"SmartTalk": Media Pioneer Vy Higginsen on "Seeing No Limitations"

SmartTalk: Media Pioneer Vy Higginsen on "Seeing No Limitations"

Aronoff Center for the Arts - Procter & Gamble Hall (650 Walnut Street Cincinnati, OH 45202)

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Vy Higginsen is responsible for a number of remarkable media firsts: she was the first black woman to host a morning radio show in New York City; the first woman in advertising sales at Ebony Magazine; the first black woman to produce a drama on Broadway (August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone); and the creative force behind a series of wildly successful gospel-themed musicals, including Mama I Want to Sing. These shows have toured Europe, Japan and the United States, and led Higginsen to establish the Mama Foundation for the Arts, which promotes arts and culture in her hometown of Harlem. She'll give an inspiring talk called "Seeing No Limitations."

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Aronoff Center for the Arts - Procter & Gamble Hall

650 Walnut Street

Cincinnati, OH 45202

Website

513-721-3344

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The speaker didn't seem to have a clear message. If her daughter hadn't been available to sing and the video clips weren't used, there wouldn't have been much to the presentation.

Written on Apr 18 2012

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More Information About SmartTalk: Vy Higginsen

Website

http://www.cincinnatiarts.org/index.jsp?eventDetail=1&event_id=1243

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Visit the Mama Foundation and Vy Higginson's websites.

Description

A visionary, Vy Higginsen has always reached for the stars. Seeing no limitations in accomplishing all she sets her mind to, Vy has achieved some very impressive milestones including being the first black female radio personality in the prime time New York City market, first woman in advertising sales at Ebony magazine, the first black woman to produce a drama on Broadway and the first black female writer, producer, director of the longest-running, Off-Broadway musical in the history of American theater. Along with this, Vy is the CEO of The Mama Foundation, as featured on 60 Minutes, ordained as a minister and has been named a Harlem Hero in Harlem Is.

About the Ticket Supplier: Cincinnati Arts Association

Founded in 1992, the Cincinnati Arts Association (CAA) is a not-for-profit organization that oversees the programming and management of the Tri-state's finest performing arts venues - the Aronoff Center for the Arts and Music Hall - and is dedicated to supporting performing and visual arts. Each year, CAA presents a diverse schedule of events; serves upwards of 700,000 people in its venues; features the work of talented local, regional, and national artists in the Weston Art Gallery (located in the Aronoff Center); and supports the work of more than one dozen resident companies.