{"id":40730,"date":"2015-04-15T02:47:56","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T02:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=40730"},"modified":"2015-04-16T20:17:28","modified_gmt":"2015-04-16T20:17:28","slug":"one-drop-of-love-solo-show-april-15-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=40730","title":{"rendered":"One Drop Of Love Solo Show April 15, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

One Drop Of Love Solo Show April 15, 2015<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Amherst Togther Presents: One Drop of Love<\/em><\/a> by Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni<\/strong><\/p>\n

Amherst Regional Middle School Auditorium<\/a>
\n170 Chestnut Street
\nAmherst, Massachusetts 01002
\nPhone: (413) 362-1820
\nWednesday, 2015-04-15, 19:00 EDT (Local Time)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Admission is free and open to the public<\/p>\n

Produced by Ben Affleck<\/a> and Matt Damon<\/a>, this extraordinary one-woman show by Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni<\/a> incorporates filmed images, photographs and animation to tell the story of how the notion of race came to be in the United States and how it affected her relationship with her father. To tell her story, DiGiovanni travels back in time to the first US census in 1790, to cities across the United States, and to West and East Africa, where both father and daughter spent time in search of their racial roots.<\/p>\n

An award-winning actor, producer and educator, Cox DiGiovanni has been featured in the New York Times<\/em><\/a> and on NPR<\/em> as a spokesperson on using the arts to explore racial identity. She served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Cape Verde, West Africa, and has designed curricula for and taught English as a Second Language to students from all over the world. She has been honored with the Peace Corps\u2019 Franklin H. Williams Award and with Peace Corps Fellows and Hollywood Foreign Press Association scholarships. She holds a bachelor of arts in Spanish and education, a master of arts in TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) and a master of fine arts in television, film and theater. DiGiovanni developed \u201cOne Drop of Love<\/a>\u201d as the thesis project for her Master of Fine Arts degree in film, television, and theater from California State University Los Angeles. DiGiovanni, who appeared in the Academy Award-winning film \u201cArgo,\u201d is also the co-creator, co-producer, and co-host of the award-winning weekly podcast Mixed Chicks Chat, and co-founder and co-producer of the Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are many different kinds of conversations occurring in our community regarding identity,\u201d says Carol Ross<\/a>. \u201cNot everything is black or white, literally and figuratively. What Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni brings to the table is a moving and insightful microscope to our belief that there is such a thing as race and how the assignment of identity plays out in destructive ways that impact each and every one of us. This is a critical component that often gets missed in our attempts to dismantle this social construct.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One Drop Of Love Solo Show April 15, 2015 Amherst Togther Presents: One Drop of Love by Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni Amherst Regional Middle School Auditorium 170 Chestnut Street Amherst, Massachusetts 01002 Phone: (413) 362-1820 Wednesday, 2015-04-15, 19:00 EDT (Local Time) Admission is free and open to the public Produced by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,33,459,8,394,20],"tags":[19810,19751,118,12646],"class_list":["post-40730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-census","category-history","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-amherst-togther","tag-carol-ross","tag-fanshen-cox","tag-fanshen-cox-digiovanni"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}