Spotlight UB Hosts Last Performance, June 28
June 22, 2018
Contact: Office of Government and Public Affairs
Phone: 410.837.5739
After 12 years, the University of Baltimore's live performance series, Spotlight UB, will close out with one last evening of stories, music and readings on Thursday, June 28 from 6-9 p.m. in the Wright Theater in UB's Student Center, 12 W. Mt. Royal Ave. The event is free and open to the public.
Although there is no structured program, several artists have expressed a need to peform in the Wright space one last time: J Hargrove Purnell may perform his monologue from The Exonerated (spring 2011); John Wilson will perform one of his Byck monologues from Assassins (fall 2015), Laura Malkus, formerly with the Wayfarers, will sing; BSO oboist Michel Lisicky will perform, and pianist Robert HiItz will respond to the evening's offerings with music. Also, Ron Kipling Williams, M.F.A. '16, will perform part of Dreadlocks, and Prof. Diedre Badejo will read from Toni Morrison.
Any Spotlight artist can perform, if they so desire.
Spotlight UB began in April 2007 alongside the opening of the Student Center. Since then, the series has hosted mixed-media festivals, opened its doors to Artscape and the Maryland Film Festival, formed connections between arts programming and classroom curriculum, and established a working space for artists, representative of all forms, to share their work with the campus and the greater community.
"Many of these artists worked as volunteers for the pure joy of it," says Kimberley Lynne, published playwright and outgoing arts and theater manager and lecture in UB's Klein Family School of Communiations Design. "They contributed their time as arts acolytes for the betterment of UB students' lives."
Spotlight UB established a reputation for social justice theatre, while also supporting local charities to raise awareness and funds through art, including the Hero Project, the League of Women Voters, House of Ruth, Girls' Empowerment Mission, the Samaritan Project, Moveable Feast, Child's Play Charity Arcade Week, the Exonerated Fund, and Title IX Awareness.
Learn more about Spotlight UB.