglass Theatre Company.

Nikkole Salter Script Development/Dramaturgy and Direction Hailed by Variety as “thoroughly convincing”, Los Angeles-born, OBIE Award-winning actress and writer Nikkole Salter arrived onto the professional scene with her co-authorship and co-performance (with Danai Gurira) of 16

the Pulitzer Prize nominated play, IN THE CONTINUUM (ITC).

For its Off-Broadway run at Primary Stages and the Perry Street Theatre and for its US State Department and Bloomberg sponsored international tour, Ms. Salter received an OBIE Award, and the NY Outer Critics Circle’s John Gassner Award for Best New American Play, the Seldes-Kanin fellowship from the Theatre Hall of Fame, and the Global Tolerance Award from the Friends of the United Nations to name a few. As a dramatist, Ms. Salter has written 8 full-length plays, been commissioned for full-length work by 6 institutions, been produced on 3 continents in 5 countries, and been published in 12 international publications. Her work has appeared in over 20 Off-Broadway, regional and international theatres, and the Crossroads Theatre production of her play REPAIRING A NATION (directed

by Marshall Jones, III) was regionally aired during the second season of the WNET program “Theatre Close-Up”on NYC’s channel THIRTEEN, WLIC, NJTV. The National Black Theatre production of her play CARNAVAL was nominated for 7 AUDELCO awards including Best Playwright and Best Production and won for Best Ensemble Performance. Ms. Salter is a 2014 MAP Fund Grant recipient, a Eugene O’Neill Theater Center National Playwrights Conference semi-finalist, USA Fellowship nominee, a two time Playwright’s of New York (PoNY) Fellowship nominee, is currently working on a commission from Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company. www.nikkolesalter.com

Somi Kakoma Composer and Vocal Performance Vocalist, composer, and playwright Somi Kakoma was raised between Illinois and Zambia, and is the daughter of immigrants from Uganda and Rwanda. Known in the jazz world simply as ‘Somi’, The New York Times described her as “a virtuosic performer in full command of her instrument and powers.” Her 2021 Grammy nomination for Best Jazz Vocal Album made her the first African woman ever nominated in any of the Grammy jazz categories. She is recipient of the Doris Duke Artist Award, two NAACP Image Awards, and the inaugural Jazz Music Award for Best Vocal Performance. Somi is also a Soros Equality Fellow, a United States Artist Fellow, a TED Senior Fellow, a Sundance Theatre Fellow, and the founder of the boutique cultural agency and record label Salon Africana.

She holds undergraduate degrees in Cultural Anthropology and African Studies from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a Master’s degree in Performance Studies from Tisch 17

School of the Arts at New York University, and is currently working on her PhD at Harvard University’s Department of Music in between a robust touring schedule. In her heart of hearts, she is an East African Midwestern girl who loves family, poetry, and freedom. www.somimusic.com @somimusic

Alex Troesch Alex Troesch is an independent photographer and videographer specializing in portraits and long-term photography projects. He spent his childhood in Abidjan, Ivory Coast as well as Switzerland and became interested in photography through the practice of black and white printing. He graduated from the Ecole supérieur d’arts appliqués in Vevey, Switzerland (CFC 1997) and later published his first portraits and reportages in the Swiss daily newspaper Le Temps and the magazine Vibrations. In 2003, he moved to Brooklyn, NY to work with Swiss and French press correspondents with whom he produced several long-term photography projects in cities such as New Orleans (after Katrina) and Detroit (urban farming). His work on the pointy boots craze of Matehuala, a small rural town in northern Mexico was published in Time Lightbox in 2012 and also led to exhibitions in New York and Europe. He has been documenting the story of the GU272 and their Descendants since 2016. He recently relocated in Lausanne, Switzerland.

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About I AM THE BRIDGE Our team members on I Am The Bridge (2023) are Bernie Cook (producer and director), Mélisande Short-Colomb (co-producer and creative principal), Dawne Langford (co-producer and editor), Christina Dropulic (co-producer and assistant editor) and Kuna Hamad (director of photography). Cook is the Founding Director of Georgetown’s Film and Media Studies Program and a Core Faculty member in both Film and Media Studies and American Studies. For the last 15 years, he has taught a community-based learning course at Georgetown focused on documentary filmmaking and social justice. Many of the approaches employed in I Am The Bridge were developed in collaboration with his students and community-based partners.

