Anna Deavere Smith's Notes from the Field: Doing Time in Education

6:00-7:15 pm Faculty reception with remarks by Laurence Ralph, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences, on the topic of poverty, incarceration, and racial inequality in the 20th century. Refreshments will be served. Fay House, Sheerr Room, Radcliffe Yard, 10 Garden St., Cambridge. 7:30 pm Anna Deavere Smith's performance. Loeb Drama Center, 64 Brattle St., Cambridge. Created, written, and performed by Anna Deavere Smith Music composed and performed by Marcus Shelby Directed by Leonard Foglia Urgent and inspiring, Notes from the Field: Doing Time in Education outlines the civil rights crisis currently erupting at the intersection between America's education system and its mass incarceration epidemic. In act one, Anna Deavere Smith introduces the students, parents, teachers, and administrators caught in America's school-to-prison "pipeline" through her trademark portrait performances. A leader in national conversations on race and justice, Smith (Fires in the Mirror; Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992; Let Me Down Easy; "Nurse Jackie") now asks audiences to talk back. In the tradition of call and response, a second act before a final coda performance invites audiences to reflect on how we might begin to collectively move forward from difficult histories and devastating social policies. The Office of Faculty Development and Diversity has a limited number of discounted tickets available for purchase. This event is open to Harvard faculty only (plus one guest).