EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT

U-M hosts performance of Glenda Dickerson’s new work

DATE: 5 p.m. Oct. 29, 2004.

EVENT: Performance of “Sapphire’s New Shoe: the Kitchen Table Summit.”

The kitchen table summit takes place at the house of “Mama Rice.” She has a starry array of dinner guests, including Condoleezza, her cousin Constance, Marian Anderson, Hannah Craft, Aunt Jemima, Black Pearl (a Liberian girl warrior), Edwidge Danticat and the ghosts of the Atlantic slave trade.

PLACE: Duderstadt Center’s Video StudioUniversity of Michigan’s North Campus2281 BonisteelSee map at http://www.umich.edu/news/umnc.htmlFree and open to the public.

SPONSORS: U-M’s Center for World Performance Studies, The Atlantic Studies Initiative, The Project for Transforming Thru Performing: re/placing Black womanly images, and the Ford Foundation.

WEB LINKS: Glenda Dickerson.

Center for World Performance Studies

The Project for Transforming Thru Performing