Cook is the author of Flood of Images (University of Texas Press, 2015) the definitive study of the impacts on collective memory of television news coverage, documentary film, and dramatic narrative focused on the flooding of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.

Mélisande Short-Colomb Creative Principal, Co-Producer

Bernie Cook Producer, Director Dr. Bernie Cook is Associate Dean in Georgetown College and Founding Director of the Film and Media Studies Program at Georgetown University. He is the author of Flood of Images: Media, Memory and Hurricane Katrina (2015) and editor of Thelma & Louise Live! The Cultural Afterlife of an American Film (2007). A native of New Orleans, Cook wrote Flood of Images as an intervention in the ongoing process of remembering and understanding Katrina and the flooding of New Orleans, a contested process with implications for racial and ecological justice. Since 2015, both on campus and in Louisiana, Cook has helped to connect members of the GU272+ Descendant Community with students and colleagues to develop shared projects focused on reparative justice. He is the producer and director on the documentary series Since Last We Met, which shares stories of the living descendants of the 272 enslaved people sold by the Jesuits of Maryland in 1838 and explores the possibilities for reconciliation and justice from the descendants’ perspectives. I Am The Bridge (2023) is the 19

first film in this series. Cook earned a PhD in Cinema Studies from UCLA, a graduate certificate in Documentary Filmmaking from George Washington University, and a BA and an MA in English Literature from Georgetown University.

Dawne Langford Co-Producer, Editor Dawne Langford is a filmmaker and 2022/2023 Sundance Producer’s Lab Fellow. After years of working in public media as a broadcast television editor, she expanded her practice to wider roles. In 2013 Dawne was accepted to the PBS Producers Academy and started work supporting independent documentaries, including; CHECK IT, KANDAHAR JOURNALS, and FINDING JOSEPH I, about the lead singer of the seminal all-Black punk band, Bad Brains. Currently, she is producing the Sundance-supported UNTITLED BALTIMORE DOCUMENTARY PROJECT due to air nationally on PBS in 2024 and previously collaborated on projects for CNN, CGTN, and Moxie Pictures in N.Y.C. with director Lee Hirsch. She has been a long-time collaborator on I Am The Bridge and other projects documenting stories from the GU272. Her primary interest is amplifying traditionally suppressed narratives and presentations of historical events to deepen understanding, support learning, and stimulate community dialogue.

Christina Dropulic Co-Producer, Co-Editor

Christina has contributed to the Since Last We Met series and participated in the making of I Am The Bridge (2023) since late 2020, initially as a student research and production assistant, and upon graduating in May 2022, as Co-Producer and Co-Editor. She is currently based in NYC as Executive Assistant and Coordinator for Academy Award nominated and Emmy award winning documentary filmmaker, Joe Berlinger at RadicalMedia.

Kuna Hamad Cinematographer Kuna Hamad is a freelance videographer and photographer and video and photo content creator for Georgetown University’s School of Continuing Studies. After graduating from Georgetown’s Walsh School of Foreign Service in 2009 with a degree in Culture and Politics, Hamad worked for Georgetown University’s Georgetown College as a lead videographer and photographer who created over 500 video and photography projects for programs, professors, students, and events. For Georgetown’s School of Continuing Studies, he has created over one hundred video and photography projects for more than 20 programs within the school, including three commercials that have aired on Hulu. Within his freelance work, Hamad’s notable contracts include Oscar and Emmy-winning documentary filmmaking team Fine Films LLC, global educational non-profit One Voice Community, art filmmaker and photographer Gregory Colbert.

For the Descendants Documentary Project, Hamad serves as lead videographer, filming the majority of the content in “An Education.” Hamad is skilled in conducting film interviews, technical filmmaking skills with all brands of camera, as well as conducting large groups on film. He has also been a Brazilian Zouk Dance Instructor since 2016 and has taught classes in over 50 cities that span four different continents.

Christina Dropulic is a recent alumna of Georgetown University’s Class of 2022. A former student of American Studies and Film & Media Studies in Georgetown’s College of Arts and Sciences, Christina studied documentary film, among other topics in Film & Media Studies, under the direction of Dr. Bernie Cook and Professor Sky Sitney. She is an avid learner of media’s role in American stories of racial and reparative justice—her American Studies senior thesis, “Crossing the Line: Compromised Slavery Humor, Black Insider Comedy, and Echoes of Minstrelsy in Saturday Night Live and Key & Peele”, examined representations of U.S. chattel slavery in late-night sketch comedy television shows and their influence on slavery’s memory and contemporary legacies.

