No Struggle, No Progress
Sun, May 20
|Sonnenberg Gardens
A multimedia production in tribute to Frederick Douglass, will feature visual images, dance, music, and the words of Frederick Douglass and fellow freedom fighters. Presented by the North Star Players, directed by David Shakes with Thomas Warfield, dancer . Co-sponsor Sonnenberg Gardens.
Time & Location
May 20, 2018, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Sonnenberg Gardens, 151 Charlotte St, Canandaigua, NY 14424, USA
About the Event
“Let me give you a word of the philosophy of reform. The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle. The conflict has been exciting, agitating, all-absorbing, and for the time being, putting all other tumults to silence. It must do this or it does nothing. If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without plowing up the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters.” — Frederick Douglass, August 3, 1857, Canandaigua, NY
2018 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Frederick Douglass. He lived and worked in Rochester, New York from 1847 to 1872 and published his newspaper, The North Star. . Many…