Welcome to the conversation!


Welcome to the conversation!

Harriet Beecher Stowe's (1811-1896) best-selling anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), made her the most famous American woman of the 19th century and galvanized the abolition movement before the Civil War.

The Stowe Center is a 21st-century museum and program center using Stowe's story to inspire social justice and positive change.

The Salons at Stowe programs are a forum to connect the challenging issues (race, gender and class) that impelled Stowe to write and act with the contemporary face of those same issues. The Salon format is based on a robust level of audience participation, with the explicit goal of promoting civic engagement. Recent topics included: Teaching Acceptance; Is Prison the New Slavery; Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North; Creativity and Change; Race, Gender and Politics Today; How to be an Advocate

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Thursday, June 13, 2013

"Question Bridge" exhibit at YMCA Center closing June 15

At our April 11, 2013 Salon Have We Overcome, we learned about the Question Bridge exhibit on display at the Wilson-Gray Youth and Family YMCA Center in Hartford. This trans-media art project which seeks to represent and redefine Black male identity in America is in its final days and will be closing this Saturday, June 15. Be sure to visit the YMCA at 444 Albany Avenue before this nationally acclaimed exhibit leaves Hartford!

 
Through video mediated question and answer exchange, diverse members of this "demographic" bridge economic, political, geographic, and generational divisions.

 
http://questionbridge.com
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