{"id":70866,"date":"2014-01-07T18:26:56","date_gmt":"2014-01-07T23:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=70866"},"modified":"2024-07-03T15:01:04","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T19:01:04","slug":"video-home-students-prepare-mlk-days-sankofa-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2014\/01\/07\/video-home-students-prepare-mlk-days-sankofa-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: &#8216;Same Different&#8217; \u2014 Students prepare annual Sankofa performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Co-director Jourdan Fanning &#8217;14 of Memphis, Tenn., and spoken-word artist Courtney Parsons &#8217;15 of Atlanta, Ga., comment on the upcoming Sankofa performance on Martin Luther King Jr. Day.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&#039;H.O.M.E.&#039;  \u2014  students prepare MLK Day&#039;s Sankofa performance\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/83634804?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Featuring a glimpse into rehearsals for this year&#8217;s production, titled <em>H.O.M.E. <\/em>(&#8220;Honoring Our Motherland Eternally&#8221;), the video includes a scene from a spoken-word performance by Parsons and Alex Bolden &#8217;15 of Cleveland, Ohio.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re one and the same,&#8221; speaks Parsons. &#8220;We&#8217;re far beyond similar,&#8221; responds Bolden. &#8220;Same,&#8221; she says. &#8220;Different,&#8221; he says. &#8220;I celebrate where I come from. I am what I am.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The student production Sankofa, held annually on the evening of Martin Luther King Jr. Day and this year co-directed by Jourdan Fanning &#8217;14 and Bethel Kifle &#8217;14, uses the performative arts to explore African diasporic experiences.<\/p>\n<p>The college\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/mlk\/\">2014 MLK Day observance<\/a>, with the theme <em>The Dream 50 Years Later: Who Are We? <\/em>takes place Sunday, Jan. 19, and Monday, Jan. 20.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_70954\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/01\/W_140109_Sankofa_Rehearsal_0131.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-70954\" class=\"size-large wp-image-70954 \" alt=\"Sankofa co-directors Bethel Kifle '14 of Chicago, Ill., and Jourdan Fanning '14 of Memphis, Tenn., confer during rehearsal in Schaeffer Theatre. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/01\/W_140109_Sankofa_Rehearsal_0131-600x400.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/01\/W_140109_Sankofa_Rehearsal_0131-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/01\/W_140109_Sankofa_Rehearsal_0131-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/01\/W_140109_Sankofa_Rehearsal_0131.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-70954\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sankofa co-directors Bethel Kifle &#8217;14 of Chicago, Ill., and Jourdan Fanning &#8217;14 of Memphis, Tenn., confer during rehearsal in Schaeffer Theatre. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jourdan Fanning &#8217;14 of Memphis, Tenn., and Courtney Parsons &#8217;15 of Atlanta, Ga., comment on the upcoming Sankofa performance, an exploration of blackness within African diasporic experiences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":70905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[11010,44,11012,11009],"tags":[5709,6135,10580,7707],"class_list":["post-70866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-enewsletter","category-student-life","category-the-college","tag-martin-luther-king-jr-day","tag-music-tag","tag-narrative-multimedia-2","tag-sankofa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/91"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70866"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70869,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70866\/revisions\/70869"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}