Throughout the year the Curb Center graciously hosts a variety of events open to students, faculty, and staff. Our workshops, seminars, and panels strive to educate the public and enrich the arts at Vanderbilt and the community at large.<\/p>\n
Curb Center \u2013 Get Event Updates<\/h3>\nPast Events<\/h3>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-wp0\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/288\/2016\/12\/20173132\/formofreformad-200x300.jpg\")
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\nThe Form Of Reform Art Exhibit<\/h4>\n
Monday \u2013 Friday, 9am \u2013\u00a0 5pm<\/strong>
The Curb Center at Vanderbilt<\/strong>
This is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n\nMark Your Calendars for January 17, 2020 from 4-7 pm when the Curb Center hosts an opening reception for its newest installation \u2018The Form of Reform\u2019.<\/p>\n
The Curb Center for Art, Enterprise & Public Policy has partnered with the Nashville community on its latest installation, The Form of Reform<\/em>. The show features paintings, drawings, photographs, leather work, sculpture, jewelry, and writings created by death row prisoners awaiting execution by the state of Tennessee and housed at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution.<\/p>\nThe Curb Center has partnered with R.E.A.C.H. (Reciprocal Education and Community Healing),\u00a0 a local group comprised of Death Row prisoners (insiders) and local professors and students (outsiders) who share a vision of a changing paradigm of social justice.\u00a0 The group believes the present criminal justice system is traumatizing the lives of our youth, and those already caught in its grasp, and seeks ways to change the system for the better.<\/p>\n
What does it mean to be human? How does one come to forgiveness? What needs to happen to heal? What does it mean to have peace?\u00a0 Is our justice system really just? Should the death penalty exist?<\/p>\n
With The Form of Reform<\/em> we want to begin the difficult yet long-overdue conversation to answer the complex questions surrounding our current criminal justice system, prison reform, and the death penalty.\u00a0 These questions can never be answered if the conversations only include the same voices which created, and often profit from, the problem. Yet these voices cannot be left out because everyone needs a seat if real, positive, change is to happen. We hope the community will use The Form of Refo<\/em>rm to facilitate authentic dialogue with friends and strangers around restorative and transformative justice.\u00a0 True justice can only be accomplished by listening to the voices of those within the community: You.<\/p>\nOver the next six months (Through June 2020), The Curb Center will sponsor films, plays, guest speakers, and community discussions focused on The Form of Reform<\/em>. We invite each of you to join us in these conversations so together we can effect change in our communities.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-wp0\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/288\/2016\/12\/28200216\/Poster-Haiti-Week-2020-1024x663.png\")
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\nCooking and Krey\u00f2l<\/h4>\n
February 3, 2020<\/strong>
Monday, 6:00pm<\/strong>
Vanderbilt Recreation and Wellness Center Kitchen<\/strong>
This is free and open to the public.<\/p>\nLACS joins the Curb Center and the Center for Latin American Studies to kick off the annual Vanderbilt Haiti Week! As food and language are directly connected to how culture develops and is experienced, we will be including a Haitian Krey\u00f2l class as we cook.
We will cook Soup Joumou* and also enjoy other delicious traditional Haitian dishes. The program will include a discussion on Haitian history, culture, and a lesson in conversational Haitian Krey\u00f2l. N a w\u00e8! (See you there!)
