Harriet Tubman Presentation In West Springfield

Friday, January 25, 2019

Time
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Venue
Storrowtown Village, West Springfield
Price
$8 in advance online and $10 at the event.

Storrowton Village Museum’s annual First Person Presentation will focus this year on Harriet Tubman. The museum will bring living historian Gwendolyn Quezaire-Presutti and her performance of “I Can’t Die But Once” to its historic Union Meeting House.

This performance will take a closer look at the woman who inspired many during and after her lifetime. To the enslaved, Tubman was Moses leading them to freedom; to their slaveholders, she was a thief and trickster. Tubman was a fearless visionary who commanded an elaborate system of scouts and spies during abolition years. She often gave speeches before and after the Civil War, as a way of raising money for her humanitarian causes.

Quezaire-Presutti’s presentation will take the audience back to 1887, during one of Tubman’s speeches in a meeting hall addressing friends and supporters. Toward the end of the presentation, Quezaire-Presutti will answer questions as Tubman before switching to a short talk about researching her subject as an actor.

Gwendolyn Quezaire-Presutti, a committed scholar of African American Diaspora Studies, began performing in 1997 at The University of Texas Institute of Texan Cultures as an Educational Interpreter. An award-winning artist, she has been recognized for the quality and range of her work, receiving a certification in Theatre in Museums and Interpretation from The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis. In 2010, she was crowned Ms. Senior Connecticut.

For more information, please call 413-205-5051.

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Storrowtown Village
1305 Memorial Ave.
West Springfield

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