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<FONT FACE="Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'><B>Below are dates and descriptions of our summer events and a graphic below.<BR>
Please circulate to your lists and I hope you and come!<BR>
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</B></SPAN><B><FONT SIZE="5"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:18.0px'>New WORLD Theater’s New Works for a New World Summer Playlab begins <BR>
</SPAN></FONT></B><SPAN STYLE='font-size:18.0px'><H2>June 15<BR>
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</SPAN><FONT SIZE="5"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:18.0px'><B><I>Letters & Journals: An Evening with Suheir Hammad <BR>
</I></B></SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:18.0px'><H2>Open Studio <BR>
Thursday, June 15 at 8 PM<BR>
Holden Theater, Amherst College<BR>
</H2></SPAN><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>Acclaimed poet Suheir Hammad will read from letters and <BR>
journals drawing from her personal experience as a Palestinian American, extensive research on the history and literature of Zionism, and recent visits to Palestine. In this work, Hammad seeks to create a safe space where difficult confessions can be expressed, and artist and audience can sit together as fragile, connected humans. She approaches the complex issues of Palestinian and Israeli relations with empathy and humanity, seeking to present a view point that too often goes unreported, misrepresented, or misunderstood.<BR>
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</SPAN><FONT SIZE="5"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:18.0px'><B><I>Dreamscape </I> - Open Studio<BR>
A work in progress with Rickerby Hinds and Manu Mukasa of Keeping It Real<BR>
</B></SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:18.0px'><H2>Friday June 23 and Saturday June 24 at 8 PM<BR>
Holden Theater, Amherst College<BR>
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December, 1998. Southern California. Four police officers fired 24 shots at an unconscious 19-year old woman killing her while she lay locked in her car.They were charged with criminal wrong-doing and cleared of charges in May 1999. <BR>
Taking the inner monologue as a form, playwright Rickerby Hinds paints us the picture of the life of Myeisha Mills. Her innocence and youthfulness contrast on the stage with descriptions of her death, her autopsy and the extraction of the bullets from her body. Hinds creative re-telling of this all-too familiar story of police violence and the African American community forces us to confront our continued tolerance of systemic and brutal racism in this country.<BR>
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</SPAN><SPAN STYLE='font-size:18.0px'><H2><I>Scourge<BR>
</I></H2><FONT SIZE="5"><B>Marc Bamuthi Joseph<BR>
</B></FONT><H2>Friday June 30 and Saturday July 1 at 8 PM<BR>
</H2></SPAN><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'><I> </I>An exorcism and re-imagination of traditional theatrical genres, <I>Scourge </I>offers a powerful, political and revolutionary look at Haiti in its 200th year as a sovereign nation. In this new work, acclaimed performer <B>Marc Bamuthi Joseph</B> fuses hip-hop, spoken word and live music in an exploration of the narrow space between history, myth and speculation in this poignant look at the tragic and complex history of the artist’s native Haiti. Bursting the boundaries of racism and ignorance to reach a new kind of understanding, <I>Scourge</I> is a rich collaboration between Bamuthi Joseph and a host of veteran talents: renowned Latin Jazz composer <B>John Santos</B>, choreographers <B>Rennie Harris</B> and <B>Adia Whitaker,</B> and director <B>Kamilah Forbes</B>. <BR>
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</SPAN><SPAN STYLE='font-size:18.0px'><H2><I>Un/knowing Desire and Empire<BR>
</I>An Open Studio with Mango Tribe<BR>
Saturday July 1 at 12 PM <BR>
</H2></SPAN><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'> Desire. Empire. Our daily doings, our passions, and the wars around us are intertwined. Breath, the erotic core, and the global struggle to survive are inextricably linked. <I>Un/knowing Desire and Empire </I>is as much a<I> </I>presentation of historical fiction that delves into the fantastical as it is an erotic, primal story told through breath, gesture, and movement; elements of character, sentience, and society unveil through the purity and synergy of art itself. By complicating the dualities of traditional/modern, personal/global, erotic/platonic, mundane/magical, <I>Un/knowing</I> Desire and Empire honors Mango Tribe's cultural heritages and multi-layered identities, reflecting a new hybrid aesthetic in an increasingly diverse America. <BR>
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</SPAN><FONT SIZE="5"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:18.0px'><B>Project 2050 <I>DeConstructing Dualities: <BR>
DeCLASSifying Minds, Understanding VERSatility<BR>
</I></B></SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:18.0px'><H2>July 14 and 15 at 8 PM<BR>
</H2><FONT SIZE="5"><B>Bowker Auditorium, University of Massachusetts Amherst<BR>
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This year, Project 2050 looks at duality, difference, division and the contradictions of living in the United States of America. As demographics and politics shift, youth find themselves caught between worlds: between childhood and adulthood, between racial and cultural identities, between gender and sexuality, between economic class realities, between geographic borders. DeConstructing Dualities explores the in-between spaces, the double consciousness, the border lands, and the liminal zones. In a world where dualities are often exploited, how do these identities divide or unite us? What happens at the intersection of class, race and gender? How do issues such as immigration and the increased patrolling of borders affect our families and communities? Through poetry, Hip Hop and theater, Project 2050 breaks down barriers to embrace multiplicity and celebrate versatility!<BR>
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</SPAN><FONT SIZE="5"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:18.0px'><B>Visit our website for ticket information, venues and more. www.newworldtheater.org <BR>
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Or call NWT at 413-545-1972<BR>
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