,
Hangin' with the Honiegirls ,
Rap star Queen Latifah joins her Sesame Street Satari Sisters (I-r), Prairie Dawn and Merry
w.onster, as they search high and low for the missing letter "0", Latifah's performance with
the muppets airs on Sesa�e Street Monday, February 1 on P�, (check local listings.)
,
:complled by Ka�cene �ark
DCPA
(Detroit Center of Performing Arts)
2-3 Sojourner Truth - Powel1ul
Woman Orator - Sojourner Truth
knew her mission was from God. She
walked from podium to podium
across New England, the Eastern
Seaboard, the South, and Midwest,
proclaiming Truth about Negro rights,
women's rights and human rights. A
Sojourner for Truth, she finally settled
In Battle Creek, MI.
2-4 Martin Luther King - I Have A
Dream (the moral leader of the Civil
Rights Movement) - His dream and
the Civil Rights Movement are
powerfully portrayed on our stage
with the songs, the speeches, and the
people who marched with him. See
Rosa Parks says "No". Expenence
the marches and the historic events
reenacted. See MLK and his dream
come alive.
Feb. 25, 1993: (313/577-2972) ,
SUNDAY, JAN� 'I WEDNESDAY,
. 31 _j FEB. 3
.-cr PHANTOM OF THE OPERA - By '------ ....1
;Gaston Leroux, the musical tells the 'c NOTHING SACRED - Is a free
'story of the hideously deformed adaptation of the 1862 Russian novel
Phantom who lurks beneath the stage about the tensions between young
01 the "'aris Opera, exercising a reign rebels and their parents In
over all Its occupants, He falls pre-Revolutionary Russia.
_Instantly In love with the young Performances held at 'the Hilberry
: soprano Christine, devoting himself Theatre (WSU campus). Runs thru
; to creating a new star for the Opera Feb. 8, 1993. For tickets
: by nurturing her extraordinary talents (313/577 -2972).
,by employing all the skills at his
. disposal. "Phantom of the Opere"
opens at the Masonic Temple
'Theatre, 500 Temple Avenue In
: Detroit. Runs thru Feb. 14, 1993.
Ticket/Information call
(313/832-5900),
THURSDAY,
'FEB. 4
� MADE IN AMERICA - Thts vast,
new multl-rnedla exhibition
showcases the actual 18th, 19th and
20th century machines that
transformed Americans' lives by
revolutionizing the production of
power and· goods. Video
presentations and photographs
Introduce, visitors to the men and
women behind the machln Henry
Ford Museum (3131271-1620).
� THE HOT L BALTIMORE - The
WSU Department of Theatre wIll
present Lantord Wilson's 'Tne Hot L
Baltimore" at the Bonstelle Theatre,
Feb. 5-14, 1993. Tickets are $8.
(313/577- 2960).
mu ic means t them as Atrican-:
American . Teach th m th hi t ry
of African and Afri an-American
mu ic. Create a "Black Mu 1
Wire Service" (mak up a name) a
3 cia room project. end th ar­
tiel in the "wire service" to your
local Black newspaper.
I thi i don, mu. i and
p pular eultur hi. torians (many
of whom hopefully l i k c
'Havel ck clson and Mt .hacl
o nzs I z, wh wrote the br ok
"Bring t c oi ': uide 0 R, P
Music and Hip-Hop ulturc",
Random House - Will I ' Black)
will hav other ur ·e. on hip-hop
music and Afri an meri nth, n
either The Sourc r Vibe. Thi
way we will 10 e the (cir ulati n)
attle but will have w n the (hi
t ric I) w: r.
[_I_M_O_N�D_A_1 y_,_F_E_B_.----l
- DCPA, 8041 Harper Ave at Van
Dyke (313/884,-5741 or
3131642-6383) .
· t'lIMAGING ALTERNATIVES: WAR
'OR PEACE? - A permanent
collection from February 1 thru March
11, 1993 at he Swords into
· Plowshare's Peace Cen er & Gallery,
, 33 E Adams. For information
: (965-5422).
