Pondering Freedom – July 4th…

July 4, 2008 at 12:01 pm (Freedom Festival)

Rod Echols, Reza Clifton, Chuck Arning

HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY! Our amazing team is delighted to be moving along with our Freedom Festival programming for October 2008, commemorating the bicentennial of the Abolition of the Transatlantic Slave Trade and African American Heritage…

it looks like this to date:

October 6 Michel Martin, “Tell Me More” at Providence Black Rep

October 7-12 The Frederick Douglass Project – Mixed Magic Theatre

October 9 Paula J. Giddings, keynote “Land of the Pilgrim’s Pride: Ida

B. Wells and the Northern Campaign Against Lynching”

Old Colony House, Newport

October 10 Curator’s Salon The Cotton Exhibit, Slater Mill, Pawtucket

October 11 African Americans in RI – Westerly Public Library

October 12 Festival in Newport (tba) – Jane Pickens Theatre

October 13 Family Festival, African American Heritage – Cathedral of

Life Assembly, Providence

October 14 Screening Oscar Michaeux “Within Our Gates” – PPL

October 15 Action Speaks on Oscar Michaaeux – AS220, Providence

October 16 Ira Berlin, keynote – First Unitarian Church, Providence

October 17 Ray Rickman, “Lydia Maria Child – Abolitionist and First

Woman of the Republic” – Providence Athenaeum

October 18/19 Door of No Return play – Gamm Theatre, Pawtucket

October 20 Celebration of the Humanities – tba

We’ve been meeting and gathering folks all excited about the many opportunities heading our way…

Bernadet Pitts-Wiley and Linda A’Vant Deishinni

“O Freedom, O Freedom, O Freedom Over Me,

and Before I’ll be a Slave, I’ll Be Buried in My Grave

and Go Home to My Lord and Be Free”