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April 2022
The Ethics of Now presents Min Jin Lee
Bestselling author and National Book Award finalist for her novel Pachinko, Min Jin Lee writes about the Korean diaspora. Through her sensitive depictions of generations of families struggling to make their way in the world, she explores sweeping themes of race, class, gender, immigration, colonialism, and religion. Join Duke History professor Adriane Lentz-Smith for a conversation with Lee on Family, Community, and the Bonds That Make Us. Please note that this is an in-person event at the Durham Arts Council in downtown…
Find out more »The Fire of Freedom with Mike Wiley
Admission is free, but please register for tickets. Register here Join us for a one-man show by award-winning actor and playwright Mike Wiley, Artist in Residence at the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University. Read more about Wiley's appointment here. "The Fire of Freedom" is the story of Abraham H. Galloway (1837-1870), a fiery young slave rebel, radical abolitionist, and Union spy who rose out of bondage in Wilmington, North Carolina to become one of the most significant and…
Find out more »Amendment
AMENDMENT A New Choreographic Work by Michael Kliën Experience the new immersive work – a social choreography – by choreographer and professor Michael Kliën. In times of the systemic destruction of our environment, Amendment offers a container to reform our relationship with the unknown, the foreign, the animal. The work provides citizens with extraordinary experiences to temporarily transcend the human/non-human divide and dive into a relationship of reciprocal belonging. 6–7:30 p.m. Mon, April 18 and Tues, April 19, 2022 von…
Find out more »Amendment
AMENDMENT A New Choreographic Work by Michael Kliën Experience the new immersive work – a social choreography – by choreographer and professor Michael Kliën. In times of the systemic destruction of our environment, Amendment offers a container to reform our relationship with the unknown, the foreign, the animal. The work provides citizens with extraordinary experiences to temporarily transcend the human/non-human divide and dive into a relationship of reciprocal belonging. 6–7:30 p.m. Mon, April 18 and Tues, April 19, 2022 von…
Find out more »Peculiar Liberation
Peculiar Liberation (an adaptation of the work "Parliament" by Michael Kliën) is an interactive, interpersonal space for Black/African-American identifying folx to engage with community by way of embodied exploration and play. Centering the ideas of Black liberation and socialization, the space seeks to explore the possibilities of togetherness, when Black bodies are permissioned and supported to exist outside a marginalized context as their fullest self. Led by adjunct Professor of Dance, Ife Presswood, Peculiar Liberation incorporates music, movement, rest, play,…
Find out more »May 2022
Peculiar Liberation
Peculiar Liberation (an adaptation of the work "Parliament" by Michael Kliën) is an interactive, interpersonal space for Black/African-American identifying folx to engage with community by way of embodied exploration and play. Centering the ideas of Black liberation and socialization, the space seeks to explore the possibilities of togetherness, when Black bodies are permissioned and supported to exist outside a marginalized context as their fullest self. Led by adjunct Professor of Dance, Ife Presswood, Peculiar Liberation incorporates music, movement, rest, play,…
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