Theater Event with Playwright Ifa Bayeza
Friday, February 7, 2014 6:00 p.m. Reception, 7:30 Performance, Price: $50 Penumbra Theater, 270 N. Kent Street, St. Paul, MN 55102
The Harvard Club of Minnesota and the Penn Club of Minnesota invite you to a private reception with Harvard Alumna and Playwright Ifa Bayza and a viewing of her play The Ballad of Emmett Till. This event is open to all TCAN member clubs.
6:00 - reception including beverages and heavy appetizers
6:45 - Ifa Bayeza will talk about the play and will be open to our questions
7:30 p.m. - Performance
About The Ballad of Emmett Till
written by IFA BAYEZA, directed by TALVIN WILKS
His brutal death was the spark that ignited one of the most important social justice movements in the world, but Emmett Till remains a stranger to most Americans. The Ballad of Emmett Till introduces you to the boy and celebrates his life through the eyes of those who loved him and knew him best. As his mother said, her son was "the sacrificial lamb of the Civil Rights Movement." When he died, the world woke up.