February 1, 2023

Drexel University’s Department of Performing Arts, housed within the Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design, announces its second annual Mandell Presents series. This season the series offers three presentations that explore impacts of incarceration. Two exceptional performing artists, Dahlak Brathwaite and Brent White, find ways through their respective personal experiences in Spiritrials and Broken Toy. It will then examine prison reform with special guest speaker, academic, author, cultural critic, and activist Dr. Baz Dreisinger.   

Dahlak Brathwaite: SPIRITRIALS 

Wednesday, February 15 | 7:00 PM | Mandell Theater 

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Brent White Jazz Ensemble: BROKEN TOY 

Wednesday, March 1 | 7:00 PM | Mandell Theater 

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JOURNEYING TO JUSTICE IN GLOBAL PRISONS with Dr. Baz Dreisinger 

Thursday, March 2 | 6:00 PM | Mandell Theater 

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To help realize Drexel University President John Fry's goal of Drexel becoming "the most civically engaged University in the United States," Mandell Presents operates under a radical funding model with fully subsidized tickets. ​Both performances and the lecture are free, open to the public, and take place at the Mandell Theater, 3220 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia.  Registration is required.  Reserve tickets in advance online: https://drexelperformingarts.universitytickets.com.  

Mandell Presents is funded, in part, by the Samuel P. Mandell Foundation.  Drexel is grateful to the Mandell Foundation for its support in moving the Department of Performing Arts and the wider-Drexel community forward in its reach as innovative artist-citizens. 

For more information about the 2022-23 Mandell Presents series, visit the Department of Performing Arts website, drexel.edu/performingarts.