ETC celebrates Zora Neale Hurston 10/21 (Mystic, CT)

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Emerson Theater Collaborative Announces: 

A CELEBRATION AND READING OF 

ZORA NEALE HURSTON’S WRITINGS 

4:00 PM, Sunday, October 21, 2012

Mystic, CT.

Featured participants include Zora Neale Hurston’s niece, Lucy Anne Hurston; actress, Camilla Ross; well-known, award-winning poets: Kate Rushin and Rhonda Ward; and playwright, Lisa Giordano. General Admission: $12, Seniors and Students $10. 

Refreshments will be served. 

Zora Neale Hurston is considered one of the most important and influential modern American writers who wrote groundbreaking works about the culture and folk traditions of southern African Americans. Along with Langston Hughes, she was a central and celebrated figure during the Harlem Renaissance, and is best known for her 1937 masterpiece novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God. Not only was Ms. Hurston a successful novelist, essayist, journalist and playwright, but a talented anthropologist as well. Acclaimed authors of our time, including Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, and Alice Walker acknowledge Ms Hurston as their “literary foremother.” 

Please join the Emerson Theater Collaborative in a reading of Ms. Hurston’s selected works. For more information call (860) 705-9711 or go to www.emersontheatercollaborative.org. 

Emerson Theater Collaborative’s mission is to serve youth, under-represented communities and artists with an emphasis on diversity, by producing innovative and exhilarating theater in Southeastern Connecticut. ETC explores timely themes and issues through new, original works and modern theatrical classics. ETC’s goals include reaching inner city youth through educational theatrical programming, to support local communities by providing free admission to low-income families and donating profits to humanitarian causes. For more information go to EmersonTheaterCollaborative.org. For Tickets, please click here.