Date/Time
Date(s) - 04/18/2017
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Location
Native American Student and Community Center
710 SW Jackson St. --Portland
Master theatre artist, Andrea Hairston reads sections from her new novel, Will Do Magic For Small Change, and musical dynamo, Pan Morigan will sing songs she has written based on lyrics from the book.
Andrea Hairston is a novelist, playwright, the artistic director of Chrysalis Theatre, and the Louise Wolff Kahn 1931 Professor of Theatre and Africana Studies at Smith College. Her plays have been produced at Yale Rep, Rites and Reason, the Kennedy Center, StageWest, and on Public Radio and Television. Her numerous awards include a National Endowment for the Arts Grant to Playwrights, a Rockefeller/NEA Grant for New Works, an NEA grant to work as dramaturge/director with playwright Pearl Cleage, a Ford Foundation Grant to collaborate with Senegalese Master Drummer Massamba Diop, and a Shubert Fellowship for Playwriting. She has created original productions with music, dance, and masks for over thirty-five years. Will Do Magic For Small Change, her third speculative novel, was published by Aqueduct Press in May 2016.
Pan Morigan is a vocalist, instrumentalist, songwriter, poet, and the music director for Chrysalis Theater. Her musical adventures have included touring with Bobby McFerrin and his all-improvisational vocal group Voicestra, producing several albums, Castles of Gold and Wild Blue and creating, recording, and performing songs for Andrea Hairston’s novels, Redwood and Wildfire and Will Do Magic For Small Change. The melodies are influenced by Pan’s research into the banjo and blues, Irish music, and something indefinable—wild, syncretic. Her forthcoming album is Storm Hands.
The Native American Student & Community Center is located at 710 SW Jackson St., Portland, OR 97201. For information about this event, contact Josh Powell at [email protected].
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Sponsored by the Indigenous Nations Studies Program
and the School of Gender, Race & Nations
Portland State University