Celebrate Dunbar! Partners
Arts Center Foundation
Central State University
Dayton Assn. for the Study of
African American Life & History
Dayton Aviation Heritage
National Historical Park
Dayton Contemporary
Dance Company
Dayton Opera Association
Doris L. Allen Minority Caucus of
the Dayton Educ. Assn.
Dream Keeper Theatre Company
Dunbar House
Ebonnia Gallery
Muse Machine
National Afro-American Museum
and Cultural Center
Paul Laurence Dunbar
High School
Reggie Evans, composer
Sinclair Community College
University of Dayton
Victoria Theatre Association
Wright Dunbar Inc.
Wright State University
(Jan. 26, 2006)
CELEBRATE DUNBAR! FOCUS OF ''DAYTON AND BEYOND''COMMUNITY AFFAIRS SHOW ON WDTN-TV
DAYTON, Ohio — Celebrate Dunbar!, a yearlong community-wide tribute to Dayton poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, will be featured on WDTN-TV's ''Dayton and Beyond.'' The program will air at 6:30 a.m. on Sunday, Feb. 12.
Herbert Martin, poet-in-residence at the University of Dayton who enjoys an international reputation as a performer of Dunbar's poems and scholar of his works, talks about Dunbar's legacy with host Sharon Howard. He also ''borrows'' Dunbar's voice and perform two poems, ''He Had His Dream'' and ''Negro Love Song."
''Dunbar elevated the language,'' said Martin, who appears on the show in a turn-of-the-century morning coat. ''Dunbar wanted to fly with words, while the Wright brothers wanted to fly with machinery."
Fran Robinson, programming director at the Victoria Theatre Association, and Noreen Wilhelm, consultant with the Dayton Contemporary Dance Company, talk to Howard about the numerous public events being staged in the Dayton region this year to celebrate the poet's life and work.
Dunbar, the first African-American poet to garner national critical acclaim, died Feb. 9, 1906, of tuberculosis at the age of 33. A 10 a.m. graveside tribute at Woodland Cemetery is being planned for Thursday, Feb. 9, to mark the centennial of his death.
For information on all events, see www.celebratedunbar.org.
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