Voices|Visions and Revisions
2023-24 Season
NOV 5-6
Performing Sankofa
UNC Black Trailblazers
By Comm 562 (Student Spotlight)
November 30 & December 1 at 7:30pm
At Swain Hall Black Box Theatre
Performing Sankofa is an oral history project focused on the vision and goals that animated the creation and expansion of the Institute of African-American Research.
Nov 30 & Dec 1
The Christmas Case of Hezekiah Jones
By Howard L. Craft and Mike Wiley
December 8-9 at 7:30pm
At Swain Hall Black Box Theatre
A play about Dizzle Jollyworth, a front-line elf at Santa’s Workshop, who is struggling for meaning in his life and is tasked to travel to Chapel Hill, North Carolina to rekindle the Christmas spirit of Hezikiah Jones, a grief-stricken, disillusioned toymaker.
Dec 8-9
Rap Redemption on Death Row
Based on a book by Alim Braxton and Mark Katz
March 1-2 at 7:30pm
At Swain Hall Black Box Theatre
Rap and Redemption on Death Row by Alim Braxton and Mark Katz is based on the correspondence between Mark Katz and death row inmate Alim Braxton and is presented in conjunction with the release of their book and record album.
Mar 1-2
Mar 8-9
Three Poets in Performance
By Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Elisabeth Lewis Corley, and Destiny Hemphill, with music by Nikki Kilgore and company
April 12-13 at 7:30pm
At Swain Hall Black Box Theatre
Unfortunately, due to unforeseen circumstances out of our control, we have had to cancel the Three Poets in Performance show. We greatly apologize for any inconvenience this might have caused.
April 12-13
Grafting Rooting Growing
Written and Performed by Leah Ai Ling Woehr
April 19-20 7:00pm
At Swain Hall Black Box Theatre
Grafting, Rooting, Growing is an autoethnographic solo performance that explores Chinese transnational adoption and Chinese-American identity. In this piece, I interweave family stories, music, and personal reflection as I work through understanding how my daughterhood was performed into being and how this affects my sense of self. I then place my own narrative in conversation with other Chinese adoptees to demonstrate the communal relationship between our experiences and how this contributes to the larger Asian American diaspora.
April 19-20
The Process Series is supported by the generosity of:
The College of Arts and Sciences, Institute for the Arts and Humanities, Arts Everywhere, Carolina Latinx Center, The Asian American Center, Carolina Pride Alumni Network (CPAN), and these UNC Departments: African, African American, and Diaspora Studies, American Studies, Art and Art History, Communication, Dramatic Art, English and Comparative Literature, German and Slavic Languages, and Music. This project was supported by the N.C. Arts Council, a division of the Department of Natural & Cultural Resources, with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Chatham Arts Council, and the Manbites Dog Theater Fund.
