Department Colloquium: Rhodessa Jones (The Medea Project) "Whose Classics?"

Mar
30
2023

Department Colloquium: Rhodessa Jones (The Medea Project) "Whose Classics?"

Mar 30, 2023 at 4:45pm - 6:15pm |

402 Cohen Hall, 249 South 36th St. and on Zoom.
Zoom link for this event: https://upenn.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYqd-2orToiGdxXJJ2j-75MZaai4-yRhz49%20
*4:15-4:45 pm: Coffee and cookies in Cohen Hall 2nd Floor Lounge. All are welcome.

Speaker: Rhodessa Jones, Founder / Artistic Director: The Medea Project: Theatre for Incarcerated Women/ HIV Circle

Title: "Whose Classics?"

Abstract: Whose Classics - my talk grew out of a search for ways to ground my autobiographical methodologies with incarcerated women. I was seeking a way to share storytelling with women in "lockdown". Classical literature is a perfect vehicle that generates performative material( poetry, monologues and dialogues based in personal transformation.

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Department Colloquium: Rhodessa Jones (The Medea Project) "Whose Classics?"