March 8, 2014,
Mystic, CT…In honor of Women’s History Month, Emerson Theatre
Collaborative (ETC) announces A Celebration and Reading of Zora Neale
Hurston’s Writings on Saturday, March 8, 2014 at 4:00 pm at First United Methodist Church, 23 Willow Street, Mystic, CT. Featured
participants include Zora Neale Hurston’s niece, Lucy Anne Hurston; actress,
Camilla Ross; award-winning poets, Attallah Sheppard and Rhonda Ward; playwright,
Lisa Giordano; and creative strategy consultant, Leslie Singer. Zora Neale
Hurston’s nephew, Edward Hurston, a musician who has performed at The Apollo
Theater in Harlem will be performing the blues harmonica as well. General
Admission: $10, Seniors and Students $8. Refreshments will be served.
Zora Neale Hurston is
considered one of the most important and influential modern American writers
who wrote groundbreaking works about the culture and folk traditions of
southern African Americans. Along with
Langston Hughes, she was a central and celebrated figure during the Harlem
Renaissance, and is best known for her 1937 masterpiece novel, Their
Eyes Were Watching God. Not only
was Ms. Hurston a successful novelist, essayist, journalist and playwright, but
a talented anthropologist as well. Acclaimed authors of our time,
including Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, and Alice Walker acknowledge Ms
Hurston as their “literary foremother.”
Please join the Emerson Theater Collaborative in a reading of Ms.
Hurston’s selected works. For more
information call (860) 705-9711 or go to www.emersontheatercollaborative.org.
Emerson
Theater Collaborative’s mission is to serve youth, under-represented
communities and artists with an emphasis on diversity, by producing innovative
and exhilarating theater in Southeastern Connecticut. ETC explores timely themes and issues through
new, original works and modern theatrical classics. ETC’s goals include reaching inner city youth
through educational theatrical programming, to support local communities by
providing free admission to low-income families and donating profits to
humanitarian causes. For more information
go to EmersonTheaterCollaborative.org.
Key
Dates and Information
What:
In honor of Women’s History Month,
Emerson Theater Collaborative Presents:
A Celebration and Reading of Zora Neale
Hurston’s Writings.
When:
March 8, 2014 at 4:00 PM
Where: 23 Willow Street, Mystic, CT 06355
How:
Ticket prices: $10 general admission, Seniors and Students $8. Tickets
are available at the door and online at our website
emersontheatercollaborative.org and by calling (860) 705-9711