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‘Writing Out Loud’ at Penn Explores History Through Conversations

Jill DiSanto

Penn News

Monday, December 15, 2014

An academically-based community service course at the University of Pennsylvania will host an end-of-the-semester performance, “The Ground on Which We Stand,” Sunday, Dec. 14 at 2 p.m. at the Platt Performing Arts House, 3702 Spruce St.

The performance is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served.

Designed by Penn professor Herman Beavers, along with alumna, theater director and lecturer at Penn's School of Arts & Sciences Suzana Berger, the course, “Writing Out Loud” gives Penn students a better understanding of West Philadelphia, its residents and their perspectives.

“Writing Out Loud,” encourages students from Penn Arts & Sciences to explore topics like race and class through conversations with members of the West Philadelphia Cultural Alliance and through the works of August Wilson, a playwright who focused on the African-American experiences of the 1900s.

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