Inst. for the Study of Women and Gender in the Arts and Media
UPCOMING PROGRAMS
PUBLICATION DEVELOPMENT: DOES HIP-HOP HATE WOMEN?
Winter-Spring 2008
The Institute is co-producing a new publication, Does Hip-Hop Hate Women? co-edited by Bakari Kitwana and Kara A. Young. This will be the first published anthology of its kind to introduce critical new writings by more than fifteen artists and activists from the second wave hip-hop generation (those born after 1985). The project will support new and largely unheard voices in the current hip-hop movement whose views on gender, sex, and identity have been informed by a mainstream hip-hop driven by the corporate music industry. Publication is anticipated in 2009, at which time the Institute will organize a Chicago book launch and community discussion, as well as be instrumental in a national book tour and related programming.
MARGARET GARNER OPERA: EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS
November 2008
Auditorium Theatre, 50 E. Congress Parkway
The Institute has been invited to take the lead role in creating and presenting conversations about ethics, arts and cultural production as part of a series of public educational programming for Margaret Garner at the Auditorium Theatre. Margaret Garner is a new American opera based on one of the most significant fugitive slave stories in pre-Civil War America, and is co-commissioned by Michigan Opera Theatre, Cincinnati Opera, and Opera Company of Philadelphia. This project marks the anticipated operatic debut for the highly acclaimed creative team of Grammy-Award winning composer Richard Danielpour and librettist Toni Morrison, celebrated novelist and winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize for Literature. Other community collaborators include Roosevelt University, Auditorium Theatre, Chicago Public Schools, Chicago Foundation for Women, The Chicago Sinfonietta, DuSable Museum of African American History, Facing History and Ourselves, and WTTW Channel 11.