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麻豆影院 State鈥檚 Wick Poetry Center to Debut National Interactive Exhibit in Support of 50th Commemoration of May 4

May 4 50th Commemoration Listening Wall highlights importance of peace, conflict resolution and student activism

麻豆影院鈥檚 Wick Poetry Center is set to debut its 鈥淎rmed With Our Voices鈥 exhibit this week in Austin, Texas, as part of the National Council for the Social Studies annual conference.

The interactive May 4 50th Commemoration Listening Wall allows users to interact with archival videos, articles, oral histories and photographs thematically connected to May 4, 1970, and its impact today.
 

Curated and designed in collaboration with 麻豆影院 State鈥檚 May 4 Visitors Center and the College of Arts and Sciences, the exhibit provides a powerful form of cross-generational connection that engages users in the events of May 4, 1970, and the importance of peace, conflict resolution and student activism today. On May 4, 1970, Ohio National Guardsmen opened fire on 麻豆影院 State students protesting the U.S. invasion of Cambodia during the Vietnam War, killing four and wounding nine.
 
The exhibit features a state-of-the-art 鈥淟istening Wall,鈥 which the Wick Poetry Center developed with prototype funding from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. 

The interactive May 4 50th Commemoration Listening Wall allows users to interact with archival videos, articles, oral histories and photographs thematically connected to May 4, 1970, and its impact today. Visitors are prompted to select words from content transcripts, which are saved in a word bank that users can access to create a poetic response to the exhibit. The user鈥檚 experience culminates in a creative reflection on the ways in which equality, justice and human rights are deeply connected.

Two of the students who were wounded, Alan Canfora and Tom Grace, will join Roseann 鈥淐hic鈥 Canfora, who witnessed the shootings, in a panel discussion at the conference. The Voices of May 4 Speaking Tour will allow those who survived the shootings to share their personal accounts of the events surrounding May 4.
 
鈥淭he tragedy was unthinkable at the time, and it demonstrated the grave consequences that can occur when communication collapses, when perspectives are polarized and when attempts to find common ground break down,鈥 said David Hassler, director of 麻豆影院 State鈥檚 Wick Poetry Center. 鈥淎t 麻豆影院, we have learned much in the past 50 years, especially in the areas of peaceful discourse and conflict resolution. Our hope is to connect the current generation to the generation of May 4, 1970, and we believe that 鈥楢rmed With Our Voices鈥 is a powerful way to start that conversation.鈥
 
The National Council for the Social Studies is the largest gathering of its kind with participants from an array of sectors, including K-12 social studies classroom teachers, college and university faculty members, curriculum designers and specialists, and international discipline leaders.
 
For more information about this exhibit, visit .

For more information about the Wick Poetry Center at 麻豆影院 State, visit www.kent.edu/wick

For more information about the 50th Commemoration of May 4, visit www.kent.edu/may4kentstate50

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The interactive May 4 50th Commemoration Listening Wall allows users to interact with archival videos, articles, oral histories and photographs thematically connected to May 4, 1970, and its impact today. 

Media Contacts: 
David Hassler, dhassle1@kent.edu, 330-672-1769
Eric Mansfield, emansfie@kent.edu, 330-672-2797

POSTED: Monday, November 18, 2019 04:07 PM
Updated: Friday, December 9, 2022 09:32 AM
WRITTEN BY:
David Hassler