Fw: Black And Free - update from the Dept. of Communication Arts

[Wendy Philpott]

Hello everyone,

On Wednesday, January 27, 2021 the Department of Communication Arts Speakers Series Communication Speaks was scheduled to present excerpts from Dr. Naila Keleta-Mae’s Black And Free Research-Creation Project<https://uwaterloo.ca/communication-arts/events/communication-speaks-dr-naila-keleta-mae>. Even after many technical rehearsals, we ran into issues during the live broadcast that prevented the presentation being accompanied with ASL interpretation. Upon discovering the issue, Naila made the important decision to stop the broadcast. As Naila explains,

"I’ve been performing for 40 years and can’t count the number of times I’ve heard and said ‘the show must go on.’ On Wednesday night I realized that it doesn’t and decided that it won’t at any public event that my Black And Free Research-Creation Project produces, unless the event is accessible to as many people as possible.

This is my commitment as the principal investigator of publicly-funded research, as a tenured faculty member working at a publicly-funded university, and as a person who wants Black people to be free now and always. I’ll be back in touch with new event details once they’ve been decided."

On behalf of the Speakers Series Committee, we share Naila’s commitment and will continue to support her, and her Black And Free Research-Creation Project. We look forward to addressing the technical issues and announcing the new date of its presentation.

Thank you,
Department of Communication Arts
Communication Speaks
Speakers Series Committee
Dr. Sorouja Moll, Chair
Dr. David Janzen
Dr. Henry Svec
Dr. Lennart Nacke

and

Black And FreeResearch-Creation Project
Dr. Naila Keleta-Mae, Principal Investigator


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From: Wendy Philpott
Sent: January 13, 2021 12:28 PM
To: artsannounce at artsservices.uwaterloo.ca <artsannounce at artsservices.uwaterloo.ca>
Subject: Black And Free with Naila Keleta-Mae, Jan. 27


Mark your calendar and join the Department of Communication Arts lecture series Communication Speaks! featuring Dr. Naila Keleta-Mae on her current artistic and research project called Black And Free focused on Black expressive culture.



WHAT: Black And Free

WHEN: Wednesday, January 27, 2021, 7 PM to 8 PM

WHERE: online

MORE INFO AND REGISTRATION: Eventbrite<https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/communication-speaks-black-and-free-dr-naila-keleta-mae-tickets-135902936341>



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 plays that explore, in process and production, what Black theatre can do in the 21st Century.


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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 for the Arts and the University of Waterloo.



Artwork Designed by Sahra Soudi & Syrus Marcus Ware




— Sent on behalf of the Department of Communication Arts



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