Northwestern University Performance Studies

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Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity. Inc. Presents
Martin Luthar King, Jr. Candlelight Vigil
On Jan 28, 2024 @ 5PM
At Alice Millar Chapel, 1870, Sheridan Road,
Evanston.
Keynote Speaker : Rev. Dr. Reginald Willaims Jr.
Sr. Pastor at First Baptist Church, University Park.
#MLKDay

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A huge thank you to everyone who came out for the Department of Performance Studies' 2023 Wallace A. Bacon Lecture with Professor Emeritus D. Soyini Madison!

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Date: Thursday, May 18th, 5 - 8pm
Location: Northwestern University - SLIPPAGE Lab, John J. Louis Hall, Room 226 1877 Campus Drive Evanston, IL 60208

🔗 RSVP in the link in bio

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SLIPPAGE's MAKE BLACK LIVE ART NOW! (MBLAN!) initiative encourages wider and more innovative curation of multiversal Black artmaking. Featuring live ideas from the collective including Jennifer Harge, J'Sun Howard and André M. Zachery

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Join us after for a reception celebrating the work of all SLIPPAGE's Spring 2023 artists and the 'soft launch' of SLIPPAGE's new space on Northwestern's Evanston campus.

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Next in our Spring Performance Hour Series 🎭 is Theseus, created by Ethan Karas, and produced by William Marchetta! The performance takes place at Annie May Swift Hall, Krause Studio at 9pm, through its run from May 16th to May 19th.

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The two day symposium, which takes place from May 19th-20th, draws together scholars and artists working between the fields of performance studies and media studies whose work theorizes race and racialization, drawing on the discourses of psychoanalysis and marxism.

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The full schedule for the Spring 2023 Lambert Family Conference in Communication, titled Object Relations: Performance and Race at the Edge of Theory is now available to view and download in the link in bio.

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Correction: This Friday’s lecture will take place at Krause Studio, Annie May Swift Hall (AMS 103), in Evanston

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We are happy to announce a new date for the Department of Performance Studies' 2023 Wallace A. Bacon Lecture with Professor Emeritus D. Soyini Madison. Now taking place at Helmerich Auditorium, Annie May Swift Hall (AMS 102), the lecture is rescheduled for Friday, May 12th, 4pm.

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📌 Please do register for the rescheduled event in the link bio, even if you had done before.

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The two day symposium draws together scholars and artists working between the fields of performance studies and media studies whose work theorizes race and racialization, drawing on the discourses of psychoanalysis and marxism.

🔗 RSVP in the link in bio.

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Join the Department of Performance Studies for the Spring 2023 Lambert Family Conference in Communication, titled Object Relations: Performance and Race at the Edge of Theory.

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Featuring Ethan Philbrick, Ryan Wayne Dohoney, Joshua Chambers-Letson and Lakshmi Padmanabhan, the roundtable will take place on Thursday, May 11th, from 5pm - 7pm at the Writz Center for the Performance Arts, Room 215.

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Please join the Department of Performance Studies and the Cluster in Critical Studies in Theatre and Performance for a roundtable discussion celebrating the publication of Ethan Philbrick's Group Works: Art, Politics, and Collective Ambivalence (2023).

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🔗 The link for the Zoom meeting can be found in the bio.

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Please join us for a virtual artist talk with Colombian artists Nube Sandoval and Bernardo Rey, directors of the Centro de Investigaciones Teatrales - CENIT (Theater Research Center).

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Presented by the Department of Performance Studies at Northwestern University, the virtual artist talk is free, open to public and will be held on Tuesday, May 9th, from 2pm - 3pm.

*Do note that the event will be in Spanish with simultaneous English translation.

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(3) Lukas Avendaño’s movement workshop
April 28, 3pm - 6:30pm & April 29, 10am - 1:30pm, The Ballroom at Wirtz Center for the Performing Arts
*attendance limited to 20

🔗 RSVP in link in bio

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Join us for Labor and Corporealities: Queer of Color Explorations as Activist Work, a cluster of performances and conversations led by artists Lukas Avendaño and Lia García (La Novia Sirena), which takes place from 26 April through 29 April, across various locations.

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Event Schedule:

(1) Lia García's performance: Cuando las nubes se encontraron con la tristeza / When Clouds Encountered Sadness
April 26, 11:00am - 12:20pm, Alvina Krause Studio

(2) Lia García and Lukas Avendaño in Dialogue
April 26, 12:45 - 2:10pm, Alvina Krause Studio

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