Claudia Rankine is the author of five books of poetry, including Citizen: An American Lyric and Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric; three plays including HELP, which premiered in March 2020 (The Shed, NYC), and The White Card, which premiered in February 2018 (ArtsEmerson/ American Repertory Theater) and was published by Graywolf Press in 2019; as well as numerous video collaborations. Her recent collection of essays, Just Us: An American Conversation, was published by Graywolf Press in 2020.

Please join us for a panel of distinguished private collectors and print curators for lively conversation with about their interests, expertise, and adventures in building their collections of eighteenth and early nineteenth-century British caricature and satiric prints.

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The program will feature Romani, Bulgarian, Serbian, Croatian, Greek, and Syrian songs of protest arising out of political turmoil in the region over the past 100+ years, from uprisings in the Ottoman Empire to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Based in Hamden, Connecticut, the Kolegi quartet plays music from Southeastern Europe, from Greece to Romania, points in between, and elsewhere. The four “colleagues” are: Helen Marx, percussion; Adam Matlock, accordion and vocals; Brian Slattery, violin; and Ian MacMillen, bass guitar and vocals.