Book Now for a screening and talk or a live presentation by Susheel
in 2010!
Contact MEP Productions
and Publications/DKC for more information by emailing mepleasant1@yahoo.com.
2010
NEW FAX NO, UPCOMING FILM ON THE HYERS, ABOUT PBS BROADCASTS AND FESTIVALS
(see
the NEWS tab on this site)
2010
March 14, 7pm, Movies on A Big Screen Series.
Screening of MEET MARY PLEASANT and talk
by Susheel Bibbs -- Guild Theatre, 35th and Broadway, Sacramento,
CA -- $5 admission. Sponsored by The Sacramento Historical Society.
Contact: b.burg@gmail.com
July 29, TBA pm,
Chautauqua: MEET MARY PLEASANT -- featured performance
at the banquet of The National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom
Program Conference, Topeka, KN -- details to follow. Contact: Guy
Washington <guywashington@nps.gov>
2009 Archive
Meet Mary Pleasant, the documentary film, is now on DVD
and on Amazon.com for on demand and digital download. Access the site
to order a single DVDor a DVD with bonus material on this site "our
store."
The film will begin broadcasts on PBS again this year.
January/February 09
MEET MARY PLEASANT broadcast on PBS in Phila, SF, San Jose, New
Orleans, Detroit, Bowling Green, LA, and on many other PBS stations
-- check your listings.
Feb. 18. Chautauqua, 11:15 am, San Diego City College
March 09
=March 29, 11:45 am, MEET MARY PLEASANT, Sacramento International
Film Festival in CA History Day at the Festival. Susheel will be there!
CA Train Museum (Cinema), I St., Old Town Sacramento (near Sacramento
Amtrak)
Tickets and information: www.newfonlin.org/id68.html
April 09
=April 9, 7 pm, MEET MARY PLEASANT, at the Community Film Series,
Los Angeles. 3351 W. 43rd St., Lucy Florence Cultural Center, Leimert
Park. Susheel will be there!
Information: www.lucyflpourrnce.com or call 322-293-1356
=April 18, 10am, MEET MARY PLEASANT, Spelman College--
Cosby Academic Ctr, room 103, 10 am-noon. Please pass the word!
AFRICA IN THE DIASPORA event --See the event schedule for Friday
and Saturday by putting the link below in your browser. http://www.facebook.com/event.php?sid=4b2efed9b0a21dcd3e148161d3d5e8f6&eid=63742382357&ref=search
Susheel will be there!
Contact: Dianne Whyte at diannew@spelman.edu
May 09
May 2, Chautauqua -- John Brown Seminar, Chatham Black Historical
Society, WISH Center, Chatham, ONT
Contact: heritageroom @aol.com
SUMMER OFF!
Sept 09
Sept 14, 11 am, St. Charles Community College,Screening of MEET MARY
PLEASANT and Q&A by Susheel Bibbs, St. Peters, MO
Oct 09 -- none
Nov 09
Nov. 1, 3 pm., Screening of MEET MARY PLEASANT and talk by Susheel
Bibbs: The Way of A Mambo, A Heritage of Power. Holistic Healing Expo,
Holiday Inn Express, Elk Grove, CA (near Sacramento off Hwy 99); Expo
runs 9:30-5. Come early. Bibbs' book and DVD's on sale at a discount
at this event.
Dec 09 -- Watch for a new chautauqua! Book now
2008
January 08
Jan. 12, 2007, Meet Mary Pleasant, the documentary for TV
uplinks to the PBS Network -- The distributor is NETA. Check your
local listing for an airing in your city.
February 08
Februar y 29, 8pm, Meet Mary Pleasant, the documentary,
will air on KVIE-TV, Sacramento PBS, Ch. 6. Check your local listings
for the scheduling with your PBS affiliate.
March 08
Meet Mary Pleasant, the documentary, screens nationwide
and at American River College, Sacramento. History Dept.
May 08
May 21, 12pm, Meet Mary Pleasant, the documentary, screens
at Cannes Film Festival (Marche du Film) under ITN Distribution. Gray
D'Albion, Cinema 3.
June 08
June 4, 11:30 am, Meet Mary Pleasant, the documentary, screens
as a finalist at the Hollywood Black Film Festival (Beverly Hills).
Check back to learn results. Laemmle Music Hall, Cinema 3, $9
June 12, 7pm, FREE. Meet Mary Pleasant, the documentary,
screens at the Missouri History Museum; Bibbs Q & A follows.
July 08
July 6, 9:30 pm, Meet Mary Pleasant, the documentary, airs
on KETC-TV, PBS Ch. 9, St. Louis, MO.
Check your local listings for the scheduling with your PBS affiliate.
August 08
Date TBA, MEET MARY PLEASANT screens at the African Marketplace in
LA!
Follow up from the Cannes screening has placed the film in the "Cinema
After Dark Showcase" outdoors at the AFRICAN MARKETPLACE AND
CULTURAL FAIRE held in LA August between Aug 16 and Sept. 1. Check
the screening time on their site after Aug. 1 at www.africanmarketplace.org/event.htm
AfricanMarketplace Amphitheatre, 8:15pm each nightFirst AME Church
and The African American Museum in LA will be community sponsors --
more to come
Watch for a UK screening soon!
