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Welcome To The March Civil Rights Arts Project
Welcome to the THE MARCH Civil Rights Arts Project THE MARCH is an arts project that dramatizes the events surrounding the 1963 March on Washington through theatre, dance and opera.

MASS MEETINGS
Prelude to a Dream                 Shades of Mississippi        Birmingham Children's March            Medgar Evers

About The Project
THE MARCH: A Civil Rights Opera (D.S. Jon es - composer/Alan Mar'sha'll - librettist) is a new American opera project exploring the personal and political circumstances su rrou nding the 1963 March on Washington. THE MARCH is being developed in Chicago and will premiere there in the fall of 2014, followed by performances in Washington, D.C. and Atlanta.

While the opera is developed, creator and librettist Alan Marshall has been producing theatrical based "mass meetings" which dramatize various episodes of civil rights movement during the long, hot summer of 1963. These performances include freedom songs (solos & audience participation), speeches, testimonies & character driven drama, all happening around the audience. Prelude to a Dream is the fourth installment of these mass meetings.

Alan Marshall created THE MARCH to call attention to a pivotal period in this nation’s history when Americans of different, races, genders and classes helped to produce the landmark civil rights legislation that brought full citizenship to all Americans.

“It is extremely important to this project to have the support of civil rights movement veterans,” said Librettist Alan Marshall. “Our mission is to honor those who participated in the civil rights movement and to inspire new generations to face the social challenges of today.”

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