American Visions of Liberty & Freedom Events
Adult tickets: $5.00
Tour Participants: $4.00
Senior/Student: $4.00
Prescheduled School Tours: Free
Children 6–12: $2.00
5 and under: Free
Tickets for MHS members are Free based on membership level
Free admission on Tuesdays
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Saturday, January 27, 2007
Visions of Liberty, or Death?
Explore your own personal views and those of the fellow St. Louisan sitting beside you in this provocative, eye-opening program. Experience the world not through another man’s shoes, but through his eyes, as we delve into the eclectic and perhaps harrowing feelings that certain images can provoke. This is a participatory program, facilitated by ADL’s A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE® Institute, aimed at an adult audience.
2:30 p.m.
Lee Auditorium
Free
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Expressions of American Liberty and Freedom
What is it to have freedom of expression in America? Join Susan Shipman Cryer as she presents dramatic readings of literature and poetry that explore the visions of selected American writers — free spirits who have engaged their individual and uniquely creative perceptions of their lives and times. From the stark boldness of Stephen Crane to the whimsical fantasy of e.e. cummings, from the oblique humor in the short stories of Donald Barthelme to the zany quality of Woody Allen, each of these innovative writers shows an original and uncensored style, subject and vision.
7 p.m.
American Visions of Liberty & Freedom gallery
Free
Friday, February 23, 2007
"Love Jones" Featuring Saul Williams
Presented by the Missouri Historical Society and Webster University Multicultural Center
Join groundbreaking poet Saul Williams for an evening of spoken word artistry. Williams has defined and redefined poetry as an accessible, living art form for thousands of youth across America, and his poetry has served as the archetype for a new generation of poets and spoken word artists. Don’t miss out on this rare opportunity to hear Williams share his own vision of American liberty. Refreshments will be available for purchase.
Tickets on sale now at the Missouri History Museum, or by calling (314) 361-9017
7 p.m.
Doors will open at 6:30 p.m.
MacDermott Grand Hall
$10 per person; $7 for MHS members
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
The Pursuit of Happiness: Advertising Symbols in America
McDonald’s, Levi’s, Coca-Cola...the new symbols of America? Advertising images have been inextricably woven into the fabric of America, representing this country both at home and abroad. Join Jennifer McKnight, assistant professor in the Art and Art History Department at the University of Missouri–St. Louis and education chair for the St. Louis chapter of the American Institute of Graphic Arts, as she explores advertising symbols as representations of the American Dream.
7 p.m.
Lee Auditorium
Free
Organized by the Virginia Historical
Society with additional support from the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter
Foundation and the
Lettie Pate Whitehead Evans Changing Exhibitions Fund, American. Support
in St. Louis is provided by The Stanley and Lucy Lopata Foundation
This exhibition has been made possible in part
by the National Endowment for the Humanities: Great Ideas Brought to Life.
