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SUMMARY:Mary Fields in Black History Live\, Canon City
DESCRIPTION:The Black History Live tour is an annual recognition each February of the significant contributions African Americans have made and continue to make to art\, culture\, economic development\, education\, human rights\, medicine\, public services\, politics\, and sports. The 2026 statewide tour will feature the living-history portrayals of Mary Fields by nationally acclaimed scholar/actor Becky Stone\, and York by scholar/actor Marvin Jefferson. This performance brings you Becky Stone’s Mary Fields. \nMary Fields was the first African American woman to be a star route carrier in this country. She was born into slavery\, but after emancipation\, life led her to Cascade\, Montana. She was a part of the settling of the frontier\, and her story lends a first hand account of African Americans who lived in the Wild West and made significant contributions. Her story brings in the history of Black settlers\, male and female\, Black cowboys\, Black entrepreneurs\, and more. \nThe portrayals will be performed in a Chautauqua format\, which is a first-person dramatization of a historical figure. The speaker’s monologue typically lasts 40 minutes\, followed by 20 minutes of Q&A\, first in character and then out of character as the scholar/performer.
URL:https://coloradohumanities.org/event/mary-fields-in-black-history-live-canon-city/
LOCATION:Steeple Event Center\, 701 Macon Ave.\, Cañon City\, CO\, 81212\, United States
CATEGORIES:Black History Live
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SUMMARY:Meet Erma Bombeck
DESCRIPTION:Meet Erma Bombeck\, portrayed by Susan Marie Frontczak. \nWith paring-knife-sharp humor\, Erma Bombeck captured the daily life of a new American phenomenon: the suburban housewife. Having figured out from her own personal experience that if you can laugh at it you can live with it\, she chronicled the housewife’s daily struggles in her column “At Wit’s End” three days a week. She eventually appeared in 900 newspapers across the country and in books such as I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression and The Grass is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank. Bombeck brought to American awareness the life of women whose lives otherwise felt invisible and taken for granted. She let women across America know: You are not alone. In fact\, we number in the millions. I\, too\, am an American housewife\, and I will laugh by your side. Find out how Erma got started as a humorist. And chuckle along as she pokes fun at kids\, husbands\, and especially herself. \nSusan Marie Frontczak has given over 850 presentations as Marie Curie\, Mary Shelley\, Irene Castle\, Clara Barton\, Eleanor Roosevelt\, and Erma Bombeck across 43 of the United States\, and abroad in her 22 years as a Living History scholar. She also works with both adults and youth to develop their own Chautauqua presentations. Susan Marie authored the Young Chautauqua coaching handbooks for Colorado Humanities and coaches students 3rd through 12 grades. In 2022 she joined the faculty of the new Chautauqua Training Institute run through North Dakota Humanities that is coaching a dozen new Chautauqua scholars from across the country.
URL:https://coloradohumanities.org/event/meet-erma-bombeck-3/
LOCATION:Steeple Event Center\, 701 Macon Ave.\, Cañon City\, CO\, 81212\, United States
CATEGORIES:History,History Speakers Bureau
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SUMMARY:Martin Luther King\, Jr. in Black History Live Tour – Cañon City
DESCRIPTION:Black History Live tour is an annual recognition each February of the significant contributions African Americans have made and continue to make to art\, culture\, economic development\, education\, human rights\, medicine\, public services\, politics\, and sports. This year’s statewide tour will feature the living-history portrayals of Rosa Parks by nationally acclaimed scholar/actor Becky Stone\, and Martin Luther King\, Jr. by scholar/actor Marvin Jefferson. \nThank you to our partner Cañon City Public Library. \nDr. Martin Luther King\, Jr. (1929-1968)\nReverend\, theologian\, civil and human rights leader and arguably the “greatest American of the 20th century\,” Dr. King embodied all of these things but would be the first to disown most of the titles afforded him. An intensely guilt-ridden yet brilliant man who rose to greatness during the most eventful years of the Civil Rights Movement. \nBorn in Atlanta\, Georgia in 1929 and raised in a middle-class African American community by his parents\, Rev. and Mrs. Martin Luther King\, Sr.\, Dr. King’s relationship with the Black church\, his optimism in human nature\, and his inner knowledge of the worth and dignity of African American people was nurtured in his early years. \nIn 1953 he married Coretta Scott\, and in 1954 he was appointed pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery\, Alabama; this would essentially mark the end of his “quiet middle-class existence.” For the next 13 years he would be at the forefront of a movement that would become known as “the second American Revolution.” \nFrom the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955-56) to the Poor People’s campaign (1967-68)\, his life was filled with immense joy\, pain\, triumph\, tragedy\, hatred\, and most of all\, love. \nAbout Marvin Jefferson\nMarvin Jefferson has an extensive background as a professional actor. He studied acting at the Mason Gross School of Arts at Rutgers University\, and from 1981 – 1996 he was the producer/artistic director of the Ensemble Theatre Company in New Jersey\, a professional acting company that he co-founded. Between 1997 and 2009 he performed the Paul Robeson Chautauqua character for the entire Newark\, New Jersey school district. He prepared for his portrayal of Robeson by attending the Annual Great Plains Chautauqua in West Fargo\, North Dakota. From 2005 – 2010 Jefferson appeared as Robeson in the Colorado\, Maryland\, South Carolina\, North Carolina\, Ohio and Nevada Chautauqua festivals. During this time he also began his Chautauqua portrayal of Dr. Martin Luther King\, Jr. Jefferson taught acting for the summer programs at Essex County College\, the New Jersey Institute of Technology\, the Franklin Township Department of Social Services of New Jersey\, and the Newark School of Arts. He currently teaches acting at Bloomfield College.
