Theme:
The Black Theatre and Socialization for Survival

The format of the Colloquium
The Colloquium holds four sessions: one session of at least two hours per day. Not more than four presentations are scheduled for each session. Each presentation may be analytical, discursive, or dramatic. None may take longer than twenty minutes in order to allow for the allimportant optimal audience participation and exchanges. The presentations typically predispose the audience to experience festival performances of their choice, and to bring their respective experiences to inform their contribution to colloquium exchanges.

As an innovation for each session, the Millennium Colloquium will introduce the participation of at least one artist whose work as author, director, or performer shall be relevant to at least one of the presentations. More importantly, at least one such work must feature among the festival performances.

Proposals for the Millennium Colloquium
The Colloquium Organizing Committee welcomes proposals addressing the entire gamut of perspectives from which rigorous analytical searchlight could be turned on to the colloquium theme, particularly as it touches on our consciousness and preparedness to negotiate the new millennium from a position of participant ownership.

Thus proposals may address, but may by no means limit themselves to the following:

• How the Black Theatre reflects Black institutions of socializations;
• The Black Theatre as an agent or instrument of socialization;
• The impact of Black institutions of socialization on the Black Theatre;
• The impact of the socialization of the Black people on the art forms with particular reference to the Black Theatre.

Specifications for Proposal

Author:

• Full Name (First, Middle initial, Last )
• Title
• Institution and Department (if applicable)
• Address, including city, state, zip code
• Daytime telephone
• Evening telephone
• E-Mail Address
• Résumé: not to exceed 200 words

Proposal and Abstract

• Title: Brief, unambiguous and thematically transparent;
• Abstract: Not more that 200 words
• Document Format: 12 point, Times Roman; lines double spaced; left and right margins 1.25 inches.
• Electronic submission by floppy disc or as an e-mail attachment must be in the format for Microsoft Word. One hard copy under a separate cover will help, in case of difficulty opening the electronic version.

Dates and Deadlines: