The UM School of Music Jazz Department is sponsoring this appearance by NYC percussionist/drummer William Hooker who will perform to Oscar Micheaux‘s silent film Within Our Gates (1920). Micheaux is considered the first major African American film director and producer. Mr. Hooker will also meet with RC Faculty Mark Kirschenmann’s improv. ensemble on Thursday evening the Sept. 24th, and will meet with students from DAAS on Friday afternoon, Sept. 25, at 2:00.
About the film – Within Our Gates – 1920 Black and white/Indie film 1h 19m.
In this early silent film from pioneering director Oscar Micheaux, kindly Sylvia Landry (Flo Clements) takes a fundraising trip to Boston in hopes of collecting $5,000 to keep a Southern school for impoverished black children open to the public. She then meets the warmhearted Dr. Vivian (William Smith), who falls in love with Sylvia and travels with her back to the South. There, Dr. Vivian learns about Sylvia’s shocking, tragic past and realizes that racism has changed her life forever.
RC students direct and perform this popular semiannual 90-minute program of short scenes on a variety of topics and in a variety of styles, many written by RC students. Also October 3.
RC students direct and perform this popular semiannual 90-minute program of short scenes on a variety of topics and in a variety of styles, many written by RC students.
RC Writers Tea, open to majors and current writing students who are non majors, and current students interested in the writing major. In RC’s Greene Lounge.
Carl Cohen is professor of philosophy at U-M. His newest book is A Conflict of Principles: The Battle Over Affirmative Action at the University of Michigan. He is also the author of Affirmative Action and Racial Preference.
RC Lecturer Alumnus Ken Mikolowski is the author of four previous books, Thank You Call Again, little mysteries, Big Enigmas, and Remember Me. His poems have been published in Brooklyn Rail, Hanging Loose, Exquisite Corpse, and Abandon Automobile, A Detroit Anthology, and have been recorded by the Frank Carlberg Group. Along with his wife Ann, Ken was publisher, editor, and printer of The Alternative Press. He lives in Ann Arbor.
Michael Lauchlan’s poems have appeared in many publications and have been anthologized in Abandon Automobile (Wayne State University Press, 2001) and A Mind Apart. His earlier collections are And the Business Goes to Pieces and Sudden Parade.
For those who have yet to witness the magic of “Red Eye,” it is a theatre experience where writers, directors, actors, and stage managers create and perform two one-act scenes all in the span of 24 hours.
RC Writers Tea, open to majors and current writing students who are non majors, and current students interested in the writing major. In RC’s Greene Lounge.
Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education and former RC Director Angela D. Dillard delivers the annual address in memory of the RC’s first Director and his spouse. Memorial lecture fund established by the Robertson family.
RC Creative Writing instructors will read from their works during Friday Night’s Alright For Reading, at 5:30 pm in Benzinger Library. Scheduled: Lolita Hernandez, Laura Kasischke, Sarah Messer, Ken Mikolowski, Robert James Russell, Elizabeth Schmuhl, andLaura Thomas.
