Black History Month
Events
Monday, January 23rd
An Evening with Bill T. Jones, lecture.
Harvey Powers Theatre, Coleman Hall, 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday, January 24th
John Legend in Concert
Weis Center for the Performing Arts, 7:30 p.m. Click here for more information and ticket registration.
Wednesday, January 25th
Spring Semester Community Service Fair*
Terrace Room, 5:30 p.m.
Thursday, January 26th
Tayari Jones, Silver Sparrow author
Bucknell Hall, 7:00 p.m.
Saturday, January 28th
Black History Month of Service Kick-off Day*
Assist the HandUp Foundation in their thrift store (Milton, PA; 12:00-2:00 p.m.) or offer cleaning assistance to the Sunbury YMCA (Sunbury, PA; 1:00 p.m.)
Monday, January 30th
MLK Beloved Community Dinner
Terrace Room, 5:30-7:00 p.m.
Wednesday, February 1st
Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson Series: Joshua Rothman lecture and discussion
ELC Forum, 7:00 p.m. Joshua Rothman directs the Summersell Center for the Study of the South at the University of Alabama, where he is also an associate professor of history and African American studies specializing in nineteenth-century America and the history of race and slavery. He is the author of Notorious in the Neighborhood: Sex and Families across the Color Line in Virginia, 1787-1861 (2003) and Reforming America, 1815-1860 (2010) and is currently completing a book about the expansion of southwestern slavery and the cotton kingdom in the Age of Jackson.
Black History Read-In Launch
Faculty, staff and students will be asked to read Octavia Butler's Kindred over the course of the month.
The Great Twenty-Eight, Plus One
28 Facts about Black Bucknell and 28 Great Black Songs will be distributed each day in February by Griot Institute through the Message Center. The facts will help to illuminate the histories of black students, staff, alumni, and visitors from the 19th century until the present. Additionally, the posts will include a song each day that provides information and context about and a Youtube link to a significant African American song.
Tuesday, February 7th
Black History Month of Service Day*
Terrace Room, 6:00 p.m. Make Black History educational items for the Linntown Intermediate School.
A Good Man, Bill T. Jones Film
Campus Theatre, 7:00 p.m.
Saturday, February 11th
Body Against Body, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company performance
Weis Center for the Performing Arts, 8:00 p.m.
Wednesday, February 15th
Vance Gilbert Concert
Campus Theatre, 7:30 p.m.
Thursday, February 16th
Black History Month of Service Day*
Linntown Intermediate School, 1:00 p.m. Assist in facilitating an educational workshop at Linntown Intermediate School.
Geographies of Black Masculinities, Rashad Shabazz lecture/discussion
Gallery Theatre, 4:30 p.m.
Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson Series: Jefferson's Blood, PBS Frontline Documentary
ELC Forum, 7:00 p.m.
Monday, February 20th
Food Activism Workshop
ELC Room 217, 12:00 p.m. The workshop is with Dara Cooper (FreshMoves.org) and Fereshteh Toosi (Garlic & Greens: Accessible Soul Food Stories).
Black History Month of Service Day*
Essex Place, 3:45-4:45 p.m. Assist in facilitating an educational workshop at Essex Place.
African American Soul Food Panel
Center Room, 5:30-7:30 p.m.
Tuesday, February 21st
Black History Month of Service Day*
Meadowview, 3:45-4:45 p.m. Assist in facilitating an education workshop at Meadowview.
To Be Heard - a film about Slam
Campus Theatre, 7:00 p.m., free admission. "To Be Heard" is a documentary based on the lives of three young people in the South Bronx and about the shaping effects of poetry/slam on their lives. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion about the film and about each of the three panelists' participation in slam. There are three panelists: Bucknell student Lakiyra "Oompa" Williams, Stadler Fellow Jamaal May (three-time Rust Belt Slam Champion), and Will Evans, who is the featured poet at the Stadler Center Slams event later in that week, on Friday, February 24th at 7 p.m. at Uptown.
Wednesday, February 22nd
Black History Month of Service Day*
Craft Center, 6:00 p.m. Bake and assemble healthy snacks for local after school programs.
Thursday, February 23rd
CSREG Social Sciences Colloquium: Shades of Black and Brown
Forum, 7:00 p.m. Lecture by Monika Gosin.
Friday, February 24th
Poetry Slam featuring guest poet William Evans
Uptown, 7:00 p.m. Sponsored by the Stadler Center for Poetry. A slam competition involves poets who perform their work and are scored by members of an audience, with a winner being declared at the end of each slam. The Stadler Center series features an open mic to begin the evening (non-competitive), a featured poet reading his or her work (William Evans on Feb. 24th), and then a slam to conclude. Free pizza will be served!
Tuesday, February 28th
Kindred Read-In Discussion Group
Walls Lounge, 12:00-1:00 p.m.
Black History Month of Service Day*
Terrace Room, 6:00 p.m. Make no-sew fleece blankets for victims of the Fall 2011 flood.
Wednesday, February 29th
Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson Series: Mendi + Keith Obadike gallery talk and discussion
Samek Art Gallery, 7:00 p.m. The artists will create an original sound installation entitled Stereo Helix for Sally Hemings using the DNA code of Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson as musical score input.
*For more information and to sign up for Black History Month of Service events, click here.
