Lincoln College Students Host Event at Lincoln Art Institute
Emmy Winning Film Producer Set as Keynote Speaker

 

[April 09, 2021] 

Emmy award-winning speaker, Barbara Allen, and Lincoln College Contemporary Jazz Studies students will host an event at Lincoln Art Institute Friday, April 9, at 6:00 p.m.

The event titled, “Express Yourself” will feature Lincoln College students’ live performances of art, poetry, and music and is open to the public. The event theme is focused on social justice.

Keynote speaker, Barbara Allen, founded the non-profit media enterprise, Middle Passage Productions. She produced the three-time Emmy Award winning documentary, Paper Trail: 100 Years of the Chicago Defender; the short film Morning Due, which won the Jury Prize for Best Film at the Langston Hughes Film Festival; DuSable to Obama: Chicago’s Black Metropolis which won two Emmy Awards; Colorblind: Rethinking Race, a 2012 Emmy Award winning documentary; and Standing on Common Ground: 10 Years Later, which also won an Emmy in 2016. Her films have been featured at Cannes Film Festival, The Chicago International Film Festival the Pan African Film and Television Festival.

In 2017 she produced the weekly PBS music series, The Experience with Dedry Jones. She is currently working on a new film titled Red Summer/Winter Blues.

Physical distancing and masks will be required for admittance. Guests are encouraged to gather outside once capacity limits have been reached. Special thanks to Lincoln Art Institute, First Presbyterian Church in Lincoln, Open Arms Christian Fellowship, Joe’s Pizzeria, and Lincoln College’s ABIDE (Access, Belonging, Inclusion, Diversity, Equity) Committee for sponsoring the “Express Yourself” event.

Persons interested in performing a poem or song should arrive at Lincoln Art Institute for early sign-up between 5-6:00 p.m. Additional questions may be directed at Dr. Denise La Grassa at [e-mail] or 312.399.5933.

[Lauren Grenlund]