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Please join us for a talk by Professor Robin D. G. Kelley of UCLA. This event is part of the Bebe Koch Petrou Lecture Series.

About the Speaker:

Robin D. G. Kelley is Distinguished Professor and Gary B. Nahs Endowed Chair in U.S. History at UCLA and a public intellectual whose numerous books include co-edited volumes such as The Other Special Relationship: Race, Rights and Riots in Britain and the United States (2015); Walter Rodney, The Russian Revolution: A View From the Third World ( 2018); as well as monographs, Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times (2012); Thelonious Monk (2009); and Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination (2002).

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The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Kogod Theatre

ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE
The story of Anansi and his trickster family is put into a sleek hip hop context for Hip Hop Anansi, a modern, all-ages adaptation of a traditional Ashanti folktale. Anansi wants the Golden Fly Pie Award for Tricksterism and is not above outwitting his own family to win it. But his rhyming, break dancing, graffiti-ing children are ready to claim the prize in their own right. Paige Hernandez, Associate Artistic Director of Everyman Theatre in Baltimore, directs this new vision of a classic African folk tale as penned by the acclaimed actress, playwright and singer-songwriter Eisa Davis.

All performances include integrated open captions.

PERFORMANCE DATES
Fri, Apr 18, 2025 • 7:30PM
Sat, Apr 19, 2025 • 1PM & 4PM
Fri, Apr 25, 2025 • 7:30PM
Sat, Apr 26, 2025 • 11AM

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