On October 17 and 18, Muscogee leader Ella Jean Hill traces her family’s history from the Trail of Tears to her grandfather’s allotment in central Oklahoma. In an astonishing one-woman play, she shares her story – the Native boarding school she fled on foot, her marriage to a young Bengali scholar, and the advocacy that became her life’s work. With On the Far End, a reference to the landmark Supreme Court opinion in McGirt v. Oklahoma that upheld the sovereignty of the Muscogee territories, Mary Kathryn Nagle, one of America’s leading playwrights (Sovereignty; Manahatta), weaves a deeply personal account of one family – her own mother-in-law’s – and a legacy of broken promises between nations.

 Content Advisory: strong language, mature themes and racial slurs/hate language

Emory Students can get free tickets. Register here

Times: Oct 17 and 18 @ 7:00pm

Place: Schwartz Center for Performing Arts Theater Lab

From September 14 to December 15, the Carlos Museum will be exhibiting visual mediums from Greek, Maya and Moche traditions.

“Among the many ancient cultures that produced painted pottery, the Greeks in the Mediterranean, the Maya in Central America, and the Moche of northern Peru stand out for their terracotta vessels enlivened with narrative imagery. Representing heroic adventures, divine encounters, and legendary events, these decorated ceramics provided a dynamic means of storytelling and social engagement.

By juxtaposing Greek, Maya, and Moche traditions, this exhibition invites conversation about the ways in which three unrelated cultures visualized their society, myths, and cosmos through their pottery. Who made and used these vessels? Which stories did they depict, and why? How did artists shape these accounts? Could images convey more than words? Each vessel displayed in this exhibition is a “picture world,” full of expressive possibility.?”

“Complementing the Maya ceramics is a room within the exhibition of oil paintings made by five contemporary Maya artists from the highlands in Guatemala, to the south of where the Maya pottery in the exhibition derives. Their paintings are part of a contemporary art form developed by Maya artists in the 1930s but are in many ways connected to the creation of painted pottery, wall murals, and books by Maya artists in earlier times. They too are “picture worlds,” narrating stories about spirituality, ceremonies, ancestors, health, and government. They also comment upon the histories and futures of their communities and the larger region, including the armed conflict and genocide against Maya people in Guatemala from 1960 to 1996, and contemporary topics like immigration, human rights abuses, Indigenous rights, and celebration of Indigenous identity. The Tz’utujil and Kaqchikel Maya painters featured in the exhibition are among the more than eight million Maya people in Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and Honduras, as well as in diaspora across the world, including in Atlanta, who speak one of approximately thirty-one Maya languages today.”

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Time: Sept 14 – Dec 15

Place: 3rd floor of Carlos Museum