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SPECIAL THANKS President John J. DeGioia Joseph Ferrara Anita Gonzalez Soyica Colbert Dean Rosario Ceballo Dean Joel Hellman Adam Rothman Richard Cellini Georgetown Memory Project Sherrie Rhodes Aubrey Guthrie Maurice Jackson Carlos Simon Ijeoma Njaka Randy Bass Mary Beth Corrigan Lynn Conway Alberto Segarra Michael Donnay LuLen Walker Thomas M McCoog, S.J. Marcia Chatelain Nile Blass Keith Gorman Fleur Paysour Paul Gardullo Jessica Tilson Melissa Bruno Sky Sitney Rev. Joanne Braxton, PhD Fr. Ron Anton, S.J. Alexandra Estelle Thomas

New Exhibition Focus Group Booth Family Center for Special Collections Brian Mac Cuarta, S.J., Dario Scarinci, and the Archivum Romanum Societatis Iesu Will Houston & The Hoya Universities Studying Slavery Ralph Sordyl & Optimum Audio

This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Social Science Research Center (SSRC), and by the Office of the President at Georgetown University.

Office of the President, Georgetown University

LABORATORY FOR GLOBAL PERFORMANCE & POLITICS TEAM Executive and Artistic Director, Co-founder................................................... Derek Goldman Co-Founding Director.............................. Cynthia Schneider General Manager/ Associate Producer........Ersian François Associate Director............................................ Emma Jaster Community Engagement Associate ..................................... Mélisande Short-Colomb Associate Director (In Your Shoes)................................... Rabbi Rachel Gartner Senior Learning Designer for Transformational and Inclusive Initiatives..........Ijeoma Njaka Earth Commons/ The Lab Post-Bacc Fellow........................ Ashanee Kottage Student Fellows Coordinator/ Social Media Associate............................. Jameson Nowlan Webmaster and Multimedia Associate................................................... Cornelius Gyamfi Student Fellows Coordinator....................William Hammond Public Relations Specialist............................ Lesley Chinery Communications Associate................................... Winnie Ho

Photos and images: Tatenda Chidora, Teresa Castracane, Asia Dubois, Luca Giraudo, Christine Jean Chambers, Gus Bennett Graphic design: Margherita Buzzi

The Smithsonian Museum for African American History and Culture Racial Justice Institute The Department of Performing Arts Theater & Performance Studies Program Davis Performing Arts Center

To find out more about how National Endowment for the Arts grants impact individuals and communities, visit www.arts.gov

Jubilee Justice/Our Ancestral Journey Reparative Genealogy Facilitator Woven Wind Project for 2023 Tennessee Triennial Advisor African American Redress Network Steering Committee Loyola Maryland Presidential Task Force Riversdale House Museum

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UPCOMING EVENTS

RESOURCES

River Run Festival at The John F. Kennedy Center

BOOKS William G. Thomas III, A Question of Freedom: The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nation’s Founding to the Civil War Ira Berlin, Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves (Harvard University Press 2004) Craig Steven Wilder, Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America’s Universities (Bloomsbury 2014) Heather Andrea Williams, Help Me To Find My People: The African American Search for Family Lost in Slavery (University of North Carolina Press 2016)

Ferry Tales Pop-up performances at the Welcome Pavilion, Hammersmith Lounge, Moonshot Studio, REACH grounds, and Georgetown Heritage Canal Boat Tours

A full list of resources can be found at: globallab.georgetown.edu/here-i-am

Ferry Tales is a series of site-specific performances celebrating the Potomac watershed. Storytellers will share short tales with passengers and passers-by. Woven from community interviews, science, local history and legend, these performances honor the depths of DC’s waters and the many forms of life that call them home. Stories include tales about the eastern lampmussel and the largemouth bass, the recovering shad population, and origin stories of the Potomac itself. Come listen to the river!

April 6, 7, 8, 13, 14, 15, 2023

10:00 am

Creative Team Director........................................... Caitlin Nasema Cassidy Stage Manager........................................................Julia Beu Dramaturg...................................................... Robert Duffley Assistant Director...................................... Ashanee Kottage Assistant Dramaturg.......................................... Jan Menafee Costume Designer............................ Jeannette Christensen Cast..............Colie Aziza, Vanessa Gilbert, Serena Rasoul For more information visit: www.kennedy-center.org/whats-on/festivals-series/riverrun/ferry-tales/

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