Amber Cullen is the organizer of “Until Name Becomes Prayer,” Monday, Feb. 26, 7 p.m. at Summit Artspace. The event, which will feature Samoan immigrant, poet and arts educator William Alfred Nu’utupu Giles, is free and open to the public and will pay homage to “every indigenous and immigrant mouth that had to become a history book.” The night is sponsored by Summit Artspace, … [Read more...]
Girls Studio theatre performance explores self-identity, empowerment
There was a nervously positive energy onstage and in the audience at the Front Porch Cafe in South Akron as the neighborhood teenage girls prepared to share the result of 10 weeks of work. Their offering: a unique theatre performance that blurred the line between performer and audience and lessons that would stay with them far beyond the night of the show. “She is.,” which … [Read more...]