2007
January 07
Jan. 12, 2007, 4:15 pm, Chautauqua/technical presentation: Meet
Mary Pleasant, International Conference of Arts and Humanities,
Honolulu, HI
Jan. 13, 2007, 1:15 pm, Lecture-Demo: The Art of the Spiritual,
International Conference of Arts and Humanities, Honolulu, HI, 1:15
pm
February
February 25, 2007, 3 pm, O Freedom! Musical, Crocker Art
Museum, Sacramento, CA, 3 pm
March
March 28, 7:30 pm, Bibbs' TV Documentary: “The Legacy of Mary
Ellen Pleasant,” Viewfinder series, KVIE-TV, (PBS)
Sacramento, CA
Note: DVDs now on sale:
MEET MARY PLEASANT
(on this Web site store) and The Legacy of Mary Ellen Pleasant
-- www.kviestore.org
April
April 27. 28, Talk: Zora and Voudou – A Heritage of Power,
Zorafest, Ft. Pierce, Florida, time TBA -- Festival on the life and
works of Zora Neale Hurston
May-Aug -- Bibbs completion of screenings, the one-hour TV documentary
- -Meet Mary Pleasant, and presentations for the El Dorado
and Placer County School systems
October 5-7 - Watch for MEET MARY PLEASANT (41 min version) in the
Berkeley Film and Video Festival, 2113 Kittredge St at Shattuck
in the California Cinema. Check
their listing for the scheduled time/day: www.berkeleyvideofilmfest.org/
Watch for Dr. Bibbs at St. Mary's College soon
Past
Performance Highlights and Events
January
06
Jan. 10, 2006, 7:30pm, Mary Ellen Pleasant Chautauqua, San
Francisco Historical Society and Museum, Contact: "Christina
Waldeck" <cwaldeck@pacbell.net>
Jan. 19, 2006, 3:30-5pm, Talk: Who is Mary Pleasant:, St. Mary’s
College, Moraga, CA
Contact: Mary Volmer, Garamani Hall, Rm 200
February
March
March 28, 2006, 6pm, Talk: Who is Mary Pleasant?, 1st Mary
Ellen Pleasant Golf Tournament, San Francisco, CA
National Congress of 100 Black Women, San Francisco Chapter,The San
Francisco Presidio Golf Course
Contact: I. Lee Murphy-Reed, Ileemr@aol.com
March 31, O Freedom! Pleasant Musical (see below) under April
April
O Freedom! Pleasant musical chautauqua(Mar. 31) and the
Art of the Spiritual Master Class (April 1, 3 pm), MI State University,
Hattiesburg, MS, Music Dept. (email for details), composer Jacqueline
Hairston at the piano
Contact: Dr. Kimberley Davis --kimberleydavis@bellsouth.net
Watch for Dr. Bibbs in Florida on April 29 at the Zora Neale Hurston
Festival, St. Lucie, FLA
May
Performances TBA
June
Performances
TBA
Watch
for the new Mary Pleasant biography Fall 07.
July
Performances
TBA
August
Performances
TBA
September
Performances
TBA
October
Performances
TBA
November
No
performances scheduled at this time.
December
Talk: A Heritage of Power, New College, San Francisco, contact:
Dr. Deborah Grinn
January
05
1/9:
Susheel
appears at Beth Eden Church, Oakland, Jan. 9, 3pm
February
March
No
performances scheduled at this time.
April
05
4/17,
4 pm, AGMA Relief GALA Concert: Susheel will sing a spiritual
and art song. Contact Julianne B. Knell (
jbknell@earthlink.net ) for time and place.
4/24,
4pm, Morehouse College, Atlanta, GA: "The Art of the Spiritual"
Bibbs' Master Class/lecture and demo. Contact Dr. Mel Foster for details.
414-215-2601 x 2065
8/22/04
Lecture: Exploring the African influence, the Slaves' Life Stories,
the Language Styles in Negro Spirituals. Spirituals Education
Forum at the West Oakland Senior Center, Oakland, CA.
8/4/04
Susheel's collegiate level master class: The Art of the Spiritual
-- unlocking the full spectrum of the spiritual for performance.
85th National Association of Negro Musicians, Inc. (NANM) Convention,
Detroit.
6/27/04
Susheel receives a "Spirituals Heritage Keepers Award" by Friends
of Negro Spirituals at their Bay Area Negro Spirituals Heritage Day.
5/1/04
Chautauqua at Chatham-Kent Black Historical Society. All day event:
Embracing Paradox--Remembering and Reshaping the Story of John
Brown.
5/22/04
Susheel sings two solos with Kensington Symphony. UC Berkeley
Greek theatre.
4/18/04
Susheel appears as soloist on the Festival of Spirituals, National
Assn. of Negro Musicians event, Allen Temple Baptist Church,Oakland,
CA
4/24/04
Inaugural
for Bibbs' Meet Mary Pleasant DVD Archive, 1 PM, African American
Museum & Library at Oakland, 659 14th St., Oakland.
2/27
and 2/28/04
Bibbs is featured in a segment on MEP in the documentary African
Americans in California's Heartland. KVIE, Ch. 6, Sacramento.
5/15/03
CAL State Sacramento and the African American Cultural Society present
the MEP Chautuaqua at the Juneteenth Festival at Negro Bar State Park,
Sacramento area.
11/10/02
The musical chautauqua, O Freedom!, at the League of Volunteers, City
of Newark, Newark, CA. Special music performance -- live ensemble,
period music, Susheel as Pleasant in song and drama.
10/08/02
MEP Chautauqua, Town Hall Theatre, Lafayette, CA.,Taped for a future
TV documentary.