URL:https://coloradohumanities.org/event/martin-luther-king-jr-in-black-history-live-tour-canon-city/
LOCATION:Steeple Event Center\, 701 Macon Ave.\, Cañon City\, CO\, 81212\, United States
CATEGORIES:Black History Live,History
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SUMMARY:Mary Shelley Speaks – Chautuaqua Performance
DESCRIPTION:One-hour program includes a 40-45 minute monologue in-character\, followed first by a question and answer period with “Mary Shelley” and then by a question and answer period with the scholar/presenter.\n\nSusan Frontczak will perform as Mary Shelley the young woman who created Frankenstein in an authentic Chautauqua performance Saturday October 21st at 2 p.m. at the Steeple Event Center 701 Macon Ave.\n\n“I shall give an answer\nto the question so very frequently asked me —\nHow I\, then a young girl of eighteen\,\ncame to think of\, and to dilate upon\,\nso very hideous an idea\nas Frankenstein?”
URL:https://coloradohumanities.org/event/mary-shelley-speaks-chautuaqua-performance/
LOCATION:Steeple Event Center\, 701 Macon Ave.\, Cañon City\, CO\, 81212\, United States
CATEGORIES:History,History Speakers Bureau
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SUMMARY:Cañon City - Black History Live Tour
DESCRIPTION:The February 2023 Black History Live! statewide tour will feature the living-history portrayal by nationally acclaimed scholar/actor Becky Stone of Josephine Baker\, a world-renowned performer\, World War II spy\, and civil rights activist. At each site on the tour\, Stone’s Black History Live portrayal will be followed by a Q&A\, first with the character Josephine Baker\, and then with the scholar/actor Becky Stone. \nStone says of Josephine Baker\, “On her world tours\, Josephine visited ‘the people\,’ gave interviews\, appeared at universities and political gatherings\, and was hosted by royalty and political leaders. She also spoke publicly about the oppressive race relations in the United States. She never spoke against America. She simply spoke about life in our country for people of color. The United States government did not like it. The foreign press was covering the atrocities of Jim Crow and how it pervaded American life. And here was a prominent American providing the Soviet propaganda machine evidence that democracy was a fraud. Suspecting her of being a Communist\, the FBI investigated her and found that she had absolutely no ties to the Communist Party here or abroad. Her mission was simple – pressure America to live up to its promises.” \nAbout Black History Live!\nNow in its 14th year\, Colorado Humanities’ Black History Live! tour is an annual recognition each February of the significant contributions African Americans have made and continue to make to art\, culture\, economic development\, education\, human rights\, medicine\, public services\, politics\, and sports. 
URL:https://coloradohumanities.org/event/black-history-live-tour-2023-02-09/
LOCATION:Steeple Event Center\, 701 Macon Ave.\, Cañon City\, CO\, 81212\, United States
CATEGORIES:Black History Live,History
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SUMMARY:Black History Live - Cañon City
DESCRIPTION:Actor and scholar Becky Stone will portray Rosa Parks in Colorado communities as part of Colorado Humanities’ Black History Live tour. This living history portrayal will give insight into how and why Rosa Parks prepared for her pivotal act of resistance. Performances are followed with a question and answer time with Stone in character as Rosa Parks\, and then with Becky herself.
URL:https://coloradohumanities.org/event/black-history-live-canon-city/
LOCATION:Steeple Event Center\, 701 Macon Ave.\, Cañon City\, CO\, 81212\, United States
CATEGORIES:Black History Live,History
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