Talking Black in America: Performance Traditions
Sat, Feb 24
|The Arts Center
Talking Black in America: Performance Traditions is a a story about the creative use of African American Language.
Time & Location
Feb 24, 2024, 7:30 PM – 10:00 PM
The Arts Center, 301 Hay St, Fayetteville, NC 28301, USA
About the event
Poetry-N-Motion, LLC will be showing a special screening of the documentary, Talking Black in America: Performance Traditions. Talking Black in America: Performance Traditions is a one-hour program in which African American artistic forms like the Blues, Spirituals, Spoken Word, Preaching, Comedy and Hip Hop reveal a story about the creative use of African American Language and its function as a tool for survival, liberation and belonging within the Black Community. Runtime 59 minutes. Doors open at 7:30, show starts at 8pm.
8:00pm Performers TBA 8:20pm Film Screening 9:20pm Discussion/Q&A with performers. Moderated by El'Ja Bowens
