Anna, the Other Douglass: A Long Table Conversation/Installation at Gallery Seventy Four
Dates: (3/10/2018 )
Gallery Seventy Four |
215 Tremont Street (Door 3/Floor 3)
Rochester,NY 14608
Phone: 5857040983
Tickets: $15
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21st Century Arts presents "Anna, the Other Douglass," an afternoon of poetry and film screenings inspired by Anna Murray Douglass, wife of Frederick Douglass, which then sets off a Long Table Conversation exploring the intersections of race and gender. This is the 4th event of the "At the Crossroads: Activating the Intersection of Art and Justice" initiative.
The "Anna, the Other Douglass" Long Table is held at Gallery Seventy Four, which is located at 215 Tremont Street (Door 3/Floor 3) in Rochester. Registration is $15 and guests can register at http://AnnaMurrayDouglass.brownpapertickets.com.
“As we celebrate the bicentennial anniversary of Frederick Douglass’ birth and explore his comprehensive legacy - including in context of what it means in 2018, it is imperative that we do the same with his partner of 44 years – his first wife Anna Murray Douglass,” says Rachel DeGuzman, founder and producer of “At the Crossroads: Activating the Intersection of Art and Justice” and curator of “Anna, the Other Douglass: A Long Table Conversation and Installation.”
Bernice King, daughter of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. tweeted, “#Without Coretta Scott King, there would be no #MLK Day” in January 2018. And as Hayley Miller wrote in the Huffington Post re King’s tweet – “Martin Luther King Jr. may be the United States’ most well-known civil rights activist of all time, but there’s no denying that his wife was a hero in her own right.”
Neither Coretta Scott King nor Anna Murray Douglass made the cut of the 40 women profiled in Marlene Wagman-Geller’s 2015 book “Behind Every Great Man: The Forgotten Women Behind the World’s Famous and Infamous.” They could have been. Born over a century apart, their husbands were among the greatest, most famous men in world history and, especially, Anna Murray Douglass was (and continues to be) among the most forgotten women.
Like Bernice King, Rosetta Douglass Sprague wanted her mother’s direct contributions to anti-slavery activism as well as to her husband’s illustrious career noted and honored. In her paper “Anna Murray Douglass: My Mother as I Remember Her,” she said “The story of Frederick Douglass’ hopes and aspirations and longing desire for freedom has been told. You all know it. It was a story made possible by the unswerving loyalty of Anna Murray.” She went on to say, “As is the condition of most wives her identity became so merged with that of her husband that few of their friends in the North really knew and appreciated the value of the woman who presided over the Douglass home for forty-four years.”
Frederick Douglass rarely wrote about Anna Murray Douglass during her life, but after her death he poignantly inscribed what she meant to him in a letter addressed to Doctress S.M. Loquen dated August 12, 1882 (8 days after her death). He wrote, “Mother was the post in the center of my house and held us together.”
What is a Long Table Conversation?
“The Long Table is an experimental open public forum that is a hybrid performance-installation-roundtable designed to facilitate dialogue through the gathering together of people with common interests developed by the artist and academic Lois Weaver.” At this long table, all the invitees are artists, educators, culture workers or social justice advocates.
This is a performance of dinner table conversation where everyone seated at the table is a guest performer. Talk is the only course (though refreshments will be served before the conversation begins). There is no moderator just assistance from the host. It is a democracy. After the invited participants have chatted for 30-minutes, other attendees can tap someone’s shoulder to take a seat at the table. The original participants are welcomed back to the conversation through the same process. There is an end, but no conclusion.
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