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March 2022
Author Talk: Keisha N. Blain – Until I Am Free
The Royall House & Slave Quarters invites you to an exciting conversation with historian Dr. Keisha N. Blain on her new book about Fannie Lou Hamer. "Until I Am Free" challenges us to listen to Hamer, a former sharecropper who was a working-poor and disabled Black woman activist and intellectual of the civil rights movement, as we grapple with contemporary concerns around race, inequality, and social justice. Blain is a historian of the 20th-century United States specializing in African American…
Find out more »Tufts Art Galleries Decolonial Alliances Panel
How do contemporary artists work both across and against borders to produce social and political change? This Tufts University Art Galleries panel turns to artists, based in both the U.S. and Guatemala, to consider aesthetic strategies that work to dismantle imperialist histories and build decolonial alliances across time and space. Featuring art historian Kency Cornejo and artists Benvenuto Chavajay, Sandra Monterroso and Beatriz Cortez, and moderated by Adriana Zavala, associate professor, History of Art and Architecture and Studies in Race,…
Find out more »Addressing the Legacies of Systemic Racism in National Monuments
Kyera Singleton, executive director of the Royall House & Slave Quarters, will be a featured guest on the WBUR online program Newsmakers, whose topic today is "Addressing the Legacies of Systemic Racism in National Monuments." Across the south, monuments associated with the Confederacy have toppled as protests against the murder of George Floyd, police brutality, and racial injustice took over cities around the world. These moments act as catalysts by removing white supremacist imagery from the landscape and making space to…
Find out more »Lives of French Impressionists
The Medford Public Library is co-presenting an online program, "The Lives of French Impressionists," led by art historian Mary Woodward. We are probably all familiar with French Impressionist paintings – the sun-dappled haystacks by Claude Monet and the fresh young faces captured by Auguste Renoir. Come learn about the artists behind the paintings and the fact that many of them were friends, roommates and rivals. Register directly through Zoom.
Find out more »Mozart: The Man Behind the Music
The Medford Public Library is co-presenting an online program, "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: The Man Behind the Music," led by Dan Lupo, creator of the music education platform FiveMinuteMozart.com. Mozart was the reigning god of classical music in Vienna during the mid-to-late 1700s. His life has been analyzed in books and even films, but little is known of the circumstances surrounding his untimely death. Take a glimpse into the world of one of music’s biggest heroes as we appreciate his genius…
Find out more »Tufts Art Galleries Curator Tour: Art for the Future
Tufts University Arts Galleries presents a tour of its "Art for the Future" exhibition with Abigail Satinsky, TUAG curator and head of public engagement. "Art for the Future: Artists Call and Central American Solidarities" focuses on the seminal 1980s activist campaign, Artists Call Against US Intervention in Central America. On view through April 24, the exhibition highlights Artists Call’s history through a selection of activities and works from the 31 exhibitions and over 1,100 artists who participated in New York…
Find out more »Granoff Colloquium: Bonnie Gordon on the Castrato
The Granoff Music Center Colloquium at Tufts University presents University of Virginia assistant professor Bonnie Gordon in a virtual program titled "Garden Vibes: The Castrato as a Sonic Borderland." This talk begins in the fantastic gardens of 16-century Italy and travels to the modern afterlife of the castrato. The talk positions the Italian castrato as a living sonic borderland; a figure who sang from the edges of imagined European cartography and who sounded the cusp of the Enlightened and the…
Find out more »History Book Group: Ghostland
The History Book Group, co-sponsored by the Medford Public Library and Medford Historical Society & Museum, meets via Zoom to discuss "Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places," by Colin Dickey. The book is a look at American history through its most famous ghost stories – examining what people choose to remember, what they choose to forget, and how those narratives have changed over time. (Content warning for descriptions of gender and racial violence). The discussion will be led by…
Find out more »Sacco & Vanzetti: Murderers or Martyrs?
The Medford Public Library is co-presenting an online program, "Sacco & Vanzetti: Murderers Or Martyrs?" led by Gregory Williams, who was a District Court judge for many years. Accused of a 1920 South Braintree robbery, during which two men were murdered in cold blood, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were convicted and sentenced to death. But did evidence support their convictions “beyond a reasonable doubt?” Or were they “convicted” simply because they were Italian immigrants — and anarchists? Register directly…
Find out more »Postponed – Built with Empty Fists: Black Liberation through Martial Arts
The Royall House & Slave Quarters' online workshop by Dr. Maryam Aziz that explores how martial arts became a significant form of self determination for Black communities has been postponed. A new date will be announced for April. Dr. Aziz will provide a historical overview that shows how self-defense moves can be traced back to the Reconstruction period while focusing on how unarmed self-defense contributed to Black Power organizing and shifting ideas about liberation, abolition, and gender norms from the…
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