SELICHOT PROGRAM - 8:30 pm
In partnership with the SHALEM Speaker Series
Dr. Carolivia Herron, Featured Speaker
For Our Many Transgressions: Exploring Themes of the High Holidays Through a Staged Reading of Pharsalia, or, For Crying Out Loud
Dr. Herron will be joined by TI Member Desiree Douglas and Tyrone Colbert.

SELICHOT SERVICE - 10 pm
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Learn all about the High Holidays at TI here.

About the Selichot Program

Set in 1852 at Pharsalia Plantation in Nelson County, Virginia, Pharsalia was commissioned by the Washington, DC JCC's Theatre J, as part of its Expanding the Canon fellowship. Learn more about the play and Dr. Herron in this Lilith Magazine article.

Dr. Herron is a Jewish, Wampanoag, and African American novelist. A playwright, librettist, and educator, she teaches Classics in the English Department of Howard University. Her published and produced works include Thereafter Johnnie; the multimedia, three-volume, Asenath and Our Song of Songs; Let Freedom Sing: The Story of Marian Anderson (an opera libretto with music composed by Bruce Adolphe); Nappy Hair; Always An Olivia; and The Selected Works of Angelina Weld Grimké. She is the host of Epic City on WOWD-LP, Takoma Park. 

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