Jane Addams Hull-House Museum,
The Public Square at the Illinois Humanities Council,
The Department of Performing Arts at UIC,
and terraNOVA Collective present:

Masquerade: Calypso and Home
A Theatrical Storytelling / Poetry Performance by Roger Bonair Agard

Early 1980's Trinidad. Michael Jackson. Adidas with fat laces. Football. Fine girls. It all was a part of growing up. But it was his mother's strength and the sounds of calypso that taught him to be the man he is today. Poet. Teacher. Activist. Performer. Roger Bonair-Agard.

Sharing Poetry, stories and calypso over a bottle of rum, Bonair-Agard weaves living, breating tapestries that reveal "the journey of a man tracing the story of his self-imposed exile through music, memory, and poetry."

For more information, including video clips, please visit:
http://www.terranovacollective.org/Touring.php

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Roger Bonair-Agard's
MASQUERADE: CALYPSO AND HOME
Thursday, May 15
Friday, May 16
7pm
UIC Theatre Lecture Hall L285
(near the corner of Harrison and Morgan)
1044 W. Harrison, Chicago, IL, 60607

This event is FREE.
Paid parking is available across the street.

Reservations are recommended
call 312.413.5353

Paid parking available at the northeast corner of Harrison and Morgan, and in the parking garage on Harrison just west of UIC Theatre.

This event is ADA accessible. If you have a disability and need additional accommodations to attend an event, please inform us at the time of reservation.


Jane Addams Hull-House Museum events are sponsored in part by a generous grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.


The Jane Addams Hull-House Museum is part of UIC College of Architecture and the Arts and serves as a dynamic memorial to social reformer and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Jane Addams (1860-1935) and other resident social reformers whose work influenced the lives of their immigrant neighbors as well as national and international public policy.  The Museum's exhibits and public programs preserves and develops the original Hull-House site for the continuation of the historic settlement house vision, linking research, education, and social engagement.

More information about the museum and its programs can be found at: www.hullhousemuseum.org.