Events for April 25, 2023 - April 10, 2023

Featuring the short films, Colonial Currents: Black Women, Water, Trauma, and Baptism and Hierarchies: Oral and Visual Testimonies. Question and answer session to follow viewing and talk. Colonial Currents: Black Women, Water, Trauma, and Baptism marries still and moving images with poetic narration referencing history and the present. Themes of resistance, reparations, and a restoration of black women’s power in the wake of their middle passage lineage, racial/ethnic histories, and journey with the lingering currents of political frameworks, racism, hegemony, and post-colonial trauma. Intersections of dance, performance and storytelling overlap [...]

In a dynamic 90-minute in-person workshop considering expressive culture, signs and symbolic meanings in the U.S., and the mythologizing and romanticizing of concepts, artifacts, experiences, Alexis Alleyne-Caputo will lead students through discussion, reflection, and writing exercises, with experimental performance/interpretation by Harmony Jackson. Limited seating available for student participants.

Join director Patrick Creadon as he introduces his new documentary about the Loyola Chicago Ramblers, the college basketball team that broke racial barriers in 1963 on their way to a national championship.