Mon Feb 9 4-6 pm, Art Annex Big Room
“American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs, Grace Lee 2013″
Co-sponsored by Asian American Studies
Director Grace Lee present
Grace Lee Boggs is an activist and philosopher in Detroit who has dedicated her life to the next American Revolution and the possibility of a better, more just future for all of humanity. At age 97, she has been building movements and developing strategies for social change for most of her life — reminding us that revolution is not only possible and necessary, but a process that must always be in motion.

Mon Feb 23 4-6 pm, Art Annex Big Room
“Let the Fire Burn”, Jason Osder, 2013
Award-winning Editor Nels Bangerter present
Co-sponsored by Unsettling Approaches to Performance Studies, Respondents
A history of the conflict of the City of Philadelphia and the Black Liberation organization, MOVE, that led to the disastrously violent final confrontation in 1985.

Suggested Readings: 
Frank B. Wilderson (2009). GRAMMAR & GHOSTS: THE PERFORMATIVE LIMITS OF AFRICAN FREEDOM. Theatre Survey, 50, pp 119­-125 
Nikil Pal Singh (2014) THE WHITENESS OF POLICE, American Quarterly, Vol 66 #4, Dec 2014, pp 1091-99

May, Date TBA
“The Yes Men are Revolting”, 2014
Director Laura Nix present
Comedy troupe The Yes Men stage phony events and press releases in an effort to bring attention to environmental dangers and corporate greed.