A Message from the President:

I invite you to participate in Purchase College’s exciting yearlong campus-wide programming initiative, Africa and the African Diaspora: Traditions, Revolutions and Innovations. (Complete Schedule and Brochure (pdf) )

The entire College is involved - the academic units, the
Neuberger Museum of Art and The Performing Arts Center – in
a unique exploration of the rich cultural heritage of Africa and the
African Diaspora.

Our renowned faculty offers an abundance of courses relating
to the theme – including Cinema of Migration, African Literature,
African Drumming Ensemble, and Race and Ethnicity in America.
The Neuberger Museum opens an impressive re-installation of
its extensive African Art collection. The Performing Arts Center
presents a season filled with great artists, including Urban Bushwomen
and Jant Bi, Sweet Honey in the Rock, Ladysmith Black
Mambazo, the Jon Faddis Jazz Orchestra, Grupo Corpo and
Ronald K. Brown/Evidence.

With artists-in-residence Tania León and Ray Santos, world
premiere performances of new works for symphony orchestra
and Latin jazz ensemble will be presented by the Conservatory of Music, and the Purchase Dance Corps offers a new work choreographed by Kevin Wynn.

Purchase College is also participating in the NEA’s Big Read Project and will be engaged in a study of Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God. At the end of this year of on-campus endeavor, we take a condensed two-day Festival and Symposium to Symphony Space in New York City where we share the best of our students’ creative work and faculty members’ scholarly pursuits with the general public.

Please join Purchase College for Africa and the African Diaspora. We know you will find its offerings to be intellectually and artistically rewarding.

Sincerely,

Thomas J. Schwarz

President