New York, New York-June 8, 2018. At the Well Conferences, Inc. is bringing Stogie Kenyatta’s One Man Show…The World is My Home, A Tribute to Paul Robeson to Princeton. This scholarship fundraiser benefits From the Fire: Leadership Academy for Young Men. The special one-night-only performance in Princeton, NJ, the birthplace of Paul Robeson is scheduled for Tuesday, July 31, 2018, 7:00-9:00 p.m. at Nassau Presbyterian Church, 61 Nassau Street, Princeton, NJ 08542. Tickets are $30 and can be purchased online at www.atthewellconferences.org or via Eventbrite. Powerful and poignant, heartfelt and humorous, the show celebrates our common humanity.
The World is My Home is the number one one-man Broadway-style solo show on the U. S and Caribbean college circuit and in theater festivals and US Embassies. The performance uses theater as a vehicle for social change. This show about the triumph and tragedy of this mistreated American genius not only promotes diversity, brotherhood, tolerance, and education; but challenges us to examine the notion that “If we accept the Fatherhood of God; then we must accept the Brotherhood of Man.”
Powerful and poignant, entertaining and educational, heartfelt and humorous, the show celebrates our common humanity, as Robeson fights globally for social justice for Blacks, Jews, Welsh and Spanish workers. It spans from the horrors of the slave trade to the shame of the Holocaust. The play journeys from the artistic wonders of the Harlem Renaissance and the Jazz- Bebop era to McCarthyism, blacklists, racism, and lynching. Robeson shows us that in spite of our differences, we still have more in common than we do in conflict. This show and the lively Q & A that follows; like Robeson’s life; serves as a Cultural Ambassador inspiring us to greater understanding, achievements and a more noble life.
The man behind The World is My Home is Stogie Kenyatta who is Jamaican born, and Brooklyn bred. Stogie Kenyatta was classically trained at the Afro-American Studio in Harlem, Henry Street Settlement, and Al Fann Ensemble. He studied Screenwriting and Political Science at California State University, Long Beach and privately with Ivan Markota at the Van Mar Academy. He amassed over 30 television credits from sitcoms and films to soaps. The play has been performed over 300 times at universities from Yale, Johns Hopkins, and Birmingham England to The University of the W. Indies. Kenyatta was hired by the Department of Education of the US Virgin Islands to perform shows in St. Thomas and St. Croix and worked with the US Embassy around the world to sold-out shows from Hawaii, Belize, the Caribbean, National Civil Rights Museum, and Museum of NYC to theater festivals in Miami, Hollywood and Paradise Isle, Bahamas. Kenyatta states, “This passion piece is more than a show for me; it’s a prayer for the forsaken & forgotten enslaved Africans who found enough forgiveness in their tortured souls to live, love & laugh.”
Partnering with At the Well Conferences, Inc. are two local and historic churches. The event will be held at Nassau Presbyterian Church, a congregation that has been the home of many important figures in the history of Presbyterianism. The current pastor is The Reverend Dr. David A. Davis. The additional partner is Witherspoon Street Presbyterian Church located at 124 Witherspoon Street, Princeton, New Jersey 08542 where Paul Robeson’s father, William Robeson, was the former pastor.
Proceeds from The World is My Home will benefit the inaugural From the Fire: Leadership Academy for Young Men; a two-week boarding program on the campus of Princeton University that is tailored to students of color who are currently in the tenth or eleventh grades of high school. From the Fire seeks to nurture and cultivate young men by providing an enriching environment that combines leadership development, mentoring, and an exceptional Rites of Passage program. From the Fire is a program of At the Well Conferences, Inc., a 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization. All tickets are tax-deductible. For additional information, please call 646-592-1488.
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