Howard Zinn @ O'Shaughnessy 04/06/2009 at 7pm tickets $ 15-36

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Howard Zinn @ O'Shaughnessy: Voices of a People's History


Start: 04/06/2009 7pm
KFAI and Nonviolent Peaceforce are proud to present Howard Zinn Live at the O'Shaughnessy.
On Monday April 6, acclaimed historian and activist Howard Zinn will lead this one-night-only performance of Voices of a People's History at the O'Shaughnessy in St.Paul.

This performance of "Voices of a People's History"
features performances by Jearlyn Steele, Winona LaDuke, Lou Bellamy, Prudence Johnson, Isobell Monk O'Connor, Tou Ger Xiong, Robert Bly and Dipankar Mukherjee.

For tickets you can contact the O'Shaughnessy or TicketMaster

From peopleshistory.us:

"Voices of a People’s History of the United States seeks to bring to light little known voices from U.S. history, including those of women, African Americans, Native Americans, immigrants, and laborers. By giving public expression to rebels, dissenters, and visionaries from our past — and present — we work to educate and inspire a new generation of people working for social justice.

The goal of Voices of a People’s History of the United States is to encourage civic engagement and to further history education by bringing the rich history of the United States to life through public readings of primary-source materials.

Voices works to remind people of the eloquence of ordinary people, as well as extraordinary and well-known figures from our history. By involving well-known actors and public figures in readings, Voices also works to inspire audiences to delve more deeply into historical texts and also to see history as a lively, relevant, and contemporary subject, not just a matter of books sitting on the library shelf.

But rather than rely on professional actors alone, Voices also arranges for readings combining professional actors with students and readings also entirely of students to engage at all levels of the dramatic and educational process, from selecting texts, to interpreting them, to adding new voices to the performances.

We also work with teachers and educators in all walks of life to develop resources for the teaching and exploration of history from below. And we work with theaters, actors, and artists interested in history.

In doing all of this, Voices works to develop and informed and participatory citizenry."

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1. just heard if you are low income you can get ticket for 12.00

just need to tell the box office.

It is a a fundraiser for Non-violence Peace Force so please only ask if you are low income.

But I hope many go, it is a great opportunity to hear it performed to actually meet Howard Zinn.

We are lucky to have him here.

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2. Tickets still left, too good to miss

Voices of a People’s History: Stories of Truth and Peace for a New Generation, a fundraiser for the Nonviolent Peaceforce taking place Monday, April 7 at the College of St. Catherine, will feature Howard Zinn and a stellar cast of notable Minnesotans delivering speeches vital to our country’s past. As Jenny Warner, a volunteer on the event’s organizing committee, puts it, “it will be a night to wear waterproof mascara.”

The “voices” will be pulled from celebrated historian and activist Howard Zinn’s collection Voices of a People’s History of the United States. Zinn himself—professor emeritus of political science at Boston University—will participate in the performance, reading The Problem is Civil Disobedience, a speech he wrote in 1971.

Nonviolent Peaceforce volunteers who organized the event managed to round up a stunning cast of Minnesotans. Among them, Isabell Monk O’Connor will read Sojourner Truth’s 1851 Ain’t I a Woman? and Maria Stewart’s Address Delivered at the African Masonic Hall in Boston (1833); Lou Bellamy will deliver Eugene Debs’s Canton, Ohio Speech (1918), Winona LaDuke will read Chief Joseph Recounts his Trip to Washington D.C. (1879), and Melvin Carter III, Martin Luther King’s Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence (1967). Hitting a more current note, recent Macalester College graduate Sarah Levy will perform To Avoid Another September 11, U.S. Must Join the World (2001) by Rita Lasar. The curtains will open and close with music: Prudence Johnson will start the night off and Jearlyn Steele will usher it out.

Zinn’s Voices was also made into a documentary called The People Speak, which premiered at the Museum of Modern Art in New York this February. The documentary features well-known Hollywood actors delivering these historic speeches. “I’m just really excited that we got really great local talent,” says Jenny Warner. “It’s a Minnesota cream-of-the-crop production, not Hollywood actors flown in.”