Schedule of Events

All events are free and open to the public

Artists in Residence – March 28 – April 2
Hope Azeda (Rwanda)
Luciane Ramos-Silva (Brazil)
Girija Siddi, Geeta Siddi and Channakeshava G. (India)
Malika Ndlovu (South Africa)

Week One

Thursday: March 31st
9:30– 11:30   Panel 1: “Home, Heart and Revolution: Reconciliation in Literary Contexts  (Hitchcock Room)
April Shemak (Sam Houston University), Moderator
Mamyrah Prosper –(North Carolina State University)
Merle Collins (University of Maryland)
Belinda Wallace (University of New Mexico)
Évelyne Trouillot (State University Haiti)

11:30 -1:00  Light Refreshments

1:00 – 3:00   Panel 2:  “Home is a Journey of Courage and Wisdom:  Creative Artists on Approaches to Presenting Home” (Hitchcock Room)
Chérie Rivers Ndaliko (UNC), Moderator

Malika Ndlovu – (South Africa) Poet/Artivist
Luciane Ramos-Silva (Brazil) – Dancer/Anthropologist
Hope Azeda (Rwanda) – Playwright/Director
Girija Siddi, Geeta Siddi and Channakeshava G. – (India)         Storytellers/Dancers

7:00  Shades of Home: Presentations by Guest  Artists and Students              (Hitchcock Room)
Kathy A. Perkins (UNC) , Moderator
Poetry – Shirley Campbell-Barr (Costa Rica)
Excerpt from The Blue of the Island by Évelyne Trouillot (Haiti)                     read by Drama 284 directed by Nehanda Loiseau (Duke Univ.)
Excerpt from Gardel’s Lover  – Mayra Santos Febres (Puerto Rico)
Ebony Readers/Onyx Theatre with Malika Ndlovu (South Africa) Poetry – Velma Pollard (Jamaica)
Interactive Theatre Carolina with Hope Azeda (Rwanda)
Poetry –  Merle Collins (Grenada)

Friday: April 1st
10:00 – 12:00   ¡Palabra/Word!“ (Hitchcock Room)
Renee Alexander Craft (UNC), Moderator
Mayra Santos Febres (Puerto Rico)
Shirley Campbell Barr (Costa Rica)
Velma Pollard (Jamaica)

12:30 – 3:30   Film Series: (Hitchcock room)
The Witches of Gambaga by Yaba Badoe (United Kingdom) 
HOME by Naimah Fuller (US)
Our Own Home by Sophia Nahli Allison (UNC)

3:30 – 4:30   Discussion with filmmakers  (Hitchcock room)
Charlene Regester – Introduction (UNC)
Rose Sackeyfio – Moderator (Winston-Salem State Univ.)
Yaba Badoe (United Kingdom)
Naimah Fuller (USA)

7:30 Homegrown: Performing Stories from Africa and the African Diaspora   (Stone Center Theatre)
Malika Ndluvo – Turning and Returning: Journeys of Home through                    Performance Poetry (South Africa)
Luciane Ramos-Silva – Eyes at My Back and a Smile at the Corner                of My Lips  (Brazil)
Geeta Siddi, Girija Siddi and Channakeshava G.  – NIMILITA; Story of              a Girl with Closed Eyes  (India)
Harlem KW Project  – 
Renaissance in the Belly of the Killer Whale      (USA) 

Saturday: April 2nd

DUE TO RAIN, COMMUNITY CELEBRATION HAS BEEN MOVED FROM 12:00pm to 1:00pm               1:00 – 5:00   Celebration open to community and campusJames C. Wallace ( atop the James C Wallace Parking Deck)
150 East Rosemary Street   Chapel Hill
(Directions for the parking deck can be found here)
Shabutaso (African & Brazilian Drummers)
Siddis from India
Luciane Ramos-Silva with OASIS (The Organization for African Students’ Interests and Solidarity) dancers
Ebony Readers/Onyx Theatre (EROT)
Organization For African Students’ Interests And Solidarity (OASIS)
Malika Ndlovu
Gospel Singer Mary Williams
Bhuepa Culture
Bataque Afro-Brazillian Band
Various artists from the Chapel Hill/Durham community

7:30  Homegrown: Performing Stories from Africa and the African Diaspora      (Stone Center Theatre)

Malika Ndluvo  – Turning and Returning: Journeys of Home through                    Performance Poetry (South Africa)
Luciane Ramos-Silva – Eyes at My Back and a Smile at the Corner                of My Lips  (Brazil)
Geeta Siddi, Girija Siddi and Channakeshava G.  – NIMILITA; Story of              a Girl with Closed Eyes  (India)
Harlem KW Project  – 
Renaissance in the Belly of the Killer Whale      (USA) 

Week Two

Wednesday: April 6th
2:00-4:00pm  “A Spiritual Home: Muslim Women in Africa and the African Diaspora” “ (Hitchcock Room)
Ronald Williams (UNC), Moderator
Pearl Robinson (Tufts University)
Baiyina W. Muhammad (North Carolina Central University)
Ula Taylor (University of California at Berkeley)
Cristal Chanelle Truscott (Progress Theatre Company)

4:30- 6:00   Reception: Historic Love House  (410 East Franklin Street)

6:30pm   Caged Birds: Women in Prison (Stone Center Theatre)
Genna Rae McNeil (UNC) – Moderator
Joanne Hershfield (UNC Emeritus) – Film excerpt: Planting the Seed: Making a Home for Formerly Incarcerated Women
Miea Walker – Jobs for Life (Raleigh)
Geeta Kapur – (Campbell Law School)  – Civil Rights Attorney

Thursday: April 7th
2:00-4:00pm   Women: Health, Healing and Home (Hitchcock Room)
adebukola oni – Moderator (UNC)
Nazik Hammad (Queen’s University, Canada)
Deborah A. Fortune (North Carolina Central University)

Thursday & Friday: April 7th-8th – The Process Series Play Reading
Swain Hall
– 101 East Cameron Avenue
**ATTENTION: Due to limited seating, PLEASE plan to arrive 15-30 minutes early to guarantee a spot. 

8:00 pm Reading of Torn Asunder  by Nikkole Salter based on the book Help Me to Find My People  by Heather Andrea Williams
Directed by  Kathy Williams (UNC)
Joseph Megel – Moderator

Discussion to follow with playwright and cast                                    The Process Series Home Page