Please join us for an incredible living history theater performance at the library - Looking Things Over: Zora Neale Hurston, performed by the award-winning actor, dramatist, historian and storyteller: Gwendolyn Quezaire-Presutti. 

The performance will take place during March, which is Women’s History Month. We are excited to offer the public a unique intersectional educational experience about Zora Neale Hurston. Zora Neale Hurston (January 7, 1891 -January 28, 1960) was a novelist, journalist, folklorist and anthropologist, and she was known for studying and celebrating Black culture in the rural South. Zora Neale Hurston is considered one of the pre-eminent writers of twentieth-century African-American literature. Her most famous novel is Their Eyes Were Watching God. 

About the performer: "Gwendolyn Quezaire-Presutti’s portrayal of historical women introduces untapped history, drawing on a wide array of primary historical resources. For the past 20 years Gwendolyn has engaged audiences with performances giving voice to real life accounts, struggles, self-determination and triumphs of women she portrays. Each performance is infused with her unique finger print giving an integral portrait of a historical event or person." http://woventales.atspace.com/index.html

If it snows and the library  building is closed on this date, a snow date has been scheduled for this performance on April 6th (same location and time). 

This program is supported in part by the Acton Memorial Library Foundation and a grant from the ABCC, a local agency which is supported by the Mass CulturalCouncil, a state agency.