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JostenLive! presents “I Sing Earth and the Earth Sings Me!” April 19, 2019

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Sheree Renée Thomas, Andrea Hairston, and Pan Morigan

Sheree Renée Thomas, Andrea Hairston, and Pan Morigan. Photo courtesy Andrea Hairston.

Published April 15, 2019

What if we are all voices of the universe? What if the world listens, watches, thinks, sings and dances through us? What if our bodies are the musical instruments of life itself? Andrea Hairston, Pan Morigan, and Sheree Renée Thomas, also known as Dangerous Women Inc, mix new, original poetry and song with vocals, guitar, banjo, hunters harp, and percussion. Come to JostenLive! to see this trio of wild women performers. Friday, April 19th on the Josten Performing Arts Library mezzanine starting at 5 p.m. Free of charge and open to all.

JostenLive! is a performing arts library makerspace, inviting its community of performers and scholars to experiment with music, dance, theatre, sound, space, and audience.

About the Performers

Andrea Hairston is a Smith alumna and the Smith College Louise Wolff Kahn 1931 Professor of Theatre and Africana Studies. She is also a playwright and novelist. She is author of Will Do Magic For Small Change, a finalist for the Mythopoeic, Lambda, and Tiptree Awards, a Massachusetts Must Read, and a New York Times Editor’s pick. Her other novels include: Redwood and Wildfire, winner of the 2011 Tiptree and Carl Brandon Awards, and Mindscape, winner of the Carl Brandon Award. Learn more about her writing at http://andreahairston.com.

Sheree Renée Thomas is the author of Sleeping Under the Tree of Life (Aqueduct Press, named on the 2016 James Tiptree, Jr. Award “Worthy” List and honored with a Publishers Weekly Starred Review) and Shotgun Lullabies: Stories & Poems. She is also the editor of the groundbreaking anthologies Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora (winner of the 2001 World Fantasy Award) and Dark Matter: Reading the Bones (winner of the 2005 World Fantasy Award). In 2017 she was honored as the first recipient of the L.A. Banks Award for Outstanding Achievement and her contributions to the speculative fiction field. Learn more about Sheree at https://shereereneethomas.wordpress.com/about.

Pan Morigan is a vocalist, instrumentalist, songwriter, and poet. She has composed and performed for over forty theatre productions including: Castles of Gold, a music/theatre presentation produced for Public Radio and narrated by Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Angela's Ashes, the late, Frank McCourt, and award-winning actress Roma Downey. Other musical adventures have included touring with Bobby McFerrin and his all-improvisational vocal group Voicestra, producing several albums, Castles of Gold and Wild Blue, and creating, recording, and performing songs for Andrea Hairston's novels, Redwood and Wildfire and Will Do Magic For Small Change. Pan’s forthcoming album is Storm Hands. Learn more at www.panmorigan.com.

Pan and Sheree are currently collecting and editing Trouble The Waters: Tales from the Deep Blue, an anthology of water-themed speculative short stories that explore all kinds of water lore and deities, ancient and new as well as unimagined tales.

Contact

Janet Spongberg
jspongbe@smith.edu