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Monday, October 25,1976
University Daily Kansan
Programs, displays open arts festival
The cold forced part of the festival inside, but it didn't dampen the enthusiasm of the more than 100 people who were on hand yesterday afternoon for the black arts festival at the Elizabeth M. Watkins Community Museum, 11th and Massachusetts streets, and the Lawrence Community Building, 115 W. 11th St.
The festival was part of the opening of the "Amistad II" exhibition of Black American art.
In the downstairs lobby were exhibits of art done by black children from Lawrence
The first black culture program was a
theater from the Kansas Dance
Theatre in Kansas.
The four dancers, three men and a woman, presented their interpretations of the song.
the audience saw Tim McClendon's presentation about black women, when he began speaking.
McClendon's dramatic presentation was
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leader than ever. Van Laming greeted friends with open arms at the door.
"LAST YEAR we had people drive in from Omaha and a few carloads from Chicago for the dance," he said. "It's a good thing the dances are so big—they're our chief means of support to fund our education and counseling programs."
Near 1 a.m. the festival was finishing and Franny readied his final fanfare, a corny country tune in honor of Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman. On the floor a frail man wearing a telephone number strenched on his arm, his mouth hook, Hook, who held a Coors can in his hand.
"CAN I STROKE your plume, good sir?" a puggy woman with a painted face asked the captain, fingering the white feather atop his pirate hat.
But the fantasy wasn't to be. The bright ceiling lights flashed on, the music ground down and the crowd scattered and stumbed to the door. Zoro dressed his black mask, Dylan sung his scarf and a dragon played a phone dial he'd been using as a false out of his bra.
Later, on the Union jantors remained—and Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman's gown lay in pieces, the silver sequins scattered about the floor.
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broken into four parts: the slavery era; the "straightening condu" amb"; when blacks are in any way but black; the "I'm black and I am not black" and the era of the modern-day black woman.
Earlier in the afternoon the film "Sounder" was shown at the Granada Theatre, and George Jackson, blues guitarist, performed in the museum.
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