: t't THE VIOLENT UNIVERSE :_ A
: forty-five minute program every Tues.
• and Thurs. Feb. 1 thru March 25,
; 1993, at 7pm. The program Is
, narrated by veteran actor Vincent
Price. This sky show takes
• planetarium visitors on a tour of
-things that go bump in the night."
·Locatlon: The Carr-Fles Planetarium
01 MeC, 221 S. Quarterllne Rd in
,Muskegon. For Information
(777 -0289),
HIP-HOP
continued from 81,
FRIDAY, FEB.
6
., THE DRESSER - I s an
affectionate, funny, and moving
portrait 01 life backstage. Ronald
Harwood's The Dresser runs Jan. 29
thru Feb. 14 in the Earl DA Smith
Theatre on the U of 0 Mercy's
McNichols campus. For Information,
'a brochure or reservations
(313/993-1130) .
�'( LET IT SNOW - gives a glimpse
Into how early Detroiters entertained
themselves on those days when It
was wiser to remain Indoors. This
exhibition runs thru March, 1993 at
the OHM, 5401 Woodward.
(833-1805).
; I__";;T,"---U_E_S_D_A_Y_,, -=
_ FEB. 2
'.,'c THE REAL THING - is about
Intel ligen and sophistlca ed people
: caught up In the irresis ible bonds of
'love and marriage and the
,unrelenting pain of adultery. Tom
'Stoppard's comedy of fidelity and
I in dellty, opens at t e Hilberry
Thea re (WSU campus) rind runs hru
n
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y
By TUREKA TURK
BENNY AND EWS
4
. __.; , .
So what dr ve Benny Andrews
to the depth of artistry that he had
within? uld it hav been his
moth r ' piritcd mott , "You
can't quit!" Or maybe it was his
own "patron", the Mason family.
While uch artists as Lang ton
Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and
Dr. Ala n Locke were bankroJled
by the generous patr nes of the
Negro rts, Park avenue's Char­
I tte Ma n. Andrews was: part
another Ma on gr up. Andrews
and his family ndurcd thc lot of
sharccr pping and were referred to
as "the Mason igger" by the 10-
cal..
Andr w. I went to scht 01 five
month' ut of the y ar and served
the remaining month working in
thesw ltering heat and one ntrat­
ing on the day he w uld be rid of
the "Mason i 1ger" label.
'DREW R ED a
scholarship t ,F Valley State
college in Geor ra, which gave
way to at ndane t th Art In­
stitutc of hicago. fund d by the
0.1. Bill.
It was In I 54 when Benny
ndrews finally he an life as a
protcs: Ion, I arti s t. It \ a: also the
arne year ndrcw bcuarr his
struggle to be accept d a an
Am ri an artist and not a painting
:' egro".
He was o. traciz d in hice
The world wa not r ady t accept
a Black man rnakin COllages.
New Yorker w: ntcd to know, in
1 5<., wh he '': poiled" therwisc
10 d pc mnn 1\; ith s raps otburlap
and other backwood materials.
Andr w. paintin T o! Bla .k fe . 'S
as well ( S whit � ones was ob .urc.
Even wh n hrs f( mily was
hun ry and his babies had no milk
ndrcws nev .r succumb xl to the
mainstream id 'as of the art world.
H . urvi cd dcspit 'his lew York
de lcr' advice, "The life ot the
arti. t is he rd." ndr 'WS, cspc -j, 1-
ly his v ork, n .vcr quite fit into the
me in tr am of th ' art \ rid.
Yet, to lay, the avant-garde
arti r hard w rk has paid otf. H
is now rcpr scntcd In th m jor
In tituti ns that tormerly rcjc t d
him and in private , llection
ar und th world.
The f rm r country b .y i now,
e ccordi n to th ' .w ork Tim s
Pre ented by Tite Centers
f.
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