BLACK HISTORY MONTH AT LANGSTON HUGHES PERFORMING ARTS CENTER

2013 BLACK HISTORY MONTH AT LANGSTON HUGHES PERFORMING ARTS CENTER

LANGSTON BIRTHDAY BASH

             

February 1st, 2013 @ 8 pm

Start Black History Month by celebrating our namesake Langston Hughes, born February 1st, 1902.   Put on your dancing shoes.  Dance to the sounds of Motown sung by our own Lady of Soul, Josephine Howell.  Dress up or down, just come.

Advance tickets $15 at Brown Paper Tickets or $20 at the door

CALL MR. ROBESON

February 8th and 9th, 2013 @ 8 pm

Nigerian writer, performer Tayo Aluko’s, one person show about Paul Robeson takes us on a roller coaster journey through Robeson's remarkable and eventful life, and highlights how his radical activism caused him to be disowned and disremembered, even by the leaders and descendants of the civil rights movement.   The play features fiery oratory and some of his most famous songs, including a dramatic rendition of Ol' Man River.

Advance tickets $20 at Brown Paper tickets $25 at the door

From Africa to the White House: a journey of Resistance, Triumph and Spirituals

February 10th 2013, @ 7PM

Nigerian writer, performer Tayo Aluko’s has created an illuminating musically illustrated talk exploring African pre-slavery history, Africans' resistance to white domination over the centuries, and their eventual triumph (symbolically at least) with the election and inauguration of Barack Obama to the Presidency of the United States.

Advance Tickets $10 at Brown Paper Tickets. $15 at door

CLEO PARKER ROBINSON DANCE ENSEMBLE    

February 15th School matinee 10:30 am 

February 16th Performance 8:00pm

February 17th Master Workshop 11-2 pm 

Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center presents world renowned Cleo Parker Robinson’ Dance ensemble’s 2012 world premiere of FUSION, choreographed by Haitian choreographer Jeanguy Saintus.  Mr. Saintus piece expresses the rich fusion of Caribbean culture and the contemporary life of his country through the body, Haitian traditional dance, classical, modern and contemporary technique.

Advance tickets $25 Brown Paper tickets.  $30.00 at the door

HARRIET RETURNS

February 28th School matinee 10:30 am

March 1st, 2nd Performance 8:00 pm

Karen Meadow’s one woman tour de force on the life of Harriet Tubman has been performed successfully throughout the United States and abroad.  The play propels you into Harriet’s life and the strength, healing, and mysticism of her spirit guides “voices,” that Harriet Tubman lived with after a horrendous beating during her life as a slave.  Harriet’s Return is an official member of the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Program.

Advance tickets $20 Brown Paper tickets.  $25 at the door

FOR INFORMATION:

Call Alfred Love at 206-684-4758 or e-mail to alfred.love@seattle.gov