Our observance of Martin Luther King Day has become a celebration of humankind: our values, our behavior and our sense of self. Morning faculty-led workshops explored issues of
identity in preparation for a very special experience.
One workshop has students paint whole-body self-portraits that include self-perceptions and assumed perceptions by others.
Another had us creating identity collages from magazine images.
In another, we're fashioning family shields.
After the early workshops, we convene for an remarkable one-man theatric production called
Igcognito by Michael Fosberg, in which he dramatizes his search for his identity by finding not only his biological father--but discovering that he is African American.
The succeeding assembly featured extraordinary performance by the jazz/rock ensemble with internationally renown tenor saxophonist
Greg Abate, playing Duke Ellington's aptly named Things Ain't What They Used To Be.
But the point--today--is identity. Let's just take some pictures.... For example, Connor's eighteen! Don't try to figure out the fingers...
