national symposium - university of maryland · in 1988, jazz bassist christian mcbride composed ......

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2013 . 8PMDekelboum Concert Hall . $40/$32 subscriber . $10 student

e Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s changed America. Since that time, the movement has inspired millions of people to work for human rights causes. In 1988, jazz bassist Christian McBride composed e Movement Revisited, a four-part suite dedicated to four major figures of the Civil Rights movement: Rosa Parks, Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. McBride will kick off the Center’s2013–2014 season with a new incarnation of e Movement Revisited performed by his Big Band and WashingtonDC’s Heritage Signature Chorale with spoken word selections performed by special guests.

Above, from left to right: Liz Lerman photo by Mike Ciesielski; Julian Bond; Kojo Nnamdi photo by Nguyen Khoi Nguyen; Touré; Marian Wright Edelman.

Left: Christian McBride photo by Anna Webber

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2013 . 6PMUMD School of Public Policy, Van Munching Hall

6PM Opening reception

7PM Why the March on Washington Still Resonates Today, a keynote by Julian Bond

8:30PM Artist-led reflection by Liz Lerman and Vincent omas

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2013 . 10AM – 5:30PMClarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Kay Theatre

10AM Artist-led reflection by Liz Lerman and Vincent omas

10:30AM Jobs and Freedom: How Far Have We Come?, brief presentations by Perla Guerrero, Stephenomas, Kalima Young, Darius Graham, HowardSmead, Cedric Harmon and Andy Shallal

12:30PM A roundtable conversation with UMD studentactivists, led by Truman Scholar Mohammad Zia

2PM Rights, Equality and the American Dream, a roundtable conversation with Kojo Nnamdi and e Rev. Dr. Joanne Braxton, College of Williamand Mary; Judith Browne Dianis, AdvancementProject; Peter Edelman, Georgetown UniversityLaw Center; e Rev. Dr. Christine Wiley,Covenant Baptist United Church of Christ

3:30PM Artist-led reflection by Liz Lerman and Vincent omas

4PM Still Marching: e Work at Lies Ahead, a keynote by Marian Wright Edelman

4:45PM Call to action by Touré

To RSVP or buy tickets visit claricesmithcenter.umd.edu/well-being-nation

EXTRAORDINARY MINDS . EXTRAORDINARY STORIES

SEASON OPENER

The National Civil War Project is a multi-city, multi-year collaboration between four universities and five performing artsorganizations to create original works and innovative academic programming inspired by the 150th anniversary of the Civil War.

NATIONAL SYMPOSIUMCIVIL WAR TO CIVIL RIGHTS: THE WELL-BEING OF A NATIONTHURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2013 . UMD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC POLICY, VAN MUNCHING HALLFRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2013 . CLARICE SMITH PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, KAY THEATREFREE . RSVP AND CHECK FOR UPDATES ON OUR WEBSITE

Observing the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington and the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation,this symposium will be both commemorative and forward-looking. Hosted by the Clarice Smith Center, in partnership withthe UMD School of Public Policy and the UMD School of Public Health, the symposium will be comprised of scholarlypresentations and stimulating theatrical performances. It will place the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in itshistoric context, both as the culmination of the struggle since the Emancipation Proclamation and as the stage-setting for anew generation of struggles to address the important — but often hidden — inequalities of our time.

OF A

CHRISTIAN MCBRIDE BIG BANDTHE MOVEMENT REVISITED

NATIONAL SYMPOSIUM PRESENTED BY THE CLARICE SMITH PERFORMING ARTSCENTER IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE UMD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC POLICY AND

CENTER FOR HEALTH EQUITY AT UMD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH.