“Keeping the Faith: Civil Rights and Social Justice 45 Years After Freedom”
Meadows’ Division of Corporate Communications and Public Affairs’ weeklong symposium continues with three more events that highlight the important understanding of diversity. The event features those who have kept civil rights alive in our country, including participants of the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer Project, professionals, artists and politicians. The symposium is also sponsored by the Cox School of Business, the Maguire Center for Ethics and Public Policy, the Annette Simmons School of Education and Human Development, the Division of Journalism, and the African American Museum of Dallas. For more information call 214-768-1574.
March 18: Richard Molpus, CEO of the Molpus Woodlands Group of Jackson, Miss., will give a lecture at 6 p.m. in O’Donnell Auditorium of the Owen Arts Center. The lecture is entitled “Corporate Responsibility, Racial Redemption, and the Legacies and Lessons of Freedom Summer,” and is free for all to attend.
March 19: The symposium will move to the African American Museum at Fair Park, where photographer Herbert Randall will lead a gallery talk through his exhibit, “Faces of Freedom Summer.” Randall’s photographs document the civil rights movement of 1964 in Mississippi and the hardships of blacks during that time. Randall’s work can be found in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Museum of Modern Art in New York City as well as in the Library of Congress.
March 20: Award-winning 2008 documentary “Neshoba” will be screened in the O’Donnell Auditorium of the Owen Arts Center at 6 p.m. The documentary tells the story of the Mississippi town where the “Mississippi Burning” murders took place, 40 years later. The film will be followed by a panel discussion with the filmmakers, Micki Dickoff and Tony Pagano, as well as civil rights activist Steve Schwerner and Rachel Lyon, Emmy-winning filmmaker and chair of the Meadows Cinema-Television Division. The screening is free to attend.
Brown Bag Concert Series
International award-winning throat singers from Central Asia, “Alash”
Throat singers “Alash” return to SMU for a free concert at noon in the Bob Hope Lobby of the Owen fine Arts Center. Tuvan throat singing is a musical tradition that dates back many centuries ago to a nomadic people of Central Asia. The singing was originally used for long-distance communication as well as entertainment. The sounds made by the singers imitate sounds found in nature such as birds, wolves, rivers and blowing wind. Instruments, such as the igli (a two-stringed fiddle) and the xomus (a mouth harp), are also used in tandem with the vocal performance. For more information call 214-768-1951.
Meadows Museum Thursday Evening Lecture
“Weaving as Worship: The Role of Women in Etruscan Religious Ritual”
In conjunction with Meadows Museum’s “From the Temple and the Tomb: Etruscan Treasures from Tuscany,” Dr. Gretchen Meyers, assistant professor of classics at Franklin and Marshall College, will lecture on the production of sacred cloth.
Professor Meyers will present evidence that there was in fact textile production at Etruscan sites, which is hard to prove since there are fairly few remnants of textiles preserved in ancient archaeological record. The lecture will take place on March 19 in the Bob Smith Auditorium in Meadows Museum at 6 p.m. and is free to the public. For more information call 214-768-4677.
Meadows Music Faculty Recital
Catherine Lysinger, lecturer and director of the Piano Prepatory Department at the Meadows School, will give a free recital in Caruth Auditorium on March 21 at 7:30 p.m. Lysinger will perform works by Hadyn, Debussy and Prokofiev. For more information call 214-768-1951.
Meadows Music
Meadows Chorale will give a free performance in Perkins Chapel on March 22 at 2 p.m. The performance will include classics by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Healey Willan, and a new work by Stephen Paulus for choir and percussion, “Poemas de Amor.”
