Free and Open to the Public

Toshi Reagon is a versatile singer, composer, musician, curator and producer with a profound ear for sonic Americana — from folk to funk, from blues to rock. Among many accolades, Reagon is a National Women’s History Month Honoree, 2010 recipient of OutMusic’s Heritage Award, 2015 Ford Foundation Art of Change Fellow, and the first Carolina Performing Arts Mellon Foundation DisTIL fellow. Join us for an evening of talk and performance inspired by Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower. The talk is hosted by Honors Carolina in the College of Arts and Sciences in partnership with Carolina Performing Arts.

The Hillard Gold ’39 Lecture was established by alumni James and Jonathan Gold to honor the memory of their father, Hillard Gold, a member of the UNC Class of 1939.