The Missouri State University Division for Diversity and Inclusion and the Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning welcome filmmaker and musician Patrick Mureithi for a special Black History Month event, "Shattering the Silences: Trauma and Healing in the Diaspora", Thursday Feb.23 from 4:00 to 6:00pm in Plaster Student Union Theatre. It promises to be an afternoon of musical healing, storytelling and collective engagement; it's billed as an Afrocentric look at social trauma and healing through a "house concert" musical presentation by Patrick Mureithi with streaming video of how communities can heal from past injustices and how personal traumas may be addressed through this process. Patrick Mureithi says he loves the "house concert" format. "I get to tell stories behind the songs, adn perform songs that are deeply personal to me. And in this particular presentation I'm also going to talk about documentary work that I did in Rwanda that focused on the gathering of ten survivors and
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