BIG SANDY COMMUNITY AND TECHNICAL COLLEGE BLACK HISTORY MONTH FEBRUARY 2007 For additional information, please contact: The Office of Cultural Diversity 606 - 886 -3863 ext. 67374 Email: btiapo0001@kctcs.edu 2007 BLACK HISTORY MONTH PROGRAM * Friday, February 2 - Tuesday, February 13 ART GALLERY DISPLAY: Pictures Tell the Story Photo Journalist: Mr. Ernest Withers ART GALLERY DISPLAY: Drawings and Collages BSCTC/Carl D. Perkins Job Corps Students * Monday, February 5 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 n GEARHEART AUDITORIUM: Guest Speaker "Turning Obstacles into Opportunities" Dr. Aaron Thompson, Eastern Kentucky University 12:00 n - 12:30 p.m. GEARHEART AUDITORIUM: Dance and Poetry BSCTC/Carl D. Perkins Job Corps Students * Tuesday, February 20 12:00 n - 1:00 p.m. PIKEVILLE CAMPUS ATRIUM: Guest Speaker "The Bath Room Cleaner by Elizabeth Orndorff" Regina Lang, Solo Performer * Wednesday, February 21 9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. PAINTSVILLE CAMPUS MAYO AUDITORIUM: Guest Speaker "The Bath Room Cleaner by Elizabeth Orndorff" Regina Lang, Solo Performer 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 n PRESTONSBURG CAMPUS GEARHEART AUDITORIUM: Guest Speaker "The Bath Room Cleaner by Elizabeth Orndorff" Regina Lang, Solo Performer 12:00 n - 12:30 p.m. PRESTONSBURG CAMPUS GEARHEART AUDITORIUM: Music and Biographies BSCTC/Carl D. Perkins Job Corps Students Friday, February 2 - Tuesday, February 13 ART GALLERY DISPLAY Pictures Tell the Story Photo Journalist: Mr. Ernest Withers "I look for things of time and value. None of my images deal in violence - they deal in time." Ernest Withers was born in Memphis, Tennessee in 1922. His career and training in photography began when he joined the Army in 1942, although he prefers to say it began when he walked through a crowded high school auditorium (as an underclassman) with a borrowed camera and photographed visiting guest Margaret Trotter Louis, wife of heavyweight champion Joe Louis. After fulfilling his military service Withers embarked on a photographic career that continues to this day from a photography studio he opened on Beale Street more then 50 years ago. He photographs weddings, funerals, graduations, passport and portraits. He also formed a working relationship with the black press and freelances aggressively, photographing local newsworthy social and political events. Fortunately for history, Withers lived and photographed in Memphis, a crossroad for the Civil Rights Movement, as well as home of Beale Street and the blues, and hometown to the Negro Baseball League team, the Memphis White Sox. Monday, February 5 Guest Speaker Turning Obstacles into Opportunities Dr. Aaron Thompson, Eastern Kentucky University Time: 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon Prestonsburg Campus - Gearheart Auditorium Aaron Thompson, Ph.D., is the Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs and Professor of Sociology at Eastern Kentucky University. He has his Ph.D. in Sociology in areas of Organizational Behavior/Race and Gender relations. Thompson is nationally recognized in the areas of educational attainment, race and gender diversity, poverty, divorce and fatherhood in the black family, overcoming obstacles, and academic success. Thompson has served as a mentor for hundreds of students throughout his career in higher education helping them to realize their goals in becoming successful educators, his chosen profession. His latest books are "Focus on Success" and "Black Men and Divorce." His upcoming book "Thriving in College: Research- based strategies for academic success and personal development" will be published in the spring of 2007. In addition, Thompson's research has been cited in popular publications such as Cosmopolitan, Baltimore Sun, Orlando Sentinel and others. Tuesday, February 20 - Wednesday, February 21 Regina Lang - CreativeINSIGHTS Presents The Bath Room Cleaner by Elizabeth Orndorff A message of love and forgiveness for the iniquities of Segregation based on the good works of the sisters Benevolent Club, No. 1 of Lexington, Kentucky. Tuesday, February 20, Pikeville Campus Atrium: 12:00 n - 1:00 p.m. Wednesday, February 21, Mayo Campus Auditorium: 9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, February 21, Prestonsburg Campus Gearheart Auditorium: 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 n Regina Lang presented The Bathroom Cleaner, by Elizabeth Orndorff, during the Kentucky Human Rights Commission's Civil Rights Hall of Fame induction ceremony, summer, 2005. Last year, Regina and the playwright worked together to further develop the monologue. Subsequently, Regina received a grant from the Kentucky Foundation for Women to tour this solo performance, throughout Kentucky. Regina has performed for Louisville-based Pleiades Theatre and Juneteenth Legacy Theatre Company. Performances include: The Bathroom Cleaner; Till; Alphabet of Flowers; Black Hamlets in the Kentucky Bluegrass; Honey, Hush; Curtain Call, Mr. Aldridge Sir!; Regina directed the Last Dust Track; Park; and Empathy. Regina is also the voice of Ora Porter, a radio vignette made for WFPL's Kentucky Women's Radio Project. She is the founding principal of CreativeINSIGHTS which seeks to educate, resolve conflict and promote therapeutic change among groups and within organizations. She obtained her BFA in Theatre from the University of Memphis. She also has an MA in Expressive Therapies from the University of Louisville and in 2006; she received an MA in Global Studies with an emphasis in Conflict Resolution from the University of Denver. Regina extends a special thanks to the Kentucky Foundation for Women and to Juneteenth Legacy Theatre Company for supporting this project.