December Narrative Medicine Rounds with Marc Bamuthi Joseph

"Creativity and the Arts in Social Justice, Repair, and Forgiveness,
a talk with Marc Bamuthi Joseph

Wednesday, December 7th, 2022 6pm EST

For our final Rounds of the fall semester we are honored to welcome Marc Bamuthi Joseph (Bamuthi), poet, dancer, playwright, and actor, who will speak to us about his work and about the role of creativity and the arts in social justice, repair, and forgiveness. Marc Bamuthi Joseph is a 2017 TED Global Fellow, an inaugural recipient of the Guggenheim Social Practice Initiative, and an honoree of the United States Artists Rockefeller Fellowship. Formerly the Chief of Program and Pedagogy at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) in San Francisco, Mr. Joseph currently serves as Vice President and Artistic Director of Social Impact at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC. He is also the winner of the 2011 Herb Alpert Award in Theatre and an inaugural recipient of the Doris Duke Performing Artist Award. In the Spring of 2022, he was elected into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Mr. Joseph's work investigates cultural erasure and Black Dignity through performances that range from opera to film.

This event will be supported by live captioning.