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MUSIC: A FORCE FOR MENDING (2015-16)
Conceived and curated by Nolan Williams, Jr.
Nolan curated this 2015-2016 cultural series for The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts to explore themes of racial reconciliation, social justice, and equality.
Pictured above: Community-wide Spirituals Sing in The Kennedy Center Grand Foyer (PHOTO CREDIT: Chuck Frink, courtesy of NEWorks Productions)
Presenting Partners
The Embassy of the Republic of South Africa
The Kennedy Center
National Symphony Orchestra
NEWorks Productions
Split This Rock
VUSA-Voices from Southern Africa
Washington National Opera
Appomattox Church Tour
WNO COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
Saturday, November 14 through Sunday, November 22, 2015
Select churches in Washington, D.C., Maryland and Virginia
To mark 50 years since the passage of the Voting Rights Act and 150 years since the end of the Civil War, WNO presents the world premiere revised version of Philip Glass and Christopher Hampton's acclaimed opera featuring a brand-new second act. Washington, D.C. bass Soloman Howard stars as Frederick Douglass and Martin Luther King, Jr.
Community-wide Spirituals Sing
WNO COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
Conceived and curated by Nolan Williams, Jr.
Sunday, November 15, 2015 at 6 pm
The Kennedy Center Grand Foyer
Voices from choirs and churches all around the region assemble to sing traditional a cappella spirituals under the direction of some of the area's leading choral directors.
Family Ties
NSO POPS COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
Wednesday, December 9, 2015 at 6 pm
The Kennedy Center Millennium Stage
Four diverse musical families from the Washington metropolitan region — our 'local von Trapps': the CHONG family, the OTTLEY family, the LEYVA family, and the DAVIES family — performed classical, jazz, Hispanic, holiday and inspirational music for this concert in support of the NSO Pops concert, The von Trapps & Stephanie J. Block Family Holiday.
Cry, the Beloved Country Film Screening & Community Dialogue
WNO COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
Thursday, February 4, 2016 from 5:30 to 9:30 pm
The Embassy of the Republic of South Africa
NEWorks Productions and the March on Washington Film Festival, in association with the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and Washington National Opera, presented a private screening of Cry, the Beloved Country, the acclaimed 1995 movie adapted from Alan Paton's classic same-titled book. This screening was hosted by His Excellency Mninwa Johannes Mahlangu, Ambassador of South Africa to the United States. A community discussion followed, moderated by Dr. Greg Carr, Associate professor of African Studies and Chair of the Department of Afro-American Studies, Howard University.
Cry, the Beloved Country: A Concert featuring South African Freedom Songs
WNO COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
Saturday, February 23, 2016 at 6 pm
The Kennedy Center Millennium Stage
This concert of South African freedom songs weaves an inspiring narrative that recalls central themes and events from the South African liberation movement featuring the combined voices of the NEWorks Voices of Inspiration and VUSA-Voices from Southern Africa; narrators Marquis Gibson and Jazmine Robinson; Split this Rock poet Cici Felton; percussionist Wayne K. Prince; the NEWorks Freedom Dancers (choreographed by Erica Stotts) and Simunye Dance Ensemble