Dialogues on Diversity 2016-2017 Events

*Events Subject to Change*

November 9 | FST Forums Kick Off Event

5:30 PM | Bowne’s Lab Theatre

January 6 | Stalking the Bogeyman: Opening Night

7:00 PM | Bowne’s Lab Theatre

January 12 | Stalking the Bogeyman Post Show Discussion

Immediately Following the Show | Bowne’s Lab Theatre

January 27 | brownsville song: Opening Night

8:00 PM | Gompertz Theatre

February 10 | Older than Dirt: Opening Night

7:30 PM | John C. Court Cabaret

February 16| brownsville song Post Show Discussion #1

Immediately Following the Show | Gompertz Theatre

February 17 | Gidion’s Knot: Opening Night

7:00 PM | Bowne’s Lab Theatre

February 18 | brownsville song: Pay What You Can Night

8:00pm | Gompertz Theatre

February 23 | Gidion’s Knot Post Show Discussion

Immediately Following the Show | Bowne’s Lab Theatre

 March 6 | brownsville song Panel

Unnecessary Losses : The Status of Our Young African American Men and Boys 

Moderated by Chief Judge Charles E. Williams

Special Guests: Trevor Harvey, Regional Director of NAACP 

Dr. Eddy Regnier,  Member of the Florida Council on the Social Status

of Black Men and Boys 

and brownsville song cast members Alice M. Gatling and Wesley T. Jones

5:00 PM | Gompertz Theatre

March 9 | brownsville song Post Show Discussion #2

Immediately Following the Show | Gompertz Theatre

March 21 | brownsville song Post Show Discussion #3

With Chief Judge Charles E. Williams

Immediately Following the Show | Gompertz Theatre

March 24 | Grounded: Opening Night

7:00 PM | Bowne’s Lab Theatre

March 30 | Grounded Post Show Discussion

PTSD in the Military

Immediately Following the Show | Bowne’s Lab Theatre

April 9 | Grounded Performance

Veteran’s Night

Pre-Show Welcome

Post – Show Immediately Following the Performance

6:30 PM | Bowne’s Lab Theatre

April 10 | Older Than Dirt Panel #1

Everything You Wanted to Know About Death But Were Afraid to Ask

5:00 PM | Bowne’s Lab Theatre 

April 13 | Older Than Dirt Post Show Discussion

Immediately Following the Show | John C. Court Cabaret

April 21 | The Exonerated: Opening Night

8:00pm | Keating Theatre

April 27 | The Exonerated Panel

Speaking Engagement with Dale Recinella

Author of Now I Walk on Death Row

5:00pm | Keating Theatre

April 29 | The Exonerated Performance

The Innocence Project of Florida Night

Pre-Show: Cocktail Reception

Post-Show Discussion Immediately Following the Show

8:00pm | Keating Theatre

May 1 | Older Than Dirt Panel #2

Intimacy Has No Age Limit

5:00 PM | Bowne’s Lab Theatre 

 

Because diversity and inclusion is more than just black and white we must engage our dialogues in a way that acknowledge the changing cultural and social definition of America, that we are becoming a collective of differences that we must embrace and celebrate, and more importantly unite as a country.

It does us no good if we fail to engage in a conversation that touches on the growing wave of discrimination toward those who identify as transgender, or fail to include in our conversations the mounting attacks on the rights of women, the scarcity of services available to our returning veterans to treat their PTSD that seems to be part of the baggage that returns with them from their military engagements around the world protecting our freedom.

Our community in Sarasota reflects this global diversity that we must be made aware of and we must always  include those who have been too often marginalized or ignored in our community in our outreach to make this area of the country truly the dream for all who have chosen  to live here.

– Chief Judge Charles E. Williams