Apr 6th 2017

Possessing Remedies

@ African-American Cultural Center at UIC

830 S Halsted St 209 AH, Chicago, IL 60607

Opening Thursday, April 6th, from 11am - 7PM

Possessing Remedies: Restorative Performance Practices in Black and Brown Communities

UIC African-American Cultural Center / 830 S. Halsted, Second Floor

10:30am – 11am: Welcome & continental breakfast

11am – 12:30pm: Opening remarks & Session 1: Invocations and/in the City

This session serves as a point of entry into discussion of spiritual and or religious culture and its role in convening and opening up spaces for healing and restoration.
· Dr. Mario LaMothe, African-American Cultural Center/UIC

· Dr. Lori Baptista, African-American Cultural Center/UIC*

· Dr. Johari Jabir, African American Studies/UIC

· Dr. Meida McNeal, Honey Pot Performance

1pm – 2:30pm: Session 2: Collaborative Healing Practices

Session 2 offers an opportunity for researcher-practitioners to share aspects of their work that focus on how particular communities draw from cultural forms and practices (or address cultural biases, stigmas) to promote healing.

· Dr. Rohan D. Jeremiah, Community Health Sciences/UIC

· Dr. Erin Durban-Albrecht/Illinois State University

· Dr. Cynthia Blair, UIC African American Studies

2:30pm – 3:30pm: Session 3: Religion and Remedies

This session engages how members of black and brown communities affirm or heal themselves in declarative ways, through Biblical scriptures.
· UIC’s Black Campus Ministry

UIC GALLERY 400, LECTURE ROOM/400 SOUTH PEORIA STREET

5pm: Keynote Performance

PastForward/In Black:
· Madonna Gris / Jean-Paul Weaver (Haitian-American Dance Artist)

· Diaspora Monologues/ Fehinty African Theatre Ensemble

· Honey Pot Performance

· Community reflection, closing remarks and reception

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