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
By Alim Braxton and Mark Katz
February 9-10 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.
Feb 9-10
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
Three poets explore race, ethnicity, gender, culture, intersectionality, and what we might require to address our global climate and cascading emergencies in an evening of performed poetry accented by musician Nikki Kilgore.
April 12-13
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.
