[Peace] Fwd: AFRST EVENTS: Kathy Perkins Presentation

[Alfred Kagan]

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>Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2004 10:10:01 -0600
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>From: African Studies <kumis at uiuc.edu>
>Subject: AFRST EVENTS: Kathy Perkins Presentation
>
>CENTER FOR AFRICAN STUDIES
>SPRING EVENTS 2004
>F E B R U A R Y    SP E A K E R    S E R I E S
>
>Noon-1 p.m., Room 101, ISP Building, 910 S. Fifth Street, Champaign
>
>February 11th
>
>The Middle Passage: Exploring Slavery through Theatre from an 
>African Perspective
>
>Kathy Perkins
>
>Kathy Perkins is Chair of the Lighting Design Program at the Theatre 
>Department at UIUC.  Perkins has designed over 300 productions 
>throughout the U.S., as well as in Europe and South Africa. She is 
>the editor of Black Female Playwrights: An Anthology of Plays before 
>1950 and Black South African Women: An Anthology of Plays, and 
>co-editor of Contemporary Plays by Women of Color and Strange Fruit: 
>Plays on Lynching by American Women.  Perkins will be speaking about 
>her work as a lighting designer/theatre historian on the play The 
>Middle Passage that was performed in South Africa in the summer of 
>2003. Written by South African playwright Fatime Dike, the play 
>explores the slave trade through the eyes of an African through 
>theatre. 
>
>Kumi Silva
>Extra Curricular Coordinating
>Center for African Studies
>210 International Studies Building
>910 S. Fifth Street (MC-485)
>Champaign, IL 61820
>(217)244-5456 (O)
>(217) 244-2429 (F)
>www.afrst.uiuc.edu


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Al Kagan
African Studies Bibliographer and Professor of Library Administration
Africana Unit, Room 328
University of Illinois Library
1408 W. Gregory Drive
Urbana, IL 61801, USA

tel. 217-333-6519
fax. 217-333-2214
e-mail. akagan at uiuc.edu
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