El Museo del Barrio presents: A Soldier’s Fugue
October 22, 2006 at 8:12 pm | In Happenings/Events | Leave a CommentEl Museo del Barrio presents: A Soldier’s Fugue
Sunday, October 29th, 2006, at 8 PM
Teatro Heckscher at El Museo
El Museo del Barrio is pleased to offer you special discounted tickets to see the critically acclaimed play Elliot, A Soldier’s Fugue, playing now through October 29th at the Teatro Heckscher at El Museo.
Elliot, A Soldier’s Fugue tells the story of three generations of Puerto Rican men in one family and their experiences in the US military. At 18, Lance Corporal Elliot Ortiz crossed over to Iraq. At 19, he received the Purple Heart. Now, back from active duty, Elliot is anointed a hometown hero. As Elliot comes to terms with his own memories of war, the military experiences of his father and grandfather unfold, revealing startling similarities that unite the Ortiz men across time. Purchase tickets online at www.ticketcentral.com or at the Museum Shop. Please use Discount code: SPD5 for $5 tickets online. Visit http://www.p73.org/elliot for more information.
On Black-Jewish Relations
October 22, 2006 at 8:07 pm | In Happenings/Events | Leave a CommentOn Wednesday, October 25th, 2006, Russell Simmons and Rabbi Marc Schneier will be speaking about Black-Jewish Relations: Reflections on the Past and Hopes for the Future.
The event is open to the public. It starts at 8 PM in Earl Hall Auditorium, Columbia University.
Deconstructing Race & Racism Lecture Series X
October 22, 2006 at 8:00 pm | In Community, Happenings/Events, Readings | Leave a CommentCome to the tenth “Deconstructing Race & Racism Lecture Series” hosted by the Center for Contemporary Black History at Columbia University:
Tuesday, October 24th, 2006 at 7:30 PM
Prof. Nahum Chandler
Institute for Research African-American Studies, Columbia University
Professor of Global Studies, Tama University, Tokyo, Japan
Davis Auditorium (Schapiro Center)
Regarding Dr. Chandler:
An excerpt from a recently completed book of the same title, this lecture will examine the contemporary bearing of W.E.B. Du Bois’s essay “The Present Outlook for the Dark Races of Mankind.” Originally given as a lecture in December 1899, it is the first text in which Du Bois announced his most famous phrase: “the problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.” After examining the meaning of the scholastic oversight that has left this essay in the shadows of more famous and later usages of the phrase, for example in The Souls of Black Folk, Prof. Chandler’s lecture offers a certain way of understanding the epistemic, and hence political, implication of Du Bois’s idea of the global color line–one he maintained throughout his whole career–for the present and future. For further information please visit http://www.columbia.edu/cu/iraas. For further information contact the Center at ccbh@columbia.edu or (212) 854-1489.
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