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Phone 508-286-3644
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Poster advertising a virtual concert by Freetown Collective on Thursday, March 11 at 7:30 p.m. EST. Image features Muhammad Muwakil and Lou Lyons who head group.
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Prepare to be Moved: Freetown Collective Live from Trinidad

Virtual

Muhammad Muwakil and Lou Lyons front Freetown Collective, a band that defies genre, delivering eclectic music and drawing on Trinidadian tradition and life experience. They perform infectious, transformative music fused with poetry and politics, philosophical and spiritual inspiration; and social justice is central to their music and creative vision. Join us for a virtual concert followed by a Q&A with the artists.

Free
A poster advertising an Artist Talk by Jackie Sumell the artist behind Solitary Gardens taking place on Monday, March 15 at 5:00 p.m. EST. The visual is flowers in shadow growing behind prison bars.
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Voice of an Artist—Jackie Sumell on Solitary Gardens

Virtual

Sumell, an award-winning multidisciplinary artist and activist, will share her work on interrogating the abuses of the American criminal justice system. Sumell will talk about her ongoing public art project, Solitary Gardens, created to protest solitary confinement and consider alternative land use. Join us to imagine a landscape without prisons as we prepare to bring a Solitary Garden to Wheaton.

Free
Poster advertising a virtual event with musicologist Matthew Morrison, Ph.D., on Thursday, March 18, 2021 at 5:00pm EDT
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Race and Blacksound in American Popular Music

Online

Renowned musicologist Matthew Morrison discusses his recent research, which historicizes the rise of American popular music, performance, and race in the nineteenth century. His talk centers on Blacksound, which Morrison uses as a foil to demonstrate how popular entertainment, culture, and identity have been shaped by the legacy of blackface minstrelsy in and beyond the United States.

Free