Prof. Amarachi Attamah-Ugwu will be giving a presentation about “Identity and Sense of Place in Igbo Performance Art” on Tuesday, December 3, 2024, at 6 pm via Zoom.
About the Presentation:
Amarachi will be having a guest presentation on Identity and Sense of Place in Igbo Performance Art. She will discuss form and meaning in Igbo performance costumes, and chant, and its role in the preservation of culture and identity.
About the Speaker:
Prof. Amarachi Attamah-Ugwu is an instructor in the Harvard African Language Program, Harvard University. and the Directed Independent Language Program (DILP), at the Yale center for language study, Yale University. She is an African Chant Performer, Performance Artist, and Poet. Her academic interests encompass the form and context of Igbo language and chant, the curation of cultural expressions, and the preservation of intangible heritage.
She has performed in universities and cultural institutions in the United States, the United Kingdom (where she completed a four-month performance fellowship with the British Royal National Theatre), Nigeria, Ghana and South Africa. Her more recent performance arts focus on preserving and sustaining Igbo cultural identity and sense of place in the diaspora. She is a Graduate of Syracuse University, New York, USA, and the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria.
Please RSVP by December 2nd if you are interested in attending.
* This event is for Pratt community.