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GRAND RAPIDS PUBLIC LIBRARY 7:00PM:

January 20, 2014

Speak-Up GR: A Forum on Gentrication featuring:

A frank conversation on the myths and realities of

gentrication.

David Allen Executive Director of the Kent County

Land Bank Authority

Jennifer Metz Principal at Past Perfect, and

Adjunct at Kendall College of Art and Design.

Carol Townsend, (retired) Community Development

Extension Educator with MSU Center for Urban Affairs

Judith Transue, Executive Director of Trinity Village

Non Prot Housing Corporation and adjunct for Grand

Valley State University.

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WGVU NEWSMAKERSwith Patrick Center.

Gentrication: Stories from a community in transition.

Air Dates:

January 17 on the Create Channel

January 19th (re-broadcast) on WGVU

THE PANEL:

Bruce E. Tinker, Executive and Artistic Director of

GRCT and show Director

Nancy L. Haynes, Executive Director Fair Housing

Center of West Michigan

Richard App, Founder Richard App Gallery

Darel Ross II, Co-Executive Director of LINC

Michigan Debut

at the Grand Rapids Civic Theatre &

School of Theatre Arts

Jan 17 - Feb 2

Written by: Bruce Norris

Production Sponsor: Warner Norcross &

Judd

Artistic Sponsor: Bob and Aleicia

Woodrick Diversity Learning Center and

Stellay

Awards: This wickedly funny and ercely

provocative play about race, realestate, and the volatile values of each

won nearly every honor the theatre has

to give: including the Tony for Best Play

(2012), the Pulitzer Prize for Best Drama

(2011), the Olivier Award for Best New

Play (2011), and the Theatre World

Award (2012).

Synopsis:ACT ONEtakes place in 1959, suburban Chicago. A grieving middle aged white couple is

preparing to sell their home to the Younger Family, who is African American. Their anxious

neighbors do almost anything to block the sale.

ACT TWOtakes place in 2009, in the same neighborhood and the same, albeit now empty, house.

The now predominantly African-American neighborhood battles to maintain its identity in the face

of aggressive gentrication.

A RAISIN IN THE SUN,by Lorraine Hansberry (1959): While this story is not an ofcial prequel or

sequel to the literary classic, it does give a nod the literary classic. The Younger family featured in

A Raisin in the Sun are the family described as the buyers and Karl is obviously Karl Lindner, the

white representative of the neighborhood association that tries to bribe the Youngers out of their

new home.

Attention: Clybourne Park contains language that may be offensive to some patrons.

WRITTEN BY BRUCE NORRIS: Mr. Norris isan American Playwright who attended

Northwestern for a degree in Theatre (Class

of 82). He is most directly associated with

the Chicago based, Steppenwolf Theatre,

who have produced seven of his pieces.

His writing is classied as comically tragic

expressing the complexities of the American

psyche and family dynamic. He was awarded

the Steinberg Playwright Award in 2009.

WEST MICHIGAN Community Partnerships:

Clybourne park cast

www.grct.org 616.222.6650

MLK ANNUAL COMMEMORATION PROGRAMat

Grand Rapids Community College Gerald Ford Field

House - Monday Jan 20 - 6:30 - 8:30pm

Keynote : Chuck D - Leader and Cofounder of Rap

Group, author, political activist, publisher, radio host

and producer.

Special music performance: by Fisk Jubilee Singers

Jon March

MaryBrown

Ashlie Lowe

Jesse Aukeman

George Ward

Matthew Swartz

Kristen Pearson

George Spelvin

CONTAINS MATURE LANGUAGE