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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Susie P. Gonzalez
Feb. 6, 2008
Trinity University to Showcase African-American Arts in Mocha Life
SAN ANTONIO – The Black Student Union at Trinity University is sponsoring Mocha Life, a celebration of African-American arts, at 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 16, in Laurie Auditorium on the campus of Trinity University. Performances will include music, dance, film, theater, slam poetry, and the spoken word, and an art display by professionals and Trinity University students. Admission is free and open to the public.
Alysia Livingston, a Trinity sophomore, came up with the concept of Mocha Life in 2006 as a way to express African-American culture to the Trinity community and beyond. She sought to show that African-Americans are a multifaceted and extraordinarily diverse people through performances of the arts. Mocha Life, held in recognition of Black History Month, will give the audience a complete look at African-American culture through theater, poetry, dance, music, and art.
Performances include a scene from “Raisin in the Sun” by members of Trinity's speech and drama department, a dance to “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” and the Martin Luther King Jr. speech by Otis Mitchell.
Mocha Life is sponsored by Trinity University’s Black Student Union and Trinity’s speech and drama department. For more information, contact Ms. Livingston, the show’s producer, at 713-876-0317; Scheneeka McNair, assistant producer, at 703-862-0173; or Latoya Comer, president of the Black Student Union, at 713-408-7629.
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