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In addition to the February series of events, please join the Black History Month Steering Committee for other celebrations throughout the year. This year's theme, "Expressions of Black Culture," features something for everyone. If your department, program, group/organization is sponsoring an event you'd like to add to our calendar, please email us at aaase@elon.edu. Enjoy!!
Event: College Coffee
Location: TBD
Date(s): Tuesday, Feb. 5
Times: 9:50 - 10:20 am
Description: Join AAASE faculty and staff, members of the BHMSC and various student groups, including the Black Cultural Society, for readings, dance, and other showcases of Black culural expression. Featuring Dr. Michelle Ferrier and Dr. Charles Irons.
Name: Numen Lumen
Date: February 7th, 2013
Time: 9:50 – 10:20
Location: TBD
Contact: Chaplain Jan Fuller
Sponsors: The Truitt Center for Religious and Spiritual Life and the BHMSC
Description: Janet Fuller, University Chaplain, speaks on the topic “Words to live by . . .”
Name: Zumba Madness
Date: February 8th, 2013
Time: 6:00 – 7:30 pm
Location: McKinnon Hall, Moseley Center
Contact: Kimberly Edwards at kedwards15@elon.edu
Sponsors: AAASE and the BHMSC
Description: Join Elon alum Cheri Armour ’09 for an exciting evening of Zumba Madness. Event is free of charge.
Name: Good Deeds by Tyler Perry
Date: February 9th, 2013
Time: 8:30 pm
Location: Irazu, Moseley Center
Contact: Kimberly Edwards at kedwards15@elon.edu
Sponsors: SUB
Description: Join the Student Union Board for a movie and food.
Name: Get on the Black Church Bus Part II
Date: February 10th, 2013
Time: 9:00 am departure from Boney Fountain
Location: Union Baptist Church, 1200 North Trade Street Winston-Salem, NC 27101 Phone 336.724.9305
Contact: The Multicultural Center
Sponsors: AAASE, BHMSC, MCC
Description: All students, faculty and staff are invited to get on the bus each Sunday during the month of February to attend a worship service at a church featured during Black History Month.
Name: College Coffee
Date: February 12th, 2013
Time: 9:50 – 10:20
Location: TBA
Contact: Janis Baughman
Sponsors: BHMSC
Description: Join AAASE faculty, staff and other members of the Elon community for readings, dance and other showcases of black cultural expression during the month of February.
Name: I Shall be Carried Shoulder High: Cultural Expressions of the Kuba Peopl
Date: February 12th, 2013/ Exhibit runs the entire month
Time: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.; opening reception is at 5:30 p.m.
Location: Arts West lobby
Contact: Janis Baughman
Sponsors: BHMSC
Description: Art exhibit.
Name: Numen Lumen
Date: February 14th, 2013
Time: 9:50 – 10:20
Location: TBD
Contact: Chaplain Jan Fuller
Sponsors: The Truitt Center for Religious and Spiritual Life and the BHMSC
Description: Guest speaker Melissa Jordan, associate director of the Multicultural Center.
Name: Love the Skin You're In
Date: February 14th, 2013
Time: 5:30 p.m. - 7 p.m.
Location: Alamance 304
Contact:
Sponsors: Black Cultural Society
Description: Discuss stereotypes that are placed on people based on skin color.
Name: International Civil Rights Center & Museum visit
Date: February 16th , 2013
Time: Departs at 1 p.m. from Boney Fountain
Location: Civil Right Museum in downtown Greensboro
Cost: $10 for museum, transportation and a meal
Contact: Contact Adam Bell at abell1@elon.edu.
Sponsors: Office of Student Activities, MCC, BHMSC
Description: Come with us to visit the International Civil Rights Museum in downtown Greensboro and see the lunch counter where the four North Carolina A&T students sat on Feb. 1, 1960.
Name: Get on the Black Church Bus Part III
Date: February 17th, 2013
Time: 10:00 am departure from Boney Fountain
Location: Elon First Baptist Church, 113 Lynn St. Elon, NC
Contact: The Multicultural Center
Sponsors: AAASE, BHMSC, MCC
Description: Sundays have been called "the most segregated day in the United States" if one surveys our nation's churches. Have you ever been curious about what happens in a worship service different from your own faith or practice. All students, faculty and staff are invited to get on the bus each Sunday during the month of February to attend a worship service at a church featured during Black History Month. To reserve your spot on the bus, Leon Williams at lwilliams25@elon.edu no later than Friday, February 10th. All are welcome.
Name: College Coffee
Date: February 19th, 2013
Time: 9:50 – 10:20
Location: TBA
Contact: Janis Baughman
Sponsors: BHMSC
Description: Join the AAASE faculty, staff and other members of the Elon community for readings, dance and other showcases of black cultural expression during the month of February. Featuring African art showcase.
Name: Billy Stevens, Sincere Forms of Flattery: Black, Whites and American Popular Music
Date: February 20th, 2013
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Location: Whitley Auditorium
Contact: Janis Baughman
Sponsors: This project is made possible by a grant from the North Carolina Humanities Council, a statewide nonprofit and affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. AAASE, BHMSC and Elon University.
