A collaboration with the Norman Rockwell Museum!

The Mount is partnering with the Norman Rockwell Museum to present three staged readings in the spirit of Wharton on Wednesday. This exciting series, Readings at Rockwell | The Jazz Age Novel, was organized in tandem with Jazz Age Illustration, a major exhibition exploring the art of popular illustration of the 1920s and 1930s. The Jazz Age Novel series will explore the work of three authors who critically examine the enormous cultural shifts that took place in America in the 1920s, including: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Great Gatsby (1925) on the 100th anniversary of its publication; Edith Wharton’s Glimpses of the Moon (1922) chronicling the lives of American expatriates in Europe; and Nella Larsen’s Passing (1929) delving into the complexity of racial identity during the Harlem Renaissance.

Each program will begin with a short talk about the author and the featured novel, followed by a dramatic reading of select passages by an actor or actors. 

ABOUT THIS PROGRAM:

Passing, by Nella Larsen
Read by Sandra Seoane-Seri
Introduced by Kristen Maye 

TICKETS:

$25 General admission
$20 Mount Members with the code: MOUNTMEMBER2526

NOTE: The button below will direct you to Norman Rockwell Museum’s website. Please enter the discount code in the “Coupons” field in checkout.

Tickets include Museum admission. 
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Sandra Seoane-Seri is an award-winning actress based in New York, Providence, and Boston. Sandra received her BA in Theater and Film at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and is a proud alum of Shakespeare & Company’s Summer Shakespeare Intensive. During their time in Western Massachusetts, she learned the importance of collaboration, discipline, and humility. They enjoy being on stage, behind and in front of the camera. Sandra hopes to be a part of stories that challenge stereotypes and spark conversations over neglected subjects.

Kristen Maye is the Clara Willis Phillips Assistant Professor of English at Mount Holyoke College. As a scholar of Black studies, her work resides at the intersection of cultural studies, and literary and critical theory. Her research and writing traces how Black studies as an intellectual and political project disturbs the received coherence of the academic disciplines that organize knowledge in the West. Maye completed her PhD in Africana Studies at Brown University, and also works as an Associate Editor with the publication, differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies.