InterPlay is the integrating tool as Masankho Banda returns to Pittsburgh to lead the intergenerational, multicultural InterPlay performance troupe, Wing & A Prayer Pittsburgh Players in five unique performances to celebrate Black History Month.

Sponsored by the Office of Diversity at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), this celebration of African Art and Culture will take audience members on a fascinating journey from the continent of Africa, through the Diaspora in the Caribbean to the African experience in North America. Performances will include African Dance, Drumming, Storytelling and Song, the principles of Kwanzaa, and InterPlay forms and practices.

InterPlay is an improvised discipline that ensures that each performance will be unique and wonderful.

Artists joining Masankho and co-artistic director, Sheila Collins include:

• Karama Sadaka, poet/spoken word artist from New Orleans
• Gwyne Dismukes, author and Kwanzaa authority from Nashville
• Marquetta Dupree, African dancer
• Laveria Bogan, storyteller from Texas
• Rebecca Estes, dancer from Texas
• Ed Haggard, African drummer from Nashville
• and the Wing & A Prayer Pittsburgh Players

Wing & A Prayer Pittsburgh Players is a local InterPlay performance company, including: Sheila Collins, Andrea Scheve, Elizabeth Downey, Pam Meadowcroft, Jim Holland, Toni McClendon, Gurney Bolster, Richard Citrin, LaVerne Baker Hotep, and special guests Legacy Arts Project dancers and the InterPlay troupe from the Sarah Heinz House.

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