CENTERSTAGE Hosts An Evening with Kwame Kwei-Armah, 2/8

CENTERSTAGE will present British artist and international arts advocate Kwame Kwei-Armah on Monday, February 8, in a talk about the innovative ways we can use the arts to exact social
change in our communities.

A co-presentation with Open Society Institute-Baltimore (OSI), Mr. Kwei-Armah will address the audience and then take part in a panel discussion with local community activists from the education, social justice, and arts communities. The evening will end with a question-and-answer session with the audience.

Kwame Kwei-Armah, CENTERSTAGE Associate Artist and award-winning playwright of Elmina's Kitchen (2004-05 Season) and this season's Let There Be Love (Feb 10-Mar 7), is an internationally renowned playwright, arts advocate, community activist, actor, and recording artist.

Kwei-Armah points out that all great societies are defined by their arts. What art defines Baltimore . . . The Wire, CENTERSTAGE, John Waters, Animal Collective, or the Jonathan Borofsky sculpture in front of Penn Station? And how can we use our art to make Baltimore a more perfect home?

One night only
Monday, February 8, 2010 | 7 pm
The Pearlstone Theater, CENTERSTAGE, 700 N. Calvert Street

$25 Center Orchestra
$18 All other sections
$10 for groups of 10 or more

VIP Reception $40 (includes the talk along with dessert, coffee,
and meet-and-greet with Kwei-Armah and panelists afterwards)

All attendees will receive a $10 discount on tickets to Let There Be Love.

For full details, visit www.centerstage.org/EveningwithKwame or call the CENTERSTAGE box office at 410.332.0033.

The London Evening Standard recently said, "Kwame Kwei-Armah is a playwright, who engages with the politics of race in a combative and thoughtful style . . . racy, funny, and intelligent."

Kwei-Armah's US Premiere of Let There Be Love will play CENTERSTAGE's Pearlstone Theater Feb 10-Mar 7. Featuring Avery Brooks (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), Gretchen Hall (CENTERSTAGE's The Importance of Being Earnest), and Pascale Armand (Peter Sellars' For an End to the
Judgment of God), Let There Be Love reexamines our shared immigrant experience in a fresh and provocative way-finding a common humanity beyond racial, national, or cultural identities.

For group rates to An Evening with Kwame Kwei-Armah or Let There Be Love, contact Crystal Beasley at cbeasley@centerstage.org or 410.986.4038.

Since 1963, CENTERSTAGE has been committed to producing and developing an eclectic repertory of challenging, bold, and thought-provoking work, representing a varied array of theatrical styles and forms, in collaboration with leading artists. Each year, a consistently broad range of productions in two intimate performing spaces attracts highly diverse audiences of more than 100,000 people-including thousands of fiercely loyal subscriber members, many of whom have been with the theater during its entire history. Additionally, CENTERSTAGE offers a variety of dramaturgical, community, and educational programs to broaden access and enhance the theatergoing experience, earning its honorary designation as the official State Theater of Maryland.

 

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