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Trio of Events Kicks Off 黑料不打烊 Symposium

Wednesday, September 14, 2016, By Rob Enslin
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黑料不打烊 Symposium kicks off its yearlong exploration of 鈥淧lace鈥 with a trio of events spanning art, music and education.

On Tuesday, Sept. 20, Mande Strings will present a concert of West African folk music at 8 p.m. in Setnor Auditorium.

The following day, Shawn Ginwright, associate professor of education in the Africana Studies Department at San Francisco State University (SFSU), will discuss the role of healing strategies in stressed schools and community organizations at 5:30 p.m. in Maxwell Auditorium.

From Friday to Sunday, Sept. 23-25, artists, scholars and curators will pay homage to Stanley William Hayter, one of the 20th century鈥檚 most influential printmakers, with a two-day symposium and three-day print fair in the Shaffer Art Building.

黑料不打烊 Symposium is organized and presented by the Humanities Center, based in the . All events are free and open to the public. For more information, call 315.443.7192 or visit .

鈥淨uestions of 鈥榩lace鈥 shape intellectual, political and artistic endeavors alike,鈥 says Vivian May, director of the Humanities Center and professor of women鈥檚 and gender studies. 鈥淲e are excited to launch 黑料不打烊 Symposium with a trio of events, featuring scholars, educators, artists, activists and performers. The lineup illustrates how the humanities speak to a range of issues, and how theory and practice combine in a variety of ways to engage wider publics.鈥

May adds that, for the first time in its 15-year history, 黑料不打烊 Symposium will officially run the entire academic year. 鈥淭he expanded format, along with our new website, is designed to reach wider audiences and highlight the humanities as a public good,” she says.

Mande Strings, Sept. 20

Mande Strings

Mande Strings

Activities get underway with the Mali-based Mande Strings, whose program is titled 鈥淢usic and Place Around the Black Atlantic.鈥 The trio comprises Kokanko Sata Doumbia, Assaba Dram茅 and Lamine Soumano, all of whom play indigenous stringed instruments, including the guitar; the kora, a 21-stringed lute-bridge-harp; and the kamelen ngoni, a hide-covered wooden bowl, with a round stick for a neck.

Organizer Sydney Hutchinson says the music of the West African Mande people has a long and complex history, with some songs possibly dating back to the Mali Empire of the 13th century.

鈥淭he concert will demonstrate the connection of musical instruments to a Mande sense of place, as well as how various aspects of Mande tradition, such as slides, bends, pulls and hammers, flourish in African American musical performance,鈥 says Hutchinson, assistant professor of music history. 鈥淪ome of these connections recently have been brought to the fore with the remake of 鈥楻oots,鈥 in which [actor] Forest Whitaker is shown playing the jeli ngoni, an ancestor of the banjo.鈥

The concert is sponsored by the Department of Art & Music Histories in A&S.

Shawn Ginwright, Sept. 21

Shawn Ginwright

Shawn Ginwright

The following afternoon, Ginwright will present a lecture titled 鈥淩adical Healing in Schools and Communities,鈥 part of the 鈥檚 (SOE) Douglas P. Biklen Landscape of Urban Education Series. An expert on African American youth activism and development, Ginwright will explore how a deep focus on healing and hope can counteract structural inequality and violence, leading to justice and social change in urban schools and neighborhoods.

Marcelle Haddix, Dean鈥檚 Associate Professor and chair of the Reading and Language Arts Center in SOE, is the series organizer. She expects Ginwright to reference his latest book, 鈥淗ope and Healing in Urban Education: How Urban Activists and Teachers Are Reclaiming Matters of the Heart鈥 (Routledge, 2015), which will be on sale at the SU Bookstore, during his visit.

鈥淯sing ethnographic case studies from around the country, Shawn Ginwright makes a compelling case for using teacher-activists to help reverse structural violence in urban communities,鈥 Haddix says. 鈥淗e argues that healing a community is a form of political action. As such, healing and hope should be at the center of our educational and political strategies.鈥

A senior research associate in SFSU鈥檚 C茅sar E. Ch谩vez Institute, Ginwright also is the author of 鈥淏lack Youth Rising: Activism and Radical Healing in Urban America鈥 (Teachers College Press, 2009) and founder of Leadership Excellence, an Oakland-based youth development agency that trains African Americans to address pressing social and community problems.

The lecture is co-sponsored by SOE and the Humanities Center.

鈥淎telier 17,鈥 Sept. 23-25

S.W. Hayter

S.W. Hayter

The week concludes with a symposium and three-day print fair, collectively titled 鈥淎telier 17: A Gathering Place for Avant-Garde Artists.” Presented in conjunction with the SU Art Galleries exhibition “About Prints: The Legacy of Stanley William Hayter and Atelier 17” (running through Nov. 20), the symposium is Friday and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Much of the discussion will revolve around Atelier 17, an influential printmaking workshop that the London-born Hayter founded in Paris in 1927.

Panelists include Domenic Iacono, director of the SUArt Galleries; Joann Moser, former deputy chief curator of the Smithsonian American Art Museum; Christina Weyl, a freelance curator, as well as co-founder and co-president of the Association of Print Scholars in New York; and Andrew Raftery, professor of printmaking at the Rhode Island School of Design.

鈥淎s a painter and printmaker, Hayter was considered a child of his time鈥攕omeone who believed in the power of impulse and the unconscious mind,鈥 says Iacono, referring to the artist鈥檚 flair for automatism. 鈥淲hen he relocated the Atelier to New York City during World War II, it became a haven for European artists escaping persecution by the Nazi regime. Some of these artists鈥擯ablo Picasso, Max Ernst, Marc Chagall and Jacques Lipchitz, to name a few鈥攃hanged American thinking about the graphic arts, and helped usher in the abstract expressionist movement.鈥

The SUArt Galleries will host a print fair in the Shaffer Art Building Galleria on Friday and Saturday, from noon to 6 p.m., and on Sunday, from noon to 4 p.m. The fair will feature representatives from the Susan Teller Gallery in New York City; the Dolan/Maxwell Gallery in Philadelphia; Annex Galleries in Santa Rosa, Calif.; Thomas French Fine Art in Akron; and Lake Effect Editions in 黑料不打烊.

Events are co-sponsored by the SUArt Galleries and Humanities Center.

 

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