• Black History Month

Here I Am

Join us for the Here I Am play on Wednesday, February 19, at 5:30 p.m., in the auditorium at Georgetown University in Qatar.

February 19, 2025 @ 5:30 PM 7:00 PM

Georgetown University in Qatar

A mosaic of photographs forms the portrait of a woman in a colorful headscarf and earrings, with large white text at the top reading HERE I AM.

About

Mélisande Short-Colomb’s acclaimed one-person play will be staged at GU-Q, marking the first live presentation of the work outside the U.S. An original production of the Laboratory for Global Performance & Politics at Georgetown University, co-founded by Derek Goldman and Cynthia Schneider, the play traces Mélisande’s ancestral journey through 11 generations of maternal grandmothers and their connection to Georgetown’s history.

Speakers

Mélisande Short-Colomb

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