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Winter Wednesdays: Kultur Stories

Exploring Oppression and Resistance Through Art

Location

Online

Date & Time

January 12, 2022, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Description

Join us this winter for a series of fun and educational virtual events for the UMBC community.  

Students, faculty, and staff — bring your own lunch and stay connected with the UMBC academic community. 

How can art and music help us understand oppression and responses to it across different times and spaces? How can storytelling bring people together to learn about human rights and justice? The Kultur Stories program explores these questions by bringing together girls from Baltimore City, Sweden, and South Sudan with local and international artists, educators, and community leaders to participate in a virtual digital storytelling experience. Join organizers Gail Prensky and Michele Wolff to learn more about this collaboration and the power of creativity to make more just worlds for all.

Bios: 

Michele Wolff: Michele Wolff is Director of the Shriver Center and Affiliate Faculty in the department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Public Health.

Gail Prensky: Gail Prensky is the award winning creator and director of The Jüdische Kulturbund Project. Her hope and dream is that the project will serve as a beacon of inspiration to all people about the power of music and the performing arts to fight and survive oppression.


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