*We will make two pots of soup (one pot with meat and one vegan\/gluten free pot).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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February 6, 2020<\/strong>
Thursday, 4:00pm<\/strong>
The Art Room, Vanderbilt Divinity School<\/strong><\/p>\nFebruary 7, 2020<\/strong>
Friday, 6:00pm<\/strong>
The First Amendment Center Auditorium<\/strong><\/p>\nThese events are free and open to the public.<\/p>\n
A short play by Tom Angland adapted from true stories of returning citizens. Proudly staged as part of the Form of Reform exhibit.<\/p>\n
Receptions to follow each event.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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\nFilm Screening of REMAND with\u00a0Q&A with Randy Brewer<\/h4>\n
February 17, 2020<\/strong>
Monday, 5:00 PM<\/strong>
Sarratt Cinema<\/strong>
This is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n\nHenry, a Ugandan teenager, was losing hope, languishing in prison for two murders he didn\u2019t commit.<\/p>\n
Jim\u2019s comfortable life as a Los Angeles lawyer and law professor nearly ensured he and Henry would never meet.<\/p>\n
REMAND\u00a0tells the firsthand, true story of how Henry and\u00a0Jim, separated not only by an ocean and thousands of miles, but also differing cultures and life experiences, met and worked together to inspire justice reform for an entire country.<\/p>\n
Join us for a screening and a QA session with producer Randy Brewer.<\/p>\n
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\nStirring the Waters Across America<\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\nFebruary 28, 2020<\/strong>
Friday, 7:00pm<\/strong>
Langford Auditorium<\/strong>
This is free and open to the public. Register on the Eventbrite page for tickets.<\/p>\nYou are invited to join Vanderbilt Divinity School, Vanderbilt African American and Diaspora Studies, and the Curb Center for Art, Enterprise, and Public Policy for an evening of unprecedented fervor in the production of <\/span>Stirring the Waters Across America<\/em><\/strong>. This event is free and open to the public.<\/span><\/p>\n\nThe dawn of a new decade brings with it the paramount duty of progressive minds to engage a Sankofa moment. Sankofa, from the Twi language of Ghana, is represented by an Asante Adinkra symbol generally depicted as a bird with its head turned backward taking an egg from its back. Its metaphorical significance is drawn from the Akan people who stress the importance of reaching back to knowledge gained in the past and bringing it into the present in order to make positive progress. We are in that moment.<\/p>\n
Stirring the Waters Across America<\/em> is a multimedia touring production illuminating the Civil Rights Movement. Conceived by American composer Nolan Williams, Jr., the production combines captivating music, spoken word, and dance with stunning visuals to highlight seminal moments from the Movement (1954-1968), connecting the past with the present.<\/p>\nStirring the Waters Across America<\/em> is one of the first works to be developed through The Kennedy Center\u2019s newly-inaugurated Social Impact Arts Residency. The touring production is produced by NEWorks Productions and Edgewood Ventures.<\/p>\n\u201cThrough its images, music, dance, and overall narrative, STIRRING THE WATERS\u2026 offers a multi-sensory, inspiring experience that\u2026 is brilliant, stunning, and stirring\u2026 [It] links the past to the present, while offering a solution-oriented blueprint for an improved future. Williams and his team have set the mark high and America is better off for it!\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>~ROBERT J. PATTERSON, Professor of African American Studies at Georgetown University and author of\u00a0Destructive Desires: Rhythm and Blues Culture and the Politics of Racial Equality\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\nFollowing the performance Nolan Williams, Jr. and Ethnomusicologist, Dr. Alisha Lola Jones will engage the audience in a talk-back about the production. Clergy, Musicians, Youth groups, Community groups, Activists, Organizers and all concerned citizens will find this event inspiring.<\/p>\n
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The Form Of Reform Art Exhibit<\/h4>\n
Monday \u2013 Friday, 9am \u2013\u00a0 5pm<\/strong> Mark Your Calendars for January 17, 2020 from 4-7 pm when the Curb Center hosts an opening reception for its newest installation \u2018The Form of Reform\u2019.<\/p>\n The Curb Center for Art, Enterprise & Public Policy has partnered with the Nashville community on its latest installation, The Form of Reform<\/em>. The show features paintings, drawings, photographs, leather work, sculpture, jewelry, and writings created by death row prisoners awaiting execution by the state of Tennessee and housed at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution.<\/p>\n The Curb Center has partnered with R.E.A.C.H. (Reciprocal Education and Community Healing),\u00a0 a local group comprised of Death Row prisoners (insiders) and local professors and students (outsiders) who share a vision of a changing paradigm of social justice.\u00a0 The group believes the present criminal justice system is traumatizing the lives of our youth, and those already caught in its grasp, and seeks ways to change the system for the better.<\/p>\n What does it mean to be human? How does one come to forgiveness? What needs to happen to heal? What does it mean to have peace?\u00a0 Is our justice system really just? Should the death penalty exist?<\/p>\n With The Form of Reform<\/em> we want to begin the difficult yet long-overdue conversation to answer the complex questions surrounding our current criminal justice system, prison reform, and the death penalty.