Description: American music is a natural outgrowth of the unique culture of the American South with its roots in slavery and the fusion of musical traditions brought from both Africa and Europe. Using musical instruments as well as rare recordings, Stevens discusses the relationship between jazz, blues, ragtime and gospel.
Name: AAASE Author-of-the-month Lunch Series
Date: February 20th, 2013
Time: 12:15 p.m.
Location:
Contact: Prudence Layne at aaase@elon.edu
Sponsors: AAASE
Description: Join the AAASE community for discussion on black studies-related topics with authors who will present their recently published work or work-in-progress.
Name: Decades of the Month
Date: February 21-22, 2013
Time: 5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Location: Alamance 308
Contact: Janis Baughman
Sponsors: Black Cultural Society
Description: Discuss music, literature and cinema. Family Feud sign up at this event.
Name: Black History Month Dance Performance
Date: February 23rd, 2013
Time: 2:00 – 4:00 pm
Location: Yeager Recital Hall
Contact: Prof. Jason Aryeh at jaryeh@elon.edu
Sponsors: The Department of Performing Arts
Description:
Name: Get on the Black Church Bus Part IV
Date: February 24th, 2013
Time: 9:30 am departure from Boney Fountain
Location: Union Baptist Church, 1200 Trade Street, Winston Salem, NC
Contact: Multicultural Center
Sponsors: AAASE, BHMSC, MCC
Description: Sundays have been called "the most segregated day in the United States" if one surveys our nation's churches. Have you ever been curious about what happens in a worship service different from your own faith or practice. All students, faculty and staff are invited to get on the bus each Sunday during the month of February to attend a worship service at a church featured during Black History Month. To reserve your spot on the bus, Leon Williams at lwilliams25@elon.edu no later than Friday, February 22th. All are welcome.
Name: College Coffee
Date: February 26th, 2013
Time: 9:50 – 10:20
Location: TBA
Contact: Janis Baughman
Sponsors: BHMSC
Description: Join AAASE faculty, staff and other members of the Elon community for readings, dance and other showcases of black cultural expression during the month of February. Featuring the National Pan-Hellenic Council.
Name: Numen Lumen
Date: February 28th, 2013
Time: 9:50 – 10:20
Location: TBA
Contact: Janis Baughman
Sponsors: Truitt Center for Religious and Spritual Life and BHMSC
Description:
Name: Family Feud Trivia Night with food
Date: February 28th, 2013
Time: 9:30 p.m.-
Location: Irazu/Moseley
Contact: Janis Baughman
Sponsors: Black Cultural Society and SUB.
Description:
Name: Alvin Ailey Troupe B Dance Performance
Date: March 7th, 2013
Time: 7:00 pm
Location: McCrary Theatre
Contact: Jeffrey Clark, Cultural Programs
Sponsors:
Description
Name: Alvin Ailey Dinner Celebration
Date: March 7th, 2013
Time: 5:00 pm
Location: The Isabella Cannon Room
Contact: Prudence Layne playne@elon.edu or Carolyn Ent cent@elon.edu
Sponsors: AAASE
Description: Attendees will receive a special package, including dinner, a chance to meet the troupe’s choreographer and some of the dancers, and prime seating. Funds raised will go towards the AAASE Endowment fund.
Name: The AAASE Author-of-the-Month Lunch Series (3rd Wednesdays)
Date: Wednesday, March 20th, 2013
Time: 12:15 – 1:15 pm
Location: Alamance 302B (Conference Room)
Contact: Dr. Prudence Layne at aaase@elon.edu (authors wishing to be featured) and Pat Jones at pjones8@elon.edu for logistical information
Sponsors: AAASE
Description: Throughout the academic year, join the AAASE community for discussions on Black Studies-related topics with the authors who will present their recently published work or work-in-progress. March’s featured author is Angela Owusu-Ansah, Associate Dean and Associate Professor in the School of Education.
Name: The AAASE Author-of-the-Month Lunch Series (3rd Wednesdays)
Date: Wednesday, April 17th, 2013
Time: 12:15 – 1:15 pm
Location: Alamance 302B (Conference Room)
Contact: Dr. Prudence Layne at aaase@elon.edu (authors wishing to be featured) and Pat Jones at pjones8@elon.edu for logistical information
Sponsors: AAASE
Description: Throughout the academic year, join the AAASE community for discussions on Black Studies-related topics with the authors who will present their recently published work or work-in-progress. April’s featured author is Carolyn Beard Whitlow, Charles A. Dana Professor of English at Guilford College in Greensboro. Named a Cave Canem Fellow in 2000, Carolyn Beard Whitlow is a New Formalist who writes lyric, blues, jazz and persona poems. Although not a Slam Poet, she is known for her dynamic readings. She has been awarded writing residencies at Yaddo, Soul Mountain and Hedgebrook. Finalist for both the 1991 Barnard New Women Poets Prize and the 2006 Ohio State University Prize in Poetry, her book VANISHED won the 2006 Naomi Long Madgett Prize in Poetry. She published the essay on the Villanelle form entitled "Blues in Black and White" in BEYOND NEW FORMALISM: CONTEMPORARY ESSAYS on POETIC FORM and NARRATIVE.. She will read from and discuss her new work When the Wind Slows (Finishing Line Press, 2013).