[NEohioPAL]CPT presents an UNCLE TOM'S CABIN community event at West Shore Unitarian Universalist Church

[Dan Kilbane]

“DON’T YOU KNOW WHAT YOUR LIBERTY IS?” DISCUSSIONS ABOUT RACE IN AMERICA
COMMUNITY EVENTS HIGHLIGHT CLEVELAND PUBLIC THEATRE’S PRODUCTION OF UNCLE
TOM’S CABIN


Sunday, January 25, 10:15 a.m.
West Shore Unitarian Universalist Church
20401 Hilliard Blvd.
Rocky River, OH  44116
440-333-2255 x102 (Reverend Wayne Arnason, warnason at wsuuc.org
<mailto:warnason at wsuuc.org>)
“Living in Uncle Tom’s Cabin”
Reverend Arnason's sermon will reflect on racial identity not as a matter of
biology but as a political invention in support of power and control.  An
excerpt from the play will be presented.
Free admission

The Board of Directors, Executive Director James Levin, Artistic Director
Randy Rollison, and the staff of Cleveland Public Theatre are proud to
announce a series of challenging and informative community events to
complement CPT’s production of Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, The Preservation of
Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life in February 2004.   CPT, with its
mission to inspire, nurture, challenge, amaze, educate, and empower artists
and audiences in order to make the Cleveland public a more conscious and
compassionate community, will work towards generating dialogue on race and
diversity in the Northeast Ohio area with this unique series.  Numerous
organizations throughout the area will partner on these events,
strengthening the facilitation of this important dialogue.

Events in this series include “Tearing Down Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” Sunday,
January 18, 2004, at 2:00 p.m. at Cleveland Public Library’s Main Library;
“Uncle Tom’s Traffic Stop; or, The Fugitive Slave Act, Racial Profiling and
Other Incidents of Over-Identification of People of Color with Criminal
Wrongdoing,” produced by the Racial Fairness Project at the Training Center
of Cuyahoga County Corrections Center (Justice Center), Friday, February 6,
2004, at noon; "Where is Uncle Tom Today?" a panel discussion at the The
City Club of Cleveland, Wednesday, February 18, 2004, at noon; MOCA Mix,
Wednesday, February 11, 2004, at MOCA Cleveland; “Underground Railroad,”
featuring speaker Joan Southgate, presented by Restore Cleveland Hope, at
Euclid Heights Congregational Church, Tuesday, February, 24, 2004, at 7:00
p.m.

Programming ranges from public meetings around town, panel discussions at
each Sunday performance, and post-show talkbacks with the audience at CPT.
Partner organizations on this series of community events include Cleveland
Public Library, West Shore Unitarian Universalist Church, The Racial
Fairness Project, MOCA Cleveland, Trinity Cathedral, The African-American
Reparations Coalition, Restore Cleveland Hope, The City Club of Cleveland,
Cuyahoga Community College, and Urban Dialect.




Dan Kilbane
Publicist
Cleveland Public Theatre
6415 Detroit Ave.
Cleveland, OH  44102
tel:  216/631-2727 ext. 203
fax:  216/631-2575
www.cptonline.org
dkilbane at cptonline.org

find out what's in the BIG [BOX]!
January 9 - 25, 2004
in CPT's Upstairs Theatre