Juneteenth Legacy Theatre's BOLD JOURNEYS Tour, the perfect Black History and Women's Herstory Months celebrations, plays Louisville for Hometown Tourist Festivities ! Discounted public performance for full repertoire.

The BOLD JOURNEYS Tour offers a three-play repertoire of music and comedy cabarets and bio-drama about outstanding African Americans at three different Louisville venues, February 6 - 22, 2004. See all three for $20 and save $4 on admission! Reserve on-line juneteenthlegacy@aol.com or call (502) 636-4200 or 589-9902.

BOLD JOURNEYS opens with Juneteenth Cotton Club Revue at the Rudyard Kipling, 422 W. Oak St. In Old Louisville, February 6th and 7th. This original music cabaret is a tribute to the great African-American women blues singers, Ethel Waters, Dinah Washington, Lena Horne, Bessie Smith and Billie Holiday, of the 20's and 30's who helped popularize the Cotton Club. Performance Times, 7pm Friday and Saturday plus a 4pm matinee on Saturday. Admission is $10. Reserve on-line juneteenthlegacy@aol.com or call (502) 636-4200 or 589-9902. A must see-and-listen-to production for blues lovers!

BOLD JOURNEYS move to St. John's Renaissance Center, 637 E. Market St., just east of downtown, with Faith, Hope and Charity: The Mary McLeod Bethune Story, February 12th -14th. This readers theatre bio-drama is an inspirational story about Mary McLeod Bethune, who rose from illiterate sharecroppers' daughter to founder of Bethune-Cookman College and advisor to President Franklin Roosevelt. Performance Times, 7pm Thursday/Friday and 4 and 7 pm on Saturday. Admission is $7. Reserve on-linejuneteenthlegacy@aol.com or call (502) 636-4200 or 589-9902. An educational and entertaining production that is ideal for middle-school and older youth!

With special permission from the Zora Neale Hurston estate, BOLD JOURNEYS Tour adds an original readers theatre adaptation of Hurston stories, Tall Tales Short Sayings, February 19th - 22nd at Actors Theatre, 316 W. Main Street. Hurston, a famed anthropologist and novelist recorded humorous and rousing folktales about the Lord, Heaven, the Devil and Preachers. Original incidental music composed by 3-time Audelco Award Winner, Grenoldo Frazier. Performance Times, 7pm Thursday/Friday; 4 and 7 pm, Saturday; 4pm Sunday. Admission is $7. Reserve on-linejuneteenthlegacy@aol.com or call Actors box office (502) 584-1205. A folklorist and Hurston devotee delight!

Book your BOLD JOURNEYS performance today!

Also BOLD JOURNEYS productions are available for private booked performances and play well in both traditional and non-traditional venues, i.e. libraries, churches, multi-purpose rooms or classrooms. Call 502-636-4200 or 502-589-9902 or email juneteenthlegacy@aol.com for schedule and fee information.

BOLD JOURNEYS Tour is funded by Metro Louisville, Target Stores, Louisville Arts Council; and is sponsored by the Kentucky Foundation for Women.

Juneteenth Legacy Theatre makes its New York City debut November 17 with Cecelia Antoinette's tour-de-forcecabaret WatermelonGit It While It's Hot!!! From the Big Apple, Juneteenth Legacy Theatre brings its BOLD JOURNEYS readers theatre tour, celebrating rural roots, the power of education and personal excellence, to Danville public schools on November 21; and to Louisville on February 8, 2003 at Actors Theatre, to salute Black History Month.

BOLD JOURNEYS plays were presented in Louisville as part of Juneteenth Legacy Theatre's 2002 and 2001 Juneteenth Jamboree of New Play.

In New York, Watermelon will be presented at The Nuyorican Poets Café, 236 East 3rd Street (between Avenue B & C), on Sundays, November 17 and November 24 at 4 p.m. This is a co-production with Ms. Antoinette's company, Plumings Productions. Watermelon, is a comedic rite-of-passage journey from black girlhood to womanhood.
In Danville, the company will present two school-time performances, at 10 AM and 1:30 PM, of Faith, Hope and Charity: The Mary McLeod Bethune Story by Samuel L. Kelley, and The Last Dust Track by Laurence Holder for both Danville and Boyle County high school students. (Juneteenth Legacy Theatre last appeared in Danville with a presentation of Mother of Civil Rights by Be Boyd at the Danville Human Relations Festival in March 2000.)

This unique shared event for students at both schools is sponsored by Danville's Citizens Concerned for Human Relations. There will be post-performance talk-backs with both student groups to discuss the issues and themes presented in the dramas about these historically significant African-American women.

Faith, Hope and Charity . . . pays tribute to the daughter of illiterate sharecroppers, who founded the National Council of Negro Women, Bethune-Cookman College and served in President Franklin Roosevelt's cabinet.

. . . Dust Track highlights the life and times of Harlem Renaissance author Zora Neale Hurston. Zora enthralls her audience with tales of creation, the wily ways of rabbits and wolves, her rivalry with Langston Hughes, and a cultural odyssey of adventures. Juneteenth Legacy Theatre's Producing Director Lorna Littleway reprises her acclaimed performance described in The Courier Journal as "infuse(d)with both frailty and strengtha multitude of voices andunnerving passion and anger."

Juneteenth Legacy Theatre, once again, participates in the "Be A Tourist At Home" campaign, organized by the Arts and Cultural Attractions Committee of Greater Louisville, Inc. This special performance of . . . Dust Track, at 8 PM in the Victor Jory, is sponsored by the Kentucky Foundation For Women.

Juneteenth Legacy Theatre's BOLD JOURNEYS performances are available for bookings in Fall 2002 and February - March 2003. These 60-minute, family entertainment performances about the African-American experience, in both historical and contemporary contexts, are available for single or discounted-package bookings; and can be presented at either traditional or non-traditional venues.

For scheduling information, please contact Juneteenth Legacy Theatre by telephone at (502) 636-4200 or (502) 589-9902 or email: juneteenthlegacy@aol.com.

Bold Journeys Tour is funded in part by the Kentucky Arts Council, Fund for the Arts, Target Stores and Edwin Jones Investments.

About the Authors
	Samuel L. Kelley (Faith, Hope and Charity . . .) is a prolific playwright with several works produced by Juneteenth Legacy Theatre including DWB: Driving While Black and Blue Vein Society.Mr. Kelley's White Chocolate enjoyed an extended run at the Billie Holiday Theatre in Brooklyn, New York.
	New York author Laurence Holder (. . . Dust Track) is the foremost dramatic biographer of African-American artists, and has written extensively about Hurston, Langston Hughes and Thelonious Monk.
	Cecelia Antoinette (Watermelon!!! . . .) has appeared on "The Chris Rock Show" and in the sitcom "Sex in the City," and was featured in the film, "Hurricane," starring Denzel Washington. Cece has also performed on Broadway in Mulebone and has played several dramatic leading roles as "Rose" in Fences by August Wilson, "Berenice" in Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers and "Miss Yolanda" in Mitote by Maisha Baton.