K-State’s Ebony Theatre presents the First Annual Ebony Arts Festival. Ebony Theatre is a student organization that celebrates and promotes African-American writers, artists and performers. The festival will feature performances by students and the community, along with special guest artist Tanniqua-Kay Buchanan and a reading of K-State Alum (and current Luke Cage television writer) Nathan Louis Jackson’s play Sticky Traps.
Held in the Purple Masque, located under West Stadium near the Alumni Center, the Festival begins at 7pm on Thurs, Feb. 23; Fri, Feb. 25; and Sat, Feb. 26. The festival is FREE.
From 7-7:30 there will be music, poetry and dance presentations. At 7:30, the reading of Sticky Traps will begin. The cast includes Gary Hackett III, Daijah Porchia, Jerry Jay Cranford and Jennifer Vellenga. Jackson’s play concerns religion, race and sexual orientation and their intersections in a small Kansas town.
For more information, please contact Daijah Porchia at daijah@ksu.edu or Gary Hackett at ghackettiii@ksu.edu.