43rd Annual Meeting and Conference
June 27 - July 1, 2011
Norfolk, Virginia
(Hampton Roads, Virginia Beach
SAVE the DATE !!!
DIOCESE OF SOUTHERN VIRGINIA CHAPTER
1/12/11
UBE Presents Having Our Say Two Performances
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Having Our Say
Two Performances
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Having Our Say
Two Performances
Sunday, February 27th, 2011
2 o'clock and 6 o'clock pm
Attucks Theatre
1010 Church Street
Norfolk, VA 23505
Tickets for this performance $25.00
Directions to Theatre
Having Our Say is the oral history of the centenarian sisters Sadie and Bessie Delany and opens as they welcome us into their home. As the story unfolds, we witness the rise of middle income African Americans facing prejudice and discrimination in the South during and after slavery. It is about ordinary people who make extraordinary achievements -- for more than 100 years. This simple story about of two women typifies the essential human condition - of struggle and achievement, universal in its appeal and in the messages it sends.
“A window on a world now lost, full of love, a little pain and a wondrous deal of hope.” - The New York Post
Based on a series of 1991 interviews with the two actual sisters, Amy Hearth wrote a New York Times article that became a 1993 best-selling book, Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters First 100 Years, In 1995, Emily Mann, multi-award winning Artistic Director and Resident Playwright of McCarter Theatre in Princeton, New Jersey, adapted the book into play form. On Broadway it received three Tony nominations, including Best Play and Best Direction, and a Drama Desk nomination. It won a Joseph Jefferson Award and an NAACP award, and it went on to receive Peabody and Christopher Awards for Mann’s screenplay adaptation for the 1999 television movie version starring Diahann Carroll and Ruby Dee.
The Right Reverend Henry Beard Delany, 1858-1928 father of Sadie and Bessie Delany
Born to a Methodist family as a slave in St. Mary’s Georgia, Henry Delany attended and graduated from St. Augustine’s College in Raleigh, North Carolina, which was founded by prominent Episcopal clergy for the education of freed slaves and where Delany later became vice principal. Ordained a deacon in 1889 and a priest three years later, Delany served as a member of the national Church’s Commission for Work among Colored People from 1889 to 1904, and as Archdeacon for Colored Work in the Diocese of North Carolina in 1908. He was consecrated in 1918 as Suffragan Bishop for Colored Work in North Carolina and charged with the responsibility of serving the Church’s black population, in support of the Church’s plan to establish separate, independent churches for African Americans. As Suffragan, his duties carried over to the dioceses of East and Western North Carolina, South Carolina, and Upper South Carolina.
Delany was a strong advocate for keeping African American Episcopalians united with the Church despite southern Jim Crow laws and practices of segregation within the Church. At the time, his consecration was viewed as an important achievement for African Americans even though a Suffragan Bishop had little authority in the Episcopal Church. [Sources]
Delany was a strong advocate for keeping African American Episcopalians united with the Church despite southern Jim Crow laws and practices of segregation within the Church. At the time, his consecration was viewed as an important achievement for African Americans even though a Suffragan Bishop had little authority in the Episcopal Church. [Sources]
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