![]() ![]() The rent party with Nikki Giovanni is a key highlight of the Mary Baldwin College for Women’s inaugural Women’s Empowerment Week. Nikki Giovanni mingles as a guest of honor. All while internationally revered African American poet, writer, and activist Dr. ![]() Elders from the local Black community will teach and host card games. ![]() ![]() Josephine Baker will offer how-tos on popular dance moves like the Charleston. Authors like Zora Neale Hurston will talk poetry and give readings. Theatre students in historical garb inspired by period-correct Black fashion will portray those artists - and a cast of other prominent figures from one of the 20th century’s most important cultural movements.Ī jazz band will perform swing and blues tunes as Ella Fitzgerald and Ma Rainey take turns on the mic. Walls will be hung with large, cloth paintings from MBU art students rendered in the style of female era-icons like Augusta Savage and Selma Burke. Soul food and speakeasy style drinks will be served. on March 17, they’ll find themselves transported to a 1920s New York brownstone rent party at the heart of the Harlem Renaissance. When students, faculty, staff, and community members enter the Student Activities Center at 6 p.m. ![]()
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