{"id":2238,"date":"1970-03-12T00:43:34","date_gmt":"1970-03-12T00:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/?p=2238"},"modified":"2018-10-28T18:30:42","modified_gmt":"2018-10-28T18:30:42","slug":"the-black-theater-workshop-is-sponsored-by-the-theater-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/1970\/03\/12\/the-black-theater-workshop-is-sponsored-by-the-theater-department\/","title":{"rendered":"The Black Theater Workshop is sponsored by the theater department"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>March 12, 1970<\/p>\n<p>The Black Theater Workshop is sponsored by the theater department<\/p>\n<p><i>(Date is for when it was reported in the Sophian)<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Playwright William Branch spent a week at Smith, lecturing in theatre classes and participating in the Black Theatre Workshop, an initiative formed the previous semester by a Smith graduate student. The workshop, which attracted 30-40 participants, aimed to \u201cinterest black students in the activities of theatre\u201d and specifically to pay tribute to and explore the experience of black womanhood on stage. <\/i><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Playwright participates in black theatre seminar <\/i><\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/316\/2018\/10\/1970.03.12-Playwright-participates-in-black-theatre-seminar-5-e1540426182316.jpg\"><b><i>5<\/i><\/b><\/a><b><i>, <\/i><\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/316\/2018\/10\/1970.03.12-Playwright-participates-in-black-theatre-seminar-6-e1540426206292.jpg\"><b><i>6<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[Last updated on October 28, 2018]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 12, 1970 The Black Theater Workshop is sponsored by the theater department (Date is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2028,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[108,53],"class_list":["post-2238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1970s","tag-108","tag-black-students","entry","grid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2238"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2318,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238\/revisions\/2318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}