Cheryl Wood Empowers presents:
A Woman’s Narrative
Saturday, October 20, 2018 . 9AM
Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. Gildenhorn Recital Hall
A full-day empowerment summit where women from across the world gather to boldly share their stories of challenge, struggle, success and triumph to inspire others.
Tickets: click here.
Second Season:
Lost Sons by Niree Turner and
Rockfish by Sydney Lemelin
October 19 & 20, 2018
Fri, Oct 19, 2018 . 7:30PM
Sat, Oct 20, 2018 . 2:00PM
Sat, Oct 20, 2018 . 7:00PM
Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. Dance Theatre
Rockfish
by Niree Turner
Rockfish is a piece was inspired by rockfish dinners, aunties who aren’t really your auntie, and the strange circumstances under which the playwright’s grandmother’s belongings were replaced with rocks.
Lost Sons
by Sydney Lemelin
This hip-hop theater piece explores the impact of mass incarceration in the black community. The effects of an imprisoned father ripple throughout the entire family and community, and the play highlights the sharp differences in families with and without a father figure around. It also demonstrates differences in how white men and black men are sentenced.
Free, tickets are required. Click here.
Stew and the Negro Problem
Notes of a Native Song
Friday, October 19, 2018 . 8PM
Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. Kay Theatre
Tony and Obie Award-winning writer and composer Stew delves into the rich legacy of activist writer James Baldwin in this new music and theater experience alongside long-time collaborator and co-composer Heidi Rodewald and an all-star band. Stew’s uniquely incisive lyrics are wrapped in an irresistible mix of rock, rhythm and blues, and jazz in this powerful homage to the inspiring writer, who famously confronted issues of gender, race, and class distinction with wisdom and fire.
Tickets: General public $25, Student/Youth $10. click here.
Please join GateWay Second Chance Foundation as it proudly presents
Elementary Division – A Solution to Hate
A Roll On! Production
written by Marshall Opie.
Friday, October 19, 2018 at 7:30pm
Location: Bowie Center for the Performing Arts.
“It’s 1968 all over again. What happens when a Black boy gives his Black Power necklace to a White girl?”
You also have the option of joining us for a Meet & Greet reception where you may ask questions of the playwright and the cast and learn more about the Gateway Second Chance Foundation and Academy. We hope you will join us!
The following ticket options are available: General admission (Pre-Show) – $30 (Pre-show Price), General Admission (Day of the Show) – $35, Students – $15, General admission with Meet and Greet Reception – $75. Note: Meet and Greet Reception packages are not available at the door.
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Afternoon Tea:
National Opera Week Celebration
Wednesday, October 17, 2018 at 2:00pm
Location: Harmony Hall Regional Center in Fort Washington
In celebration of National Opera Week, musicians from the Washington National Opera perform a variety of opera vignettes from Puccini, Mozart, Verdi, Gershwin, and more in partnership with the Coalition for African Americans in the Performing Arts. Enjoy an afternoon of staged selections with narration describing the scenes of love, vengeance, betrayal, passion, deception, monarchy, and lust. Pianist Dr. Lester Green accompanies.
Tickets: $18.
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