Event ID # 85682
Date:
Friday, July 31, 2009
 Time:
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Event:

The Slavery Chronicles featuring Yemi Toure
Host:

Wood Is Wonderful Gallery and Plainbrown
Location:

(Cascade Heights)   Google Map
Wood Is Wonderful Gallery
2312 Benjamin E. Mays Drive
Contact:
Plainbrown		 Phone:
404 622-5588
Email:
vscott24@hotmail.com
Website:
http://www.woodiswonderfulgallery.com
Price:
$10.00 Children 15 and under free
Full details:

Wood Is Wonderful Gallery in association with PlainBrown will host a monthly series, the Slavery Chronicles, featuring variously, slave narratives, drama, spoken word, visual art, and music,.  “Re-membering what we have survived as a people and re-connecting with all of our Past, Prosperity and Pain, and honoring the significance of our Ancestors experiences’ through the medium of the Arts”(PlainBrown).    The featured artist for July 31, 2009, 7:00pm is:  Elder D.R. Allen, Elder Ebenezer’s Vision

Through storytelling the Elder retraces the route taken by General Sherman’s March to the Sea.  He is a preacher/contractor, hired by his boyhood friend Oliver Howard of the newly formed Freedman’s Bureau with the mission of reading the Emancipation Proclamation and establishing schools at certain plantations from Georgia to Alabama, Tennessee to Louisiana, arriving in Galveston, Texas on the 19th of June 1865.  His traveling companions are his horse, dog, and raccoon.  The locations are factual. Admission $10.00.  Children 15 and under free.  Location: Wood Is Wonderful Gallery: 2312 Benjamin Mays Dr. Atlanta, GA 30311.  For more information contact PlainBrown (404)622-5588