{"id":10108,"date":"2017-11-03T12:40:51","date_gmt":"2017-11-03T16:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/drummer-william-hooker-accompanies-within-our-gates-at-noon-and-630-p-m-today-nov-3\/"},"modified":"2017-11-03T12:40:51","modified_gmt":"2017-11-03T16:40:51","slug":"drummer-william-hooker-accompanies-within-our-gates-at-noon-and-630-p-m-today-nov-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/drummer-william-hooker-accompanies-within-our-gates-at-noon-and-630-p-m-today-nov-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Drummer William Hooker accompanies &#8220;Within Our Gates&#8221; at noon and 6:30 p.m. today (Nov. 3)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Drummer and composer William Hooker accompanies \u201cWithin Our Gates,\u201d a 1920 silent film by director Oscar Micheaux that is the oldest known surviving film by an African-American filmmaker. The film portrays the hardships, duplicity and amazing reversals of fortune a black schoolteacher experiences on a journey north to raise funds for her school. Despite the director\u2019s graphic depictions of racial injustice and violence, the film ultimately delivers an uplifting message of racial pride and self-respect. The film will be followed by a discussion facilitated by Mr. Hooker.<\/p>\n<p>William Hooker started drum lessons at age 10 and says \u201cI consider myself a \u2018jazz musician.\u2019 My work fits in the jazz tradition because it\u2019s based on improvisation, it\u2019s based on learning one\u2019s craft.\u201d On his more than 60 CDs, his compositions range from jazz to \u201cnew\u201d and experimental music.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>This event will take place in the BTC Auditorium on<br \/>\nFriday, Nov. 3 at both noon and 6:30 pm.<br \/>\nIt is free and open to the public.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Presented by the Cultural Affairs Program.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published:<\/strong>\u00a0Fri, 03 Nov 2017 12:40:51 +0000 by\u00a0m.zemantauski<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Drummer and composer William Hooker accompanies \u201cWithin Our Gates,\u201d a 1920 silent film by director Oscar Micheaux that is&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2086,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-announcement-college-related"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2086"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}