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From Liberals to Radicals: Understanding Hansberry’s Vision Today

BRIC House

647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY 11217, USA New York

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Co-presented by BAM and BRIC In conjunction with The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window With Joi Gresham, Anne Kauffman and Arminda Thomas In conversation with Soyica Diggs Colbert Opening poetry by Grace Tapia “We have to find some way … to show and to encourage the white liberal to stop being a liberal and become an American radical.”—Lorraine Hansberry, “The Black Revolution and the White Backlash” What does it mean to be an American radical? In Lorraine Hansberry’s life, activism, and artistic work, she called for a shift from liberalism to radicalism designed to meet the moment of the Civil Rights Movement. Join a group of Hansberry scholars and theater makers for a discussion of Hansberry’s radicalism, presented in conjunction with BAM’s production of The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window—about a group of progressive dreamers in 1960s New York—and the related exhibit “Art is Energy”: Lorraine Hansberry, World Builder. This wide-ranging conversation, co-presented by BAM and BRIC, explores the tension between liberalism and radicalism in Hansberry’s play and beyond, and what it could look like for liberals to become radicals today. If you're not able to attend in-person, the event will be streamed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9BORSrBw5g ABOUT THE PARTICIPANTS Soyica Diggs Colbert (Curator of “Art is Energy”: Lorraine Hansberry, World Builder) is the Idol Family Professor of African American Studies and Performing Arts at Georgetown University and the Vice President of Interdisciplinary Initiatives. Colbert’s award-winning book, Radical Vision: A Biography of Lorraine Hansberry. She has held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support a residency at the Schomburg Center, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Stanford University, Mellon Foundation, and the Robert W. Woodruff Library at Emory University. Colbert has also lectured nationally and internationally at universities, high schools, and middle schools as well as for civic and arts organizations. Colbert’s writing has been featured in the The New York Times, Washington Post, Public Books, Metrograph and American Theatre. She has been interviewed on NPR and commented for the New York Times, USA Today, CNN, and the Washington Post. She is an Associate Director at the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, D.C. She has also served as a Creative Content Producer for The Public Theatre’s audio play, shadow/land. Her research interests span the 19th-21st centuries, from Harriet Tubman to Beyoncé, and from poetics to performance. Joi Gresham (Script Supervisor for The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window) as the Director and Trustee of the Lorraine Hansberry Literary Trust, oversees the multi-media licensing of Hansberry's works and other intellectual properties; acts as a consulting producer for stage productions in the US and abroad; serves as editor for print editions of Hansberry's writings; and cultivates and curates the ongoing interest in the artist, activist, public intellectual, and writer. She is the daughter of Jewell Gresham Nemiroff and Robert Nemiroff, Hansberry’s former husband and literary executor. Anne Kauffman (Director of The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window) has credits including with New York Philharmonic, Ars Nova, Atlantic Theater, NYTW, Roundabout Theatre Company, Encores! Off-Center, Women’s Project, Playwrights Horizons, MCC, The Public, P73 Productions, New Georges, Vineyard Theater, LCT3, Yale Rep, Steppenwolf, Goodman Theater, The Wilma Theater, La Jolla Playhouse, Z Space, American Conservatory Theater, Berkeley Rep and Nashville, Chicago and Boston Symphonies. She is a resident director at Roundabout Theater, artistic director of City Center’s Encores! Off-Center 2017—2020, artistic associate and founding member of The Civilians, a Clubbed Thumb associate artist and co-creator of the CT Directing Fellowship, a New Georges associate artist, an SDC executive board member, and vice president and trustee of SDCF. Kauffman’s awards include three Obies, the Joan and Joseph Cullman Award for Exceptional Creativity from Lincoln Center, the Alan Schneider Director Award, a Lucille Lortel Award, and the Joe A. Callaway Award. Co-creator of the Cast Album Project with Jeanine Tesori. Grace Tapia is a New York-based poet, playwright, screenwriter and performer. She is an alum of the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Brooklyn Interns for Arts and Culture program where she was one of twelve arts interns during her senior year of high school. She is also the winner of the spoken word category for national YoungArts program in 2022 and a Presidential Scholar of the Arts 2022 nominee. Currently, Grace is a freshman Acting and Playwriting major at Hunter College. In her writing, Grace hopes to keep the memory of the Brooklyn she was raised in alive through her art in the midst of rapid gentrification and honor other Black and Brown queer people. Arminda Thomas (Dramaturg for The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window) is resident dramaturg and a producing member of CLASSIX. Selected dramaturgy credits include Death of a Salesman (Hudson Theatre), Wedding Band (Theatre for a New Audience), Black Picture Show (Artists Space), Mirrors (Next Door at New York Theatre Workshop), Black History Museum... According to the United States of America (HERE Arts Center), and Jazz (Marin Theatre Company). She previously served as archivist and dramaturg for Dee-Davis Enterprises, where she was an executive producer for the Grammy-awarded audiobook, With Ossie and Ruby: In This Life Together, and consultant for the film Life’s Essentials with Ruby Dee. PHOTO CREDIT: Lorraine Hansberry Literary Trust PHOTO CAPTION: Unidentified woman, Daisy Bates, and Lorraine Hansberry at an NAACP Rally in Washington Square Park, June 13, 1959. Photographer unknown. Venue Information: BRIC House is Brooklyn’s cultural living room: a 40,000 square foot multi-disciplinary arts and media complex in the former Strand Theatre, where emerging and established artists can create work that deepens their practice and engages the diverse communities of the borough. Beginning Nov. 1, 2022, attendees of any BRIC House programming will no longer have to show proof of vaccination or a negative test to enter the building. Masks are encouraged but not required in all BRIC operated spaces. If you have questions regarding this protocol, please email Safety@bricartsmedia.org. For our full BRIC House COVID-19 policy, visit: https://www.bricartsmedia.org/safety. BRIC is committed to welcoming people of all abilities. The main floor of BRIC House has an accessible entrance on Rockwell Place, in addition to an accessible, all-gender bathroom. The BRIC Media Center, located on the 2nd floor, is accessible via elevator. The Gallery level is accessible via a wheelchair lift. Portable FM assistive listening devices are available for programs on the Stoop and in the Ballroom upon request. To make a specific access request, or to let us know other ways we can provide you with a welcoming experience, please contact Benno Orlinsky at borlinsky@bricartsmedia.org or (718) 683-5637.

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