Women and Movement #11: African American Women Affecting the Arts in New Orleans
Channel: Tulane University Libraries
Date: 2023-03-06

Recording of Women and Movement #11: African American Women Affecting the Arts in New Orleans event hosted by the New Orleans Center for the Gulf South (NOCGS) at Tulane University on February 3, 2023 in Lupin Theater. 

The Women and Movement series is designed to collectively engage women scholars and artists from across the gulf south region to take part in discourse about place, performance and the social-political issues that transform their bodies, art, language, and greater community. Panelists include: Greer Goff Mendy (Director, Tekrema Center for Art and Culture), Ausettua Amor Amenkum (Big Queen, Washitaw Nation Big Indian Tribe, Artistic Director and Founding Member of Kumbuka African Drum and Dance Collective), Mariama Curry (Founder/Artistic Director of Culu and N’Kafu Traditional African Dance Companies), Kai Knight (Artistic Director of Silhouette Dance Ensemble and Breathe!, Choreographer and performer and instructor, Kumbula African Drum and Dance Collective, Bamboula 2000), and Jarrell Hamilton (Jarrell Hamilton, Inc.). Moderated by Lauren E. Turner (Artistic Director of No Dream Deferred NOLA). 

Sponsored and curated by New Orleans Center for the Gulf South. Organized by theater professor Dr. John "Ray" Proctor, assistant vice president of Student Affairs Carolyn Barber-Pierre, and assistant director of New Orleans Center for the Gulf South Dr. Denise Frazier. 

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New Orleans Center for the Gulf South (NOCGS) website: https://liberalarts.tulane.edu/nocgs

Video produced by Digital Scholarship & Initiatives at Tulane University Libraries
Videography/Editing by Alan Velasquez

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