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Ralph Lemon
Jul. 19 — Jul. 25, 2010

How Can You Stay...Residency / Brooklyn Academy of Music
Brooklyn, NY
Participants at a Community Sing at Aaron Davis Hall/Harlem Stages^46 Sekou at work at the Arab American National Museum with Detroit poets and staff during a semester long residency at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor ^46 Discussion at a Community Sing at Aaron Davis Hall/Harlem Stages^46 Attendees of the NYC premiere screening of finding the 51st (dream) state at Harlem Stage. Photo by Vaughn David Browne.^46 NYC premiere screening of finding the 51st (dream) state at Harlem Stage. Photo by Vaughn David Browne.^46 Michaela Angela Davis and Carl Hancock Rux in conversation at the NYC premiere screening of finding the 51st (dream) state. Photo by Vaughn David Browne.^46 Sekou Sundiata in the 51st (dream) state^46

The America Project

PROJECT DIRECTORS
Ann Rosenthal & Cathy Zimmerman, MAPP International Productions, New York, NY

PROJECT ADVISOR
Maurine Knighton, dance & be still arts, Brooklyn, NY    

ARTISTS
Alanna Bailey
Amanda Morgan
Bora Yoon
Christopher McElroen
David Thomson
Dena H. Saleh
Helga Davis
Jessica Blank &  Eric Jensen
Katea Stitt
LaTanya Hall
Melba Boyd
Ronnell Bey
Samita Sinha
Talvin Wilks

EDUCATORS/SCHOLARS
Cecilia Rubino, New School University and New York University, New York, NY
Cynthia Peltier, Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA
David Scobey, Haward Center for Community Partnerships, Bates College, Lewiston, ME
Douglas Dempster, Dean, College of Fine Arts, University of Texas, Austin
Georgina Hernandez-Clarke, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
Gladstone Hutchinson, Lafayette College, Easton, PA
Harry Elam, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
Jacob Needleman, Author and Professor, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
Joy Kasson, Professor, Univeristy of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Julie Ellison, Professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Kym Ragusa, Author and Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Margaret Cronin, Writing Center, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA

ARTS PRESENTERS
Yvonne Mendez, New World Theater, Amherst, MA
Brad Learmonth, Harlem Stage, New York, NY
Emil Kang & Reed Colver, Carolina Performing Arts, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Katherine Knowles & Kelly Rebeiro, Zeiterion Theater, New Bedford MA
Michael Kondziolka, Mark Jacobson & Claire Rice, University Musical Society, Ann Arbor, MI
Philip Bither & Julie Voigt, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Ben Johnson, Northrup Auditorium, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Cynthia Quinn & Judith Rhedin, University of Texas, Austin, TX
Ruth Mikusko, Lively Arts at Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
Karen Christilles, Lied Center, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS

COMMUNITY ORGANIZERS
Anan Ameri, Arab American National Museum, Dearborn, MI
Caron Atlas, Arts & Democracy Project of the Center for Civic Participation, Brooklyn, NY & Pratt Center for Community Development, Brooklyn, NY
Reggie Prim, Restorative Justice Community Action, Minneapolis
Daphne Farganis, Hip Hop Theater Festival