Keynote: Finding Grace and Kindness in a Winner Take All Society
Presented by the FRANK PORTER GRAHAM LECTURE, UNC-CHAPEL HILL
Additional sponsorship provided by:
Carolina Women's Center, UNC-Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill Magazine
Department of Dramatic Art, UNC-Chapel Hill
Office of the Executive Director for the Arts, UNC-Chapel Hill
Sonja Haynes Stone Black Cultural Center, UNC-Chapel 
Anna Deavere Smith
Smith comments on and conducts performances based on people she has interviewed on the topic of grace in the face of hardship, and interweaves commentary on the theme of poverty, including poverty of spirit.
Friday, September 11, 2009
7:30 pm
Memorial Hall
Tickets not required or available
The Frank Porter Graham Lecture series is sponsored by the James M. Johnston Center for Undergraduate Excellence in the UNC-Chapel Hill College of Arts and Sciences. Named for the late Frank Porter Graham who served as UNC-Chapel Hill President (1930-40 and U.S. Senator (1949-50), the lecture brings to campus a variety of viewpoints on the problem of povery. "Anna Deavere Smith's presentation will broaden campus conversations about the place of the arts in addressing social justice," said Randi Davenport, Executive Director of the Johnston Center.
