Cultural Agents Initiative Newsletter
Week of
April 1st to April 7th
2009
In This Issue
Fair of Our Mothers: Women Bearing the Burdens of Citizenship
I am Obama: Forging a New Black Citizenship
"A Man is Shot: The Content of a Cinematic Technique"
"WOMEN in Film": Current works by women filmmakers
TransCultural Exchange conference for artists in Boston
An Actor's Reading: T.S. Eliot The Waste Land and Other Poems
Kendrick Oliver and the new Life Jazz Orchestra
Latin American Classical Music Series 1
Latin American Classical Music Series 2
"Subjects or Citizens: Feeling Black in Post Katrina America"
Tuesday, March 31st   5:00pm
Tsai Auditorium, CGIS, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge.
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W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research and The Committee on African Studies present

The W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures

Melissa Harris-Lacewell Associate Professor of Political Science and African American Studies Princeton University

Of the Meaning of Progress: Measuring Black Citizenship
 
A Q&A and reception follow.

For more information, please contact the Du Bois Institute at 617.495.8508, dbievent@fas.harvard.edu or visit www.dubois.fas.harvard.edu.
Faith of Our Mothers: Women Bearing the Burdens of Citizenship
Thursday April 1st, 5:00pm - 6:00pm
Tsai Auditorium, CGIS, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge.
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W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research and The Committee on African Studies present

The W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures

Melissa Harris-Lacewell Associate Professor of Political Science and African American Studies Princeton University

Of the Meaning of Progress: Measuring Black Citizenship
 
A Q&A and reception follow.

For more information, please contact the Du Bois Institute at 617.495.8508, dbievent@fas.harvard.edu or visit www.dubois.fas.harvard.edu.
I am Obama: Forging a New Black Citizenship
Thursday April 2nd, 05:00pm - 06:00pm
Tsai Auditorium, CGIS, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge.
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W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research and The Committee on African Studies present

The W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures

Melissa Harris-Lacewell Associate Professor of Political Science and African American Studies Princeton University

Of the Meaning of Progress: Measuring Black Citizenship
 
A Q&A and reception follow.

For more information, please contact the Du Bois Institute at 617.495.8508, dbievent@fas.harvard.edu or visit www.dubois.fas.harvard.edu.
"A Man Is Shot: The Content of a Cinematic Technique"
Thursday, April 2nd 6:00-7:00pm
Thompson Room, Barker 110, 12 Quincy Street
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The Humanities Center at Harvard presents a Master Class with Louis Menand, Ann T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of English.

Humanities Center at Harvard
12 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA  02138
617.495.0738
www.fas.harvard.edu/~humcentr
"WOMEN in FILM": Current works by women filmmakers, exploring women's issues
Thursday, April 2nd 6:30-8:30pm
Bunker Hill Community College
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Including film shorts by: Ashley Shuyler, Michelle Rawlings, Jessica Gidal, and guest curator, Rinat Harel

Panel discussion to follow
 
For more information contact:

Ms. Laura L. Montgomery, M.F.A.
Director, BHCC Art Gallery
Adjunct Professor, Visual and Media Arts Department
Bunker Hill Community College
Office of the President
250 New Rutherford Avenue
Boston, MA   02129

617-228-2093
lmontgomery@bhcc.mass.edu
artgallery@bhcc.mass.edu

Visit our Gallery Web page at:  www.bhcc.mass.edu
TransCultural Exchange conference for artists in Boston
Friday, Saturday, Sunday ALL DAY EVENT
TransCultural Exchange, 516 East 2nd Street, Boston, MA
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During the first weekend of April  (3-5) 2009 there is the second TransCultural Exchange conference for artists in Boston -USA.  Many residences are in the program to tell and inform about artist-in-residence and Saksala ArtRadius is one of them.

2009 Conference - An ideal Professional Development Opportunity

Learn how to break into the international art world. Join speakers from around the world to hear about long- and short- term international residency opportunities for artists (working in every medium) as well as biennales and other global exhibition possibilities. Come to Boston to meet, network with and have your work seen by the conference's distinguished curators, critics and panelists. This is an excellent resource for professional development.

Conference registration, which includes admission to all the panels and networking events:
$185 Early Registration (due by 5pm EST. December 31, 2008).
$265 after December 31, 2008

617.464.4086

information:
Marja de Jong
mobile 00358 (0)50 4625 675
mail@saksala.org
An Actor's Reading: T.S. Eliot The Waste Land and Other Poems
Friday April 3rd, 5:00 - 6:00pm
New College Theatre, 10-12 Holyoke Street
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The Department of English,  Office of the President and Provost, and the Office for the Arts at Harvard present "An Actor's Reading: T.S. Eliot THE WASTE LAND and Other Poems"

Featuring Award-Winning Stage and Screen Actors DAME EILEEN ATKINS and BRIAN DENNEHY

Introduced by Novelist Josephine Hart

Free admission

Tickets are available through the Harvard Box Office 617.496.2222 or www.boxoffice.harvard.edu
Kendrick Oliver and the new Life Jazz Orchestra
Friday April 3rd, 7:30-9:30pm
Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center, 41 Second Street, Cambridge, MA
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An evening pulsing with Count Basie, Duke Ellington and more! Berklee College of Music alumnus Kendrick Oliver and the 18-piece New Life Jazz Orchestra present classic big band jazz with foot-stomping arrangements, high-octane rhythms, and an unrestrained brass section.A big band experience you won't soon forget.

For more information:
http://www.cmacusa.org/HTML/performingarts.htm
Latin American Classical Music Series 1
Friday April 3rd, 9:00-10:00pm
Center for Latino Arts, 85 W Newton Street, Boston, MA 02118
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This collaborative production between the CLA and The New England Conservatory will feature works of renowned Latin American. The evening will consist of performances by some of New England Conservatory's most outstanding students and ensembles, as well as a special performance by a selection of Boston-based, professional Latino classical musicians.
Latin American Classical Music Series 2
Sunday April 5th, 3:00pm - 5:00pm
Center for Latino Arts, 85 W Newton Street, Boston, MA 02118
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As a long-time neighbor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, we  are extremely pleased to host this Boston Symphony Orchestra Community Chamber concert dedicated to some of our best Latin American classical composers.

Free Admission.
Featured Article
"The Persistence of
the Sacred in a
Secular Age"
Today
6:30 pm

The Humanities Center
and
Harvard University Press present:

Michael Sandel
Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government

and

Charles Taylor Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, McGill University

 in conversation with:

Homi Bhabha,
Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities, Director of the Humanities Center at Harvard

Book sale Thompson and signing of Sandel's The Case Against Perfection
and Taylor 's A Secular Age to follow.

Room
 Barker Center
 12 Quincy Street

Open to the Public. Seating is Limited.
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