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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Mark your calendar and join the Department of Communication Arts lecture series</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><i>Communication
Speaks!</i></span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">featuring</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Dr.
Naila Keleta-Mae on her current artistic and research project called Black And Free focused on Black expressive culture.</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">WHAT: Black And Free</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">WHEN: Wednesday, January 27, 2021, 7 PM to 8 PM</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">WHERE: online</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">MORE INFO AND REGISTRATION:</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><a href="https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/communication-speaks-black-and-free-dr-naila-keleta-mae-tickets-135902936341" style="color:rgb(149, 79, 114);text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Eventbrite</span></a><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Dr. Naila Keleta-Mae's areas of research and teaching expertise are race, gender and performance. This presentation of research findings will include performances of excerpts from her
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Dr. Naila Keleta-Mae's current artistic and research project Black And Free is funded by grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Canada Council
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Artwork Designed by Sahra Soudi & Syrus Marcus Ware</span></p>
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