May 4 Visitors Center

“Meet the Designers of the May 4 Visitors Center”

          Sunday, May 5   |   11 am to Noon   |   Cartwright Hall | Kent State University

Join us for a behind-the-scenes look at the May 4 Visitors Center as we hear from Cybelle Jones, principal and studio director, and Carl Rhodes, associate and senior exhibit designer, at Gallagher & Associates, and Mike Buday, executive producer for G-Too Media, a partner firm with Gallagher. Engaged in discussion and work on the May 4 Visitors Center for more than six years, Jones, Rhodes, and Buday will talk about how the design and multimedia realize the center’s vision and mission.

May 4th Voices

          Thursday, May 2 and Friday, May 3

               * Premieres on Western Reserve PBS (WNEO 45.1/WEAO 49.1) on Friday, May 3,
                 10:30 p.m. Also airs on Fusion (WNEO 45.2/WEAO 49.2) on Saturday, May 4,
                 at 10 p.m. and Monday, May 6, at 8 p.m.

Free sneak preview: Thursday, May 2, at 7 p.m. at The Kent Stage, 175 E. Main St., Kent. Co-sponsors: Western Reserve PBS and Kent State University's College of Arts & Sciences, History Department and Wick Poetry Center, with support from the Ohio Humanities Council.

"May 4th Voices" is a play that brings together first-person narratives about the May 4, 1970, shootings  at Kent State University. This video production of the play, which was written by David Hassler and directed by Katherine Burke, is based on the Kent State Shootings Oral History Project, which includes more than 115 interviews with National Guardsmen, students, townspeople and politicians. The interviews capture the sense of trauma, confusion and fear felt by people who witnessed or were involved with the May 4 shootings at KSU.

The following items are not permitted at the above events:
Animals – other than those used as a service animal, baby strollers, backpacks, bags (larger than 14” x 14”) or sealed packages of any kind, cameras, video recorders, audio recorders, or other similar electronic devices, umbrellas, food and drink, weapons of any kind, smoking only allowed outside.