2008 Woodie Awards
Arts Brief
Issue date: 4/14/06 Section: Arts & Entertainment
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UCA to sponsor "Africa in America" Week
"Africa in America" Week will be taking place at UCA next week, playing host to events that serve to highlight connections between African and American cultures and people, according to Dr. Conrad Shumaker, director of the African/African-American Studies program at UCA.
According to a UCA press release, highlights of the week will include two noted authors visiting UCA, African-American playwright and poet Amiri Baraka, and Cameroonian writer Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi.
Baraka, one of the most prominent protest poets and playwrights of the 1960's, will be leading a viewing and discussion of the film Dutchman, based off his play of the same name, at 3p.m. Monday, in the Doyne Health Sciences Auditorium. Baraka will also be speaking at 7p.m. Tuesday in the Ida Waldran Auditorium in UCA's Main Hall.
Nfah-Abbenyi, who writes fiction under the pen name Makuchi, will be speaking at 7p.m. Thursday, also in the Waldran auditorium. She is an associate professor of English at the University of Southern Mississippi, and has written Gender in African Women's Writing: Identity, Sexuality, and Difference and a short story collection, Your Madness, Not Mine: Stories of Cameroon.
The week will also feature a steal drum band performance at 7:30p.m. Wednesday in Snow Fine Arts Recital Hall, and an African art exhibit at Baum Gallery in McCastlain Hall, throughout the week.
All events are free and open to the public. For more information, contact Dr. Conrad Shumaker at shumaker@uca.edu 450-5126.
Senior Seminar Set to Open Next Week
Senior Theater Arts and Dance majors are gearing up for the annual senior production, which ends the Hendrix Players' 2005-2006 season.
This year's seniors will be presenting Stephen Adly Guirgis' "The Last Days of Judas Iscariot" which will be directed by senior Jonathan Self.
With over 40 students participating in the production, it features religious figures such as Satan and Mother Teresa and historical figures such as Sigmund Freud. It is a fantasy that draws on sound theological doctrine to advance its soul-searching meditation on guilt and forgiveness. The contemporary language and frequent urban street dialogue and accents do not diminish the characters but attest to their common humanity.
Described by The Philadelphia Inquirer as an ambitious, complicated and often laugh-out-loud religious debate, the play is a courtroom drama set in Purgatory that makes an argument for lifting the eternal damnation sentence on Judas Iscariot.
Performances will be held at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday, April 19 through April 22, with an additional matinee on Saturday at 2 p.m. The production is best suited for mature audiences due to language. All performances are free and open to the public. For more information, contact the box office at (501) 450-1343.
"Africa in America" Week will be taking place at UCA next week, playing host to events that serve to highlight connections between African and American cultures and people, according to Dr. Conrad Shumaker, director of the African/African-American Studies program at UCA.
According to a UCA press release, highlights of the week will include two noted authors visiting UCA, African-American playwright and poet Amiri Baraka, and Cameroonian writer Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi.
Baraka, one of the most prominent protest poets and playwrights of the 1960's, will be leading a viewing and discussion of the film Dutchman, based off his play of the same name, at 3p.m. Monday, in the Doyne Health Sciences Auditorium. Baraka will also be speaking at 7p.m. Tuesday in the Ida Waldran Auditorium in UCA's Main Hall.
Nfah-Abbenyi, who writes fiction under the pen name Makuchi, will be speaking at 7p.m. Thursday, also in the Waldran auditorium. She is an associate professor of English at the University of Southern Mississippi, and has written Gender in African Women's Writing: Identity, Sexuality, and Difference and a short story collection, Your Madness, Not Mine: Stories of Cameroon.
The week will also feature a steal drum band performance at 7:30p.m. Wednesday in Snow Fine Arts Recital Hall, and an African art exhibit at Baum Gallery in McCastlain Hall, throughout the week.
All events are free and open to the public. For more information, contact Dr. Conrad Shumaker at shumaker@uca.edu 450-5126.
Senior Seminar Set to Open Next Week
Senior Theater Arts and Dance majors are gearing up for the annual senior production, which ends the Hendrix Players' 2005-2006 season.
This year's seniors will be presenting Stephen Adly Guirgis' "The Last Days of Judas Iscariot" which will be directed by senior Jonathan Self.
With over 40 students participating in the production, it features religious figures such as Satan and Mother Teresa and historical figures such as Sigmund Freud. It is a fantasy that draws on sound theological doctrine to advance its soul-searching meditation on guilt and forgiveness. The contemporary language and frequent urban street dialogue and accents do not diminish the characters but attest to their common humanity.
Described by The Philadelphia Inquirer as an ambitious, complicated and often laugh-out-loud religious debate, the play is a courtroom drama set in Purgatory that makes an argument for lifting the eternal damnation sentence on Judas Iscariot.
Performances will be held at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday, April 19 through April 22, with an additional matinee on Saturday at 2 p.m. The production is best suited for mature audiences due to language. All performances are free and open to the public. For more information, contact the box office at (501) 450-1343.