Thu, Feb 16
|Harrisonburg
JMU AAAD & OSASG Black History Month Event
🎉Celebrate Black History Month Event🎉 Please join the Ole School Alumni Scholarship Group (OSASG) and the African, African American, and Diaspora (AAAD) Studies Center for an evening of song and dance to celebrate BHM at JMU with special recognition of the contributions of Dr. David Owusu-Ansah.
Time & Location
Feb 16, 2023, 6:00 PM – Feb 17, 2023, 8:00 PM
Harrisonburg, 800 S Main St, Harrisonburg, VA 22801, USA
About the Event
* Location: Madison Union Ballroom
Special features:
*“Black History in the US: Ghanaian Connections” with Dr. David Owusu-Ansah, Executive Director for Access & Educational Outreach and Professor of History
*Poetry by Dr. JoAnne Gabbin, Founder and Inaugural Executive Director of the Furious Flower Poetry Center and Emerita Professor of English
*Performances by the students of JMU Music and Dance
*Remarks by Donna Harper, Vice President Access and Enrollment
*Special thanks to our partners in JMU’s School of Music, School of Theatre and Dance, the College of Visual and Performing Arts, and the Office of Access and Inclusion.
Refreshments will be served.