\u00a0 These questions can never be answered if the conversations only include the same voices which created, and often profit from, the problem. Yet these voices cannot be left out because everyone needs a seat if real, positive, change is to happen. We hope the community will use The Form of Refo<\/em>rm to facilitate authentic dialogue with friends and strangers around restorative and transformative justice.\u00a0 True justice can only be accomplished by listening to the voices of those within the community: You.<\/p>\n Over the next six months (Through June 2020), The Curb Center will sponsor films, plays, guest speakers, and community discussions focused on The Form of Reform<\/em>. We invite each of you to join us in these conversations so together we can effect change in our communities.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n February 3, 2020<\/strong> LACS joins the Curb Center and the Center for Latin American Studies to kick off the annual Vanderbilt Haiti Week! As food and language are directly connected to how culture develops and is experienced, we will be including a Haitian Krey\u00f2l class as we cook. February 6, 2020<\/strong> February 7, 2020<\/strong> These events are free and open to the public.<\/p>\n A short play by Tom Angland adapted from true stories of returning citizens. Proudly staged as part of the Form of Reform exhibit.<\/p>\n Receptions to follow each event.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n February 17, 2020<\/strong> Henry, a Ugandan teenager, was losing hope, languishing in prison for two murders he didn\u2019t commit.<\/p>\n Jim\u2019s comfortable life as a Los Angeles lawyer and law professor nearly ensured he and Henry would never meet.<\/p>\n REMAND\u00a0tells the firsthand, true story of how Henry and\u00a0Jim, separated not only by an ocean and thousands of miles, but also differing cultures and life experiences, met and worked together to inspire justice reform for an entire country.<\/p>\n Join us for a screening and a QA session with producer Randy Brewer.<\/p>\n February 28, 2020<\/strong> You are invited to join Vanderbilt Divinity School, Vanderbilt African American and Diaspora Studies, and the Curb Center for Art, Enterprise, and Public Policy for an evening of unprecedented fervor in the production of <\/span>Stirring the Waters Across America<\/em><\/strong>. This event is free and open to the public.<\/span><\/p>\n The dawn of a new decade brings with it the paramount duty of progressive minds to engage a Sankofa moment. Sankofa, from the Twi language of Ghana, is represented by an Asante Adinkra symbol generally depicted as a bird with its head turned backward taking an egg from its back. Its metaphorical significance is drawn from the Akan people who stress the importance of reaching back to knowledge gained in the past and bringing it into the present in order to make positive progress. We are in that moment.<\/p>\n Stirring the Waters Across America<\/em> is a multimedia touring production illuminating the Civil Rights Movement. Conceived by American composer Nolan Williams, Jr., the production combines captivating music, spoken word, and dance with stunning visuals to highlight seminal moments from the Movement (1954-1968), connecting the past with the present.<\/p>\n Stirring the Waters Across America<\/em> is one of the first works to be developed through The Kennedy Center\u2019s newly-inaugurated Social Impact Arts Residency. The touring production is produced by NEWorks Productions and Edgewood Ventures.<\/p>\n \u201cThrough its images, music, dance, and overall narrative, STIRRING THE WATERS\u2026 offers a multi-sensory, inspiring experience that\u2026 is brilliant, stunning, and stirring\u2026 [It] links the past to the present, while offering a solution-oriented blueprint for an improved future. Williams and his team have set the mark high and America is better off for it!\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>~ROBERT J. PATTERSON, Professor of African American Studies at Georgetown University and author of\u00a0Destructive Desires: Rhythm and Blues Culture and the Politics of Racial Equality\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Following the performance Nolan Williams, Jr. and Ethnomusicologist, Dr. Alisha Lola Jones will engage the audience in a talk-back about the production. Clergy, Musicians, Youth groups, Community groups, Activists, Organizers and all concerned citizens will find this event inspiring.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
The Curb Center at Vanderbilt<\/strong>
This is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\nCooking and Krey\u00f2l<\/h4>\n
Monday, 6:00pm<\/strong>
Vanderbilt Recreation and Wellness Center Kitchen<\/strong>
This is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n
We will cook Soup Joumou* and also enjoy other delicious traditional Haitian dishes. The program will include a discussion on Haitian history, culture, and a lesson in conversational Haitian Krey\u00f2l. N a w\u00e8! (See you there!)
*We will make two pots of soup (one pot with meat and one vegan\/gluten free pot).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\nHalfway<\/h4>\n
Thursday, 4:00pm<\/strong>
The Art Room, Vanderbilt Divinity School<\/strong><\/p>\n
Friday, 6:00pm<\/strong>
The First Amendment Center Auditorium<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\nFilm Screening of REMAND with\u00a0Q&A with Randy Brewer<\/h4>\n
Monday, 5:00 PM<\/strong>
Sarratt Cinema<\/strong>
This is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\nStirring the Waters Across America<\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n
Friday, 7:00pm<\/strong>
Langford Auditorium<\/strong>
This is free and open to the public. Register on the Eventbrite page for tickets.<\/p>\n