Alexis Caputo │PROJECT WITNESS present The Lynching Eye: A Juneteenth Celebration, Art & Education Choreopoem inspired by the life of Rubin Stacy.
Saturday, June 18, 2011, 6-9pm
Broward Historical Commission
301 Harmon Avenue (S.W. 13th Avenue)
Ft. Lauderdale, Florida 33312

Performance & Fundraiser: Admission: Free & Open to the Public (Suggested Donation $20)

Arts & Cultural Enthusiasts: Witness the power of transformation, as Alexis Caputo presents The Lynching Eye, a choreopoem, spawned and translated from one author’s perspective Rubin Stacy/Seven Moves by Summer Hill 7 of the Poemedy Project to another. Caputo explores concepts with a hungry eye for new language and unforced organic theatre, while creating a synthesis of the voice, body and word, evidence that art is malleable.

Rubin Stacy was a homeless South Florida tenant farmer who was lynched in 1935 by an angry mob en route from Fort Lauderdale to a Miami-Dade prison. The Lynching Eye relies on the mind, body and spirit to examine lynching from an artistic perspective, while speaking to assaults on one’s identity with female voices using the expressive modalities of story, poetry, song, dance, music and visual art as educational components for a touring workshop.

Featuring: Alexis Caputo, Moussa & Trina Soumah of Ballet Brika/West African Dance Theater, DJ One Star, Marcia Anderson, Sister Idya, SOULFLOWER “Empress of Hip-Hop”, Michelle Grant-Murray/Front Street Dancers. Visual Artists: Addonis Parker, Niki Lopez, Rodney Royal, Sister Idya & Wanda Paulette.

Donations are for the purpose of raising funds and awareness about arts in education via Project Witness. In-kind contributions and donations are tax-deductible. Project Witness is a 501(c) (3) not-for-profit organization.

The Lynching Eye is a post festival gathering, as part of the Juneteenth Festival spearheaded by Old Dillard Museum & Old Dillard Foundation, Juneteenth Festival community partners.