Please note that this is a virtual performance. Please click HERE to register directly in Zoom. A link to join the program will be emailed to you immediately after.

Join us for a virtual "Living History" performance, inspired by the life and work of Zora Neale Hurston.

Looking Things Over: Zora Neale Hurston a woman of enormous talent, she rose to become one of the central figures of the Harlem Renaissance. She was an outstanding novelist, journalist, folklorist and anthropologist.  Hurston believed in the beauty of black expressions and traditions. Although her work was praised by some, many attacked it, focusing on Hurston’s lifestyle and personality- her audaciousness, independence, and arrogance.   After going to Florida in 1927 to collect folklore, and after years of organizing her notes, she published Mules and Men in 1935.  Not only did Zola love writing the folklore she enjoyed telling the stories.   Zora celebrated the African American culture of the rural South, because she believed that black people had wonderful stories that the world needed to hear, and she told them proudly.  

About the artist:

Gwendolyn Quezaire-Presutti’s portrayal of historical women introduces untapped American History, drawing on a wide array of primary historical resources. For the past 22 years Gwendolyn has engaged audiences giving voice to real life accounts, struggles, self-determination and triumphs of women she portrays. Each performance is infused with her unique fingerprint giving an integral portrait of a historical woman or event.Learn more at https://www.quezaire-presutti.com/index.html

This presentation is made possible through a partnership between the Chelmsford Library and the public libraries of Andover, Carlisle, Clinton and Newburyport.