Journey Into Blackness With BASIB
Guilford College students
will take a "Journey Into
Blackness" by way of song-
spirituals, jazz blues, gospels-
dance, drama and art, the
week of Jan. 28 through Feb.
4. And you can come along.
Brothers and Sisters in
Blackness (BASIB), a group
of Black students at Guilford,
have arranged the week-long
series, and all events-from an
evening talk by Chapel Hill
Mayor Howard Lee to a musical, dramatic "Journey Into
Blackness" by the renowned
New York Company, Voices,
Inc. - will be open to the
public.
Beginning on Sunday Jan.
28, a black art show by local
artists will be on display from
1 until 5 p.m. at the Guilford
College Union Lounge. The
exhibit will remain op,en from
4 until 8 p.m. each day until
Friday Feb. 2 and from 1-5
p.m. Saturday and Sunday
Feb. 3 and 4.
At 8 p.m. Wednesday,
Jan. 31, there will be a showing of the film "Cotton
Comes to Harlem" in Dana
Auditorium.
Mayor Howard Lee will
speak about black politics in
North Carolina Thursday,
Feb. 1 in Dana Auditorium,
Lee, who is in his second
term as mayor of Chapel Hill,
is also director of human development at Duke University in Durham. He is vice
chairman of the North Carolina Democratic Party and a
member of the Board of Directors of the Southern Regional Council. His talk will
be offered to the public free
of charge. ,
The nationally acclaimed
Voices, Inc. will perform at
8:15 p.m. Friday Feb. 2 in
Dana. The group has been
generating great excitement
wherever they go, and leaving
behind a growing list of rave
reviews about their musical
drama "Journey Into Blackness." Their special rendition
of the black experience carries
the listener out of the theatre
with them to the slave ships,
cotton fields, the railroad
tracks, tenement houses,
good-time bar rooms and
rocking church houses.
Much of their message is
in the music, and many of
the songs are original compositions by members of the
group. Others are traditional
wo(k songs and spirituals, arranged by group members.
There will be a ticket price
reduction for regular Guilford
College Arts Series patrons
attending the performance.
Members of Voices, Inc.
will also be on hand Saturday
morning from 10 o'clock until noon for a teachers' work-
by Linda S. Swofford
shop on "The Black Experience in the Total Curriculum." The workshop, which
will deal with the problems
of teaching students from different cultural backgrounds,
is open to public school teachers, student teachers and
prospective teachers.
A dinner-dance at the
Cosmos Club on East Market
St. will begin at 7 p.m. Saturday Feb. 3. The public is
invited to attend and asked to
wear semi-formal attire.
Reservations for tickets
to the cabaret at the Cosmos
Club and to the Voices performance may be made by
phoning the BASIB office at
Guilford College. The phone
number is 292-1737.
BASIB Advisor Dick
Woodward, a former AMfc
Zion pastor, will speak Sunday morning Feb. 4 at 10
o'clock in the Guilford College grill room about the influence of the black church
on the total experience. Following his talk, several local
gospel groups will perform.
At noon, following the
Sunday service, a generous
spread of soul food will be
served in the Guilford College
cafeteria. The fare will include everything from spare-
ribs and fried chicken to col-
lard greens and black-eyed
peas.
BASIB's "Journey" was
conceived as a means to introduce people to the black
experience in a way which
produces understanding, said
Woodward. "We are saying,
let's take a journey into
blackness, and everyone
come with us. You don't have
to be a spectator. You too
can come along!"
The Qutlforbton
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THURSDAY, JANUARY 1#, 1973
GREENSBORO, N.C.
