Press Release: Florida International University Presents a Staged Reading of Jacqueline E. Lawton's The Hampton Years at GableStage
The Center for the Humanities in an Urban Environment is excited to cosponsor a series of events in conjunction with Florida International University’s Exile Studies program and the Department of English. The semester long exhibition at the Coral Gables Museum is titled Beyond Swastika and Jim Crow. The event commemorates the history of Jewish academics from Germany who found refuge and employment in historically black Colleges and Universities and of their students. The Coral Gables Art Museum, the Coral Gables Art Cinema, Gablestage and FIU will host these events.
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On Sunday, October 19 from 4:00pm - 6:00pm, there will be a panel discussion titled From Swastika to Jim Crow: Lessons and Legacies at the Coral Gables Museum. Moderated by Dr. Michael P. Gillespie (Professor of English and Director of the Center for Humanitities in An Urban Environment), this panel will examine the evolution in American thinking about race based on the experiences highlighted in the exhibit. Panelists include Dr. Alan Berger (Raddock Chair of Holocaust Studies, Florida Atlantic University), Dr. Guy Stern (Director, Institute of Altruism. Holocaust Museum in Detroit and Provost (emeritus) Wayne State University), Ms. Jaqueline E. Lawton (Playwright, author of Hampton Years), and Dr. Tometro Hopkins (Director of the Linguistics Program, Florida International University). Click here to learn more.
On Monday, October 20th at 7:00pm, THE HAMPTON YEARS by Jacqueline E. Lawton. The play examines the mentor/mentee relationship between Austrian painter and sculptor Vikton Lowefeld and his student, John Biggers, who would go on to become a prominent twentieth-century American painter. Several of Biggers’ paintings are part of the exhibition. Directed by Phillip M. Church the staged reading will feature Aaron Alpern, Rebecca Covey, O’Neil Delapenha, Madeleine Escarne, Makeba Henry, and Wayne Robinson. Click here to learn more.
"Beyond Swastika and Jim Crow: Jewish Refugee Scholars at Black Colleges" kicks off its stay in Miami on Sunday, October 5, at the Coral Gables Museum (285 Aragon Ave., Coral Gables). The exhibit will be in town until January 11, 2015. A full schedule of events can be viewed at english.fiu.edu.
Click here to learn more.
On Sunday, October 19 from 4:00pm - 6:00pm, there will be a panel discussion titled From Swastika to Jim Crow: Lessons and Legacies at the Coral Gables Museum. Moderated by Dr. Michael P. Gillespie (Professor of English and Director of the Center for Humanitities in An Urban Environment), this panel will examine the evolution in American thinking about race based on the experiences highlighted in the exhibit. Panelists include Dr. Alan Berger (Raddock Chair of Holocaust Studies, Florida Atlantic University), Dr. Guy Stern (Director, Institute of Altruism. Holocaust Museum in Detroit and Provost (emeritus) Wayne State University), Ms. Jaqueline E. Lawton (Playwright, author of Hampton Years), and Dr. Tometro Hopkins (Director of the Linguistics Program, Florida International University). Click here to learn more.
On Monday, October 20th at 7:00pm, THE HAMPTON YEARS by Jacqueline E. Lawton. The play examines the mentor/mentee relationship between Austrian painter and sculptor Vikton Lowefeld and his student, John Biggers, who would go on to become a prominent twentieth-century American painter. Several of Biggers’ paintings are part of the exhibition. Directed by Phillip M. Church the staged reading will feature Aaron Alpern, Rebecca Covey, O’Neil Delapenha, Madeleine Escarne, Makeba Henry, and Wayne Robinson. Click here to learn more.
"Beyond Swastika and Jim Crow: Jewish Refugee Scholars at Black Colleges" kicks off its stay in Miami on Sunday, October 5, at the Coral Gables Museum (285 Aragon Ave., Coral Gables). The exhibit will be in town until January 11, 2015. A full schedule of events can be viewed at english.fiu.edu.
JACQUELINE E. LAWTON was named one of 30 of the nation's leading black playwrights by Arena Stage’s American Voices New Play Institute. Her plays include: Anna K; Blood-bound and Tongue-tied; Deep Belly Beautiful;The Devil’s Sweet Water; The Hampton Years; Ira Aldridge: the African Roscius; Lions of Industry, Mothers of Invention; Love Brothers Serenade (2013 semi-finalist for the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s National Playwrights Conference); Mad Breed; Noms de Guerre; and Our Man Beverly Snow. Ms. Lawton received her MFA in Playwriting from the University of Texas at Austin, where she was a James A. Michener Fellow. She is a 2012 TCG Young Leaders of Color award recipient, National New Play Network (NNPN) Playwright Alum, and member of Arena Stage's Playwrights' Arena. She is also a proud member of the Dramatist Guild of America.