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SUMMARY;LANGUAGE=en-us:"<em>Walking With My Ancestors: Cape Coast Castle<\/em> by Ama Oforiwaa Aduonum"
DESCRIPTION:"\rWalking with My Ancestors: Cape Coast Castle (2019), the award-winning and nationally recognized performance piece, is about a mother’s search for guidance from the spirits of her ancestors in the dungeons for enslaved Africans. The story takes the audience through a ritual journey that includes dance, music, and drama and leads to revelation, reconciliation, and rebirth. Walking with My Ancestors offers fresh perspectives on the experiences of the “forgotten” enslaved Africans and demonstrates how today’s racial and cultural problems connect with truths of our shared and painful pasts. The work is timely. It provides platforms for deepened conversations about identities, diversity and inclusion, immigration and migration, border crossings, citizenship, parenting, homeland, diaspora, and the “ghosts of slavery.” Ultimately, Walking with My Ancestors is a human story about triumph over adversity, hope, resilience, emotional justice, and survival.\rAbout The ArtistAma Oforiwaa Aduonum, award-winning and nationally recognized playwright and performer, is a professor of music at Illinois State University (ISU), where she teaches classes in ethnomusicology and Black music and directs the African Drumming and Dance Ensemble.\r\rShe is also a Queen Mother in Ghana, responsible for engaging the youth, especially young women, towards their progress and success. She graduated from Fisk University with a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance and from Florida State University with Master and Doctoral degrees in ethnomusicology.\r"
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LOCATION:"Knight Auditorium\, Spurlock Museum\, 600 S. Gregory St.\, Urbana\, IL"
URL:https://www.spurlock.illinois.edu/events/event.php?ID=2392
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