NUBIAN KNIGHTS NETWORK: Tuesday, October 20, 2009

QUOTATIONS OF "BLACK"

"Whenever I use BLACK it relates to some history of Africans in that particular place. It’s the idea of the color BLACK as a metaphor, or as a representation of African-Americans. It’s the notion of BLACK- BLACKNESS - and all its other meanings in relation to the history of race..."

- Fred Wilson

"Most of my fortitude to continue doing the work comes from the moral outrage I feel about the injustices that Black people endure disproportionately daily."

- N. Abdul-Wakil

"In the end, what matters is not skin shade but pan-African consciousness. Loving your complexion, your nose, lips, hair length and texture, no matter what the politics or trends decide, and simply be. That's the problem with us (African folks). We're still learning how to love ourselves. So used to glorifying others and putting others first..."

- Dredlocks Tree

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Colman Domingo Stars In "A Boy and His Soul "
A Black Same Gender Loving Play
Now Playing Through November 1st, 2009 (NYC)

vineyardtheatre.org

EXTENDED!
NOW PLAYING THRU NOV 1

Vineyard Theatre presents
A BOY AND HIS SOUL

Written and performed by Colman Domingo
Choreographed by Ken Roberson
Directed by Tony Kelly

Where do you get soul?

From the kitchen rotary phone cord your sister stretched out nine feet? From never learning the real secrets of your crazy cousin until you were older? From the broken Easy Bake oven your brother used to torment your sister’s Barbie dolls? Or from the memory of watching your parents sell the house you grew up in?

Maybe you get soul from listening to the music on WDAS FM with your mother in the backyard at midnight on a hot summer evening. From Stevie, Aretha, Marvin, Chaka, Barry, Gladys...and Colman.

Come groove into 1970’s West Philly at Vineyard Theatre and discover the "captivating" (Newsday) new play by Colman Domingo, of the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical PASSING STRANGE and Logo Network’s ‘THE BIG GAY SKETCH SHOW’ that NY1 hailed as "Theatrical gold! A tour de force... with so much heart ...and soul."

GET ‘SOULED’ THURSDAY OCTOBER 29, 2009.

Colman Domingo in A Boy and His Soul in a moving and hilarious New Play that explores the life-experiences of a young African-American man in 1980s Philadelphia, propelled by the beat of classical soul music.

There will be a Talk Back after the performance with Colman Domingo led by our own (Black SGL brutha) Bryan Glover.