Black Women & Dance Studio Ownership in New England

Saturday, February 24, 1:00 pm
MPACT
25 Maple Street, Pawtucket, RI
FREE and open to the public
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A dance school is a space and place where entrepreneurship, youth development, identity and legacy cultivate and thrive. This intergenerational and interstate panel discussion features Dee Dee Handy Morris (Dee Dee’s Dance Center, CT) and Claude Michelle Au (Valiant Arts, RI), two Black women with experience of owning dance schools. This conversation, hosted by April Brown (Langston Hughes Community Poetry Reading, RI) will highlight the importance of these women and the schools they nurtured in their respective communities.

This project is supported in part by a grant from RI Humanities.