Center for Ethics Presents Panel on Arts & Memory
Gabri Christa and Marie-Celie Agnant will host a panel discussion, “Arts & Memory,” on Thursday, November 10, 2011 at 7:00 p.m. in the Empie Theatre, Center for the Arts.Monday, November 7, 2011 09:58 AM
This event, sponsored by the Center for Ethics and co-sponsored by the Multicultural Center and The Africana Lecture Series: Seeing Africa, is free and open to the public.
Christa amd Agnant are artists whose work focuses on the African Dispora in the Americas and the Caribbean and the way a painful past is remembered and then re-imagined in the present. Christa is a choreographer and filmmaker whose work lives where dance, theater and film merge. Her film series, Another Building, places narrative dance theater in historical buildings with interesting, often painful histories connected to the slave trade in the New World. Agnant is a Haitian-Quebecoise author who has lived in Canada since 1970. A writer of poems, novels and novellas, she has also published children’s books. Her work often deals with the history and legacy of the dictatorship of the Duvaliers, and the situation of women and girls in Haiti.
Memory and Forgetting is co-directed by Holly Cate, assistant professor of theatre, and Dr. Paul McEwan, associate professor of media and communication.
For more information on the series, please visit http://www.muhlenberg.edu/main/aboutus/cfe/.
