Tuesday, March 16, 1998, 11:15 a.m., Chan Auditorium
"My stories are about life, and I want to bring them alive. And if you listen with your heart, they aren't really my stories any more. Because in the telling and in the listening, all stories become our stories."
Like the bards of old, Joy Jones' performances not only entertain, but instruct. "She's Not in Your History Books" focuses on the untold stories of African American women.
Joy Jones is a magna cum laude graduate of the University of Detroit and author of Between Black Women: Listening with the Third Ear. She has worked as an educator, trainer, and administrator with the Washington, D.C. Public Schools for twelve years. A frequent contributor to The Washington Post and numerous other publications, this multi-talented artist has won awards from the D.C. Commission on the Arts & Humanities and the Colonial Players Promising Playwrights Competetion.
She writes: "Who speaks for the average woman, the common man? When I was young, my father handed down the stories of his childhood in rural Alabama. Now I chronicle the thoughts and feelings, the high drama and the everydayness of ordinary people."
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