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February 6, 2012 @ 7:30pm

The Continuum: From Fortune to Henrietta Lacks and Beyond

In the early 1950s, Henrietta Lacks, a young African-American woman, was treated for cancer at Johns Hopkins hospital. Tissues from her body were taken without her knowledge during the treatment have since been used to grow cells for research purposes worldwide. David Lacks, one of Henrietta's sons, will speak on behalf of the family in two roundtable discussions with other panelists as they examine ethics in medical education, research, treatment, and practice.

Location:
The Enoch Pratt Free Library
400 Cathedral Street
Baltimore, MD 21201
Contact Info:
301.405.ARTS (2787)

February 7, 2012 @ 4:00pm

Harriet Tubman: Meet the Woman

Known as the "Moses of Her People," Harriet Ross Tubman led hundreds of enslaved people to freedom by way of the Underground Railroad. She served in the Union Army as both a spy and a scout during the Civil War and nursed the contraband and black soldiers in the Federal City and other southern cities. Ms. Tubman repeatedly risked her life fighting for the freedom that the constitution guaranteed all Americans. Gwendolyn Briley-Strand discusses the life of this remarkable woman and provides a Power Point photographic exhibit of plantations on which Tubman was enslaved, the home in which she lived as a free woman, and churches she helped build. A question and answer session follows the presentation. Adult and high school audiences. Gwendolyn Briley-Strand has been delighting audiences on stage, television, and in movie theatres for over twenty years. She is known for her portrayals of Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, and Rosa Parks. In 1991 and 1992 Ms. Briley-Strand was invited to bring Harriet Tubman to the White House for the Fourth of July Celebration. She has also portrayed Harriet Tubman at the Smithsonian, the Kennedy Center, and museums and cultural organizations. She received her B.A. in theater from Fordham University and is a member of the Screen Actors Guild, Actors Equity Association, and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. More information about Ms. Briley-Strand can be found on her website at www.seethefruits.com.

Location:
Somerset County Library, Princess Anne Branch
11767 Beechwood Street
Princess Anne, MD 21853
Contact Info:
Lisa Stant
410-632-3970

February 7, 2012 @ 7:30pm

The Continuum: From Fortune to Henrietta Lacks and Beyond

In the early 1950s, Henrietta Lacks, a young African-American woman, was treated for cancer at Johns Hopkins hospital. Tissues from her body were taken without her knowledge during the treatment have since been used to grow cells for research purposes worldwide. David Lacks, one of Henrietta's sons, will speak on behalf of the family in two roundtable discussions with other panelists as they examine ethics in medical education, research, treatment, and practice.

Location:
Oxon Hill Branch, Prince George's County Memorial Library System
6200 Oxon Hill Drive
Oxon Hill, MD 20745
Contact Info:
301.405.ARTS (2787)

February 24, 2012 @ 7:00pm

Slavery and The University of Maryland

Dr. Ira Berlin, author and professor of history at the University of Maryland, will discuss the connections between slavery and the building of the university.

Location:
Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
Suite 3800 Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742-1625
Contact Info:
301.405.ARTS (2787)

February 24, 2012 @ 1:00pm

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Living History Presentation

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was an icon of the civil rights movement, preaching nonviolence in the struggle for racial equality. A prime mover of the Montgomery bus boycott, the first president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and closing speaker in the historic 1963 March on Washington, King is one of the most revered figures in American history. He was the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, and his achievements had an impact worldwide. Bill Grimmette is a living history interpreter, storyteller, actor, and motivational speaker who has performed throughout the United States and abroad. He has researched and performed the characters of W. E. B. Du Bois, Frederick Douglass, Benjamin Banneker, Estevanico, and Augustus Washington. He has appeared at the Smithsonian Institution and on National Public Radio. He has an M.A. in psychology from the Catholic University of America, and has done post-graduate work in education at George Mason University.

