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June 2017
9 GRAMS at My True Colors Festival
Followed by Q&A with the playwright/performer Maisha Yearwood.
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Followed by Q&A with the playwright/performer Maisha Yearwood.
Find out more »July 2017
Activism Place at the Afro-Latino Festival
A tribute to women of the Diaspora. Featuring performances by Milly Quezada, Alison Hinds, Amara La Negra and hosts DJ Big Nito and Zahira Kelly.
Find out more »August 2017
9 GRAMS at National Black Theatre Festival
The legendary National Black Theatre Festival in Winston-Salem, North Carolina welcomes 9 GRAMS to its Readers Series. Award-Winning playwright Maisha Yearwood will read her work about a Hollywood screenwriter who endures solitary confinement in a Turkish prison after being racially profiled as a drug trafficker. Based on a true story.
Find out more »9 GRAMS at the Inkwell
Steps from the famed Inkwell Beach on Martha's Vineyard, prize-winning playwright Maisha Yearwood performs a reading of her work 9 GRAMS. Based on a true story, this surprisingly funny play follows Hollywood screenwriter Ayeesha Freeman as she endures solitary confinement in a Turkish prison because of how she looks and who she loves. A Q&A…
Find out more »September 2017
Fortune Bay Series Featured at IFP Film Week
The Independent Filmmakers Project (IFP) selects the forthcoming Progressive Pupil television series Fortune Bay to its Project Forum September 17-21, 2017. The only international co-production market in the U.S., the Project Forum sets up meetings between content creators and executives, financiers, and other decision makers. Adapted from the prize-winning novel Land of Love and Drowning, the one-hour…
Find out more »November 2017
Black to the UK
Awrite! Black and Cuba has been selected to be part of the Africa in Motion Film Festival in Glasgow, Scotland. It’s the largest film festival about the African diaspora in the United Kingdom. This is the award-winning documentary's second public screening in the UK, the first being near Electric Avenue in London's diverse Brixton neighborhood…
Find out more »February 2018
West Chester U. Welcomes Progressive Pupil Diversity Programs
At West Chester University in Pennsylvania, the department of psychology, ethnic studies program and the Dean's office co-sponsors Progressive Pupil's Coping with Microaggressions workshop and a screening of the film Black and Cuba featuring a Q&A with Dr. Robin J. Hayes. The programs were spearheaded by Dr. Janet Chang. For more information about how you can bring Progressive Pupil…
Find out more »March 2018
Princeton University Screens “Black and Cuba”
The international Black and Cuba roadshow continues at Princeton University. Professor Naomi Murakawa of the university's African American studies Department included the film and talkback with director Dr. Robin J. Hayes in the graduate seminar, African American Intellectual Traditions. The film is also part of the Princeton library's permanent collection. To screen Black and Cuba in your college…
Find out more »Progressive Pupil at Black Portraitures “Color of Silence” Conference
Dr. Robin J. Hayes, Creative Director of Progressive Pupil, will share updates about two of our projects at the internationally acclaimed Black Portraitures Conference at Harvard University. This year's conference, which coalesces artists, activists and scholars together to discuss images of Black bodies in mainstream art, focuses on "The Color of Silence." Tiphanie Yanique, prize-winning author…
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