DREAM America
Arts and Advocacy Conference
on Immigration
Saturday, April 21, 2018 12:30 pm-8:00 pm
Join Myers Park Baptist Church and
the Stan Greenspon Center at Queens University of Charlotte
11:00 Pre-conference Interfaith Service
- Service led by UNC-Charlotte’s Symphony of Diversity, MeckMin and Charlotte Clergy Coalition for Justice
11:45 Registration/Check In Opens
- Lunch on your Own (Young Dining Hall in Trexler or Coffee House at Queens University)
- Bill Furman, Queens University Professor, and Queens students will create an immigration wall where participants can hang a photo copy of a picture of a relative that immigrated to America. If you care to contribute to this piece of public art, please bring either a photocopy of a relative who immigrated to America that is no larger that 4”x 6” or a photo of the place they came from. On the side with the photo, please write the name, country of origin, and the year your relative immigrated here.
1:00 Opening Keynote: “Why do people move?”
- Presentation by the Possibility Project
- Dr. Terza Lima-Neves, Johnson C. Smith University Professor of Political Science
- Dr. Glenn Hutchinson, Professor at Florida International University & playwright
2:00 Session I
- Slam Poetry & Rock Band with the Johnson C. Smith University’s Black Ink Monks and Queens University Sovereign Line Rock Band
- Short Films for Long-term: the 100 Word Film Festival with Scott Galloway
- Photography: Capturing Real Life through the Lens with the Light Factory
- Performance as Activism with the Possibility Project
2:45 Break with Snacks
3:15 Session II
- Slam Poetry & Rock Band with the Johnson C. Smith University’s Black Ink Monks and Queens University Sovereign Line Rock Band
- Curatorial Activism: Mint Museum and the Elder Gallery of Contemporary Art
- Short Films for Long-term: the 100 Word Film Festival with Scott Galloway
- Theatre and Performance as Empowerment with the Youth Exchange Project
4:20 Staged Reading of “The Pot” by Glenn Hutchinson
5:45 Closing Keynote in Spanish and in English
- Federico Rios, International and Integration Manager for the City of Charlotte
6:15 Multicultural Festival
- Immigrant owned food trucks.
- Concert with musicians who are first generation immigrants – If you know of an immigrant who is a musician and wants to share two songs at the concert, please submit an audio link of a sample of one of their song with some brief bio information about themselves (How long they’ve been a musician, how long they’ve been in American and their country of origin) to David Krusch of East Coast Entertainment. dkrusch@eastcoastentertainment.com]
- Community Mural with Queens Professor Mike Wirth
- Tables for non-profit organizations working with immigrants
Friends: Harris Teeter, White Coffee Company
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