Location:
Liberty Senior Center
3525 Resource Drive
Randallstown, MD 21133
Contact Info:
Ashaki Innis
410-887-0780

February 25, 2012 @ 7:00pm

Fortune's Bones: The Manumission Requiem (pre-performance discussions)

Join us one hour before each presentation of Fortune's Bones: The Manumission Requiem for background and discussion. You do not need a ticket to the performance to attend the discussions.

Location:
Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
Suite 3800 Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742-1625
Contact Info:
301.405.ARTS (2787)

February 25, 2012 @ 8:00pm

Fortune's Bones: The Manumission Requiem

Who was Fortune? In life, he was an African-American slave who served a doctor in post-Colonial Waterbury, Connecticut. In death, he became a medical specimen and later a walk-by exhibit at the Mattatuck Museum, a skeleton known only as "Larry." But Fortune was also a husband, a father, and a human being. In 2004, Connecticut poet-laureate Marilyn Nelson published "Fortune's Bones: The Manumission Requiem," a book-length poem commissioned by the African American History Project Committee in Waterbury. They commissioned Dr. Ysaye M. Barnwell set the text to music. Her cantata, performed by a full symphony, three choirs, seven soloists, and a chorus of African bells, is the centerpiece of a performance that celebrates the fullness of African-American life. ($40 ticket price). Pre-performance discussion at 7pm is free.

Location:
Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
Suite 3800 Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742-1625
Contact Info:
301.405.ARTS (2787) www.claricesmithcenter.umd.edu/fortune

February 26, 2012 @ 2:00am

Fortune's Bones: The Manumission Requiem (pre-performance discussions)

Join us one hour before each presentation of Fotune's Bones: The Manumission Requiem for background and discussion. You do not need a ticket to the performance to attend the discussions.

Location:
Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
Suite 3800 Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742-1625
Contact Info:
301.405.ARTS (2787)

February 26, 2012 @ 3:00pm

Fortune's Bones: The Manumission Requiem

Who was Fortune? In life, he was an African-American slave who served a doctor in post-Colonial Waterbury, Connecticut. In death, he became a medical specimen and later a walk-by exhibit at the Mattatuck Museum, a skeleton known only as "Larry." But Fortune was also a husband, a father, and a human being. In 2004, Connecticut poet-laureate Marilyn Nelson published "Fortune's Bones: The Manumission Requiem," a book-length poem commissioned by the African American History Project Committee in Waterbury. They commissioned Dr. Ysaye M. Barnwell set the text to music. Her cantata, performed by a full symphony, three choirs, seven soloists, and a chorus of African bells, is the centerpiece of a performance that celebrates the fullness of African-American life. ($40 ticket price). Pre-performance discussion at 2pm is free.

Location:
Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
Suite 3800 Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742-1625
Contact Info:
301.405.ARTS (2787) www.claricesmithcenter.umd.edu/fortune

February 29, 2012 @ 3:00pm

The One Culture: Serendipity Is No Accident

Prince George’s Community College’s 2010-2011 Lecture Series continues with the third of six talks illustrating interdisciplinary links between the sciences and the humanities and other fields. Accidental discovery or invention is widely acknowledged as a fact in modern science and technology. How can such unpredictable and uncontrollable events be key elements in a system that commands budgets, laboratory, personnel, and organization of such extraordinary size that it is one of the most distinctive products of the twentieth century? Dr. Robert Friedel takes a closer look at the “accidental” nature of one of these—the discovery of the form of carbon known as “fullerenes,” recognized by the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1996—and illustrates just what an interesting role serendipity plays in modern science, much as it does in other disciplines. Free and open to the public, will be followed by a question-and-answer session, as well as a reception.

Location:
Washington Post Lecture Hall (Chesapeake Hall 109) Prince George's Community College
301 Largo Road
Largo, MD 20774-2199
Contact Info:
Dr. Christopher Hunt
(301) 322-0429