{"id":927,"date":"2013-01-12T19:15:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-12T19:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebzbproductions.ebzb.org\/serena-ebhardt-in-the-parchman-hour-with-mike-wiley-productions\/"},"modified":"2013-01-12T19:15:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-12T19:15:00","slug":"serena-ebhardt-in-the-parchman-hour-with-mike-wiley-productions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebzb.org\/WPress\/2013\/01\/12\/serena-ebhardt-in-the-parchman-hour-with-mike-wiley-productions\/","title":{"rendered":"Serena Ebhardt in &#8220;The Parchman Hour&#8221; with Mike Wiley Productions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t miss Serena Ebhardt in &#8220;The Parchman Hour&#8221; with Mike Wiley Productions&#8217; 2013 cARTwheels Tour sponsored by the North Carolina Arts Council.&nbsp; Serena also serves as Arts-In-Education director for the tour, providing workshops to teachers in order to help them prepare student audiences for viewing the production.&nbsp; Visit the study guide created by Serena for this production here&#8230;&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mikewileyproductions.com\/characters.html\">http:\/\/www.mikewileyproductions.com\/characters.html<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jan 18th Elizabeth City, NC<br \/>Jan 19th Cary, NC<br \/>Jan 22nd Asheville, NC<br \/>March 8th Gates County, NC<br \/>March 11th Kinston, NC<br \/>March 12th Duplin County, NC<br \/>March 13th Duplin County, NC<br \/>March 14th Washington, NC<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mikewileyproductions.com\/images\/parchman.png\" height=\"319\" width=\"475\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>Mike Wiley Productions\u2019 newest work commemorates the 50th anniversary of<br \/>\n the Freedom Riders. In 1961, the original 13 riders boarded a bus in<br \/>\nWashington, DC bound for New Orleans via Mississippi and Alabama. They<br \/>\nbarely made it out of Alabama alive. Over the course of the next three<br \/>\nmonths, approximately 300 other riders took up the mantle and followed<br \/>\nthe path of those first brave few. Mobs brutally assaulted many. Others<br \/>\nwere arrested and, instead of posting bail, chose to serve sentences in<br \/>\none of the most brutal prisons in the South, Parchman Farm, proving the<br \/>\nFreedom Riders and the movement to desegregate interstate travel would<br \/>\nnot be deterred. <\/p>\n<p>Presented in the style of the variety shows of yesteryear, this moving production explores three of the tensest months of 1961. <i>The Parchman Hour<\/i> brings to the stage powerful oral histories and conversations from the Freedom Rides\u2019 most iconic protagonists and antagonists.<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden;\">\n\u201cDid you know that at Parchman, to pass the time and to keep our spirits<br \/>\n up, we \u2018invented\u2019 a radio program? I don\u2019t recall that we named it, but<br \/>\n \u2018The Parchman Hour\u2019 would have been a good name. Each cell had to<br \/>\ncontribute a short \u201cact\u201d (singing a song, telling a joke, reading from<br \/>\nthe Bible &#8212; the only book we were allowed) and in between acts we had<br \/>\n\u2018commercials\u2019 for the products we lived with every day, like the prison<br \/>\nsoap, the black-and-white striped skirts, the awful food, etc. We did<br \/>\nthis every evening, as I recall; it gave us something to do during the<br \/>\nday, thinking up our cell\u2019s act for the evening.\u201d \u2014 Mimi Real, Freedom<br \/>\nRider, 1961\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden;\">\nOriginally produced by the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke<br \/>\nUniversity and the Department of Dramatic Art at the University of North<br \/>\n Carolina at Chapel Hill, <i>The Parchman Hour<\/i> is a celebration of<br \/>\nbravery and a call to action through remembrance, leaving the audience<br \/>\nasking, \u201cWho stood up for me? Moreover, for whom can I stand up for<br \/>\ntoday? Who needs my words, my song, my voice?\u201d\n<\/div>\n<p>\nProduction is 90 minutes in length and appropriate for a mixed audience.<br \/>\nThere is also a 50 minute student version for grades 6 and higher. <\/p>\n<div>EbzB Productions &#8211; Your World Is Our Stage!<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.ebzb.org<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t miss Serena Ebhardt in &#8220;The Parchman Hour&#8221; with Mike Wiley Productions&#8217; 2013 cARTwheels Tour sponsored by the North Carolina Arts Council.&nbsp; Serena also serves as Arts-In-Education director for the tour, providing workshops to teachers in order to help them prepare student audiences for viewing the production.&nbsp; Visit the study guide created by Serena for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,49,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-in-education","category-mike-wiley","category-serena-ebhardt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebzb.org\/WPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebzb.org\/WPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebzb.org\/WPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebzb.org\/WPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebzb.org\/WPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ebzb.org\/WPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebzb.org\/WPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebzb.org\/WPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebzb.org\/WPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}