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"Unpacking Le Gip" Public talk and Q&A with Alice Nash and Elizabeth Pangburn

Sat, Nov 27

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Byron Le Gip was an African American designer, dancer, and musician who lived and worked in Greenwich Village, 1948-1985. The Le Gip Archive documents his creative work. It also raises questions about how he navigated the racialized world of post-WWII America.

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"Unpacking Le Gip" Public talk and Q&A with Alice Nash and Elizabeth Pangburn
"Unpacking Le Gip" Public talk and Q&A with Alice Nash and Elizabeth Pangburn

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Nov 27, 2021, 4:00 PM EST

Free Online Event

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ALICE NASH is an Associate Professor of History at the UMass Amherst. She is a co-editor of The Routledge Handbook to the History and Society of the Americas (Routledge 2019) and the recipient of four grants from the NEH (2013, 2015, 2017, and 2019) to serve as director or co-director of Teaching Native American Histories, a Summer Institute for K-12 teachers. She is a life-long dancer and performer.

ELIZABETH PANGBURN is a costume designer and independent researcher. She co-founded the performance collective TheatreTruck, and has taught costume design and costume history at Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, UMass Amherst and Westfield State College.

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