Join us for a presentation by Annette Daniels-Taylor, “Witness, Testimony, and Prophecy: A Discussion In and On Story,” featuring her short biographical film Rose Dies Friday (2019). Rose Dies Friday explores the story of slave-girl Rose Butler, born in 1799. She was the last person hung for arson in New York State, in what is now Washington Square Park, 1818.
Annette Daniels Taylor’s art practice explores storytelling. She is an award-winning writer and an active Buffalo, New York theatre artist directing, acting, and writing stage productions. As a filmmaker Annette’s cinematic poems have screened in festivals and exhibited in the United States and internationally. Annette teaches Writing for Broadcast at SUNY Buffalo State University and acting with D’Youville University’s Dramatic Theature Arts MFA program.
Monday, March 20, 2023, from 11:30am to 12:30pm
South Block Room 201 at Brock University
Co-sponsored by the Centre for Women and Gender Studies, Social Justice Research Institute, Department of English Language and Literature, Department of Sociology, and the President’s Advisory Committee on Human Rights, Equity, and Decolonization (PACHRED).