Ithaca College

Ithaca College will celbrate Black History Month with a variety of film screenings, music, and lectures.

Tuesday, February 1, 12:10 p.m.
Campus Center Flagpole
Flag-raising ceremony, with reception to follow in the Handwerker Gallery.

Tuesday, February 1, 7:00 p.m.
Textor 102
"Out of the Closet and onto the Screen: Intersections of Sexuality and Faith in Film" series showing of All God's Children

An award-winning documentary exploring the relationship between African-American Christian communities and gay and lesbian members of their congregations.

Tuesday, February 1, 12:10 p.m.
Campus Center Flagpole
Flag-raising ceremony, with reception to follow in the Handwerker Gallery.

Tuesday, February 1, 7:00 p.m.
Textor 102
"Out of the Closet and onto the Screen: Intersections of Sexuality and Faith in Film" series showing of All God's Children

An award-winning documentary exploring the relationship between African-American Christian communities and gay and lesbian members of their congregations.

Emerson Suite B, Phillips Hall
"AIDS Up Close in Cameroon and Namibia"
A screening of two films documenting the recent African journeys of Cynthia Henderson, assistant professor of theater arts, and Lisa Maurer, coordinator of the Center for LGBT Education, Outreach, and Services, followed by a discussion moderated by politics professor Zillah Eisenstein.

Tuesday, February 8, 8:30 p.m.
Park Hall Auditorium
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One
This first feature of Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker William Greaves was shot on location in Central Park in 1968. Never released, the film was largely forgotten until a Brooklyn Museum retrospective of Greaves's work in the early 1990s led to its rediscovery.

Thursday, February 10, 7:00 p.m.
Emerson Suites, Phillips Hall
"Untold Stories: Civil Rights Movement Narrative"
This event is sponsored by the African Latino Society.

Monday, February 14, 7:00 p.m.
Emerson Suites, Phillips Hall
Valentine's Day jazz concert with trumpeter Keaton Akins, recipient of the Outstanding Lead Trumpet Player award at the 2003 Notre Dame Jazz Festival.

Wednesday, February 16, 7:30 p.m.
IC Square, Phillips Hall
A performance by Bernard Woma, Office of Multicultural Affairs artist in residence.

Recognized around the world as an outstanding performer and teacher of Dagara xylophone music and other forms of traditional Ghanaian music, Woma is a principal member of the National Dance Company of Ghana.

Thursday, February 17, 7:00 p.m.
Ford Hall, James J. Whalen Center for Music
Underground Railroad

Participants from the Greater Ithaca Activities Center, Southside Community Center, Community Music Education Project, Boynton Middle School, Beverly J. Martin Elementary School, and Utica's Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School will join forces with various solo artists in a musical tribute to the Underground Railroad, a network of freed slaves and abolitionists who secretly guided runaway slaves to freedom in the decades before the Civil War. Directed by Baruch Whitehead, assistant professor of music education.

Monday, February 28, 4:00 p.m.
Park Hall Auditorium
"Paul Robeson, Oscar Micheaux, and the Racial Politics of Silent Film," a lecture by Anna Siomopoulos, assistant professor of cinema and photography, will be followed by a screening and discussion of Oscar Micheaux's Body and Soul, the 1925 silent film in which Paul Robeson made his screen debut.

Black History Month is sponsored by the Offices of Multicultural Affairs and the Provost; Center for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Education, Outreach, and Services; School of Music; Roy H. Park School of Communications; Department of Cinema and Photography; Division of Interdisciplinary and International Studies; African-Latino Society; Diversity Awareness Committee; and Handwerker Gallery.

For more information on "AIDS Up Close," contact Cynthia Henderson or Lisa Maurer.

For more information on Black History Month at Ithaca College, contact Stephanie Adams in the Office of Multicultural Affairs, 274-3381.

Contributed by Lisa Maurer