Jun 03 Monday
Men on Boats
A nationally produced show about JW Powell’s first trip through the Grand Canyon.
Performances• May 17—June 2 at Theatrikos in Flagstaff• June 9 at Old Town Center for the Arts in Cottonwood
Men on BoatsNo men. No boats. One canyon. John Wesley Powell’s first trip down the Colorado. Highlighting underrepresented voices and inspired by Powell’s actual travel logs, this whitewater comedy is history as you’ve never seen it before—infusing America’s historic myths with a sly blast of satire.
Author/Director• By Jacklyn Backhaus• Directed by Sara Bendel Ryan
Location• Theatrikos Theatre Company• Doris Harper-White Playhouse | 11 W Cherry Ave Flagstaff
Tickets• https://theatrikos.my.salesforce-sites.com/ticket/#/events/a0O3o00000hVZ3KEAW• theatre@theatrikos.com• 928 774 1662
Jun 04 Tuesday
This summer, the NAU campus will be hosting a Young Authors Camp (ages 8-12) and a Teen Authors Camp (ages 13-17).Explore your artistic self through creative writing during this week-long day camp. Discover the power of words and how they can be used to shape worlds, both imagined and real. You’ll focus on poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. Teen authors will experience daily writing prompts designed to spark creativity, campus-oriented field trips, a zine-making workshop, group writing discussions, and writing techniques such as six-word stories, ballads, found poetry, and microblogs.
In this presentation, Dr. Anokye explores the untold stories and accomplishments of African American men in Arizona. Dr. Anokye focuses on identifying the common threads of the African American community that have enriched and given meaning to their lives–striving for education/schooling, work lives, belonging, turning points, and legacies, established by such prominent folks as Dr. Eugene Grigsby, artist and ASU professor, George Greathouse, ASU football star and local barber, Judge Cecil B. Patterson, and Pastor Warren Stewart.
Dr. Akua Duku Anokye is an Associate Professor of Africana Language, Literature, and Culture, and Director of New College International Initiatives, Office of Interdisciplinary Global Learning and Engagement (IGLE). Dr. Anokye is the past chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), and currently Chief Reader for the College Board’s Advanced Placement English Language and Composition. Dr. Anokye received the 2021 Outstanding Speaker Awards from AZ Humanities. Her research focuses on African Diaspora orality and literacy practices, folklore, storytelling, and oral history, and most recently, on African Diasporic women activists as community mothers.
This program is made possible by Arizona Humanities.
To request a reasonable accommodation for any type of disability, please call 928-213-2330. Three days prior notice is requested.
Jun 05 Wednesday
Jun 06 Thursday
Participate in free and open discussions of important civil matters the first week of each month. In June, we'll discuss the freedom to speak.
While most people accept the Freedom of Speech as a fundamental right, not everyone agrees on what this freedom should include. There are gray areas, such as incitement, defamation, and fighting words, where expression may legally be curtailed. There have also been cases where the right not to speak has been upheld, such as in an individual’s refusal to recite the Pledge of Allegiance. Even with over 200 years of court cases, questions remain: When can the government restrict or compel expression, and why? Do free speech zones or obscenity laws violate the First Amendment? Should hate speech be protected, and if not, what counts as hate speech?
Join us in a lively discussion about meaning of and limits to Free Speech!
Jun 07 Friday