[NEohioPAL]Cleveland Public Theatre asks Don't You Know What Your Liberty Is?--check out an array of community events surrounding our production of UNCLE TOM'S CABIN

[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

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.

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.

Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle
for Life is CPT’s 2003-04 season American Classics production, a series
which reexamines classic American theatre in a contemporary context).  The
adaptation, by Floraine Kay and Randolph Curtis Rand of Harriet Beecher
Stowe’s classic novel, tells the  story of a kindly slave sustained by faith
while tested by vicious cruelty.

The following are the next several events, this weekend and beyond!

Friday, February 20, 8:00 p.m.
Post-performance talkback
Cleveland Public Theatre
Gordon Square Theatre
6415 Detroit Ave.
Cleveland, OH  44102
216-631-2727
Talkback leader:  Eddie Boyte, Cleveland Mediation Center
Admission ranges from $13-18

Saturday, February 21, 8:00 p.m.
Post-performance talkback
Cleveland Public Theatre
Gordon Square Theatre
6415 Detroit Ave.
Cleveland, OH  44102
216-631-2727
Talkback leader:  Professor Caroline Jackson-Smith, Oberlin College
African-American history professor
Admission ranges from $13-18

Sunday, February 22, 3:00 p.m.
Cleveland Public Theatre
Gordon Square Theatre
6415 Detroit Ave.
Cleveland, OH  44102
216-263-1850x70 (Daniel Gray-Kontar, kontar at urbandialect.net
<mailto:kontar at urbandialect.net>)
“Art and Politics”
This panel discussion will focus on the intersection of art and politics,
using Uncle Tom’s Cabin as a jumping-off point.
Performance at 3:00 p.m., with panel discussion immediately following the
performance.
Admission ranges from $13-18

Tuesday, February 24, 7:00 p.m.
Euclid Ave. Congregational Church
9606 Euclid Ave.
Cleveland, OH  44106
Presented by Restore Cleveland Hope
216-761-8416 (Joan Southgate)
“Underground Railroad”
74-year-old Northeast Ohio resident Joan Southgate, who recently walked the
whole Underground Railroad, will lead a discussion on the Underground
Railroad.  The evening includes an excerpt from the play.
Free admission



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

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