Oct 23
Humanities in Focus - Music and Civic Engagement
Mon, October 23, 2017
• 7:00pm
- 9:00pm (2h) • Boliou 104
Amanda Weber (DMA candidate in choral conducting, University of MN) talks about her work in prisons, as founder and conductor of Voices of Hope, a choir for incarcerated women at Shakopee Minnesota Correctional Facility.
Joe Davis (founder of hip hop group The Poetic Diaspora; artist-in-residence, Luther Seminary) on community development
through open mics, poetry classes for youth, and more.
Louis Epstein (Assistant Professor of Music, St. Olaf College) speaks on music and political activism and his volunteer work with Cannon Valley Indivisible, a grassroots advocacy group focused on Minnesota’s 2nd Congressional District.
Event Contact: Mary Drew