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Kathryn
Woods |
Co-Sponsored by the Lyceum
Program and the African
and African-American
Studies Program
“A Woman, Ain’t I?”
Sojourner Truth as recreated by Kathryn Woods
Dramatic Performance
Thursday, January 24
Sarah Belk Gambrell Auditorium
7:30 p.m.
Sojourner Truth (1797-1883) was sold into slavery in
Hurley, N.Y., as Isabella Baumfree. During her 29 years as a
slave, she developed a close relationship with God which
enabled her in 1843 to rename herself Sojourner Truth and
walk away from slavery. Joining other notable abolitionists
such as Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman, Sojourner
took to the road to free her people. She became a powerful
speaker against slavery and for the rights of women. As the
end of the Civil War drew near, she was appointed counselor
for the Freedman’s Relief Association. The last years of her
life were spent petitioning the U.S. Government to turn over
western lands to ex-slaves.
The program joins Sojourner Truth at the end of her life.
She recalls her early days as a slave, details her
relationship with God, and shares poignant stories of her
days walking through this land. Woods uses Sojourner’s own
words and the spiritual music she may have sung to recreate
this inspiring woman.
Kathryn Woods has acted in Boston for many years. Her
credits include performances with Theatreworks, People’s
Theatre, The Wheelock Family Theatre and the Underground
Railway Theatre. Woods has also performed in Moscow and at
the Edinburgh Arts Festival.
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Lyceum Series
Fall 2007 - Spring 2008 Calendar
Click on speaker's name for more information.
Fall 2007
Thursday, September 6 — Byron Pitts, CBS Reporter
Sarah Belk Gambrell Auditorium
7:30 p.m.
Wednesday, September 26 — Harriet Washington, Editor
and Medical Ethicist
“Medical Apartheid”
Sarah Belk Gambrell Auditorium
7:30 p.m.
Thursday, October 4 — Dr. Na’im Akbar, Psychologist
“What Will Our Legacy Be?”
Sarah Belk Gambrell Auditorium
7:30 p.m.
Wednesday, October 24 — Beatrice Thompson,
News Anchor and Talk Show Host
Sarah Belk Gambrell Auditorium
7:30 p.m.
Thursday, November 1 — Lyceum Program in
Collaboration with the JCSU Violence
Prevention Coalition
Tony Porter, Educator and Activist
“A Call To Men”
Sarah Belk Gambrell Auditorium
7:30 p.m.
Wednesday, November 14 — Dr. Brian Johnson,
Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs
“W.E.B. Du Bois, Becoming Agnostic”
Sarah Belk Gambrell Auditorium
7:30 p.m.
SPRING 2008
Thursday, January 24
— Co-Sponsored by the Lyceum
Program and the African and African-American Studies Program
“A Woman, Ain’t I?”
Sojourner Truth as recreated by Kathryn Woods
Dramatic Performance
Sarah Belk Gambrell Auditorium
7:30 p.m.
Wednesday, February 6
— Faculty Showcase Event
Dr. Gregory Thompson
Chair, Department of Music Johnson C. Smith University
Piano and Woodwind Quintet Recital
The Jane M. Smith Memorial Church
7:30 p.m.
Friday, February 15
— Dr. Maha Gingrich's Indian
Dance
Students
“Dances of India”
Sarah Belk Gambrell Auditorium
7:30 p.m.
Tuesday, March 18
— Lyceum Program in Collaboration
with THE JCSU Violence Prevention Coalition
Kevin Powell, Political Activist
“Sexism From a Male Perspecitve”
Sarah Belk Gambrell Auditorium
7:30 p.m.
Tuesday, March 25
— Thirteenth Annual World of
Words Poetry Festival
Dr. Patrica Jabbeh Wesley, Poet
Lionel H. Newsom Humanities Building, Room 108
Writing Workshop
4:00 p.m.
Sarah Belk Gambrell Auditorium
Public Reading
7:30 p.m.
Wednesday, March 26
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ANNOUNCEMENT
Due to circumstances
beyond our control,
these Lyceum Poetry Festival events will be changed.
Tyehimba Jess is not able to perform at this time.
Thursday, March 27
— Metta S. Sáma, Poet
(Formerly Lydia Melvin)
Lionel H. Newsom Humanities Building, Room 108
Writing Workshop
4:00 p.m.
Sarah Belk Gambrell Auditorium
Public Reading
7:30 p.m.
Friday, March 28
— Thirteenth World of Words
Poetry Festival
Black Ink Monks Performance Poetry
Public Reading
Sarah Belk Gambrell Auditorium
7:30 p.m.
Thursday and Friday, April 10 and 11 —
JCSU Ira B. Aldridge
Drama Guild Performance
The Day of Absence by Douglas Turner Ward
Sarah Belk Gambrell Auditorium
7:30 p.m.
Thursday, April 17 — Dr. Bernice
Johnson Reagon,
Music Historian
“Notes from the Cultural Autobiography of a Freedom Singer”
Sarah Belk Gambrell Auditorium
7:30 p.m.
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