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14th Annual Perspectives in African-American Experience: Emerging Visions Residency and Exhibition

Mon, January 20, 2025 12:00 PM - Fri, February 21, 2025 5:00 PM at

These Are For You, I Hope This Helps: Ring Shouts and Standards

Featuring the work of artists Darryl D’Angelo Terrell and Samiya Bashir

 

  • Exhibition runs January 20 - February 21, 2025
    RCAH LookOut Gallery, 2nd Floor Snyder Hall, MSU

Events:

  • Opening Reception
    6 - 7:30 p.m. Monday, January 20, 2025
    RCAH LookOut Gallery, 2nd Floor Snyder Hall

 

  • I Hope This Helps: Samiya Bashir Reading/Presentation
    7 p.m. Wednesday, January 22, 2025
    RCAH Theater, Snyder-Phillips Hall
    Reception/Book signing to follow in LookOut Gallery, Snyder-Phillips Hall

 

Additional Events:

  • machine of perpetual motion: Samiya Bashir (A Creative Writing Community event)
    Friday, January 17, 3 - 4 p.m., Wells Hall, 619 Red Cedar Rd., MSU Campus
    Join the MSU Creative Writing Community for this conversation with Bashir about her life's practice as an interdisciplinary maker.

 

  • Poetry for the People: Building Poetry and Community with Samiya Bashir
    12 - 1:30 p.m. Sunday, January 19, 2025
    Capital Area District Library (CADL) Downtown Branch, 401 S. Capitol Ave., Lansing, Michigan

  

  • Authors On Exile: A Conversation with Shastri Akella, Samiya Bashir, and Aisha Sabatini Sloan
    Tuesday, January 21, 7 p.m., The Robin Theatre, 1101 S. Washington Ave., Lansing
    Doors open at 6:30 p.m.; Donations accepted.
    • Visit The Robin Theatre for tickets and more info
    • Thanks to Mike Copperman, MSU Dept. of Writing, Rhetoric, and Cultures (WRAC) for curating this event.

 

More on Samiya Bashir's visit: https://poetry.rcah.msu.edu/events/bashir-residency.html

 

Thank you to the RCAH Annual Perspectives in African-American Experience: Emerging Visions Residency and Exhibition co-sponsors in 2025:

  • Kresge Arts in Detroit 
  • MSU Office for Institutional Diversity and Inclusion
  • MSU Creative Writing Program
  • RCAH Center for Poetry at MSU
  • MSU African American and African Studies (AIIS)
  • Residential College in the Arts and Humanities (RCAH)